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{{Short description|1986–1987 Australian concert series}}
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{{Infobox music festival
| music_festival_name = Australian Made
| image = Australian Made Concert Tour Poster.jpg
| caption = Promotional poster for the Sydney concert
| genre = {{hlist|Rock|[[New wave music|new wave]]|[[Pub rock (Australia)|pub rock]]}}
| dates = 26 December 1986 – 26 January 1987
| location = Australia
* [[Hobart, Tasmania|Hobart]] (26 December 1986)
* [[Adelaide, South Australia|Adelaide]] (1 January 1987)
* [[Melbourne, Victoria|Melbourne]] (3 January 1987)
* [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] (10 January 1987)
* [[Brisbane, Queensland|Brisbane]] (17 January 1987)
* Sydney (26 January 1987)
| years_active = 1986–1987
| founders = {{hlist|[[Chris Murphy (manager)|Chris Murphy]]|Mark Pope|[[Michael Gudinski]]|Ken West}}
| organised = {{hlist|Chris Murphy|Mark Pope}}
}}
'''Australian Made''' was a festival concert series held during 1986–1987 in the six state capitals of Australia and featured local rock acts [[Mental as Anything]], [[I'm Talking]], [[The Triffids]], [[The Saints (Australian band)|The Saints]], [[Divinyls]], [[Models (band)|Models]], [[INXS]] and [[Jimmy Barnes]].<ref name="Jeff">{{Cite book|url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41896781 |title=Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia|last=Jenkins|first=Jeff|author2=Ian Meldrum|author2-link=Ian Meldrum|year=2007|publisher=Wilkinson Publishing|location=Melbourne|pages=252–253|isbn=978-1-921332-11-1|access-date=11 March 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090304211700/http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41896781| archive-date= 4 March 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Baker">{{Cite book|url=http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000005333286&itemSeq=3&total=52&returnFunction=searchResults&term1=Baker%2C+Glenn+A.%2C&location1=Anywhere&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&boolean1=and&sessionId=reuseSearch797525828C33C1BD1876224B8EF803DC1236920339923|title=Australian made, gonna have a good time tonight : the authorised documentary of the event|last=Baker|first=Glenn A.|author-link=Glenn A. Baker|author2=Bob King|editor=Glenn A. Baker|year=1987|publisher=Fontana Collins|location=Sydney, N.S.W.|isbn=0-00-636921-9|access-date=16 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329204936/http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000005333286&itemSeq=3&total=52&returnFunction=searchResults&term1=Baker%2C+Glenn+A.%2C&location1=Anywhere&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&boolean1=and&sessionId=reuseSearch797525828C33C1BD1876224B8EF803DC1236920339923|archive-date=29 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The series started in [[Hobart, Tasmania|Hobart]] on 26 December 1986 and concluded in Sydney on 26 January 1987. Rock journalist Jeff Jenkins rated it as one of his 50 most significant events in Australian music history, "It wasn't a huge success, but it showed that an all-Australian festival could work."<ref name="Rhythms">{{Cite news|url=http://www.rhythms.com.au/news,id,641.aspx|title=The 50 Most Significant Events in Australian Music History|work=Rhythms|publisher=Rhythms.com.au|date=15 July 2007|last=Jenkins|first=Jeff|access-date=11 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118134650/http://www.rhythms.com.au/news,id,641.aspx|archive-date=18 November 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Australian Made was conceived to counter tours of international acts, like [[Dire Straits]]' 1985–1986 world tour, which were drying up funds for Australian groups.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="Powerhouse">{{cite web|url=http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=166432|title=99/111/1 Performance costume, suit, cotton, used by Martin Plaza of Mental as Anything, Mambo, Australia, 1986|publisher=Powerhouse Museum|access-date=11 March 2009}}</ref> As from October 2010, the following artists have been inducted into the [[ARIA Hall of Fame]]: INXS and The Saints (both in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2001|2001]]), Barnes (as a member of [[Cold Chisel]] in [[ARIA Music Awards of 1995|1995]] and solo in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2005|2005]]), Divinyls ([[ARIA Music Awards of 2006|2006]]), The Triffids ([[ARIA Music Awards of 2008|2008]]), Mental As Anything ([[ARIA Music Awards of 2009|2009]]), and Models ([[ARIA Music Awards of 2010|2010]]).<ref name="ARIAHoF">{{cite web | url = http://www.aria.com.au/pages/hall-of-fame.htm | title = ARIA Icons: Hall of Fame | publisher = [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) | access-date = 1 November 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101025123652/http://aria.com.au/pages/hall-of-fame.htm| archive-date= 25 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

