Andrea Smith was booking the Orient Hotel when a scruffy young band named after a Neil Young song played the 200-capacity Brisbane venue in 1990. It was one of Powderfinger’s first gigs, on a five-bands-for-five-bucks bill – an original gig flyer shows them sandwiched between the Batfinks and the Worms. Smith, now a music educator and mentor, says she didn’t know what to expect after giving the band the gig based on a recommendation. She certain…
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