Rock Bands Powderfinger & Simple Minds performed live after the last track event on Saturday & Sunday.
Brisbane-based band Powderfinger wrote a song Black Tears which mentioned the Palm Island death in custody by the words "An island watch-house bed, a black man's lying dead".
In 1999, 78 Saab began working on their debut album with producer Tim Whitten (Powderfinger, Gaslight Radio) at Sydney's Megaphon Studios, recording the song "Sunshine" as the first single.
Anton Hagop is an ARIA award winning music producer / engineer who has worked with the likes of Silverchair, Powderfinger, Will Smith, Missy Higgins, Natalie Imbruglia and The Superjesus.
The band toured regularly with fellow Australian bands such as Powderfinger, You Am I and Something For Kate, and were the main support on Radiohead's OK Computer tour of Australia.
Scheduled for the weekend before Christmas, plans were looking great, with popular bands Powderfinger, John Butler Trio, The Living End, 1200 Techniques, and The Butterfly Effect on the line-up, as well as classic Australian band The Church.
He has finished production on a live concert DVD of Powderfinger's final concert tour 'Sunsets' and is in production on a documentary about Ian Thorpe's return to professional swimming.
Lunn is now famous in Queensland for a number of autobiographical books: in June 2009 he was voted as a Queensland Icon as one of 15 "influential artists" in the state's history in a list of 15 which included the Bee Gees, Geoffrey Rush, Powderfinger and David Malouf.
In 2007, Haug reunited with Powderfinger to release their sixth studio album Dream Days at the Hotel Existence.
Known for their strong political songs and high octane live performances, Blue King Brown have opened for local and international acts as diverse as Carlos Santana, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Damian Marley, The John Butler Trio, The Cat Empire, Silverchair, and Powderfinger.
"Stumblin'" is a song released as a promotional single from Australian rock group Powderfinger's first live album These Days: Live in Concert.