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Check out this epic photo essay from one WA's most infamous festivals
Plus what's on this weekend and more.
The Forgotten Perth series has taken our fearless Cultural Editor Sally Hall down some strange rabbit holes over the past few years, but this week’s might be my absolute favourite - a photo essay documenting the long-lost Bindoon Rock. Now Melbourne-based photographer Steve Cook sent us a treasure trove of pics from his time as a young snapper at X-Press Mag, documenting the now infamous - and bikie-run - event back in 1989.
It’s well worth five minutes of your day, promise: “What followed is a memory fogged by Emu Lager and questionable life choices… Two days of debauchery: booze-soaked revelers, a smorgasbord of substances, and occasional scuffles that got swiftly snuffed by the festival’s ninja-like security.”
Troy Mutton, Editor-In-Chief, Perth is OK!
FORGOTTEN PERTH
Running for less than a decade between 1986 and 1995, no music festival looms so large in WA’s memory as Bindoon Rock. Organised by the Coffin Cheaters, the festival featured headliners including Meat Loaf, Divinyls and the Angels…
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It’s starting to take us a whole day to put this bad boy together, and if you follow through you’ll see why. Festivals, markets, Christmas parties, concerts in the park, family-friendly fun… It’s all here and more.
 | CCAPTUREDDThrowback ThursdayI’m tellin’ ya, go read the Bindoon Rock article, this barely cracks the top 10 best photos within. Image Credit: @photostevecook |