This is a list of songs that mention or are about Sydney, the capital city of

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, Australia, as well as the suburbs of Sydney.

Song listings

The list is ordered alphabetically by suburb and within suburb alphabetically by song title. Where known, the songwriters, performing artists and album or CD on which the track has appeared are listed. Some of the tracks listed appear on the

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2000 double-compilation CD ''Somewhere in Sydney – 30 songs from the Harbour City'', which was compiled and conceived by

Glenn A. Baker Glenn A. Baker (born 28 July 1952) is an Australian journalist, commentator, author, and broadcaster well known in Australia for his vast knowledge of Rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music and travel, interviewed ...

Annandale

*"Booth Street"

Youth Group Youth Group is an Australian rock band based in Newtown, New South Wales. Built around the vocals of singer Toby Martin and production of Wayne Connolly, the sound of Youth Group is reminiscent of indie rock artists such as Teenage Fanclub, P ...

Balmain

*"Guess How Much I Love You"

The Lucksmiths The Lucksmiths were an Australian indie pop band formed in March 1993 by Marty Donald on guitar, Mark Monnone on bass guitar and Tali White on drums and lead vocals. Louis Richter (ex-Mid State Orange) joined on guitar in 2005. They released ei ...

*"The Four Corners Of The Earth"

Weddings Parties Anything Weddings, Parties, Anything. was an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1999. Their name came from The Clash song "Revolution Rock". Musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Austr ...

Bellevue Hill

*"Somewhere in Sydney" (Greg Macainsh)

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Beverly Hills

* "Naomi Campbell"

360 360 may refer to: * 360 (number) * 360 AD, a year * 360 BC, a year * 360 degrees, a circle Businesses and organizations * 360 Architecture, an American architectural design firm * Ngong Ping 360, a tourism project in Lantau Island, Hong Kong ...

Blacktown

*"Blacktown"

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*"Blacktown" The Numbers (band) *"Blacktown Boogie" (

Marc Hunter Marc Alexander Hunter (7 September 195317 July 1998) was a New Zealand rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He was the lead vocalist of Dragon (1973–11/1979, 8/1982–1989, 1995–11/1997), a band formed by his older brother, ...

, Robert M. Taylor,

Todd Hunter Todd Stuart Hunter NOTE: Requires user to input song title, e.g. POLITICS (born 22 June 1951) is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are " April Sun in Cuba", " Are You Old En ...

)

Dragon A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted a ...

*"Blacktown to Bondi"

Mental as Anything Mental As Anything are an Australian new wave and pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976. Its most popular line-up (which lasted from 1977 to 1999, and recorded all of their charting singles and albums) was Martin Plaza (birth name Mar ...

*"Sunnyholt" Perry Keyes

Bondi

*"A Brief History"

The Waifs The Waifs (originally styled as The WAiFS) are an Australian folk rock band formed in 1992 by sisters Vikki Thorn (harmonica, guitar, vocals) and Donna Simpson (guitar, vocals) as well as Josh Cunningham (guitar, vocals). Their tour and recor ...

*"Blacktown to Bondi"

*"Bondi" (Elliott Weston) Elliott Weston *"Bondi" Cog *"Bondi '98" Dick Diver *"Bondi Pier"

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, ...

*"Bondi Road"

*"Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea"

Barry Crocker Barry Hugh Crocker (born 4 November 1935
Official Barry Crocker website) is an Australian character actor, televisio ...

*"Fall of Rome" (James Reyne)

James Reyne James Michael Nugent Reyne OAM (born 19 May 1957) is an Australian rock musician and singer-songwriter both in solo work and, until 1986, with the band Australian Crawl. Biography Early years Reyne was born in Lagos, Nigeria. His father, Rod ...

*"I Will Not Go Quietly (Duffy's Song)"

The Whitlams The Whitlams are an Australian indie rock band formed in late 1992. The original line-up was Tim Freedman on keyboards and lead vocals, Andy Lewis on double bass and Stevie Plunder on guitar and lead vocals. Other than mainstay Freedman, the ...

*"Rainbow's Dead End"

*"Section 5 (Bus to Bondi)" (Rotsey/Hirst/Garrett/Moginie)

Midnight Oil Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard) and Martin Rotsey (guitar). The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 ...

