This is a list of songs which mention or are about Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, the capital city of New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, as well as the suburb

Suburb

The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...

s of Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 and nearby locations such as Katoomba, Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

 and Wollongong.

Song listings

The list is ordered alphabetically by suburb and within suburb alphabetically by song title. Where known, the songwriters, performing artists and album or CD on which the track has appeared are listed. Some of the tracks listed appear on the Sony Music 2000 double-compilation CD Somewhere in Sydney - 30 songs from the Harbour City, which was compiled and conceived by Glenn A. Baker

Glenn A. Baker

Glenn A. Baker is an Australian journalist, commentator, and broadcaster well known in Australia for his vast knowledge of Rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music and travel, interviewed celebrities, managed bands such as Ol' 55 and promoted tours of international stars...

.

Blacktown

• "Blacktown to Bondi" Mental as Anything
  Mental As Anything
  Mental As Anything are an Australian New Wave–rock music band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Their most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird"...
  
  
• "Blacktown" Miracle
  Miracle (rapper)
  Samson Andah, better known by his stage name Miracle, is an African Australian rapper based in Sydney...
  
  

Bondi

• "Bondi" (Elliott Weston) Elliott Weston
• "Fall of Rome" (James Reyne) James Reyne
  James Reyne
  James Reyne is an Australian rock musician and singer/songwriter both as a member of the iconic 1980s band Australian Crawl and solo work.. He is a successful singer/ songwriter and prolific artist...
  
  
• "Section 5 (Bus to Bondi)" (Rotsey/Hirst/Garrett/Moginie) Midnight Oil
  Midnight Oil
  Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...
  
  

Botany

• "To the Shores of Botany Bay" (Traditional arrangement The Bushwackers) The Bushwackers
  The Bushwackers (band)
  The Bushwackers Band, often simply The Bushwackers, is an Australian folk and country music band or Bush band founded at La Trobe University in Melbourne in 1971....
  
  

Circular Quay

• "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
  Waltzing Matilda
  "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad. A country folk song, the song has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia"....
  
  " (Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle is a folk singer-songwriter. He emigrated to Australia in 1969 and currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...
  
  ) Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle
  Eric Bogle is a folk singer-songwriter. He emigrated to Australia in 1969 and currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...
  
   "Now I'm Easy" (Larrikin Records
  Larrikin Records
  Larrikin Records is a record company founded in 1974 by Warren Fahey. Larrikin started as an independent label and was sold in 1995 to Festival Records....
  
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• "If We Can't Get It Together" (Tim Rogers
  Tim Rogers
  Tim Rogers is the frontman of Australian rock band You Am I. He is also a solo artist, as well as having fronted and released albums with bands The Twin Set and The Temperance Union.-History:...
  
  ) You Am I
  You Am I
  You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live performances.-History:Tim Rogers formed the first...
  
  
• "Reckless
  Reckless (Australian Crawl song)
  "Reckless" was a 1983 song from the EP Semantics by iconic Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. The song showed a change in the line up of the band as drummer Bill McDonough was temporarily replaced by Graham Bidstrup...
  
  " (James Reyne
  James Reyne
  James Reyne is an Australian rock musician and singer/songwriter both as a member of the iconic 1980s band Australian Crawl and solo work.. He is a successful singer/ songwriter and prolific artist...
  
  ) Australian Crawl
  Australian Crawl
  Australian Crawl were an Australian rock band founded by James Reyne , Brad Robinson , Paul Williams , Simon Binks and David Reyne in 1978. David Reyne soon left and was replaced by Bill McDonough...
  
   Semantics
  Semantics (album)
  Semantics was a 1983 EP by iconic Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. The album marked a change in the line-up of the band as Bill McDonough was replaced first by Graham Bidstrup to record the EP...
  
   (EMI
  EMI
  The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
  
  ); Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
   Hidden Things
  Hidden Things
  Hidden Things is an album by Paul Kelly & The Messengers and was released in 1992 on Mushroom Records in Australia.The album is a collection of songs that were recorded by Paul Kelly and both his backup bands, the Coloured Girls and The Messengers, from 1986 to 1991, but weren't put on to any...
  
