Lidge's Official Bring Back Basia Bonkowski Action Faction Thread (II)

[The Other Dean]

Speaking of "Reckless" (which I agree is < PK's Careless, but a good song from an excellent band nonetheless), many will recall it's official title is "Reckless (Don't Be So)".

In the spirit of obscure Melbourne bands of the early 90's, I am reminded of a band named Mr Floppy, which was mainly a p*sstake. They did a version of Reckless called "Breakfast (Make Me Some)". It was funny when you were hammered at the Evelyn or Punters.

Their best song was undoubtedly the magnificent 100,000 Morrisseys. A story goes that one of the members of The Smiths was in the audience in Fitzroy one night and thought the song was great. Anyways, here it is.

Haha. Good call, LtK. Met one of the Floppys a few times. The head Floppy, actually.

Would it be somewhat superfluous to mention that he was a weird guy ?

Remember going to the footy one day with a mate from work, the aforementioned head Floppy, and Francis Leach. :confused in hindsight face thingy

 

[blackshadow]

Completely agree.

In fact, despite some very stiff competition, I can't think of a PK track I like better.

The line - "how many tears in a bottle of gin" is one of my favourites by any songwriter - so much is distilled (no pun intended) into those eight words.

 

[The Other Dean]

^^^I haven't heard of them in ages.

I rate Roger Hart a great vocalist.

He was a good singer.

More memories, more Countdown-y goodness.

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[The Other Dean]

From the show at Paddington Town Hall they played with The Saints in April 1977 (only time both bands shared a bill)

Revisiting this famous gig for a second....

I just read an entertaining account of this auspicious occasion in that Babylon's Burning book I was talking about a few pages back.

Here's a heavily abridged version.....


Rather than some great unifying moment, the Paddington concert would pass into legend as a confrontation-charged collision between two entirely different takes on the Stooges/Velvets legacy. Radio Birdman and The Saints would never share the same stage again. Indeed, The Saints would leave for Blighty barely six weeks later, never to return.

Deniz Tek: We welcomed The Saints with open arms when they came to Sydney. We did everything to make them feel welcome – introduced them to people, had them over to our house, got them gigs, just did all this stuff to help them. And yet, immediately when they got there, they were hostile. Some of them were quietly hostile…..but the singer was like a drunken Irishman, who would get drunk and want to fight us because we were rivals.

Though Tek avoided fighting The Saints, he did end up in a brawl with a biker at the Saints’ Funhouse gig the night before the Paddington show, which resulted in him playing Birdman’s biggest gig to date the night after, with his guitar hand taped up in a splint. His mood took a further dip when, prior to The Saints’ set, Chris Bailey’s sister went berserk, ran on stage, and tore down the iconic Birdman flag used as a backdrop for the stage. She had decided that the band’s symbol was some sort of covert endorsement of fascism.

Amazingly, she didn’t get her lights punched out and the banner stayed down for the duration of The Saints’ performance. This, however, did not seem to sate Bailey and, after The Saints debuted their brand-new composition, “This Perfect Day”, Chris announced his thanks to “the local chapter of the Hitler Youth for putting up such fine props.” (Lol) It was a comment that showed Bailey to be fearless, even when vastly outnumbered by Birdman’s hardcore band of disciples.

The book then goes on to say…..

…If The Saints had made almost no converts in Sydney, they certainly made their mark in Melbourne. They inspired at least one disenchanted soul to take his equally perverse musical ideas and run with them.

Nick Cave: The Saints would come down to Melbourne and play these shows which were the most alarming things you’ve ever seen, just such anti-rock kind of shows, where the singer wouldn’t come on stage. When he did, he was this fat alcoholic. It was so misanthropic, it was unbelievable, and the whole band was like that. They were so loud, too !!


Lulz at Chris Bailey. Kinda makes me like him even more.

 

[The Other Dean]

Well, I enjoyed it.

(Cheers for transcribing it, fruitcake.)
(Yeah, how about you get stuffed, chief.)

Back to the clips...

The Honeys.

There's a pretty cool double-CD retrospective of this band's work (called "Ultimo") out on Red Eye Records. Well worth a look.

If I was making a top ten of my favourite songs from the golden era of the Australian underground, this would be an absolute shoe-in.