*"The Waitress"

Botany Bay

*" Botany Bay (song)" *"Brylcream, Alcohol & Pills" (Keyes) Perry Keyes *" Jim Jones at Botany Bay" *"To the Shores of Botany Bay" (Traditional arrangement The Bushwackers) The Bushwackers *"

The Fields of Athenry "The Fields of Athenry" is a song written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad. Set during the Great Famine of the 1840s, the lyrics feature a fictional man from near Athenry in County Galway, who stole food for hi ...

" Pete St John

Brighton-Le-Sands

*"Canada" Lazy Susan

Cabramatta

*"Cabramatta Sunrise" Dom Turner *"I Hang Out with the Guys in Jet('s Uncle)" Root!

Camperdown

*"Australia Street"

Sticky Fingers ''Sticky Fingers'' is the 9th British and 11th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. The Stones released it on 23 April 1971 on their new, and own label Rolling Stones Records. They had been contracted by Decc ...

*"Rose of Camperdown" (Fenton/Rumble) Holly

Centennial Park

*"Letter to Alan" ( Don Walker) Cold Chisel

Chatswood

*"Bring on The Change"

*"I Hang Out with the Guys in Jet('s Uncle)" Root! *"I Wish Somebody Would Build A Bridge (So I Can Get Over Myself)"

Thirsty Merc Thirsty Merc are an Australian pop rock band formed in 2002 by Rai Thistlethwayte, Phil Stack (bass guitar), Karl Robertson (drums), and Matthew Baker (guitar). In 2004, Baker was replaced by Sean Carey, who was, in turn, replaced by Matt Sm ...

*"Koala Sprint" ( Garrett, Moginie, Rotsey)

Chippendale

*"Strange Days in Chippendale"

Richard Clapton Richard Clapton (born 18 May 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are " Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and " I Am an Island" (1982). He reached the top& ...

Circular Quay

*"And the Band Played

Waltzing Matilda "Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music called a bush ballad. It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) ...

" (Eric Bogle)

Eric Bogle Eric Bogle (born 23 September 1944) is a Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25, to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of ...

"Now I'm Easy" ( Larrikin Records). *"If We Can't Get It Together" ( Tim Rogers)

You Am I You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by its lead singer-songwriter and guitarist, Tim Rogers. They formed in December 1989 and are the first Australian band to have released three successive albums that have each debuted ...

''Hourly Daily'' *" Reckless" (

)

Australian Crawl Australian Crawl (often called Aussie Crawl or The Crawl by fans) were an Australian rock band founded by James Reyne (lead vocals/piano/harmonica), Brad Robinson (rhythm guitar), Paul Williams (bass), Simon Binks (lead guitar) and David Re ...

Semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comput ...

'' ( EMI); Paul Kelly '' Hidden Things'';

''Electric Digger Dandy'';

John Farnham John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Enc ...

I Remember When I Was Young ''I Remember When I Was Young'' (subtitled Songs from The Great Australian Songbook) is an album by Australian vocalist John Farnham, released on 6 November 2005. It consists of cover versions of songs written or recorded by prominent Australian ...

Coogee

*"Coogee Boy" (Keyes) Perry Keyes *"Mr Munroe" (

Martin Plaza Martin Edward Murphy (born 1 January 1956), commonly known by the pseudonym Martin Plaza, is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and visual artist who is a founding member and vocalist and guitarist of the new wave band Mental As Anything. ...

)

Mental As Anything Mental As Anything are an Australian new wave and pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976. Its most popular line-up (which lasted from 1977 to 1999, and recorded all of their charting singles and albums) was Martin Plaza (birth name Mar ...

*"Wedding Cake Island"

Darlinghurst

*"Boundary Street"

Cold Chisel Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes (at the ...

*" Darling It Hurts" ( Paul Kelly, Steve Connelly) Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls *"Darlinghurst Confidential"

The Celibate Rifles The Celibate Rifles were an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with a line-up that included mainstays Dave Morris on rhythm guitar and Kent Steedman on lead guitar, within a year they were joined by Damien Lovelock on lead vocals. T ...

