Narara Music Festival

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Narara Music Festival was an outdoor music festival held on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia in 1983 and 1984. Despite the name, it was actually held at Somersby, a short disatnce from Narara.

Contents

[edit] 1983

For the first year, the concert ran over the Australia Day weekend, from Friday 28 January 1984 to Monday 31 January 1984.

The event featured an all Australian bill including Austen Tayshus as M.C. [1]

Australian bands and artists that appeared at the event include:

Between 30,000 and 45,000 people are believed to have attended this concert, a few thousand of which were stranded at Narara railway station, believing the concert was being held in Narara.

A highlight of the event was The Angels playing with a blood red full moon rising over the stage behind them.

The Angels performed 11 songs at the concert, which were released as an album, "Live at Narara".

The songs on this album are:

  1. Comin Down
  2. Eat City
  3. Mr. Damage
  4. Stand Up
  5. No Secrets
  6. Take a long line
  7. After the rain
  8. Shoot it up
  9. Shadow boxer
  10. Is that you
  11. Marseilles

This album was released on VHS in 1988, and has also been released on DVD.

INXS put on a show stopping performance and a fan presented Michael Hutchence with a baby lamb which, made for great press.

[edit] 1984

In 1984, the second year, the concert also ran over the Australia day weekend, this time Friday 27th January to Monday 30th January.

Peter Sjoquist AM, was involved with the organisation of the festival.

As in 1983, Austen Tayshus was M.C.

Due to poor weather, and a mismatched international bill of artists, the numbers were down on the previous concert.

This event was marred by the unfortunate death of an English tourist in a dam used by all to swim in.

Incorrect. This occurred in 1983

Some international artists that appeared at the event include:

[edit] Inconsistencies

INXS may have appeared in 1984 as well, since a version of "Original Sin" on the "I'm only looking" DVD claims to be from 1984. This could just be an error on the part of the DVD contents. [21]

There could have been a body found in the dam the first year as well, or the sources are inaccurate, and are referring to the same person. [22] [23]

INXS did appear in 1984. Hutchence introduced "Original Sin" by saying "thank you Australia for making this Number One" as the song reached the top of the charts that week.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Austen Tayshus
  2. ^ Michael Hutchence
  3. ^ Men at Work
  4. ^ Cold Chisel
  5. ^ The Angels
  6. ^ The Angels
  7. ^ The Choirboys
  8. ^ Uncanny X-Men
  9. ^ The Church
  10. ^ Australian Crawl
  11. ^ Margret Roadknight
  12. ^ Simple Minds
  13. ^ Sydney Morning Herald 9/12/2004
  14. ^ The Pretenders
  15. ^ Sydney Morning Herald 9/12/2004
  16. ^ Sydney Morning Herald 27/11/2004
  17. ^ Eurythmics
  18. ^ Google Group
  19. ^ Def Leppard
  20. ^ Google Group
  21. ^ INXS
  22. ^ Woy-Woy.com - Strange Happenings
  23. ^ Google Group

[edit] External links