Oh hell yes!!!! Can't beat sweaty beer rock

Honourable mention should also go to Dead Can Dance.

Lisa Gerrard's voice is extraordinary.

Originally Posted by cymrugirl:
“George used to be a favourite of mine.”

Can't believe that someone else here had heard of George. I always though Katie Noonan was phenomenal and can't understand why she was never bigger. She is still singing, has a new band called Katie Noonan and the Captains...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lc2dcg_R8

It's a bit of a cheat, but The Australian Pink Floyd.

Awesome tribute act.

The Temper Trap.
Birds Of Tokyo.
Grinspoon.
Pnau.
The Presets.
Empire Of The Sun.

The Veronicas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP82aWZWa28

Silverchair (ignore Dioreah)
Powderfinger
28 Days
The Living End
Tonight Alive (Probably the next Aussie band to break internationally.)

I'd actually say behind Americans the Australians have dominated in terms of acts within the top 40 even more or perhaps on par with the Irish.
Off the top of my head alone i can list Savage Garden,J Donovan,Kylie,Danni M,Holly Valance,Delta Goodrem,Jet,Temper Trap,AC/DC,Silverchair,Peter Andre plus many more going back to the 1950's when the charts started.

Something for Kate
Missy Higgins
Sarah Blasko
Kasey Chambers
Natalie Imbruglia
Butterfly 9
Deadstar
Wicked Beat Sound System
Pollyanna

I love me a bit of the 'finger' powderfinger that is, some claasic tunes.

Also love

Girl is the New Boy
Fantine
The Cat Empire (seen them twice now in London)
Clairy Browne and the Bangin' Rackettes
Bertie Blackman
Lanie Lane

to name a few. There's loads!

The Presets

Cut Copy

Midnight Juggernauts

Van She

Bag Raiders

Also, I wish Ministry of Sound Australia would release some of their compilations in the UK. Their Mashed series of albums was STUNNING. Any compilation that has Phoenix, Bowie and Friendly Fires as consecutive tracks literally CANNOT be bad.

I was in Oz a few years ago, loved listening to

Taxiride

Killing Heidi

Anyone heard of them????

Oh, and mustn't forget The Saints, who were the first band to release a punk single (yes, before The Damned's "New Rose").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEHsD0CvHEU
TAxiride - awesome song


Killing Heidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l94M5opCvc

Are Taxiride and Killing Heidi still active? Haven't these split up?

Probably not, but I liked both a lot

Taxirides 2nd album is awesome

Just downloaded The Cat Empire's 3rd album, Cities. It was a limited release when it came out and only 10,000 copies were produced. I kinda feel awful for downloading it through other means, after I spent weeks searching out a copy online, but it's a really good album so far, a good mix of their classic sound and some new stuff as well. Never thought I'd hear guitar riffs in a Cat Empire song, but it works. Now even more excited for seeing them live for the 3rd time in 4 years in December!

Catcall. Satellite is a really great, catchy song.

The Middle East

That song in particular gets a lot of girls doing some seriously good covers on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMe_5O0mYj0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USqocBkqGcw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5dZYjX6lw

If you like blues and roots music, search for the Salty Dog Blues and Roots podcast, full of some of the best music on earth, much of it from Oz.

Great call for Powderfinger too...one of my favourite groups ever...

28 Days too...I had one of their CDs once...

acdc are scottish

I would like new stuff from Dannii M

Recovery was a good show google it up on YouTube abc recovery.