About Us
Peter Foley
Peter Foley, frustrated at the lack of quality music venues south of the river, started staging gigs at his Oakleigh home 4 years ago.
Famous Australian musicians like David Bridie, Stephen Cummings, Rebecca Barnard,Lisa Miller and Dave Graney perfomed on the small stage in Peter’s lounge room.
In mid 2007 Steve Carr from the Oakleigh Bowling Club approached Peter and asked him if he would be interested in presenting some larger scale gigs at the club.
The monster was born.
The gig was instantly popular with music starved local community.
Great musicians from all over Australia and beyond were attracted to play at The OBC. Artists such as Mark Seymour, The Black Sorrows, The Pigram Brothers, Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing, Suzannah Espie, Chris Wilson, Anne McCue and international artists like The Hot Club of Cowtown and Eliza Gilkyson performed there.
The OBC gig was famous for its warm and friendly vibe where artists are treated with respect and actually listened to.
At the end of 2009 the effort involved in building a gig from the ground every week at the bowling club has become too difficult so Peter and his group at Caravan Music decided if the gig was to continue, it must relocate to a venue where the PA equipment, staging etc could be installed and remain set up. The Oakleigh/Carnegie RSL down the road had recently removed its poker machines and was looking to develop a social music culture. It has a lovely old hall that opens out on to a terrific beer garden.
This is now the home of THE CARAVAN MUSIC CLUB.
We will have the ability to present many more gigs at The CARAVAN and develop a genuine music club atmosphere.
Mark Burchett has spent over 30 years involved in the music industry as promoter, venue booker, band manager and booking agent. He is highly experienced in co-ordinating all aspects of live music performance and was employed for over 17 years at Premier Artists, Australia’s leading talent agency, where he worked with many top line artists including The Whitlams, george, The Blackeyed Susans, Kim Salmon, Spencer P Jones, Pre-Shrunk, etc.
Mark previously ran his own booking agency/management company, Vamp, representing and booking tours for artists such as The Moodists, Eastern Dark, Lighthouse Keepers, The Moffs, Rat Cat, The Cruel Sea, The Triffids and Beasts Of Bourbon. At this time he also successfully managed the careers of a number of artists, notably Huxton Creepers and Painters & Dockers. He has booked and promoted numerous venues around Melbourne including Prince Of Wales Hotel, St Kilda and MCG Hotel, East Melbourne to name a few and has successfully organized and promoted a number of tours by overseas artists including Butthole Surfers, Killdozer, Supersuckers, Dub War and Luna. Along the way he co-ordinated and produced a CD of rare, early recordings by seminal Melbourne band Models and promoted live shows to support its release as well as successfully promoting national tours for other legendary and influential Australian 80’s outfits Scientists, Lime Spiders & The Stems.
Mark has recently set up a new venture Revamp Artist Management and is currently looking after artists such as The Red Eyes, co-ordinating the re-issue of Huxton Creepers first album “12 Days To Paris” as well as booking the Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh.