Michael Atherton has been played on NTS in shows including The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia, featured first on 19 September 2018. Songs played include Moonrise, The Kite and Sunshower.

Michael Atherton was born in 1950, Liverpool, England – the eldest of five children. His father is of Irish and Welsh extraction. His mother is German. The family migrated to Australia in 1965 and lived at Bunnerong Migrant Hostel, a former army barracks, NSW. He went to Matraville High School and mixed with the Indigenous community at La Perouse. He taught himself to play guitar and formed bands with friends – who were Greek, Italian…