And Russell Morris....

I have seen him live many times - at first it was for the nostalgia but of recent - his last two albums - Shark Mouth and Van Diemans land are wonderful - fantastic story telling to music. The last two times i have seen him - wouldn't care if he didn't play any old stuff at all.

My kids were just young teens when they introduced me to Paramore. I heard "Misery Business" and got hooked. Then they attempted to draw me into the teenage girl debate of who's better - Paramore's Hayley Williams or Juliet Simms from Automatic Loveletter

And being teenage girls they despised anyone who only knew "Decode" from the Twilight movie.

Best played loud

Saw Paramore at soundwave - Hayley Williams goes off - she really rocks.

Some good reading there fella's ... I'm positive I saw The Sports a couple of times but it's all a bit hazy at the 'where' now ... might have been at the Prospect Hill hotel in Kew (the Prossie) ... that was our main local haunt ... 78 Known Gigs for Prospect Hill Hotel (some of the dates ring a bell but I lived a bit of a 'different' lifestyle back then!)

Pub rock ruled back in the day ... and a lot of the bands were way way better live

Anyway ... here's a couple of their hits ...

I worship the ground Paul Kelly walks on...

During one of his intimate gigs he talked about always knowing he could write but didn't like performing live as he always felt way too awkward to perform. He said he then saw the Sports live and from that time on he was fine. He said "if Stephen Cummings had no qualms about how he looked performing live then I shouldn't worry either as I dont look half as awkward !"

Footnote - Paul Kelly should video tape himself dancing when he gets a bit excited on stage. I beg to differ that he doesn't look more awkward than Cummings.

One of my highlights was seeing the Divinyls at the Palace (next to the Palais). I was mashed up the front watching Chrissie perform - for a youngish boy there was something very naughty, dirty but definitely yummy about her.

Sunnyboys !

What a wonderful feel good story that is.

One of the great pub bands.

Jeremy Oxley ( the lead singer ) suffered from mental health issues and after great success they dropped out of sight.

A very loyal fan kept in contact with him and they actually got together ( and to my understanding are still together).

She helped him on his road to recovery to the extent that they played a gig at a DOTG about two years ago. They were great but you could tell that Jeremy was still a bit shaky. I saw them again at the forum last year and the improvement was amazing - he was vibrant and jumping around the stage and the gig was great.

I am seeing the again at the Forum in the coming weeks.

There's a documentary that screened on the ABC last year on the journey of Jeremy Oxley

Can't find the whole thing online (maybe WYL can get his hands on it)

Doco website here :

One of my highlights was seeing the Divinyls at the Palace (next to the Palais). I was mashed up the front watching Chrissie perform - for a youngish boy there was something very naughty, dirty but definitely yummy about her.

Reckon I was there for that one as well. Chrissie was a captivating performer & Divinyls were a great live band. And few better debut singles than "Boys In Town" have been released

The Palace was a fantastic "big" venue. It had the capacity of the "beer barns" (eg Pier Hotel, Tarmac, Village Green, Manhattan) but with a better vibe. More like a concert

Not that it didn't have a bogan element. Saw Gangajang (fantastic band) there with Katrina & The Waves. One witty fellow up the front called out "show us yer t i t s". Katrina gave him a look that would stop a charging rhino then dumped a jug of water all over him.

Bands needed to pull a crowd to make it work though. If The Palace was only half full or less it had a bit of an aircraft hangar feel to it

There's a documentary that screened on the ABC last year on the journey of Jeremy Oxley

Can't find the whole thing online (maybe WYL can get his hands on it)

Doco website here :

You can purchase the DVD from that website... I'm not 100% certain, but I believe a percentage of the proceeds go to SANE Australia.

I saw it on TV when it first aired and it is a very worthwhile watch.

Now here's someone who should be heritage listed as a recognised national treasure... Mr Ross Hannaford; ex of Daddy Cool and Billy-T and now busking the streets of Melbourne to make ends meet.

Now here's someone who should be heritage listed as a recognised national treasure... Mr Ross Hannaford; ex of Daddy Cool and Billy-T and now busking the streets of Melbourne to make ends meet.

Ahhh !!!

Geez it's like mind reading - was at the South Melbourne Market two weeks and who was busking out the front ?? Ross Hannaford. I did ask about him and apparently he busks because he wants to , not because he needs to.

Edit - I obviously didn't ask Ross himself

Edited February 11, 201510 yr by nutbean

Ahhh !!!

Geez it's like mind reading - was at the South Melbourne Market two weeks and who was busking out the front ?? Ross Hannaford. I did ask about him and apparently he busks because he wants to , not because he needs to.

Edit - I obviously didn't ask Ross himself

There's a recording of an interview with him here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-06/from-rock-start-to-busker-daddy-cool-guitarist-new-music/6073132

I'm pretty sure he mentioned the fact that he needed the money... obviously he enjoys what he's doing and may have other options, but I suppose this is one way he is guaranteed a regular income.