*"Darlinghurst Nights" (

Robert Forster Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in '' Medium Cool'' (1969), Captain Dan Holland in ''The Black Hole'' (1979), Abdul Rafai in '' The Delta Force'' (1986 ...

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The Go-Betweens The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1977. The band was co-founded and led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, who were its only constant members throughout ...

*"Darlinghurst Road" (R. Thorpe, Noel Watson) Noel Watson *"Taylor Square" (

Mick Thomas Michael James Thomas (born 7 February 1960) is an Australian singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist and hotelier. Thomas was the founding mainstay of a folk rock group, Weddings Parties Anything (1984–1998), and leader of Mick Thomas and t ...

)

*"Working Girls" by

Redgum Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals, Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were later joined by Hugh McDonald on fiddle and Ch ...

Drummoyne

*"The

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That Ate

Five Dock Five Dock is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Five Dock is located 10 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. Location F ...

" (John Sammers) Outline

Ermington

*"This Is Not My Town" (The Model School)

Erskineville

*"Bill from Erskineville" John Dengate *"Erskineville" The Gadflys *"Erskineville Nights"

*"Sicilian Born"

Graeme Connors Graeme Connors (born 29 April 1956) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter, and performer. Connors has released seventeen studio albums and has received fourteen Golden Guitar awards among other prestige Australian country music award ...

*"Siege of Union Street" Alistair Hulett *"Someone's Dad" John Kennedy's 68 Comeback Special

Five Dock

*"The Cicada That Ate Five Dock" (John Sammers) Outline

Glebe

*"Harry Was a Bad Bugger" ( Don Walker)

Tex, Don and Charlie Tex, Don and Charlie are an Australian supergroup formed by Tex Perkins, Don Walker and Charlie Owen. Their first studio album '' Sad but True'' was released in 1993, two others were released in 2005 and 2017. Career The band was founded in 19 ...

*"Lauren from Glebe"

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*"Purple Sneakers"

''Hi Fi Way'' *"Ben Lee" Klinger

Hornsby

*"Houndog" ( Don Walker)

*"No Place Like Normanhurst" Kiff vs. Spliff

Kings Cross

*"At the Piccolo Bar" ( Don Walker) Don Walker *"

Breakfast at Sweethearts ''Breakfast at Sweethearts'' is the second studio album by Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel, released in February 1979. It spent 32 weeks in the national charts, reaching a peak of number 4. Album details "Sweethearts" was a cafè in Kings ...

" ( Don Walker) Cold Chisel Album ''Breakfast at Sweethearts'' *"Cars for King's Cross" the Moles *"El Alamein Blues" ( Don Walker) Catfish *"

From St Kilda to Kings Cross "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" is a song performed and written by Australian musician Paul Kelly. The title refers to inner city suburbs St Kilda in Melbourne and Kings Cross in Sydney. It was released in April 1985 as the only single from K ...

" ( Paul Kelly) Paul Kelly And The Messengers *"Have You Ever Been to see Kings Cross?" Frankie Davidson with the Sapphires. *"Hidden Things" Paul Kelly *"Girls on the Avenue"

*"Kickin' On"

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*"Kings Cross" (Lance Ferguson) The Bamboos *"Kings Cross Ladies" (Dave Tice/John Baxter) Buffalo *"Knee Length Socks"

Urthboy Tim Levinson, better known by the stage name Urthboy, is an Australian hip hop MC and producer from New South Wales. He is widely known for his solo music under the moniker Urthboy, as a founding member of the hip-hop group The Herd, and for ...

*"Letter to Alan" ( Don Walker) Cold Chisel *"Manzil Madness" (

Anderson Anderson or Andersson may refer to: Companies * Anderson (Carriage), a company that manufactured automobiles from 1907 to 1910 * Anderson Electric, an early 20th-century electric car * Anderson Greenwood, an industrial manufacturer * Anderson ...

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Rose Tattoo Rose Tattoo are an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, which formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Bo ...

*"Matilda No More"

Kasey Chambers Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976) is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier. She is the daughter of fellow musicians, Diane and Bill Chambers, and the younger sister of musician and producer, Nash Chambers. ...

and

Slim Dusty Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, ...

