| January |
*
Nick Cave releases 'Murder Ballads, including the duet with
Kylie Minogue 'Where the Wild Roses Grow'
* Whitlams' guitarist
and songwriter Stevie Plunder found dead at the base of a cliff
at Wentworth Falls in NSW's Blue Hills. He was 32. |
| February |
*
Silverchair
release 'Freak Show', debuting at #1 |
| March |
*
Jebediah record debut
EP 'Twitch' at the "Upper Room"
* Shihad's manager first
sees them play live |
| May |
*
Regurgitator
release their debut album, 'Tu-Plang' and tour Australia as
support to Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| July
|
*
You Am I release 'Hourly
Daily', debuting at #1 nationally
* Crowded House
release 'Recurring Dream - The Very Best of Crowded House',
which enters the Australian and UK charts and #1 |
| September |
*
Powderfinger
release 'Double Allergic' which goes double platinum and stays
in the Top 40 for 34 weeks |
| October
|
*
Spiderbait release
'Ivy and the Big Apples', and tour Canada and the US
* Brad Robinson of Australian
Crawl dies of lymphoma |
| November |
*
Crowded House
play their farewell concert at the Sydney Opera House, for an
estimated crowd of 150,000 |
|
*
You Am I win six ARIA
Awards, including Best Group and Best Album
* Paul Hester rejoins Crowded
House
* The Black Sorrows
release 'Radio Waves', a triple live album
* The Dirty Three tour Europe and the USA
* Savage Garden
release the single 'I Want You'
* French music magazine Les Inrocktupiles votes the Go-Betweens'
'16 Lovers Lane' album 3rd best album of the 1980s |
