Oz for Africa

Oz for Africa was a concert that took place on 12 July 1985 as part of the global Live Aid concerts in Sydney Sports & Entertainement Center. This concert represented the Australian contribution to Live Aid dar. Due to the time difference, this concert began to twelve hours a London and was thus the first Live Aid concert.

The concert, organized by the furniture dealer Bill Gordon and Brian de Courcy music producer, in collaboration with Bob Geldof and the Band Aid Trust was moderated by Ian Molly Meldrum. Organizer Bill Gordon even sold his furniture business and used the money to support the concert.

The four -hour concert was broadcast on the two Australian television Channel 7 and Channel 9. Parts of it were also shown during the global broadcast of Live Aid and are also included on the Live Aid DVD.

Approximately 11,000 spectators each paid $ 18.50 dollars to get Oz for Africa to look at. The concert played a six million U.S. dollars for Africa.

Appearance order

  • Ian Molly Meldrum: Moderation
  • Mental As Anything: Live It Up, If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too You're So Strong?
  • Machinations: Pressure Sway, My Heart 's On Fire, No Say In It
  • I'm Talking: Lead the Way
  • Models: Big On Love, I Hear Motion, Stormy Tonight, Out of Mind, Out of Sight
  • Do.Re.Mi: Man Overboard, Warnings Moving Clockwise, 1000 Mouths
  • Electric Pandas: Missing Me, Let's Gamble
  • Dragon: Speak No Evil, Rain, Are You Old Enough
  • Australian Crawl Reckless ( Do not Be So ), Two Can Play, The Boys Light Up
  • Party Girls: Insulation
  • Uncanny X -Men: Work, 50 Years
  • Goanna: Common Ground, Song for Africa, Solid Rock
  • Little River Band: Do not Blame Me, Full Circle, Night Owls, Playing to Win
  • Mondo Rock: Cool World, Mondo Rock, The Moment, Modern Bop, Come Said the Boy
  • Angel City: Small Price, Eat City, Underground, Take a Long Line
  • Renée Geyer: Put a Little Love in Your Heart, All My Love, Telling It Like it Is
  • INXS: Original Sin, Listen Like Thieves Kiss the Dirt, What You Need, Do not Change

Australia and live 8

After it was announced that Bob Geldof with Live 8 planned a Neufauflage or continuation of Live Aid, tried the Australian music producer Ian Molly Meldrum, who had led in 1985 heavily worked with Bob Geldof at Live Aid and Oz for Africa, in the wake of the global Live 8 concerts to take place, a Live 8 concert in Australia. Quote: "I hope he ( Geldof ) will do it, we definitely have the musician " ("I'm hoping he'll do it, we've got Certainly the acts. ").

After his efforts to an Australian variant of Live8 were fruitless, Molly Meldrum hosted jointly with former Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes on Australian television a so-called pre-show at Live 8

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