*"Metho Blues" ( Don Walker) Cold Chisel *"Plaza"

*"Queen of Everyone's Heart" (Keyes) Perry Keyes *"The Mansions" ( Don Walker)

*"Young Girls" ( Don Walker) Don Walker

Lambton

"Lambton Lights" Bob Corbett

Llandilo

*"Meth Labs and Daygos"

Lavender Bay

*"Long Jumping Jeweller (of

Lavender Bay Lavender Bay is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Lavender Bay is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council. The s ...

)* (

Glenn Shorrock Glenn Barrie Shorrock (born 30 June 1944) is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of rock bands the Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo ...

)

Little River Band Little River Band (LRB) are a Rock music, rock band originally formed in Melbourne, Australia, in March 1975. The band achieved commercial success in both Australia and the United States. They have sold more than 30 million records; six studi ...

Leichhardt

*"Norton Street" *(Raoul Graf/

Ed Kuepper Edmund "Ed" Kuepper (born 20 December 1955) is a German-born Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the punk band The Saints (1973–78), the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns (1979–85) and the grunge-like ...

) Raoul Graf

Manly

*"Coastal Kids"

Bliss n Eso Bliss n Eso (formerly known as Bliss n' Esoterikizm) are an Australian hip hop trio based in Sydney. They are currently signed to Melbourne record label Illusive Sounds, and are managed and booked by label co-founders Adam Jankie and Matt Gud ...

*"Manly" Camperdown & Out *"

Misfits Misfits or The Misfits may refer to: Film and television * ''The Misfits'' (1961 film), a film starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift * ''The Misfits'' (2011 film), a Mexican film * ''The Misfits'' (2021 film), an American ...

( Don Walker)

*" Reckless" (

)

'' ( EMI)

Maroubra

*"Coastal Kids" Bliss n Eso *"Down on the Street with You" (Keyes) Perry Keyes *"Stomping at Maroubra" Little Pattie

Marrickville

* "Miracle in Marrickville" John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong Single Red Eye Records * "River of Tears" (Kev Carmody) Kev Carmody, The Drones * "Warren Rd"

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* "You sound like Louis Burdett" – The Whitlams

Matraville

*"Matraville Trees" by Perry Keyes

McMahons Point

*"Blues Point Road" by The Buoys

Narrabeen

Surfin' U.S.A. "Surfin' U.S.A." is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys, credited to Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson. It is a rewritten version of Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" set to new lyrics penned by Wilson and an uncredited Mike Love. The song w ...

The Beach Boys The Beach Boys are an American rock band that formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by the ...

Newtown

*"Exile on King St" Spurs For Jesus *"Ghost of Newtown" John Kennedy *"God Drinks at The Sando"

*"King St" * John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong Single Red Eye Records *"My Drug Buddy" The Lemonheads *"Newtown Dreaming" *( Willoughby) Mixed Relations *"Newtown (La La La)" Cuthbert and the Night Walkers *"Peter Says (The Cat Protection Society Song)" by John Kennedy *"Rock'n'Roll Band and a Schooner of Beer" (H. Ree) McBodybag *"The Newtown Song" nnita Cullen, Laurie and the Toyboys*"12 Hours"

*"Year of the Rat"

North Shore

*"North Shore Girls Get Off" (Dave Beniuk) David Beniuk *"Somewhere in Sydney" (Greg Macainsh)

Paddington

*"Double on the Main Game" (Keyes) Perry Keyes *"Oxford Street" (

Dorian Mode Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different but interrelated subjects: one of the Ancient Greek ''harmoniai'' (characteristic melodic behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it); one of the medieval musical modes; or—mo ...

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*"The Paddo Sharps"

Celibate Rifles The Celibate Rifles were an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with a line-up that included mainstays Dave Morris on rhythm guitar and Kent Steedman on lead guitar, within a year they were joined by Damien Lovelock on lead vocals. ...

*"The Streets of Paddington" (Ralph Graham) Eureka! with

Dave Swarbrick David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. His style has been copied or developed by almost every British and many world folk violin players who have followed him. He was ...