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[blackshadow]

Revisiting this famous gig for a second....

I just read an entertaining account of this auspicious occasion in that Babylon's Burning book I was talking about a few pages back.

Here's a heavily abridged version.....


Rather than some great unifying moment, the Paddington concert would pass into legend as a confrontation-charged collision between two entirely different takes on the Stooges/Velvets legacy. Radio Birdman and The Saints would never share the same stage again. Indeed, The Saints would leave for Blighty barely six weeks later, never to return.

Deniz Tek: We welcomed The Saints with open arms when they came to Sydney. We did everything to make them feel welcome – introduced them to people, had them over to our house, got them gigs, just did all this stuff to help them. And yet, immediately when they got there, they were hostile. Some of them were quietly hostile…..but the singer was like a drunken Irishman, who would get drunk and want to fight us because we were rivals.

Though Tek avoided fighting The Saints, he did end up in a brawl with a biker at the Saints’ Funhouse gig the night before the Paddington show, which resulted in him playing Birdman’s biggest gig to date the night after, with his guitar hand taped up in a splint. His mood took a further dip when, prior to The Saints’ set, Chris Bailey’s sister went berserk, ran on stage, and tore down the iconic Birdman flag used as a backdrop for the stage. She had decided that the band’s symbol was some sort of covert endorsement of fascism.

Amazingly, she didn’t get her lights punched out and the banner stayed down for the duration of The Saints’ performance. This, however, did not seem to sate Bailey and, after The Saints debuted their brand-new composition, “This Perfect Day”, Chris announced his thanks to “the local chapter of the Hitler Youth for putting up such fine props.” (Lol) It was a comment that showed Bailey to be fearless, even when vastly outnumbered by Birdman’s hardcore band of disciples.

The book then goes on to say…..

…If The Saints had made almost no converts in Sydney, they certainly made their mark in Melbourne. They inspired at least one disenchanted soul to take his equally perverse musical ideas and run with them.

Nick Cave: The Saints would come down to Melbourne and play these shows which were the most alarming things you’ve ever seen, just such anti-rock kind of shows, where the singer wouldn’t come on stage. When he did, he was this fat alcoholic. It was so misanthropic, it was unbelievable, and the whole band was like that. They were so loud, too !!


Lulz at Chris Bailey. Kinda makes me like him even more.

Great story - I must grab a copy of that book.

Bailey and Tek are very different people and I can easily see them rubbing each other the wrong way.

When I first moved to Sydney in 1984 even though Radio Birdman had broken up and The Saints had become Chris Bailey and whoever there was a sharp divide with many people - they were either in the Birdman or Saints camp. Lord only knows why as they were both awesome bands.

 

[blackshadow]

I think this thread needs a bit of kink.
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[The Other Dean]

Hey, I'm a fan but......incongruous much ?

Couple more fave bands from the old days that it would be remiss not to mention.....

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[Twinkletoes]

To honour the new rookie draftees, a word from the Dead Kennedys:

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[blackshadow]

Nothing wrong with a little incongruoity.... ahhhh The Hummingbirds (and the lovely Allannah Russack) - they/she bring back some sweet memories of youth.

 

[TexDeadly]

Good to see you hear Tex.... now if you can dig up some Tex Deadly and the Dum Dums footage I'll take my hat off to you.

I wish I could help you, Black Shadow, but unfortunately the only footage I have of Tex Deadly and the Dum Dums is on the video release of the ABC series Long Way To The Top and its pretty much blink and you miss it type stuff. Another one of Gregory Perkins' bands I wish I had some video of is Salamander Jim, which featured Stu and Lachie from Lubricated Goat. Here's some footage of the latter band which is not as revealing as the infamous performance they put on for Andrew Denton's Blah Blah Blah:

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X and The Rifles are two of my all-time favourite Australian bands.

The first time I saw The Tribesman was also my first foray into psychedelic substances; they were a great band. I recommend you check out the album Mick Medew and The Rumours put out this year - it's a cracker.

Cheers BS, I look forward to getting my hands on a copy when next I'm out record shopping! In the meantime (to quote one of their inferior contemporaries), I recall you mentioning something about being a fan of this almighty band from Adelaide, TMOC:

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[TexDeadly]

Nice one, Tex. 4ZZZ is an excellent, excellent radio station.

