Milesago Information

Our mission is to compile a comprehensive web-based resource about Australasian (i.e. Australian and New Zealand) popular music, popular culture and social history in the twelve-year period from 1 January 1964 to 31 December 1975. We want to celebrate and to explore this period of history in our region, by increasing the available information, raising awareness and encouraging research and discussion about this period. We aim to achieve this by original research and writing, and by compiling, editing and publishing all the available information from both internet and non-Internet sources in a form that can be accessed via the World Wide Web. We hope that MILESAGO will (in the words of the old ABC charter) inform, educate and entertain, and that it will stimulate and encourage further discussion, research and publication in this field, as well as linking to the ever-growing network of information about Australian culture on the World Wide Web. When we established the site in late 1999, we started out by focussing on some of the groups from the 'progressive' scene of the late 60s and early 70s; since then we have constantly added more information on a wide variety of subjects. As the site develops we hope to cover the fullest possible range of popular music of that period -- pop, "bubblegum", blues, soul, R&B, psychedelia, country rock, jazz and folk -- as well as many other aspects of the popular culture and social history of that era, including the behind the scenes story of the local music, film, television, radio and the print media and industry. The name of our site -- MILESAGO -- is taken from one of the landmark albums of that era, Milesago by Spectrum. Released early in 1972, it was Australia's first rock double-album, one of the finest 'progressive' rock LPs ever -- and one of our favourite records! We chose the name for several reasons -- because it is is rooted in that era, because it's short, it's distinctive and it sounds cool, and it's because we felt it expressed something of the character of our ...