At the drive-in: has Hockey Dad revealed the future of Australian live music?

Hockey Dad’s Alive At The Drive-In concert was an electrifying return to live music. If only there was money in it ...

If drive-in concerts could make enough of a buck for concert promoters to pursue them (they can’t), Wollongong band the Pinheads’ appeal on Friday to “give us a beep!” would go down in Australian music history. Hundreds of hands are slammed on horns in acquiescence. A song later, a sheepish correction: beeping, bad.

Too late! Spirits are high in this wind-whipped Bulli field where 400 cars are parked side-by-side blasting the stage audio via FM radio, and appreciation must be shown. (Clapping in your car feels super weird. Cheering, even weirder.)

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