Mulwala Rock Festival showing the performers, audience, costume, and life style of music festival in 1972 [picture] / Joseph Oros
- Bib ID:
- 3044591
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Oros, Joseph
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 314-340 #PIC/P2193/1-28 copy
- Description:
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- 1972
- 28 photographs : b&w on boards ; 40.5 x 50.5 cm.
- Summary:
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This collection describes and documents the vibrant life of the Mulwala Rock Festival, also known as "Rock Isle" Pop Festival which was held over the Easter weekend - March 31, April 1, 2 and 3, 1972, at Mulwala, a little property on the Victorian side of the Murray River not far from Yarrawonga. About 20,000 people attended, and there were only very basic facilities provided, including a number of pit toilets that rapidly became extremely unpleasant. The owner of the festival subsequently vowed never to lend his land for such a purpose again. On the first day of the festival, a Saturday, a man drowned in the river, and his body was subsequently found when a young woman swimming in the river trod on him. Despite this, most of the people who remember the festival have strong, and happy memories of swimming in the river, and the public nudity it occasioned - experienced for the first time by many. On the Sunday night it poured with rain, turning the site into a quagmire of knee deep mud and empty beer cans.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from accession record.
- Images individually catalogued and digitised.
- Condition: Good.
- Photographs 6 and 27 are the same.
- PIC Drawer PM 314-340 #PIC/P2193/1-28 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-143666295
- Subject:
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- Music festivals -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Rock concerts -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Rock music -- Social aspects -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Rock groups -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Rock musicians -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Rock music fans -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Crowds -- New South Wales -- Mulwala -- Photographs
- Mulwala (N.S.W.) -- Photographs
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