Glenn Cardier - An Everyday Maniac [The Festival File Vol.20] (1989) with Bonus Tracks

(Australian 1965 - Present)

Although his musical output has been primarily gentle, reflective and sensitive, the wry and unpredictable Glenn Cardier is a trashy rocker at heart. He began his career playing lead guitar in a Brisbane Hendrix/Cream acid rock band called The Revolution (see photo below taken at Hoadley's Battle Of The Bands in late 60's) and still burns a candle in the window for Eddie, Gene, Carl, Buddy, Jerry and Elvis. "I grew up with rock 'n' roll" he enthuses, "and my heroes are Pete Townsend, the Beatles and the like".

After two years as a school teacher, Glenn found his way into the recording game when his "Every Wounded Bird" was the winning Queensland entry in Bandstand's National Songwriting Awards.


Unwillingly to be cast as a limp folkie, Glenn bravely went out on the road with the likes of the La De Das, Sherbet, Daddy Cool and Country Radio, and found himself on the bill of Sunbury '72 and Sunbury '73 [from which the bonus track was sourced]. He also opened for Frank Zappa (with Kevin Borich on acoustic guitar) and Manfred Mann's Earth band in Sydney, and undertook a fondly remembered campus tour called Woodsmoke & Oranges, in the company of Richard Clapton, Mike McClellan and Paul Pulati. "Those were the days when audiences, no matter who they came to see, were prepared to sit down and listen to you" Glenn recalls. "The music itself seemed more important at that time".

Taken at Sunbury 73'