It was December '85…trust me, I remember that concert very well 
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I saw them ‘91 at the Music Bowl. Hoodoo Gurus pulled out as support just before. Some rap group called Brainspeak (?) opened and the crowd unleashed on them.
Yeah…an Oils crowd probably wouldn’t be much into rap
I see on Discogs the guy from Brainspeak did the cover art for Blue Sky Mining. Interesting!
Early 80’s was a great time to be alive, you could go see The Models, Divinyls ,Oz Crawl,
& all of the above bands on any given night.
And huge Over seas act every few months.
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One of my best mates doesn’t! He overdid the pre-gig Southern Comfort & Cokes and disgraced himself just about immediately upon entry. He missed the gig and spent the night locked-up for D&D…
Interesting question. Some (not I) argue Noel Gallagher helped send Michael Hutchence on his way.
Personally the frontman is too important- I’d take a Liam without Oasis over INXS without a Michael.
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and not a mention of AC/DC, maybe you are not that old
But would you take a Michael without INXS over OASIS without Liam, Noel goes ok
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Was that the hastily-convened Concert For The Kids (tickets on-sale on the Monday, concert the following weekend)? If that’s the same one, that was a great gig… the Salvation Army Brass Band coming on to play Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers with them was just out-of-this-world… Crapped all over the Blue Sky Mining shows they did at the Tennis Centre a week or two before that, which were a bit sterile and very light on for pre-Diesel & Dust material…
Wow, what a lineup!!!
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I came straight from a Christmas party cruise on The Yarra and out into the bay. First date with a girl from work…her and I and my best mate (who was blind drunk) made our way out to Kooyong…I still remember how steep those steps were and I was worried my mate was going to fall and do himself some serious damage.
Awesome concert and at the end we all caught a train back to the city…he went his way and we went back to her place in Williamstown (where I had left my car earlier in the day). Breakfast was quite pleasant the next morning at a little cafe in Nelson Place. 
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AC/DC at The Sidney Myer Music Bowl on their Back In Black Tour in January '81.
The Angels were special guests and blew AC/DC off the stage.
(I remember getting annoyed as Angus felt the need to play a solo at the end of just about every song)
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It was called One For The Homeless Kids, I think, so maybe the same. I can’t remember the ticketing, just that it was my first ever concert just before I turned 15 and I went with a couple of school mates.
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Did you ever see Acca Dacca with Bon?
Yeah, same one. Great show. We queued out the front of the local Myer from about 4 am waiting for the Bass Outlet to open so we could get tickets.
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Wow, I wish my memory was better, no idea how we bought tickets.
Oh, just in case anybody missed the deep subtext to Swoodley’s story above, he got laid after the Oils gig at Kooyong.
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I fondly recall a Boom Crash Opera show on the Lorne Foreshore for similar reasons…
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Geez, you oldies had some funny names for it
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