Dingo Gringo are playing at the Monkey Magic Venue in Kings X, Sydney on Feb 23rd, the music goes from 8-10pm, Dingo Gringo will also have Clive Lochner from The Melting Pot on percussion and D.J Mashy P will play a global bass D.J set between the 2 Live sets. This gig will be a full immersion audio-video feast with specially prepared big screen video and light show.

Dingo Gringo is the didjeridu and electro cross breed of a sound by Charlie McMahon and Peter Strong. Charlie fronted the seminal Gondwanaland band that prefigured world music and Indigenous cultural revival by a decade and Peter cut his name in the dance music free party / rave scenes of the 1990’s. The name Dingo Gringo harks to the global electro Cumbia and up vibe dance feel of much of the music.
Peters’ background is in arts and activism. In 2016 he produced the epic ‘Do it Ourselves Culture’ documentary that told a story of activism as it blended with dance music in Australia since the early 90’s. He co-created ‘ Ohms Not Bombs’, an urban/outback travelling sound system project which have were active in the 90’s and 00’s fusing events with various environmental and social justice issues. Recently he has campaigned against WestConnex and was a candidate for the Greens in the 2017 local Council elections. In Dingo Gringo he plays samples and programmes the bands tracks.
Besides his Gondwana band Charlie has toured and performed with the likes of Midnight Oil, Sunrise Band, Bart Willoughby, Janes Addiction and Carlos Peron. His recorded music is often used as sound track to evoke an Oz essence and played on sound tracks of Mad Max and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. He has a long association with Indigenous folk and was the opening act for PM Keating’s historic Redfern Speech in 1995. Prior to his music career Charlie worked for 6 years in the Western Desert establishing water supplies for Pintubi clans returning to their traditional lands and that work led to the surprise discovery of a family with no prior contact with the modern world, aka the Pintubi 9 in 1984. While being well versed in traditional lore Charlie’s work is contemporary and Arnhem Land elders credit him for ‘inventing complex and interesting new ways of playing didj’ He invented the pitch shift didjeribone which is a joint venture with Qld artist Tjupurru.