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Sunbury Festival
Sunbury Pop Festival or Sunbury Rock Festival was an annual Australian rock music festival held on a private farm between Sunbury, Victoria, Sunbury and Diggers Rest, Victoria, which was staged on the Australia Day (26 January) long weekend from 1972 to 1975. It attracted up to 45,000 patrons and was promoted by Odessa Promotions, which was formed by a group of television professionals, including John Fowler, from GTV (Australia), GTV 9 Melbourne. Although conceived and promoted as Australia's Woodstock Festival, Woodstock, the Sunbury Pop Festivals signalled the end of the hippie peace movement of the late 1960s and the beginning of the reign of pub rock (Australia), pub rock. The early festivals were financially successful and featured performances by Australian and New Zealand bands including, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Max Merritt, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Chain (band), Chain and Wild Cherries. Various live albums were recorded at the festivals including ''Aztecs Live at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diggers Rest, Victoria
Diggers Rest (formerly Diggers' Rest) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Hume and Melton local government areas. Diggers Rest recorded a population of 5,669 at the 2021 census. Diggers Rest lies on the Old Calder Highway, near the Calder Freeway. History Diggers Rest began life as a stopping place on the road to the Bendigo goldfields, with the Post Office opening on 18 June 1860. Caroline Chisholm started a women's shelter in the area. The town grew in the 1870s and 1880s and became a postal village with a general store, post office, weighbridge, mechanics' institute and a chaff mill. The Diggers Rest Hotel was built by 1854, and later enlarged, and became an important stopping place on the route to the goldfields. It was severely damaged by fire in 2012. Diggers Rest is sometimes erroneously referred to as being famous for being the location of the first controlled powered fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
