Hard News: Friday Music: The Wizards of Oz Rock
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
INXS seemed to have been quite a fixture among the fringe scene. back when I was playing (badly) we tripped over to Sydney to play with Deadly Hume (feat early doors H&C's percussionist Greg Perano) and they were pretty hardened rock and rollers but remained good mates with the INXS fullas. they were pretty famous by then so they didn't catch up as much as they once did.
was a cool scene though (late 80s), still loads of bars to play even if the standard was extremely variable - one particular fave was L shaped so you'd be playing away to an empty space while the punters leaned on the bar at the other end. then there were those with volume limiters that just cut dead on you.
also remember a lot of Flying Nun copyists - to the point of playing covers which seemed odd for some reason - but the band scene was so big there was plenty of good stuff among the rubbish (Louis Tillet and the Aspersion Cast, I'm yawning at you) and the almost comically macho. -
karma chameleon...
I would just like to say that I am about a quarter of the way through Mr Simon Grigg's 'How Bizarre' and it is riveting stuff... Excellent reportage from the front lines.
Also nice to see that thus far Mr Stent gets all the credit he deserves - nada. -
Fuck cancer.
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Mike O'Connell, in reply to
Indeed... David Bowie dead at 69
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How a day can change: the Chills were terrific and I got to say hello to Russell in person for the first time, then I saw the news about Bowie...
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