TAGGED: 1970s
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Throughout the late 1960s and into the ’70s, Johnny O'Keefe continued to perform and release records.

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Filmmaker Phillip Noyce was tasked with recording the 1971 Aquarius Arts Festival held at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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Excerpt from Bert Newton Radio show in 1977. Bert asks Graham about his mentor Clifford Nicholls Whitta (Nicky). 

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Music festivals in the 1970s offered unprecedented opportunities for enterprising promoters and homegrown musicians, and were spaces where participants enacted ideals of counterculture and community building.

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In January 1970, 5 months after Woodstock, the small NSW town of Ourimbah hosted Australia’s first major music festival.

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In 1973, the Aquarius Festival moved off campus to the Northern New South Wales town of Nimbin.

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Billy Thorpe, along with his band The Aztecs, was one of Australia’s biggest pop stars of the 1960s.

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The organisers of the 1973 Aquarius Festival in Nimbin chose not to engage with the music industry, declaring in their manifesto that they would not be ‘sold’ culture.

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The Great Australian Rock Festival – Sunbury ‘73 was the inaugural album release for the newly formed Mushroom Records.

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Arguably one of the reasons that the 1972 Sunbury festival is so well remembered is because of the festival concert film Sunbury ’72.