Under The Southern Stars - Cheap Trick, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush - Kings Beach, March 25, 2022

Under The Southern Stars has definitely been a mission. All teed up to go in 2020, with original headliners Live, with Stone Temple Pilots and Bush, and then POOF! Covid enters the chat, the world basically goes in to lockdown, and Australia shuts its borders. Two more times it was rescheduled, before finally putting everything in motion during March 2022. With Live no longer being a part, Cheap Trick filled the slot, and the event become one of the first touring international shows we’ve seen in two years.
Joining the big three, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Aussie legends Rose Tattoo, and Electric Mary, all crammed in to the Kings Beach Amphitheatre in Caloundra in one night. Seeing Bush’s Gavin Rossdale get down close to the audience, and watching Stone Temple Pilots improvise with a lighting issue (which made for one of the most goose-bump inducing moments right in the middle of ‘Big Empty’, when the lighting gods corrected the issues and a gamut of colour exploded on stage at the right moment), to seeing pure rock nostalgia with Cheap Trick on stage, it was another sense of normality brought back to us on the other side of the pandemic.
Photographer Chris Clow as there to capture it all with magical eye. Check out the galleries below.