Odyssey Music Festival - 1971 |
Odysee (Wallacia) Pop Festival
Wallacia, NSW - 22-24 January 1971
Odyssey Pop Festival held at Wallacia had a great line-up of Australian bands including Chain.
The festival was next to what had been used as Bullen's Circus animal farm.
Festival line up
Chain
Daddy Cool
The La De Das
Barry McAskill / Levi Smiths Clefs
The Original Battersea Heroes
Pirana
Hans Poulsen
The 69'ers
Spectrum
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs*
Tully
Wendy Saddington & Copperwine
The Magpies
Comperes: Gerry Humphreys, Adrian Rawlins
* Billy Thorpe was there but did not play
The Kinks had been confirmed as the headline act (they didn't appear, and although a lengthy explanation blaming a failure of work permits and other paperwork to arrive was subsequently proffered, it is possible that they were never even booked; spurious overseas names being touted for Australian festivals was a far from uncommon occurrence).
St John didn't make it either, leaving Copperwine's other star vocalist Wendy Saddington to front the band alone
Wallacia is a small village surrounded by rural countryside and bushland; it is a few kilometres south of Penrith, NSW, and about 70km west of Sydney. The area was a renowned holiday resort area from the late 1800s to the 1940s.
❊ Web Links ❊
➼ Odyssey Music Festival - 1971
➼ Myponga Music Festival (South Australia)
➼ Sunbury Music Festival (Victoria)
➼ Source: milesago.com
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