There's a recording of an interview with him here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-06/from-rock-start-to-busker-daddy-cool-guitarist-new-music/6073132

I'm pretty sure he mentioned the fact that he needed the money... obviously he enjoys what he's doing and may have other options, but I suppose this is one way he is guaranteed a regular income.

My info looks wrong on him.

Shows you the fickleness of the business.

Sunnyboys !

What a wonderful feel good story that is.

One of the great pub bands.

Jeremy Oxley ( the lead singer ) suffered from mental health issues and after great success they dropped out of sight.

A very loyal fan kept in contact with him and they actually got together ( and to my understanding are still together).

She helped him on his road to recovery to the extent that they played a gig at a DOTG about two years ago. They were great but you could tell that Jeremy was still a bit shaky. I saw them again at the forum last year and the improvement was amazing - he was vibrant and jumping around the stage and the gig was great.

I am seeing the again at the Forum in the coming weeks.

Yep, saw them a couple of times ... as you said, a great pub band.

I'm going tonight under protest.

Quite like Paul Simon. I was a huge fan of the Police and saw them at the first Melbourne gig at festival hall where they absolutely lifted the roof off the place - senasational.

In later years Sting has become a giant sized plonker who should be locked in a room with Bono so they can bore the socks off each other.

Hey Nutbean how did you go at the Sting and Paul S concert last night? I liked it. It was an interesting start because I was wondering who the bearded, dark haired bloke was playing guitar with Paul Simon. Then he started singing and I realised, hold on that is Sting! I should point out I am always way up in the cheap seats. Anyway the musicians from both bands were incredible as you would expect, Paul was great but I really liked Sting he can still belt out a hit big time. His voice is still very strong but not sure about the new hipster look, although he could pull a job in a Fitzroy cafe tomorrow no worries and most would not recognise him.

Now I did see security escorting out a bloke towards the end, I hope that wasn't you NT maybe you had been abusing the big plonker?

Yes, if that was the Elvis Costello concert (I went to that Day on the Green show at Bimbadgen in the Hunter Valley), he was very off the mark with his performance. I have however seen him a couple of times since up here in Sydney at a place called Deus Cafe and on both occasions he was excellent, so I wouldn't write him off on the strength of that Day on the Green show. I also have his most recent solo album which is also well worth a listen (gifted by him - we were friends in the early 70's at Swinburne where I was studying Graphic Art).

I was also a regular at their pub shows mostly at the Kingston Hotel in West(?) Richmond and the London Tavern in South Caulfield. For the reunion shows the only originals are Steve, Martin Armiger and Andrew Pendlebury... sadly Jim Niven (the keyboard player passed away a couple of years ago here in Sydney) and I'm not sure what has happened to the bass player and drummer (names escape me) and Ed Bates the other original guitarist pre Armiger who came over from the band The Bleeding Hearts. I am pretty sure Mark Ferry (formerly of the Models and regularly in the Rockwiz band) is playing bass. I think the line-up can be found at that link I posted.

HT we must have crossed paths at some stage. Apart from hanging around the Kingston back then ( and I still do at times) I was studying at Swinburne Institute of Tech in the early 70's as well. I was studying engineering so was doing up to 26 hours a week of class time with an all male cohort so we were envious of you graphic arty types hanging around the Swinburne Caf, smoking the odd joint with a bevy of good looking women, seeking creative inspiration no doubt.

I had come from all male schools so it was all too much for me, women everywhere, but I am stuck doing lectures with a hundred male engineers. I never had much money to buy anything much but a bucket of chips and a cup of tea but it was always a good perve for the desperate to see who was there from graphic arts!

I remember there was a Scandinavian type MILF who worked the Caf tables, collecting the cups and plates and wiping the tables. She always wore a short skirt and different coloured knickers everyday that we all checked out while she was working. But you were surrounded by beauties in the arts school so would not have noticed our desperation.

HT we must have crossed paths at some stage. Apart from hanging around the Kingston back then ( and I still do at times) I was studying at Swinburne Institute of Tech in the early 70's as well. I was studying engineering so was doing up to 26 hours a week of class time with an all male cohort so we were envious of you graphic arty types hanging around the Swinburne Caf, smoking the odd joint with a bevy of good looking women, seeking creative inspiration no doubt.

I had come from all male schools so it was all too much for me, women everywhere, but I am stuck doing lectures with a hundred male engineers. I never had much money to buy anything much but a bucket of chips and a cup of tea but it was always a good perve for the desperate to see who was there from graphic arts!

I remember there was a Scandinavian type MILF who worked the Caf tables, collecting the cups and plates and wiping the tables. She always wore a short skirt and different coloured knickers everyday that we all checked out while she was working. But you were surrounded by beauties in the arts school so would not have noticed our desperation.

Haha, yes it's very possible our paths did cross in that case. I was there in 1972 and did spend an inordinate amount of time in the caf.

