Waiting for Elton John Kooyong Concert Sound Check (Including Bruce Howard, Ian Meldrum, John Brewster, Michael Browning, Billy Thorpe, Lynn McGrathDavid Dixon Porter · 1971

  • Art movementOther
  • Creation date1971
  • MuseumPenrith Regional Gallery - Home of the Lewers Bequest
In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger). Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.IAN ‘MOLLY’ MELDRUM Music journalist, record producer. Talent co-ordinator, host presenter ABCTV music program Countdown (1974–87). Worked in Australian popular music since the mid-1960s. Wrote for Go-Set. Produced top ten hits for Russell Morris, Ronnie Burns, Colleen Hewett, Supernaut, The Ferrets. Received ARIA Award for Special Achievements (1994). Inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame (2014).MICHAEL BROWNING. Promoter, agent, manager. Opened Sebastians discotheque (1968). Set up Australian Entertainment Exchange (managing top bands such as Doug Parkinson In Focus and Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs). In 1970 with Michael Gudinski formed Consolidated Rock, and published (Daily)Planet (1971/72). Consolidated Rock folded 1973, opened Melbourne’s Hard Rock Café. Became AC/DC manager 1974. In 1980 created Deluxe Records and Publishing, signing INXS.Published Makin’ it in Melbourne. Go-Set, 6 November 1971 (p.16)

David Dixon Porter (1813 – 1891)

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Penrith Regional Gallery - Home of the Lewers Bequest (Emu Plains, Australia)

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About this artwork

  • Title: Waiting for Elton John Kooyong Concert Sound Check (Including Bruce Howard, Ian Meldrum, John Brewster, Michael Browning, Billy Thorpe, Lynn McGrath
  • Artist: David Dixon Porter
  • Year: 1971
  • Format: Landscape
  • Copyright status: Public domain
  • Where to see it: Penrith Regional Gallery - Home of the Lewers Bequest
  • Creative period: 1970s
  • Corpus context: porter's underground lens", live music energy
  • Keywords: 1970s australian music, music festival image, david porter photography
  • Color hue: Green to Violet Spectrum

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