Amazing the things u learn through doing a history degree m.youtube/watch?autoplay=1&v=50adkMsuKQU The Pilgrimage For Pop, Australias first rock festival, was held on the Australia Day long weekend in January 1970. The venue was the farm of Lt Colonel Henry Nicholls at Ourimbah, near Gosford, on the NSW central coast, just north of Sydney.Ourimbah set the precedent for the scheduling of many festivals held during this era. The late January timing was doubly practical because it fell before the end of the school and univeristy summer holidays and took advantage of the traditional Australia Day public holiday long weekend, enabling those in weekday employment to attend all three days. There was a downside however — festival patrons were often treated to the traditional extremes of Aussie late summer weather, and Ourimbah was no exception.Ourimbah was a unique event in many respects. It was the first large-scale Australian outdoor rock festival, staged only months after the epochal Woodstock Festival in the USA.
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