Palm Beach

*"Deep Water" (

)

Parramatta

Jack's Heroes "Jack's Heroes" is a single released by The Pogues & The Dubliners in 1990, composed by tin whistle player Spider Stacy about the Republic of Ireland football squad, then managed by Jack Charlton. The song is to the tune of "The Wild Colonial ...

" ( Spider Stacy)

The Pogues The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone" – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse" ...

The Dubliners The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. The line-up saw many changes in personnel over their fifty-yea ...

*"Oodnadatta Parramatta" by Jim Conway *"Parramatta Gaol 1843"

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Hot Rod Man" The Whiteliners, Satellite V, Gaitorbait *"Sweeney"

*"The Abattoir Sky" (Keyes) Perry Keyes *"The Letter Home" (MacManus, Cassidy, Belton)

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in 2020, and has twice been nom ...

and The Brodsky Quartet *"Tomorrow" ( Don Walker)

*"Two Cabs to the Toucan" ( Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield)

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Pyrmont

*"Who Can Stand in the Way" ( Moginie, Garrett)

*"What Sydney Looks Like in June"

Alex the Astronaut Alexandra Lynn (born 3 March 1995), known professionally as Alex the Astronaut, is an Australian folk-pop singer-songwriter. Her debut album ''The Theory of Absolutely Nothing'' was released on 21 August 2020, and peaked at number 22 on the ...

Randwick

*"Randwick Bells" (Paul Kelly) Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls

Redfern

*"Ivy Street" (

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) The Mexican Spitfires ''Lupe Velez'' EP Red Eye Records *"The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw" Perry Keyes ''The Last Ghost Train Home'' Album Laughing Outlaw – the song mentions several other Sydney suburbs *"The Last Ghost Train Home" (Perry Keyes) Perry Keyes *”Warakurna” Midnight Oil

Stanmore

*"The Battle of Stanmore"

Died Pretty Died Pretty, sometimes The Died Pretty, is an Australian alternative rock band founded by mainstays Ron Peno (lead singer) and Brett Myers (lead guitarist and backing vocalist) in Sydney in 1983. The band was briefly called Final Solution. Thei ...

St Peters

*"St Peters" Camperdown & Out

Strathfield

*"Murder City Nights" (Denis Tek)

Radio Birdman Radio Birdman is an Australian punk rock band formed by Deniz Tek and Rob Younger in Sydney in 1974. The group influenced the work of many successful, mainstream bands, and are now considered instrumental in Australia's musical growth. Hist ...

*"Rookwood" (Stephen McCowage) The Mexican Spitfires ''Lupe Velez'' EP Red Eye Records

Strawberry Hills

*"Strawberry Hills Forever" John Kennedy

Summer Hill

*"Summer Hill Road" (R.Burton/G.Paige) The Executives Single

Festival Records Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1952 and operated until 2005. Festival was a wholly owned subsidiary of News Limited from 1961 to ...

Surry Hills

*"Green Ginger Wine" The Rumjacks *"Incident on South Dowling" Paul Kelly

Sydney

*"A Tale of Two Cities"

*"A Reason for it All"

*"Arrival at Sydney Harbour" Port Blue *"Australia" (

Ray Davies Sir Raymond Douglas Davies ( ; born 21 June 1944) is an English musician. He was the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for the rock band the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother Dave on lead guitar and backing voc ...

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*"Bradman" Paul Kelly *"Bruce Went Down To Sydney"

Col Elliott Col Elliott (born 1949) is an English-born Australian stand-up comedian who has been active since the early 1970s, based mainly on character based comedy. He has released more than 20 albums, 6 DVDs and many performances in thousands of live sho ...

*"The City Is Humming"

78 Saab 78 Saab were a rock band from Australia that consisted of Ben Nash (vocals and guitar), Jake Andrews (guitar and vocals), Garth Tregillgas (bass and vocals) and Nicholai Danko (drums and percussion). The band has stated that it was influenced ...

*"City of Lights"* (Grant McFarland) Grant McFarland *"Diamantina Drover" (Hugh McDonald)

*"Don't Go to Sydney" (John Dowler, Mick Holmes) The Zimmermen *"Fast Boat to Sydney"

Johnny Cash John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his c ...

