Sunbury Pop Festival
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Oct 20, 2026
Shannon GillGUEST
Well- Jim McKay, he, in the early seventies, he's the original producer of Hey Hey It's Saturday.
Shannon GillGUEST
He also, um, helps put on the Sunbury Rock Festival, which is a sort of a, an iconic seventies moment, but also he then ends up getting the marketing account for the VFL.
Shannon GillGUEST
Now at the time, the VFL was just, was, was simply concerned with playing footy and nothing, nothing more really.
Shannon GillGUEST
Within a couple of years of him running that and basically putting the VFL logo on everything he could find.
JohnHOST
Now, I was a big music fan at the age of 16 when this song came out, and even I only had kind of an idea of what Sunbury was.
JohnHOST
Without Wikipedia, I didn't realise that the Sunbury Pop Festival was this hugely important music festival that was held in the Victorian town of Sunbury between 1972 and 1976.
JohnHOST
It featured bands like Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Skyhooks and even Queen.
JohnHOST
For me, it was mainly this weird live album I'd sometimes come across in shops.
Kelvin HigvoldPANELIST
They supported Daddy Cool and Ross Wilson then convinced Michael Gudinski to sign them, which he did.
Kelvin HigvoldPANELIST
Then they played at Sunbury in January 1974, the Sunbury Festival, but they got booed off stage, brother.
BrettHOST
Was that because of their costumes?
Kelvin HigvoldPANELIST
I don't know, but it was the catalyst for replacing Steve Hill on vocals with Graham Shirley Straughan.