To promote the tour, INXS and Barnes recorded a [[cover version|cover]] of [[The Easybeats]] song "[[Good Times (The Easybeats song)|Good Times]]" which was released in December 1986 as a single and used as the theme song.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref>{{cite web | title=Jimmy Barnes and INXS at Australian Made: Good Times | website=[[National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]] | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/98336-jimmy-barnes-and-inxs-australian-made-good-times | access-date=27 December 2024}}</ref> "Good Times" peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts.<ref name="Kent">{{Cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives]], N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988.</ref> The single peaked at No. 47 in the United States ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot 100]] on 1 August 1987.<ref name=AMGSingles>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4555/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|title=INXS > Charts & Awards > Billboard singles|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=11 March 2009}}</ref><ref name="BillBoard The 80s">{{Cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Billboard Hot 100 Charts : The Eighties|year=1991|publisher=Record Research Inc.|isbn=0-89820-079-2}}</ref>

At the Sydney concert, Peter Trotter, playing saxophone for Mental As Anything, collapsed on stage and died a week later.<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Sell-in">{{Cite book|last=Mathieson|first=Craig|title=The Sell-in: How the Music Business seduced Alternative Rock|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dFnJSg-Obx0C&q=%22peter+trotter%22+%22australian+made%22&pg=PA44 |publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=978-1-86508-412-1}}</ref> The tour had a budget of $3.25 million,<ref name="Powerhouse"/> and was announced with claims of Australian mateship and cooperation; however arguments ensued between various band managers over the proposed concert series film.<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Creswell">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGe4AAAACAAJ&q=Martin+Fabinyi+%26+Toby+Creswell,+%27The+Real+Thing:+Adventures+in+Australian+Rock+%26+Roll%27|title=The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock 'n' Roll, 1957-now|last=Creswell|first=Toby|author-link=Toby Creswell|author2=Martin Fabinyi|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=Australia|year=1999|isbn=978-0-09-183547-7}}</ref> The tour ended in acrimony with two managers, [[Chris Murphy (manager)|Chris Murphy]] (for INXS) and Jeremy Fabinyi (for Mental As Anything), arguing backstage in Sydney and coming to blows.<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Sell-in"/><ref name="Creswell"/> A film of the tour, ''[[Australian Made: The Movie]]'', directed by [[Richard Lowenstein]], was released in July 1987,<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199342/|title=''Australian Made: The Movie''|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]] (IMDb)|access-date=11 March 2009}}</ref> but contained no footage of Mental As Anything performing.<ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Creswell"/> Rock historian [[Glenn A. Baker]] and Bob King wrote ''Australian Made, Gonna Have a Good Time Tonight : The Authorised Documentary of the Event'' in 1987 with detailed notations by Baker and photographs by King.<ref name="Baker"/> According to rock music historian, [[Ian McFarlane]], "the tour drew record crowds across the country. It was the first travelling festival tour to feature exclusively Australian bands".<ref name="McFarlane"/>

==Background==
[[Dire Straits]], and other international acts, mounted Australia-wide tours in 1986 with promoters claiming that local acts couldn't fill large concert venues.<ref name="Powerhouse"/> Acts like [[INXS]] and [[Jimmy Barnes]] felt that a tour by internationally renowned Australians would fill these venues. In October 1986, Chris Murphy, of Mark Murphy Agency (MMA) and manager of INXS, Mark Pope, who managed Jimmy Barnes and [[Divinyls]], and [[Mushroom Records]] boss [[Michael Gudinski]], commenced negotiations to develop the Australian Made tour.<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Creswell"/> Other promoters came on-board including Richard MacDonald and Gary Grant.<ref name="McFarlane">{{cite encyclopedia|last=McFarlane|first=Ian|author-link=Ian McFarlane|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]] |title=Encyclopedia entry for 'Festivals'|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040908004253/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=593| url=http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=593|archive-date=8 September 2004|access-date=11 March 2012|year=1999|publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]]|location=St Leonards, NSW|isbn=1-86508-072-1}}</ref> Mushroom Records had released material by [[Models (band)|Models]], managed by Murphy, while their touring partners [[I'm Talking]] were managed by Ken West<ref name="Sell-in"/> and had released material on [[Regular Records]]. These band managers used their record labels and industry contacts to provide other local acts that had toured internationally, The Saints, [[The Triffids]] and [[Mental As Anything]].<ref name="Baker"/> The Triffids' guitarist [[Graham Lee (Australian musician)|Graham Lee]] stated that Hutchence had insisted on them being part of the bill, on the basis of their international success, even though they were not well renowned in Australia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/06/15/1149964648589.html?page=fullpage |title=Living like a refugee|work=[[The Age]]|last=Dwyer|first=Michael|date=17 June 2006|access-date=13 March 2009}}</ref>