  ; James Reyne
  James Reyne
  James Reyne is an Australian rock musician and singer/songwriter both as a member of the iconic 1980s band Australian Crawl and solo work.. He is a successful singer/ songwriter and prolific artist...
  
   Electric Digger Dandy; John Farnham
  John Farnham
  John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...
  
   I Remember When I Was Young
  I Remember When I Was Young
  I Remember When I Was Young is an album by Australian vocalist John Farnham, released on 6 November 2005. The album features cover versions of songs by Australian artists....
  
  

Darlinghurst

• "Darling It Hurts
  Darling It Hurts
  "Darling It Hurts" was the second single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released in September 1986 from their debut double album, Gossip. The song, written by Kelly with lead guitarist, Steve Connolly, reached No. 25 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart...
  
  " (Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  , Steve Connelly) Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  
• "Darlinghurst Confidential" The Celibate Rifles
  The Celibate Rifles
  The Celibate Rifles are a punk rock band from Sydney, Australia.The band was formed in 1979 and released their first album Sideroxylon in April 1983 on the Hot Records label...
  
  
• "Darlinghurst Nights" (Robert Forster
  Robert Forster (musician)
  Robert Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens.Forster grew up in Brisbane, Australia attending Brisbane Grammar School...
  
  ) The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
  
  
• "Darlinghurst Road" (R. Thorpe, Noel Watson) Noel Watson
• "Taylor Square" (Mick Thomas
  Mick Thomas
  Michael James Thomas is an Australian singer-songwriter.Mick Thomas was born in Yallourn, 7 February 1960, the middle child of three. His father, Brian Thomas, was an electrical engineer with the old State Electricity Commission. His father's family were from Tasmania and his mother, Margaret, was...
  
  ) Weddings Parties Anything
  Weddings Parties Anything
  Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1998. Their name came from The Clash song and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s.-Formation and...
  
  

Erskineville

• "Bill from Erskineville" (John Dengate
  John Dengate
  John Dengate is an Australian folk singer and songwriter. His songs, mostly but not exclusively humorous and satirical have been recorded by performers including Declan Affley, John Warner and Margaret Waters. In addition, he has appeared on a number of recorded collections and has produced a CD,...
  
  )
• "Erskineville" (The Gadflys)
• "Sicilian Born" (Graeme Connors
  Graeme Connors
  Graeme Connors is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and performer, born in Mackay, Queensland. He is best known for the hits A Little Further North and Let The Canefields Burn. Throughout his music career Graeme has released over fourteen albums and to date has received fourteen Golden...
  
  ) Album "North"
• "Siege Of Union Street" (Alistair Hulett
  Alistair Hulett
  Alistair Hulett, was a Scottish acoustic folk singer and revolutionary socialist, best known as the singer of the folk punk band, Roaring Jack.-Early life:...
  
  ) The Cold Grey Light Of Dawn

Five Dock

• "The Cicada
  Cicada
  A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha , in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings. There are about 2,500 species of cicada around the world, and many of them remain unclassified...
  
   That Ate Five Dock" (John Sammers) Outline
  Outline
  An outline is a list of the main features of a given topic, often used as a rough draft or summary of the content of a document. A hierarchical outline is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships, and is a type of tree structure....
  
  

Hornsby

• "Houndog" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Cold Chisel
  Cold Chisel
  Cold Chisel is a rock band that originated in Adelaide, Australia. It is one of the most acclaimed Australian rock bands of all time, with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s and huge sales that continue to this day, although its success and acclaim was almost completely restricted to...
  
  
• "No Place Like Normanhurst" Kiff vs. Spliff

Katoomba

• "Until" (Michael Quinlan) The Mexican Spitfires
  The Mexican Spitfires
  The Mexican Spitfires were a Sydney, Australia-based indie rock–indie pop band formed in suburban Strathfield in the Strathfield Municipality in the mid 1980s...
  
   Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records

Kings Cross

• "At the Piccolo Bar" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Don Walker
• "Breakfast at Sweethearts" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Cold Chisel Album Breakfast at Sweethearts
• "El Alamein Blues" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Catfish
• "From St. Kilda
  St Kilda, Victoria
  St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...
  
   to Kings Cross
  Kings Cross, New South Wales
  Kings Cross is an inner-city locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 2 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney...
  