In another age, I did a bit of stuff on RRR with Cousin Creep.

Linking this back to topic, as you may know, Cuz, in addition to the radio stuff, also started Hippy Knight Records, who in their short existence released stuff by the aforementioned Cosmic Psychos, You Am I, Poppin' Mommas, Nunbait, (Merge Records alumni) Seaweed and Erectus Monotone, as well as the best band of all time, Superchunk.

(The latter, a deal that didn't work out too well. But that's probably a story best left for another day.)



For the sake of everyone, don't get me started on NZ guitar bands.

Love the Fits.

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Shame a lot of the classic Flying Nun clips have been taken off youtube.

Haha, you mentioned some words near and dear to my heart - NZ guitar bands and Flying Nun Records!

I returned to Brisbane for 20 months between 2004 and 2005 and sounded out the good folk at Triple Zed about whether they needed any help with announcers. The host of the New Zealand Show remembered me from my previous time with the station, because of my penchant for playing quite a bit of kiwi music, and asked me to help him out - so I joined him at the helm and got exposed to a stack of the fine music coming out of Aotearoa.

To start, here's two of my favourites from bands from the Flying Nun stable:

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To finish, a very timely and brilliantly funny clip from a band who could lay claims to getting the jump on The White Stripes with the whole guitars/drums two piece lineup thing, The Hasselhoff Experiment:

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And one of the best live acts I've seen in some time, The Mint Chicks:

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[The Other Dean]

Haha, you mentioned some words near and dear to my heart - NZ guitar bands and Flying Nun Records!

I returned to Brisbane for 20 months between 2004 and 2005 and sounded out the good folk at Triple Zed about whether they needed any help with announcers. The host of the New Zealand Show remembered me from my previous time with the station, because of my penchant for playing quite a bit of kiwi music, and asked me to help him out - so I joined him at the helm and got exposed to a stack of the fine music coming out of Aotearoa.

Yeah, I'm a freak for Flying Nun (and assorted, and mostly now defunct) Kiwi bands. The Chills, The Bats, and The Clean are like the holy trinity of NZ bands for me, but I have plenty of faves. Big fan of Jean Paul Sartre Experience.

Was playing the Mutton Birds earlier in this thread.

Also mentioned back there somewhere that Surf City were my favourite Kiwis atm.

To finish, a very timely and brilliantly funny clip from a band who could lay claims to getting the jump on The White Stripes with the whole guitars/drums two piece lineup thing, The Hasselhoff Experiment:And one of the best live acts I've seen in some time, The Mint Chicks:

Yeah, heard the Hasselhoff Experiment before. Nice clip.

Prefer the Mint Chicks but.

 

[blackshadow]

Cheers BS, I look forward to getting my hands on a copy when next I'm out record shopping! In the meantime (to quote one of their inferior contemporaries), I recall you mentioning something about being a fan of this almighty band from Adelaide, TMOC:

The Mick Medew and The Rumours album is pretty scarce but you can buy it online from http://www.i94barrecords.com/store.html

Keep an eye out for a new TMOC album and tour sometime in 2010.

And one of the best live acts I've seen in some time, The Mint Chicks:

The Mint Chicks go alright - their frontman puts on quite a show.

Another current NZ band that goes alright (anyone who covers The Sonics has some cred in my book) is Cut Off Your Hands

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Then their are a couple of old favourites from NZ

The Datsuns - this song from their last album is awesome - a nice space rock feel
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The D4 were another great pedal to the metal kiwi rock band that are sadly no longer with us
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[blackshadow]

And another great Adelaide band who used to go alright Exploding White Mice
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[The Other Dean]

And another great Adelaide band who used to go alright Exploding White Mice

Ahem.

"Nest Of Vipers" is a classic.

On the subject of NZ bands, here's a band getting a lot of o/s attention atm, and good reviews from all the snooty-ass music websites and such.

The Brunettes. Here covering The Cure's "Lovesong".

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[The Other Dean]

Founder of legendary NZ band, The Clean, and talented solo artist (currently signed to Superchunk's Merge Label), David Kilgour.

