Coloured Stone

Coloured Stone was founded in 1977 by frontman Bunna Lawrie on the Kooniba Mission in Australia's Northern Territory. Lawrie, along with two of his brothers, started out as a cover band playing small towns and settlements. One of the band's first successes came in 1978 when their tune "Dancing in the Moonlight" won a local songwriting contest. The group began putting together a body of material and in 1981 they migrated, literally by playing music along the way, to Sydney. The band rose to prominence with their 1984 debut release, Kooniba Rock. This and its 1985 follow-up, I...