  " (Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  ) Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
   And The Messengers Mushroom Records
  Mushroom Records
  Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...
  
   CD Hidden Things Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
   Mushroom Records
  Mushroom Records
  Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...
  
   LP/CD "Post"
• "Girls on the Avenue" Richard Clapton
  Richard Clapton
  Richard Clapton is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from Sydney, New South Wales. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" and "I Am an Island"...
  
  
• "Metho Blues" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Cold Chisel Album Breakfast At Sweethearts (Enhanced)
• "Queen of Everyone's Heart" (Keyes) Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes is an Australian singer-songwriter He is based in Sydney, Australia. Former singer-songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens...
  
  

Lavender Bay

• "Long Jumping Jeweller (of Lavender Bay)* (Glenn Shorrock
  Glenn Shorrock
  Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom and Little River Band as well as being a solo performer....
  
  ) Little River Band
  Little River Band
  Little River Band is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975.The group chose the name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance. Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success in not only...
  
  

Manly

• "Reckless
  Reckless (Australian Crawl song)
  "Reckless" was a 1983 song from the EP Semantics by iconic Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. The song showed a change in the line up of the band as drummer Bill McDonough was temporarily replaced by Graham Bidstrup...
  
  " (James Reyne
  James Reyne
  James Reyne is an Australian rock musician and singer/songwriter both as a member of the iconic 1980s band Australian Crawl and solo work.. He is a successful singer/ songwriter and prolific artist...
  
  ) Australian Crawl
  Australian Crawl
  Australian Crawl were an Australian rock band founded by James Reyne , Brad Robinson , Paul Williams , Simon Binks and David Reyne in 1978. David Reyne soon left and was replaced by Bill McDonough...
  
   Semantics
  Semantics (album)
  Semantics was a 1983 EP by iconic Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. The album marked a change in the line-up of the band as Bill McDonough was replaced first by Graham Bidstrup to record the EP...
  
   (EMI
  EMI
  The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
  
  )

Maroubra

• "Down on the Street with You" (Keyes) Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes is an Australian singer-songwriter He is based in Sydney, Australia. Former singer-songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens...
  
  
• "Stomping At Maroubra" Little Pattie
  Little Pattie
  Little Pattie is the stage name of Australian singer, Patricia Thelma Amphlett OAM later Patricia Thompson, who performed as a 1960s surf pop singer and then in adult contemporary music...
  
  

Marrickville

• "Miracle
  Miracle
  A miracle often denotes an event attributed to divine intervention. Alternatively, it may be an event attributed to a miracle worker, saint, or religious leader. A miracle is sometimes thought of as a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature. Others suggest that a god may work with the laws...
  
   in Marrickville" John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
  John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
  John Kennedy is an Australian musician, a singer-songwriter with a penchant for strong melodies and "heart on your sleeve" pop songs often with country and western influences.-Early life:...
  
   Single Red Eye Records
• "River of Tears" (Kev Carmody) Kev Carmody
  Kev Carmody
  Kevin Daniel "Kev" Carmody is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter. His song "From Little Things Big Things Grow" was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single; it was covered by the Get Up Mob in 2008 and peaked at #4 on the Australian Recording Industry Association singles...
  
  , The Drones
  The Drones
  The Drones are an Australian rock group who rose to prominence during the early 2000s. They are influenced by a variety of bands and soloists including Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, Bad Brains, Suicide, Green on Red, The Birthday Party, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone.- The Sound...
  
  
• "You sound like Louis Burdett" - The Whitlams

Newcastle

• "Newcastle Song" (Bob Hudson) Bob Hudson M7 Records Single (1975) This song by Bob Hudson was also featured on his "Newcastle Song" LP record.
• "Star Hotel" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Cold Chisel

Newtown

• "A Walk Down King St" Spurs For Jesus
  Spurs For Jesus
  Spurs For Jesus are a Sydney, Australia Alternative country/cowpunk band with elements of satire. They started out as a covers band but have progressed gradually to a healthy proportion of originals....
  
