2 May 2025 – Swinging Sixties; Mark Easton; George Sich

Swinging Sixties

Mark Easton

George Sich

Formed in 1987, The Swinging Sixties have built a very strong reputation for their ability to engage their audience like no other group of its kind. Dressed in tailor made 60’s suits with all the accoutrements and armed with Rickenbacker and Gretsch guitars and Vox amps to reproduce magic sounds, this entertaining and authentic group has an exciting rawness that was prevalent at live shows of the era. They held an 8 year residency at the iconic Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel during the late 80’s to mid 90’s. This time at The Fig, expect to hear numbers from groups and divas including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Monkees, The Crystals, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and others, an original or two, and songs from their recently released ‘You’re The One’ EP.

Mark Easton has a long history in the music scene, from Punk and Glam Rock to Blues! He travelled through Asia for a few years in 2018 and 2019 and came back with a whole new vision which required learning a few exotic instruments he had acquired while travelling! He released DARK BLUE in 2023 which went to number 4 on the Blues airplay charts and received loads of airplay OS The new album NOTHINGS SACRED was released in November 2023, 10 legendary blues covers by the likes of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, John Lee hooker, Koko Taylor, Canned Heat etc etc, all played in their unique style, and have already scored supports with Murray Cooks Soulmovers and Kevin Borich, the Cooma Blues festival, Thredbo Blues festival, Groundwater country festival, Blues on Broadbeach, Matsumura blues festival and Atherton Tablelands folk festival

George Sich is an award winning country/blues style songwriter and guitarist based in Sydney. He has been compared to John Williamson, Vince Gill, even Tommy Emmanuel. George’s strong acoustic fingerstyle
skills are often in demand to back other artists.
George has released three studio albums; “True Story, I Swear”, “Spade” and “You & Me & this Old Guitar”.
From 2010 George was in demand as a jingle producer for various east coast radio stations, and is well known for his satirical pieces for the late Grant Goldman’s breakfast show on 2SM and the Super Radio Network across the eastern states.
In 2014 George and his band “The Foxin’ Hounds” won ABC702’s Exhumed competition which led to more radio appearances including a spot on Richard Glover’s TGIF, and a support for the iconic band “Dragon”.
During the Covid lockdowns George, together with Barry Leef and Peter Northcote started the “Cookin’ with Baz” YouTube channel, now with over 26,000 subscribers and over six million views globally.
George continues to play the pub, club and corporate circuit, either as a solo performer or as part of the “Mastop & Sich” country rock duo or in band mode as “DOUBLE XXL” band.