Listening to the remastered version with extra tracks of possibly the greatest live album of the 80's
Seeing Talking Heads at Narara Music Festival 1984 was awesome but the prevailing memory was cheap booze and the mud!
Like the 1983 concert, Narara Music Festival 1984 was held on the Australia Day long weekend from Friday the 27th the Monday the 30th of January 1984. It was held at the same location, being Somersby NSW.
MC’s – Austen Tayshus, Rodney Rude
Friday January 27th
Party Girls
Eurogliders
Real Life
Eurythmics
Simple Minds
Mondo Rock
Saturday January 28th
QED
Zarsoff Bros
The Johnnies
Kids In The Kitchen
Hoodoo Gurus
Machinations
Sandii And The Sunsets
The Models
INXS
The Pretenders
Talking Heads
Mental As Anything
Sunday January 29th
Drop Bears
Deckchairs Overboard
Strange Tennants
The Expression
Dynamic Hepnotics
Little Heroes
Sunnyboys
Jon English & The Foster Bros.
Def Leppard
The Radiators
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Note: The show was washed out at this point & the following scheduled acts did not play.
Australian Crawl
Allniters
Monday January 30th
Mighty Guys
Celibate Rifles
Avion
The concert was marred by heavy rain and suffered reduced crowd numbers.
Some say it was also due to the large number of overseas acts at what was an all- Australian event the year before.
This was the last of the Narara concerts.
http://australianmusichistory.com/narara-music-festival-1984/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narara_Music_Festival