  
• "King St" *John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
  John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
  John Kennedy is an Australian musician, a singer-songwriter with a penchant for strong melodies and "heart on your sleeve" pop songs often with country and western influences.-Early life:...
  
   Single Red Eye Records
• "Newtown Dreaming" *(Willoughby
  Bart Willoughby
  Bart Willoughby is an Indigenous Australian musician, noted for his pioneering fusion of reggae with Indigenous Australian musical influences, and for his contribution to growth of Indigenous music in Australia....
  
  ) Mixed Relations
  Mixed Relations
  Mixed Relations are an Australian band formed by Bart Willoughby. They play a mixture of reggae, pop, rock and jazz.Mixed Relations have toured extensively throughout the Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, USA, Europe and Hong Kong...
  
  
• "Newtown (La La La)" Cuthbert and the Night Walkers
• "Rock'n'Roll Band And A Schooner Of Beer" (H. Ree) McBodybag
• "The Newtown Song" [Annita Cullen, Laurie and the Toyboys]
• "12 Hours" The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  
• "Year of the Rat" The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  

Paddington

• "Double on the Main Game" (Keyes) Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes is an Australian singer-songwriter He is based in Sydney, Australia. Former singer-songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens...
  
  
• "Oxford Street" (Dorian Mode
  Dorian mode
  Due to historical confusion, Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different musical modes or diatonic scales, the Greek, the medieval, and the modern.- Greek Dorian mode :...
  
  ) Dorian Mode
  Dorian mode
  Due to historical confusion, Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different musical modes or diatonic scales, the Greek, the medieval, and the modern.- Greek Dorian mode :...
  
  

Parramatta

• "Parramatta Gaol 1843" Redgum
  Redgum
  Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals and Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin. All four had been students at Flinders University and...
  
  
• "Parramatta
  Parramatta, New South Wales
  Parramatta is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Greater Western Sydney west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Parramatta River. Parramatta is the administrative seat of the Local Government Area of the City of Parramatta...
  
   Hot Rod Man" The Whiteliners, Satellite V, Gaitorbait
• "Tomorrow" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Cold Chisel

Randwick

• "Randwick
  Randwick, New South Wales
  Randwick is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Randwick is located 6 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Randwick...
  
   Bells" (Paul Kelly) Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls

Redfern

• "Ivy Street" (Tim O'Reilly) The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
• "The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw" Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes is an Australian singer-songwriter He is based in Sydney, Australia. Former singer-songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens...
  
   The Last Ghost Train Home Album Laughing Outlaw - the song mentions several other Sydney suburbs
• "The Last Ghost Train Home" (Perry Keyes) Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes
  Perry Keyes is an Australian singer-songwriter He is based in Sydney, Australia. Former singer-songwriter with Sydney band the Stolen Holdens...
  
  

Strathfield

• "Murder City Nights" (Denis Tek)Radio Birdman
  Radio Birdman
  Radio Birdman was one of the first punk bands in Australia along with The Saints. Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed the group in Sydney, Australia in 1974...
  
  
• "Rookwood" (Stephen McCowage) The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records

Summer Hill

• "Summer Hill
  Summer Hill, New South Wales
  Summer Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Summer Hill is located 8 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Ashfield....
  
   Road" (R.Burton/G.Paige) The Executives Single Festival Records

Sydney

• "Blue Sky City" Danny McVey & Darryl Chute (www.blueskycity.com.au)
• "City of Lights"* (Grant McFarland) Grant McFarland
• "Found" Horrorshow
• "I Wonder What They're Doing (in Sydney Today)" (Mick Thomas
  Mick Thomas
  Michael James Thomas is an Australian singer-songwriter.Mick Thomas was born in Yallourn, 7 February 1960, the middle child of three. His father, Brian Thomas, was an electrical engineer with the old State Electricity Commission. His father's family were from Tasmania and his mother, Margaret, was...
  
  ) Michael Thomas
• "Khe Sanh
  Khe Sanh (song)
  "Khe Sanh" is an Australian song, released as a 45 rpm single in May 1978, and named after the Battle of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. The song, performed by Cold Chisel, having been written by pianist Don Walker and featuring the vocals of Jimmy Barnes, is about an Australian Vietnam veteran...
  
