The Perth Thread

[Van_Dyke]

How lame is that "busker" who wear the silver suit and crash helmet in Northbridge? Just sort of stands there vaguely swaying to various electronic noises and a drumbeat from a CD player.

I haven't seen it, though I'm cringing at the thought of it (though that might be due to 9's cricket coverage).

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I haven't seen it, though I'm cringing at the thought of it (though that might be due to 9's cricket coverage).

I have thought about taking a quick video, but it might just encourage him.

 

[Teriyakicat]

How lame is that "busker" who wear the silver suit and crash helmet in Northbridge? Just sort of stands there vaguely swaying to various electronic noises and a drumbeat from a CD player.

Lol
Sounds like he wants you to put 50c in his hat for him to provide background music- sort of like a jukebox at the pub (do they even have jukeboxes in pubs anymore?)

 

[Kram]

How lame is that "busker" who wear the silver suit and crash helmet in Northbridge? Just sort of stands there vaguely swaying to various electronic noises and a drumbeat from a CD player.

Can't be much worse than the disabled man in Kalgoorlie that just bangs 2 sticks together. FFS learn an instrument like the didgeridoo or something.

edit - taking the Prospector train as a kid late one night getting towards Perth a bloke that had had quite a few refreshments whipped his didgeridoo out and started playing, was bloody good too..

 

[Tarkyn_24]

What's the Astor theatre like as a venue?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

- taking the Prospector train as a kid late one night getting towards Perth a bloke that had had quite a few refreshments whipped his didgeridoo out and started playing, was bloody good too..

euphemism?

 

[Borry]

Can't be much worse than the disabled man in Kalgoorlie that just bangs 2 sticks together. FFS learn an instrument like the didgeridoo or something.

There's an indigenous fella that was doing the same in Darwin today.

 

[Kram]

euphemism?

As I wrote it I just knew someone would say something like this.

 

[gaskin]

There's an indigenous fella that was doing the same in Darwin today.

You gone there permanently now or are you just on a trip?

 

[The_Reaper]

I might swing by and have a look to see what they've done. Haven't been there for a while, though- I walk my dog at Piney Lakes but usually park on the Murdoch Rd side nowadays.

At Jackson avenue?

pretty sure they were just doing shit with the drains

 

[Teriyakicat]

At Jackson avenue?

pretty sure they were just doing shit with the drains

OK- thought they might be putting more stupid median strips in near the school to piss drivers off when they can't get around parked cars

 

[Borry]

You gone there permanently now or are you just on a trip?

Yeah, to try and find better work and preferably career work. Its the only place I know where there is still some optimism over the environmental job market, if there is any.

Just over working as a picker packer for two years on end with 5am starts 5 days a week.

 

[Van_Dyke]

At Jackson avenue?

pretty sure they were just doing shit with the drains

Yeah drain type stuff.

 

[Scotland]

Yay DLS, yay extended trading hours.

RE: the latter, it's actually a yay to deregulation of trading hours. People in Perth just don't get the distinction between shops only being allowed to open within certain hours and shops being required to open within certain hours.

I once rang a car dealer on a Saturday afternoon to inquire about something and he said they were shutting up shop at 2pm. I thought that was odd given Saturday is when people have time to read the paper, go looking at cars etc. but as I've since found out car dealers are not allowed to open past 2pm on Saturdays. That to me is just stupid. What good is being open 9am Monday morning doing the Sudoku in the paper when you have potential customers peering in the windows at 2.05pm on Saturday?

Retail businesses are by design an intermediary between producers and consumers. I worked in retail as a student until 2006, when hours were more tightly regulated than they are now. I worked anywhere from 5am start to 5am finish and the shop (Coles) was open 8-6 Mon-Fri, 8-9 Thurs and 9-5 Sat. 8-9am on a weekday I reckon trade would've been in the hundreds at best. You'd open the doors at 8am and a few minutes later someone would wander in. 5-6pm was probably the busiest hour of the day, and when you shut the doors at 6pm there would be queues at each till and people complaining that they couldn't get in to the shop. Again, that to me is just stupid.

Now my local shops are open 8-9 Mon-Fri. On a work day I would typically go some time after 7, often around 8.30 if going to the gym that closes at 9. If they want to open until 10pm or start closing at 8pm because they're not making any money in the last hour then I think that should be their prerogative.

 

[Beerfish]

What's the Astor theatre like as a venue?

Really good.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Really good.

Very promising. Good acoustics? That's my tonight

 

[BALKAN]

Very promising. Good acoustics? That's my tonight

you're performing?

 

[Silent Alarm]

Very promising. Good acoustics? That's my tonight

I've seen one show there (Jamie T earlier this year) and really liked it. It's potentially the best venue in Perth I reckon – close to the city, heaps of pubs and bars around for before and after, and the venue itself is really quaint. You walk in and it feels like it hasn't changed since 1991. Pretty good sound too from memory, good sight lines... Yeah. A good venue.

 

[Plugger35]

I saw Paul Kelly at the Regal Theatre in Subi in the late 90s when he was on his Songs from the South greatest hits tour.

Him and his band were great and the acoustics are good there too but it was quite weird sitting in a theatre watching a band and you couldn't really drink there like you can at a pub show.

They have a bar out the back of the theatre but you don't really want to be going back there to get a drink during a show.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I saw Paul Kelly at the Regal Theatre in Subi in the late 90s when he was on his Songs from the South greatest hits tour.

Him and his band were great and the acoustics are good there too but it was quite weird sitting in a theatre watching a band and you couldn't really drink there like you can at a pub show.

They have a bar out the back of the theatre but you don't really want to be going back there to get a drink during a show.

I saw him there a few times. Part of his 1992 Live album was recorded at the Regal. Certainly makes for a different type of show than seeing him in a pub, but he is one who can do the job in either environment.

 

[Plugger35]

I saw him there a few times. Part of his 1992 Live album was recorded at the Regal. Certainly makes for a different type of show than seeing him in a pub, but he is one who can do the job in either environment.

I also saw him at the old Swanbourne Hotel when he was doing an acoustic show, he played a lot of obscure stuff rather than his hits.

I would've preferred to see his greatest hits show at the Swanbourne Hotel and his acoustic show at the Regal.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I also saw him at the old Swanbourne Hotel when he was doing an acoustic show, he played a lot of obscure stuff rather than his hits.

I would've preferred to see his greatest hits show at the Swanbourne Hotel and his acoustic show at the Regal.

Don't think I ever saw him with the band at the Regal, just solo gigs. I did see the last tour with the Messengers in 1991 at the Perth Concert Hall. that was pretty good, and was all filmed as well but I never saw any footage come out.

 

[BALKAN]

Bloody hell I'm not gonna survive this summer

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Bloody hell I'm not gonna survive this summer

Move to Albany

 

[Van_Dyke]

Bloody hell I'm not gonna survive this summer

Move to Albany

Marble Bar is calling.