To promote the tour, INXS and Barnes (ex-[[Cold Chisel]]) recorded two songs, a [[cover version|cover]] of [[The Easybeats]] song "[[Good Times (The Easybeats song)|Good Times]]", and "Laying Down the Law" which Barnes co-wrote with INXS members [[Garry Gary Beers]], [[Andrew Farriss]], [[Jon Farriss]], [[Michael Hutchence]] and [[Kirk Pengilly]].<ref name="ASCAP">{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=420342641&search_in=i&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=10&start=1 |title=The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) |publisher=[[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]] |access-date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> Both songs were recorded, with "Laying Down the Law" also written, and "Good Times" film clip made, all on the same day.<ref name="Baker"/> Tim Farriss, INXS lead guitarist, was unavailable for the recordings,<ref name="Jeff"/> as he was unable to be contacted due to fishing commitments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inxs.com/artists/?a=58 |title=Band Bios – Tim Farriss |publisher=INXS.com |access-date=13 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129171717/http://inxs.com/artists/?a=58 |archive-date=29 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The single peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts,<ref name="Kent"/> and months later was featured in the [[Joel Schumacher]] 1987 film ''[[The Lost Boys]]'' and the associated ''[[The Lost Boys (soundtrack)|The Lost Boys]]'' soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r115920|pure_url=yes}}|title=''The Lost Boys'' > Overview |last=LaVeck|first=Theresea E.|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=11 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/soundtrack|title=Lost Boys Soundtrack|publisher=IMDb|access-date=11 March 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090131123226/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/soundtrack| archive-date= 31 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> This allowed it to peak at No. 47 in the United States on 1 August 1987.<ref name=AMGSingles/><ref name="BillBoard The 80s"/> The tour had a budget of $3.25 million,<ref name="Powerhouse"/> when the accounts were finally tabulated the promoters had lost $30,000 each.<ref name="Creswell"/> After the tour, there was a dispute over the royalty split on "Good Times". Four years later the single appeared on the British charts when ''The Lost Boys'' was released on video.<ref name="Creswell"/>

Barnes stated that the Subiaco concert had the best [[Rock 'N' Roll]] crowd he had ever seen.<ref name="Jeff"/> With the exception of [[keyboard instrument|keyboard player]], Peter Kekel, Barnes employed an all Canadian backing band, that he had used for his own North American tours from 1985, for the Australian Made tour.<ref name="Baker"/> All the acts travelled between capital cities on the same plane.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Powerhouse"/> [[Chrissy Amphlett]] of Divinyls wrote about the tour in her autobiography, ''Pleasure and Pain'', she was impressed that various band members got along so well.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="Amphlett">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IlInGwAACAAJ&q=pleasure+and+pain+amphlett+autobiography|title=Pleasure and Pain: My Life|last=Amphlett|first=Chrissy|author-link=Christina Amphlett|author2=Larry Writer|publisher=Hachette Livre|location=Australia|year=2005|isbn=978-0-7336-1959-5}}</ref>

At the Sydney concert, Peter Trotter, playing trombone for Mental As Anything, collapsed on stage and died a week later.<ref name="Powerhouse"/> The tour was announced with claims of Australian mateship and cooperation, however arguments ensued between various band managers over the proposed concert series film.<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Sell-in"/><ref name="Creswell"/> Some bands felt they had been coerced into unfavourable tour contracts.<ref name="Powerhouse"/> The tour ended in acrimony with two managers, Chris Murphy (for INXS) and Jeremy Fabinyi (for Mental As Anything), arguing backstage in Sydney and coming to blows.<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Sell-in"/><ref name="Creswell"/> After the Sydney concert, [[Richard Grossman (bassist)|Rick Grossman]], bass guitarist of Divinyls, was fired from the group due to his [[heroin addiction]], he attended the [[drug rehab]] centre, The Buttery, and eventually joined [[Hoodoo Gurus]] in 1988.<ref name="Amphlett"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22726718-23289,00.html |title=Buttery rehab puts its ambitions into music |last=Writer |first=Larry |date=10 November 2007 |work=[[The Australian]] |access-date=27 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112113844/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22726718-23289,00.html |archive-date=12 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The film of the tour, ''[[Australian Made: The Movie]]'', directed by [[Richard Lowenstein]],<ref name="allmovie">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/inxs-australian-made-242274/credits|title=INXS: Australian Made > Production Credits|publisher=[[allmovie]]|access-date=13 March 2009}}</ref> was released in July 1987, was shown in cinemas, and released on VHS home video,<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="IMDb"/> but contained no footage of Mental As Anything performing.<ref name="Powerhouse"/><ref name="Creswell"/> An edited DVD version, ''Australian Made: Featuring INXS Live'' (aka ''INXS: Australian Made'')<ref name="allmovie"/> was released in May 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Australian-Made-Featuring-INXS-DVD/dp/B0018BWU1M|title=''Australian Made: Featuring INXS''|website=Amazon UK |access-date=11 March 2009}}</ref> In 1987 the book ''Australian Made'' was also published as a companion to the movie.