  " (Don Walker) Cold Chisel Atlantic records
  Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
  
   Single (April 1978)
• "Harbour Town" Icehouse
  Icehouse (band)
  Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S...
  
  
• "Larrikin Town" *(Keith Glass) Keith Glass
• "Lights of Sydney Town" (Alistair Hulett) Roaring Jack
  Roaring Jack
  Roaring Jack is an Australian Celtic punk/Folk punk band of the 1980s and 1990s. The band formed in 1985 and played their first shows in Sydney in 1986...
  
  
• "My City of Sydney" (Tommy Leonetti
  Tommy Leonetti
  Tommy Leonetti was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song was "My City of Sydney" and was used by the Australian TV channel ATN7 in Sydney for station identification into the 1980s...
  
  /Robert Trout) Tommy Leonetti, Mary Schneider
  Mary Schneider
  Mary Schneider is an Australian performer, renowned for yodelling works of classic composers. Her daughter Melinda Schneider is also an Australian country music singer and yodeller...
  
  , XL Capris
  XL Capris
  XL Capris were an Australian indie-punk band formed in Sydney in 1978 by Julie Anderson, Tim Gooding, Johanna Pigott and Kimble Rendall.Their best known single was a punk version of Tommy Leonetti's "My City of Sydney"...
  
  , Frenzal Rhomb
  Frenzal Rhomb
  Frenzal Rhomb are an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1992 with mainstay Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. In 1996, Lindsay McDougall joined the line-up on lead guitar and backing vocals. Two of the group's albums have peaked into the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, A...
  
  
• "Old Sydney Town" Alopi Latukefu & the Palermo Express
• "Rep My City" Miracle
  Miracle (rapper)
  Samson Andah, better known by his stage name Miracle, is an African Australian rapper based in Sydney...
  
  
• "Somewhere in Sydney" (Greg Macainsh) Skyhooks
• "Sundays in Sydney" (Dave Steel) Dave Steel
• "Sydney Born Man" (Peter Martin
  Peter Martin
  Peter James Martin is an English former cricketer who played in 8 Tests and 20 ODIs for England from 1995 to 1998.Nicknamed "Digger", Martin was primarily a fast-medium swing bowler...
  
  ) SCRA
  SCRA
  SCRA may refer to:* South Carolina Research Authority, a global SC-based applied research and commercialization services company* Special Class Railway Apprentice, an Indian railway apprenticeship...
  
  
• "Sydney From a 727" (Paul Kelly
  Paul Kelly (musician)
  Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...
  
  ) Paul Kelly & the Messengers, Mushroom Records
  Mushroom Records
  Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...
  
   Comedy
• "Sydney Girls" (Anderson
  Angry Anderson
  Gary Stephen "Angry" Anderson AM is an Australian rock singer, television presenter/reporter, actor and conservative political activist. He is best known as the vocalist with the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976 but he is also recognised for his acting roles and his charity work...
  
  /Wells) Rose Tattoo
  Rose Tattoo
  Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Boys", "We Can't Be Beaten" and "Scarred for Life"...
  
  
• "Sydney Ladies" (Broderick Smith
  Broderick Smith
  Broderick Smith aka Brod Smith is an Australian singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar and banjo player. He was a member of 1970s bands Carson and The Dingoes, 1980s Broderick Smith's Big Combo and performed solo...
  
  /Kerryn Tolhurst
  Kerryn Tolhurst
  Kerryn Tolhurst is a noted Australian musician and songwriter who was based in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s.His musical career began in Melbourne with the Adderly Smith Blues Band. He subsequently joined Sundown, led by Keith Glass, which was one of Australia's first country-rock groups...
  
  ), The Dingoes
  The Dingoes
  The Dingoes are an Australian country rock band initially active from 1973 to 1979, formed in Melbourne they relocated to the United States from 1976. Most stable line-up was John Bois on bass guitar, John Lee on drums, Broderick Smith on vocals and harmonica, Chris Stockley on guitar and Kerryn...
  
  , The Dingoes (1974, Mushroom Records)
• "Sydney or the Bush" *(Norma O'Hara Murphy) Norma O'Hara Murphy
• "Sydney Song" Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe
  Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....
  
