TAGG – ISSUE 26 flipbook
Flick through the TAGG issue 26 flipbook including Melbourne’s live music gig guide for 4th to 17th July, 1980!
The TAGG time capsule series
TAGG – ISSUE 26.
In this TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide time capsule series, you can revisit the Melbourne live music scene from 1979-1981.
Each issue featured the all important issue gig guide, reviews, venue locations, interviews and stories. Australia’s original street press was the perfect printed back pocket friend filled with everything a live music lover needed to know each fortnight.
We’re working our way through digitising TAGG’s back catalogue so you can relive (for those who were there) revisit (for those who weren’t and those who don’t recall) the original issues of the magazine on the TAGG website. cool hey!
TAGG – ISSUE 26 – Table of contents:
Includes the all important gig guide for 4th – 17th July, 1980
4. TAGG magg
9. National section (brown)
9. TAGG file
13. Consumer guide
17. Restaurant guide (green)
23. Confirmed concerts
25. Tagg rags (red)
33. Gig listings (yellow)
38. Gigs of our lives (cartoon)
47. Venue locations
49. Geelong section (green)
49. Geelong audio notes
54. Disco section (red)
57. Jazz & acoustic section (green)
66. Who’s recording?
72. Playlists
74. Album review
75. Outlets
77. Classifieds
We hope you enjoy flipping through TAGG – issue 26!
TAGG – ISSUE 26 excerpt…
page 50. Geelong Folk Club
This third Geelong Folk Festival was a beauty! With two packed bush dances and a capacity concert (over 900 people) the only complaint was ‘there’s too much on!’ The organisation held together tightly and Deakin University are more than happy to see Geelong Folk Club back next year.
The key guest Tommy Dempsey turned out to be a wise-cracking leprechaun with a phenomenal repertoire of traditional songs. The many workshops were of a very high standard. ABC-FM will present many of these on the national Folk on Sunday programme.
During the festival, the Folk Song and Dance Society of Victoria presented Jamie McKew, president of Geelong Folk Club, with the ‘Graham Sequence Memorial Award’. The award was for outstanding services in fostering folk in Geelong and Western Districts. Graham was an outstanding folk revivalist musician tragically killed in 1970…
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