Before Splendour there was Sunbury ☀️ The much-loved Splendour in the Grass Music Festival kicks off this weekend, bringing together tens of thousands of music lovers from across the country for a community experience like no other. Multi-day festivals have been a mainstay in Australian youth and music culture since the first was held in the early 1970s, which marked the end of the hippy era and the rise of pub rock. These initial festivals set new precedents in the music industry and became par

Birthed out of the popularity of America's freewheeling hippie Woodstock festival, Sunbury Pop Festival was hailed as being Australia's first multi-day camping festival, and saw the beginning of the nations love for pub rock music. After running successful events in 1972 and 1973, the 1974 Sunbury Pop festival introduced a second stage and boasted acts such as Skyhooks, Sherbet and a little British rock band called Queen - who were rumoured to have been booed off stage during their set. We're ki

50 years ago today, the first Sunbury Pop Festival launched a revolution in Australian music. Considered our version of Woodstock, the festival shocked Melbourne but inspired a new breed of Aussie rockers who are still playing today. 7NEWS at 6pm | More local news: www.7news.com.au/news/vic #7NEWS | 7NEWS Melbourne

In this clip from the Sunbury ’73 television special MC Paul Hogan humorously introduced a new kid called Jimmy O’Keefe who 'ran third in a talent quest in Dandenong the other week'. Sunbury’s 1973 iteration has been hailed by several pundits as the most successful of the Sunbury festivals. The 1973 festival featured another all-Australian line-up, with many of the bands' sets highly regarded. This included Country Radio, Carson, Mississippi (who later morphed into the Little River Band) and Ros