*"Found" Horrorshow *"From Little Things Big Things Grow" Paul Kelly *"Ghost Town" ( Don Walker)

*"Go Farther In Lightness"

Gang of Youths Gang of Youths are an Australian alternative rock group from Sydney based in London. The band consists of principal songwriter David Le'aupepe (lead vocals, guitar), Max Dunn (bass guitar), Jung Kim (lead guitar, keyboards), Donnie Borzestowski ...

*"Harbour Town"

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*" He's on the Beach"

Kirsty MacColl Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was a British singer and songwriter, daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl. She recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including " There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears H ...

*"Inland Sea" (Carus Thompson) Carus Thompson *"The Inner West" David McCormack and the Polaroids ''Candy'' *"I Wonder What They're Doing (in Sydney Today)" (

) Michael Thomas *"I'll Be In Sydney Tonight" JR Williams * "In the Valley"

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" (Don Walker) Cold Chisel

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Single (April 1978) *"Larrikin Town" *( Keith Glass) Keith Glass *"Lights of Sydney Town" (Alistair Hulett)

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*"Liverpool Street" (Big Five) Big Five *"Melbourne Vs Sydney" by Dan Kelly *"My City of Sydney" (

Tommy Leonetti Tommy Leonetti (September 10, 1929September 15, 1979) was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song was "My City of Sydney" (written by Leonetti & Bobby Troup) and was used by ...

/Robert Trout) Tommy Leonetti,

Mary Schneider Mary Schneider AM, (born 25 October 1932) is an Australian singer, songwriter and performer, who is a master at the classic Swiss Alpine style. She is best known for yodelling the works of various standards by many a classic composer. Her rep ...

, XL Capris,

Frenzal Rhomb Frenzal Rhomb are an Australian punk rock band that formed in 1992 in Sydney. Three of the group's albums have entered the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart: ''A Man's Not a Camel'' (1999), '' Hi-Vis High Tea'' (2017) and ''Smoko at the Pe ...

*"Never Had So Much Fun" by

*"Okay Sydney, You Beat Me" by Nic Dalton And His Gloomchasers *"Old Sydney Town" Alopi Latukefu & the Palermo Express *" Power and the Passion"

*"The Piss, The Perfume"

Hayley Mary Hayley Mary is an Australian singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of The Jezabels from 2007–2017. Mary released her debut solo single in 2020. Early life Hayley Mary grew up in Byron Bay where she went to school with Heather Shannon, wit ...

*"Prague" Ruck Rover *"Rep My City"

*"Ship My Body Home"

Ben Lee Benjamin Michael Lee (born 11 September 1978) is an Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but he focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appe ...

*"Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Sebastopol" by

The Extra Lens The Extra Lens, formerly known as The Extra Glenns, is a band made up of Franklin Bruno (of Nothing Painted Blue and The Human Hearts) and John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats). The band acts as a side project for both artists, and stayed unde ...

*"Somewhere in Sydney" (Greg Macainsh)

*"Sundays in Sydney" (Dave Steel) Dave Steel *"Sydney" The Grinning Bellhops *"Sydney Born Man" (Peter Martin) SCRA *"Sydney City Ladies" (Martin Adamson ka Lee Martin Gabriel Vendetti, Allan Fraiel, Terry Meaney ka Terry Halliday Geeza, Laser Records '' Streetlife'' *"Sydney From a 747" ( Paul Kelly) Paul Kelly & the Messengers,

Mushroom Records Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival M ...

''Comedy'' *"Sydney Girls" (

/ Wells)

*"Sydney Harbour Bridge" (Justin Currie)

Justin Currie Justin Robert Currie (born 11 December 1964) is a Scottish singer and songwriter best known as a founding member of the band Del Amitri. Career Del Amitri Justin Currie was born in Glasgow and established the band Del Amitri in the early 1980s ...

*"Sydney Ladies" (

Broderick Smith Broderick Smith (born 17 February 1948) is an English-born Australian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and sometime actor. He was a member of 1970s bands Sundown, Carson and the Dingoes, 1980s Broderick Smith's Big Combo and he has re ...

Kerryn Tolhurst Kerryn William Tolhurst (born 1948) is an Australian country rock musician, songwriter and producer. He was based in the United States from late 1970s to the late 1990s, although he periodically returned to Australia. He was a founder of the Au ...