The 30th Anniversary Edition aired on the ABC in October 2021.

Over subsequent years almost all the artists from the Australian Made tour have become inductees into the [[ARIA Hall of Fame]]: INXS and The Saints were both inducted in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2001|2001]], Barnes was first inducted as a member of [[Cold Chisel]] in [[ARIA Music Awards of 1995|1995]] and then as a solo artist in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2005|2005]], Divinyls in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2006|2006]], The Triffids in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2008|2008]], Mental As Anything in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2009|2009]], and Models in [[ARIA Music Awards of 2010|2010]].<ref name="ARIAHoF"/>

==Venues and dates==
#[[KGV Oval|King George V Oval]], [[Hobart]] – 26 December 1986
#[[Thebarton, South Australia|Thebarton Oval]], [[Adelaide]] – 1 January 1987
#[[Olympic Park Stadium (Melbourne)|Olympic Park]], [[Melbourne]] – scheduled for 3 January, delayed due to weather – 4 January
#[[Subiaco Oval]], [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] – 10 January
#[[Sleeman Centre (Brisbane)|Chandler Velodrome]], [[Brisbane]] – 17 January
#[[Toyota Stadium (Cronulla)|Endeavour Field]], Sydney – 26 January

==The bands==
Line-ups of the various bands in order of appearance:<ref name="Baker"/><ref name="IMDb"/>
*[[Mental As Anything]] – [[Peter O'Doherty]], [[Reg Mombassa]], [[Martin Plaza]], [[Greedy Smith]], [[David Twohill]], Peter Trotter.
*[[I'm Talking]] – [[Zan Abeyratne]], [[Kate Ceberano]], Stephen Charlesworth, Ian Cox, Robert Goodge, Barbara Hogarth, Warren McLean, Kevin Wiltshire.
*[[The Triffids]] – [[Jill Birt]], [[Martyn P. Casey|Martyn Casey]], [[Graham Lee (Australian musician)|Graham Lee]], [[Alsy MacDonald]], [[David McComb]], Robert McComb.
*[[The Saints (Australian band)|The Saints]] – [[Chris Bailey (musician, born 1956)|Chris Bailey]], Richard Burgman, Ivor Hay, Arturo Larizza.
*[[Divinyls]] – [[Chrissy Amphlett]], [[Richard Grossman (bassist)|Rick Grossman]], Richard Harvey, [[Mark McEntee]], Bjarne Ohlin, Frank Infante.
*[[Models (band)|Models]] – [[James Freud]], [[Sean Kelly (Australian musician)|Sean Kelly]], Roger Mason, Barton Price, [[James Valentine (journalist)|James Valentine]]. Included Mary Azzapardi, Karen Bodington, [[Wendy Matthews]] on backing vocals.
*[[Jimmy Barnes]] – Jimmy Barnes, Peter Kekel.
*[[INXS]] – [[Garry Gary Beers]], [[Andrew Farriss]], [[Jon Farriss]], [[Tim Farriss]], [[Michael Hutchence]], [[Kirk Pengilly]].

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=video|artist=Various|title=Australian Made - 30th Anniversary Edition|award=Platinum|relyear=2016|certyear=2016|accessdate=11 December 2021}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

==References==
{{Refbegin}}
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*{{Cite book|url=http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000005333286&itemSeq=3&total=52&returnFunction=searchResults&term1=Baker%2C+Glenn+A.%2C&location1=Anywhere&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&boolean1=and&sessionId=reuseSearch797525828C33C1BD1876224B8EF803DC1236920339923|title=Australian made, gonna have a good time tonight : the authorised documentary of the event|last=Baker|first=Glenn A.|author-link=Glenn A. Baker|author2=Bob King|editor=Glenn A. Baker|year=1987|publisher=Fontana Collins|location=Sydney, N.S.W.|isbn=0-00-636921-9|access-date=16 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329204936/http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000005333286&itemSeq=3&total=52&returnFunction=searchResults&term1=Baker%2C+Glenn+A.%2C&location1=Anywhere&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&boolean1=and&sessionId=reuseSearch797525828C33C1BD1876224B8EF803DC1236920339923|archive-date=29 March 2012|url-status=dead}}
*{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGe4AAAACAAJ&q=Martin+Fabinyi+%26+Toby+Creswell,+%27The+Real+Thing:+Adventures+in+Australian+Rock+%26+Roll%27|title=The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock 'n' Roll, 1957-now|last=Creswell|first=Toby|author-link=Toby Creswell|author2=Martin Fabinyi|publisher=[[Random House]]|location=Milsons Point, N.S.W.|year=1999|isbn=978-0-09-183547-7}}

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