Tag the Angels

20 December 1987
in Music
tags 1987, Adelaide, Cold Chisel, Fraternity, Headband, Meadows Technicolor Fair, Myponga Festival, Rashamra, the Accountants, the Angels, Young Modern
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Seasons of change: the Adelaide music scene in the 70s

20 December 1987
in Music
tags 1987, Adelaide, Cold Chisel, Fraternity, Headband, Meadows Technicolor Fair, Myponga Festival, Rashamra, the Accountants, the Angels, Young Modern
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Australia has always been an accurate mirror of the world’s music scene, reflecting and balancing US and UK trends and styles. As the most typical Australian city, Adelaide going into the 1970s provided a fascinating microcosm of the state of play in world music. The emergence of the rock album as an artform in its own right, a process started by the Beatles with Revolver and Rubber Soul in the

12 October 1987
in Australian Rock, Music
tags 1987, AC/DC, Australian rock, Boys Next Door, Cold Chisel, Dragon, Hush, Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, Little River Band, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil, Mushroom, Radio Birdman, Roll Over Beethoven, Ross Wilson, Sherbet, Skyhooks, Split Enz, Teenage Radio Stars, the Angels, The Saints, The Sports
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Australian Rock: The Late Seventies

12 October 1987
in Australian Rock, Music
tags 1987, AC/DC, Australian rock, Boys Next Door, Cold Chisel, Dragon, Hush, Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, Little River Band, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil, Mushroom, Radio Birdman, Roll Over Beethoven, Ross Wilson, Sherbet, Skyhooks, Split Enz, Teenage Radio Stars, the Angels, The Saints, The Sports
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The rise and rise of Skyhooks in 1975 sounded the death knell for the loud progressive blues-style bands that had so dominated Australian rock in the early seventies. The contrast between the two could hardly have been more striking. In place of denim and long hair, Skyhooks wore colourful and zany stage clothes. Instead of standing in the one spot while the guitarist did a twenty minute improvised solo, Skyhooks