The Sydney metalcore band’s drummer, Nic Pettersen, was a victim of gravity when he disappeared mid-gig in New Zealand

Playing a music festival a day after he buried Ruby Hunter helped the singer honour her memory – and crystallised just how much he needed his audience

The Melbourne-born singer walks in the footsteps of the ‘misunderstood’ soprano on a historic stage in Athens

Epic hangovers, a spitting contest gone wrong and a busted tyre were an ominous start to the final show of the Melbourne band’s European tour

When Chris O’Connor formed a rock band to pay off a friend’s parking fines, he didn’t count on union thugs, a knife-wielding maniac and six police vans turning up to the first gig in Melbourne

When Megadeth were too sick to headline a South Korean rock festival, Cam Baines and his Melbourne punk band stepped in – with blazing consequences

The I’m Talking singer was starstruck and beset by dark premonitions when she joined the Rocking With the Royals lineup in Melbourne in 1985

Drummer Rob Hirst relives the anarchic closing night of a legendary Sydney live music venue in 1980 that the Oils were astonished to survive

When the Gunditjmara and Bundjalung singer opened for Kelly’s band in 1989, it altered the trajectory of both men’s lives

A last-minute stage switch meant a huge festival crowd who turned out to see the chart-storming Shark were instead greeted by a little-known indie rocker

The UK fails to roll out the red carpet when the Aussie rockers tour there in 2007

A potent cookie, a broken lift and a band on the brink take the drummer into surprising new territory at the Danish festival

When Vikki Thorn’s band toured the US with their songwriting idol, life was a blur of beer and overnight buses – until they found themselves knockin’ on heaven’s door