  
• "Sydney Town" (Michael Quinlan) The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
• "Sydney Town (The more they try to keep you down in)"* (Hardy/Gary Sheaarson) - Frank Hardy
  Frank Hardy
  Francis Joseph Hardy, or Frank, was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel Power Without Glory. He also was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky...
  
   recorded by Gary Shearson
• "Then 'Til Now" Bliss N Eso
  Bliss n Eso
  Bliss n Eso are an ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney, and were originally known as Bliss N' Esoterikizm for their debut EP The Arrival...
  
  
• "Town Hall Steps" (Timothy (Tim) O'Reilly) The Mexican Spitfires
  The Mexican Spitfires
  The Mexican Spitfires were a Sydney, Australia-based indie rock–indie pop band formed in suburban Strathfield in the Strathfield Municipality in the mid 1980s...
  
   Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
• "Typically Sydney" The Deadly Hume
• "Where You Wanna Go" K1
  K1
  K1, K.I, K01, K 1 or K-1 can mean:Military* K1 main battle tank, a modern main battle tank of the South Korean military* Daewoo K1, a carbine of the South Korean army* Fokker K.I, a World War I German experimental aircraft...
  
  
• "You Gotta Love This City" (Tim Freedman
  Tim Freedman
  Timothy "Tim" James Freedman is the mainstay lead singer and keyboardist of the Australian band The Whitlams formed in 1993...
  
  ) The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  

Woolloomooloo

• "Hullabaloo" (S. Kelly, J. MacKay) Absent Friends
  Absent Friends (band)
  Absent Friends were an ARIA Award winning band from Sydney, Australia. The band was relatively short lived, forming in 1989 and disbanding in 1990...
  
  
• "Numbers Fall" * (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Cold Chisel
• "Ruby" (Don Walker
  Don Walker (musician)
  Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...
  
  ) Catfish
• "Ticket In Tatts" (Mick Thomas
  Mick Thomas
  Michael James Thomas is an Australian singer-songwriter.Mick Thomas was born in Yallourn, 7 February 1960, the middle child of three. His father, Brian Thomas, was an electrical engineer with the old State Electricity Commission. His father's family were from Tasmania and his mother, Margaret, was...
  
  ) Weddings Parties Anything
  Weddings Parties Anything
  Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1998. Their name came from The Clash song and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s.-Formation and...
  
  
• "Woolloomooloo Lair" *(D.Newton/M.Williamson/R.Corbett) The Bushwackers
• "Woolloomooloo Sunset" (McCormack) David McCormack
  David McCormack
  David McCormack is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter who fronted Brisbane-based rock group Custard .-Early groups:...
  
   and the Polaroids

The Illawarra

The Illawarra

Illawarra

Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a coastal region situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the Shoalhaven or South Coast region. It encompasses the cities of Wollongong, Shellharbour, Shoalhaven and the town of Kiama. The central region contains Lake...

 includes Wollongong, and despite their geographical closeness, most songs about Wollongong have been written about its cultural distinctness. Many of which are tongue in cheek.

• "I've Been Everywhere Man" Aunty Jack
• "Queen of the Gong" Aunty Jack
• "Wollongong the Brave" Aunty Jack
• "Wollongong on My Mind" Aunty Jack
• "Beachcomber from Wollongong" John Williamson
  John Williamson (singer)
  John Robert Williamson AM is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson has released over thirty-two albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books...
  
  
• "Lights of Wollongong" Aubrey & Martin

See also

• "I've Been Everywhere
  I've Been Everywhere
  The song "I've Been Everywhere" was written by Geoff Mack in 1959 and made popular by the singer Lucky Starr in 1962.The song listed Australian towns...
  
  " - a popular novelty song which mentions, inter alia, several Sydney suburbs albeit not Sydney itself.

External links

• Songs written about Sydney - Bernard Zuel, The Sydney Morning Herald
  The Sydney Morning Herald
  The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
  
  
• Songs of Melbourne
• Australia By Song - a growing list of Australian towns and locations that have been immortalised by both traditional and contemporary song