The Dingoes The Dingoes are an Australian country rock band. They were initially active from 1973 to 1979, and reformed in 2009. Initially based in Melbourne, the band relocated to the United States from 1976. The most stable line-up comprised John Bois on ...

, ''The Dingoes'' (1974, Mushroom Records) *"Sydney or the Bush" *(Norma O'Hara Murphy) Norma O'Hara Murphy *"Sydney Song"

Eskimo Joe Eskimo Joe are an Australian alternative rock band that was formed in 1997 by Stuart MacLeod, on lead guitar, Joel Quartermain, on drums and guitar, and Kavyen Temperley, on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia, Austra ...

*"Sydney to Newcastle"

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*"Sydney Town" ( Michael Quinlan) The Mexican Spitfires ''Lupe Velez'' EP Red Eye Records *"Sydney Town (The more they try to keep you down in)"* (Hardy/Gary Sheaarson) –

Frank Hardy Francis Joseph Hardy (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994), published as Frank J. Hardy and also under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn, was an Australian novelist and writer. He is best known for his 1950 novel '' Power Without Glory'', and for his ...

recorded by Gary Shearson *"Then 'Til Now"

Bliss N Eso Bliss n Eso (formerly known as Bliss n' Esoterikizm) are an Australian hip hop trio based in Sydney. They are currently signed to Melbourne record label Illusive Sounds, and are managed and booked by label co-founders Adam Jankie and Matt Gud ...

*"Tom Uglys Bridge" D. C. Cross *"Town Hall Steps" ( Timothy (Tim) O'Reilly)

The Mexican Spitfires The Mexican Spitfires were an Australian indie rock–indie pop band formed in 1986. The original lineup consisted of Price Conlan on drums, Stephen McCowage on lead guitar, Tim O'Reilly on bass and vocals, Michael Quinlan on rhythm guitar and v ...

''Lupe Velez'' EP Red Eye Records *"Typically Sydney" The Deadly Hume *"Wake Up Sydney"

Allniters The Allniters are a Sydney-based Australian ska pop band, founded in 1980. Original line-up was Ted Ayers on sax, Dave Bebb on drums, Stuart Crysell on guitar, Martin Fabok on guitar, Peter Hill-Travis on vocals, Graham Hood (The Johnnys) on ba ...

*"What Sydney Looks Like in June"

*"Where You Wanna Go" K1 *"Whitlam Square"

*"The Winner Is...SYDNEY"

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*"You Gotta Love This City" (

Tim Freedman Timothy James Freedman (25 November 1964) is an Australian musician, best known as the mainstay lead singer and keyboardist of the Australian band The Whitlams formed in 1993. Note: n-lineversion was expanded from the 2002 edition. The song ...

)

''Love this City''

Tamarama

*"Tamarama Doorslammer" *(C.Sue/A.Wilson) Killers on the Loose

Tempe

* "You Sound like Louis Burdett" –

''Eternal Nightcap''

Warilla

*"Song to Warilla" (Martin Adamson ka Lee Martin Geeza, Laser Records as a single from '' Streetlife''

Warwick Farm

*"Harry was a Bad Bugger" ( Don Walker)

Waterloo

*"In the Backyard" (Perry Keyes) Perry Keyes

White Bay

*"The White Bay Paper Seller" *(Judy Small) Judy Small

Woolloomooloo

*"Hullabaloo" (S. Kelly, J. MacKay) Absent Friends *"Ticket in Tatts" (

)

*"Lanes of Woolloomooloo" John Dengate *"Numbers Fall" *( Don Walker) Cold Chisel *"Ruby" ( Don Walker) Catfish *"Sailors Into Woolloomooloo" - Nathan Roche *"Ticket in Tatts" (

)

*"Woolloomooloo Lair" *(D.Newton/M.Williamson/R.Corbett) The Bushwackers *"Woolloomooloo Sunset" (McCormack)

David McCormack David Liam McCormack (born 25 October 1968) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as frontman of Brisbane-based rock group Custard,McFarlan'Custard'entry. Retrieved 23 February 2010.Spencer et al, (2007McCormack, D ...

and the Polaroids

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