I used to hang around with the likes of Steve Cummings, a guy named John Smith (yes, real name) who was an excellent harmonica player, Brendan Ryan who was from Bendigo (may have been a general studies student) and another guy named Brad (can't recall any other name) who may have been an engineering student who was a bit of a space cadet. I also worked a lot on SCRAG (Swinburne College Rag) doing illustrations... it was edited by a person named Kelvin Gedyes who the last time I ran into him, was sound mixing for Circus Oz.

At that time half of Madder Lake were studying there as well as people like Greg McAinsch (sp?) of Skyhooks fame (they were Film & TV students who were the next rung up the "ladder of importance". That was when I joined my first band (the bass player was in my class) called Poltergeist who were based in Altona/Yarraville... we did a whole bunch of originals as well as covers of songs by bands like Atomic Rooster, Edgar Broughton Band and so on.

They were good times... in fact, for the first semester of 1972, my Psychology of Perception teacher was David Williamson... he left after that time because his play The Removalists had just won some big award in New York and so he decided to go full time with his writing.

Hey Nutbean how did you go at the Sting and Paul S concert last night? I liked it. It was an interesting start because I was wondering who the bearded, dark haired bloke was playing guitar with Paul Simon. Then he started singing and I realised, hold on that is Sting! I should point out I am always way up in the cheap seats. Anyway the musicians from both bands were incredible as you would expect, Paul was great but I really liked Sting he can still belt out a hit big time. His voice is still very strong but not sure about the new hipster look, although he could pull a job in a Fitzroy cafe tomorrow no worries and most would not recognise him.

Now I did see security escorting out a bloke towards the end, I hope that wasn't you NT maybe you had been abusing the big plonker?

I thought it was a pretty good concert.

I must clarify my thoughts on Sting. I loved the early Police - saw their first Australian tour at festival hall and they blew the roof off. His body of work is impressive.

I am also politically active but I don't like muso's spending 50% of their concert preaching . Well..not 100% correct - Peter Garrett for some reason didn't seem to upset me. Sting on the other hand- I wanted to lock him in a room with Bono so they could bore the socks off each other. For the record- I love U2 as well - just don't want Bono to stop singing and start talking.

Sting was great on Tuesday - all about his music - not a political comment for the whole night. Paul Simon was good too. He never had a fabulous voice and it hasn't improved.

I behaved myself and wasn't turfed out.

Sting on the other hand- I wanted to lock him in a room with Bono so they could bore the socks off each other. For the record- I love U2 as well - just don't want Bono to stop singing and start talking.

It's funny, I agree with you nut, the constant preaching is tiresome, but it feels churlish to say or think that when, at least at the outset, their intentions must have come from a good place; ie, the desire to use their incredible fame / reach / audience to bring attention to various political and social issues.

Then again, if you're forking out big $$ for concert tickets, i guess you have a right to feel annoyed if you get a lecture instead.

It's funny, I agree with you nut, the constant preaching is tiresome, but it feels churlish to say or think that when, at least at the outset, their intentions must have come from a good place; ie, the desire to use their incredible fame / reach / audience to bring attention to various political and social issues.

Then again, if you're forking out big $$ for concert tickets, i guess you have a right to feel annoyed if you get a lecture instead.

With Sting ( and Bono) it's not the promoting of causes that grates my grits - it's the extent they do it in their concerts. I have seen many a performer push their pet causes and have little problem with it unless it overshadows the music. Its about balance and moderation.

Eddie Vedder is quite political but he is a good example of getting a message across without it detracting or dominating his performance.

I have no answer as to why Peter Garratt doesn't offend me as towards the end of the Oils reign half their show used to be a protest.

I think you hit it on the head with the word "lecture" - maybe it was how the message is delivered.

Too much music next weekend.

Seeing Bombay Royale at the zoo on Friday night.

Then two days of soundwave - any suggestions on less light bands I should see ?

Can't help you with Soundwave nut but if you don't find something you like, I see yer man Russell Morris is playing the Caravan Club on Sunday

Too much music next weekend.

Seeing Bombay Royale at the zoo on Friday night.

Then two days of soundwave - any suggestions on less light bands I should see ?

Of all of the bands on the Soundwave list, the ones that I would be most interested in seeing are: Ministry (Jesus Built My Hot Rod is one of my favourite songs), One OK Rock (excellent Japanese band who my ex has a few albums of) and [censored] Up, purely because they look too wholesome to have a name like that.

Edited February 16, 201510 yr by hardtack

Of all of the bands on the Soundwave list, the ones that I would be most interested in seeing are: Ministry (Jesus Built My Hot Rod is one of my favourite songs), One OK Rock (excellent Japanese band who my ex has a few albums of) and [censored] Up, purely because they look too wholesome to have a name like that.

Ill give you feedback ! Thanks for that.

Talking of wholesome look - have a look at the boys out of Parkway drive - they look like they should be in one direction right up until they start playing.

Continuing on the Aussie rock/blues theme, here's a couple of blasts from the past (the progressive rock era?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9LGIbXpeGE

Found something tonight whilst trawling YouTube. Thought it might find an appreciative audience here

I caught this song on Rage last night whilst doing a bit of channel surfing.