 It was organised by The University of Queensland's Centre of Critical and Cultural Studies and featured Andrew Stafford, who gave a keynote speech.He took the opportunity to address criticisms that suggested the book was written by an individual who was not present during the tumultuous period of Bjelke-Petersen's tyrannical reign, but wished he was.He explained he had no intentions to “romanticise the era”, rather he wanted to pay tribute to Brisbane's bands of that period who were not given due recognition in Australia's music industry.