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[TexDeadly]

The Mick Medew and The Rumours album is pretty scarce but you can buy it online from http://www.i94barrecords.com/store.html

Keep an eye out for a new TMOC album and tour sometime in 2010.



The Mint Chicks go alright - their frontman puts on quite a show.

Another current NZ band that goes alright (anyone who covers The Sonics has some cred in my book) is Cut Off Your Hands

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Then their are a couple of old favourites from NZ

The Datsuns - this song from their last album is awesome - a nice space rock feel
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The D4 were another great pedal to the metal kiwi rock band that are sadly no longer with us
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Talk about a band who loved their covers - The D4 always threw some gems into their sets. I couldn't find the D4 covers on Youtube, so here are the originals

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BTW, great news about the new TMOC album. Funny, I remember the liner notes in their box set talking about a book on the band almost being finished, but I can't ever recall seeing anything more about it - do you know if it was ever released?

Nice to see The Datsuns getting a run as well. I was fortunate enough to interview them live to air as part of their tour promoting the John Paul Jones produced second album, Outta Sight/Outta Mind and they were such a cool and funny bunch of guys.

 

[TexDeadly]

Ahem.

"Nest Of Vipers" is a classic.

On the subject of NZ bands, here's a band getting a lot of o/s attention atm, and good reviews from all the snooty-ass music websites and such.

The Brunettes. Here covering The Cure's "Lovesong".

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I thrashed the living daylights out of my cassette of Brute Force & Ignorance by Exploding White Mice in my poxy walkman going to and from uni. Fear was such a wicked side 1 track 1 and whenever I hear that funny beeping noise thing that always kicked off tapes (something seldom heard nowadays!) I expect to hear that loud belch that preceded the song!

From one extreme to another and The Brunettes. I must admit that I have to be in the right mood for listening to The Brunettes, I find them a tad sickly sweet at times. That said, though, Heather has a fine voice and here's a cute tune of their's:

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[blackshadow]

Talk about a band who loved their covers - The D4 always threw some gems into their sets. I couldn't find the D4 covers on Youtube, so here are the originals

Nice to see The Datsuns getting a run as well. I was fortunate enough to interview them live to air as part of their tour promoting the John Paul Jones produced second album, Outta Sight/Outta Mind and they were such a cool and funny bunch of guys.

They sure did love their covers. As did Johnny Thunders and The Dead Boys.

Here's his traditional opener - I was lucky enough to see him on his only ever Australian tour. It was in the sweaty confines of the Mosman Hotel jammed up against the stage... he also busted out Eve Of Destruction.

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And here's a kick arse cover by The Dead Boys
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Vale Johnny and Stiv.

 

[blackshadow]

While on the subject of Stiv Bators - here's a little Lords of The New Church
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[The Other Dean]

I thrashed the living daylights out of my cassette of Brute Force & Ignorance by Exploding White Mice in my poxy walkman going to and from uni. Fear was such a wicked side 1 track 1 and whenever I hear that funny beeping noise thing that always kicked off tapes (something seldom heard nowadays!) I expect to hear that loud belch that preceded the song!

From one extreme to another and The Brunettes. I must admit that I have to be in the right mood for listening to The Brunettes, I find them a tad sickly sweet at times. That said, though, Heather has a fine voice and here's a cute tune of their's:

They are the sickliest of sweet. As you say, often too much so. I like "Boyracer", and I don't mind the Ep of the same name. Quality tends to dip a bit on the long-players.

Following the link.....

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P.S. Ahhh, the good ol' tape beep. "Brute Force & Ignorance" is a monster.

P.P.S. Go Stiv.

 

[Groggyk]

Cheers to whoever put up the Lubricated Goat clip.

I still get a kick out of the first time I ever saw them on late night rage,...... they were completely nude. Completely. Was a bit of an eye opener for a young and innocent Groggy.

Anyway, The Lubed up goat makes for an interesting segue to the next couple of bands, the first being very much the Beatbox favourite.

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[Groggyk]

And another classic from the underated Stems.

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[blackshadow]

Here's a bit of fun stuff from the late 80s/early 90s.

These guys are the epitomy of big dumb rock.

All Hail the Love Dictator!!!
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