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Ian Hunter was lead vocalist of the rock band Mott the Hoople.

Canberra based  (Nette France, Josef Pabis, Malcolm Newland and Zac Bailey)

Swive is a San Diego alt-rock band with harmony-filled female/male vocals, who are known for their powerful and lyrical compositions.

From Tasmania, and yes all eight of them are dads. Just played at this years Gympie Music Muster, so gotta wonder just how that went down?

Catfish and the Bottlemen are a Welsh indie rock band formed in Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, in 2007.
The band derives its name from lead vocalist, Van McCann's first childhood musical memory: that of an Australian street busker in Sydney, playing beer bottles strung to a wire who went by the name Catfish the Bottleman.

 

From New Haven in Connecticut.

From Arlington, Virginia and based in Washington.

Started off as a garage band in Brisbane in the ’90’s.

Australian-born, but now Los Angeles-based.

Played cornet alongside a number of jazz musicians in the ’70’s, 80’s and 90’s, including Cassandra Wilson, before releasing two albums under his own name. He is the father of rapper NAS.

Another birthday falling on this day is Paul Kossoff . He was co-founder and guitarist of English rock band Free, and is responsible for the slick guitar riff on this song, “All Right Now”.

 

From the first of only 2 albums she recorded. She was born on the 14th September, 1983 and died much to young in 2011, aged 27.

From Brisbane.

Johnathon Sri - vocals and clarinet
Canna Townsend - bass and backing vocals
Geoff Wong - keyboard
Andrew Carter - drums

The Subtheory is a trip hop/psych pop electronic project from composer, writer, DJ and producer Andy Hill and singer/songwriter Cate DeBu from Oxford in the UK.

Les Claypool is the bass player in Primus.

The album peaked at number 1 on the US Billboard World Albums chart and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at 34th Annual Grammy Awards.

From Oakland, California.

The Witchy Djypsies are a high-energy, eclectic international 7-piece band incorporating their musical backgrounds from France, Guadeloupe, Czech Republic, The Netherlands and Australia.

A new release from these guys, Warrick Hargreaves and Tina Fullerton. This song is a cover of Townes Van Zandt.

Brisbane based band.

Brisbane musician covering a Marc Bolan and T. Rex tune.

Cover of the Stooges song.

From the album “All Doll'd Up” This song can be found of the compilation put out by triple zed and available to everyone who subscribed in this year’s radiothon.

Montana USA. Dave Hollier is lead vocalist

The Peter Bilt Group – guitarist Peter Dunne, bassist Dan Hart and drummer Aaron Smith played together in the early ’80’s, but couldn’t get much interest from record companies with their sound, so they went their own way. 30 years  later Dunne revisited some of their old tapes and thought the music still had fire, so he contacted the other two and they put it all together again for their debut album in 2020.

A fixture on the Los Angeles scene. His career kicked off when Lightnin’ Hopkins heard him playing drums and took him on tour in the early ’70’s.

“Why is the Colour of the Sky? “ is a new release by Melbourne based band. Originally a solo project by Van Bakel.
Nick Van Bakel (multi-instrumentalist)
Jimi Gregg (drums)
Jack Crook (guitar)
Charlotte Tobin (djembe/percussion)
Joshua Dans (bass)

 

David Wood is the songwriter, musician behind this project, ably helped out by UK-born, Australian based singer-songwriter Phoebe Over. Michael "Gnome" Ross helping out as collaborator come mentor.

Melbourne based.

Sydney based. guitarist and vocalist David Low; bassist/keys Lachy Street; Amelia Sim’s drums.

Oslo-based band, originating from Fredrikstad. The band was started by Elias von Krogh and Adrian Michelsen in 2019, and with bassist Philip Mjaatvedt, pianist Aadne Salen Sandvik and drummer Filip Blindheim,

Giant Sand (formerly Giant Sandworms) is an American musical group from Tucson, Arizona. Its most constant member is singer-songwriter Howe Gelb.

Urban blues from Switzerland.

Brisbane based prog jazz.