DOCSLIB.ORG

I've Been There

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
I've Been There JOY MCKEAN I’VE BEEN THERE JOY MCKEAN (and Back Again) AVAILABLE 25 OCTOBER 2011 Standard Edition — Hardcover with Jacket (255 x 235 mm) 224 pages. ISBN 978 07336 2728 6. RRP $39.99 The Limited 1927 Edition — Slipcased Hardback Only 1927 produced. Leatherette hardback (255 x 235 mm) 224 pages. Record sleeve containing a signed Slim Dusty & Joy McKean photo and a limited edition CD containing 25 of Slim Dusty and Joy McKean’s recordings. ISBN 978 07336 2866 5. RRP $100.00 For publicity enquiries please contact Jaki Arthur e: [email protected] For sales and marketing enquiries please contact Matt Hoy e: [email protected] t: (02) 8248 0800 SLIM DUSTY & JOY MCKean’S Level 17, 207 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 www.hachette.com.au LIFETIME OF TRAVEL, STORIES AND SONGS JOY MCKEAN I’ve been THERE (and Back Again) PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN ELLIOTT Introduction I’ve Been There (and Back Again) CONTENTS Introduction 1 I’ve Been There (and Back Again) 5 Part I SONGS FOR THE AUSSIES: The Early Days 15 The Biggest Disappointment 17 The Wind-Up Gramophone 25 Song For the Aussies 33 Lace-Up Shoes 39 D Towards the Head 41 Yellow Gully 49 Local Mary Magdalene 55 The Valley where the Frangipanis Grow 65 Our Wedding Waltz 79 Bible of the Bush 87 Part II GUMTREES BY THE ROADWAY: People and Places 93 When the Rain Tumbles Down in July 95 Kelly’s Offsider 103 Ringer from the Top End 109 Grandfather Johnson 117 Gumtrees by the Roadway 125 Plains of Peppimenarti 133 Part III WALK A COUNTRY MILE: Performing and Travelling 143 Old Time Country Halls 145 The Front Row 153 Lights on the Hill 159 On the Move 167 Indian Pacific 177 Country Revival 189 Walk a Country Mile 195 Travellin’ Still . Always Will 205 Epilogue by Anne Kirkpatrick 209 About Slim Dusty 213 Acknowledgments 214 Credits 216 Introduction The old portable typewriter at work again for the lyrics of ‘Just Rollin’’. INTRODUCTION n 2010, I travelled to Tamworth for the Country Music Festival and for the Golden Guitar Awards. Slim and I had attended all but two of the awards I nights since they were inaugurated in 1973, and I have usually managed to keep up the tradition since his death in 2003. January 2010 was rather special for me as it marked my eightieth birthday and my daughter, Anne, had organised a birthday concert for me in the Capitol Theatre there during the festival. As well, organisers of the Bush Laureate Awards had paid me the compliment of inviting me to become their patron. The annual awards are to honour the best among the bush poets of the nation, and I was surprised and touched when I was presented with an award in recognition of ‘a lifelong contribution to Australia’s bush verse heritage’. When MC Jim Haynes read out the lyrics of ‘Indian Pacific’, he closed by saying, ‘And if that is not bush poetry, I don’t know what is.’ I thought that was a lovely thing to say; it was a very moving moment for me. That night was the culmination of a feeling among friends and colleagues of mine that I should publish a book of my song lyrics as poetry. The idea of a book of stories behind a collection of songs written by Slim and me, and illustrated by many of the photos from our private collection, grew quickly. Of course, these 1 lyrics were originally meant to be sung, not recited as poetry, and so there are some differences in the way the words are used or placed. Most of the photos in this book have not been seen before, and many of the stories behind the songs are new to most people. I’ve enjoyed writing the stories – the words of each of the songs I wrote bring back so many recollections from my life, and the words of Slim’s songs remind me so vividly of the stories he always told me about his youth when we were driving somewhere, out on the road. He told me so much that, sometimes, I felt as if I had been there with him since Onstage at the ‘Concert for Slim’ his boyhood – and let’s face it, I was with him for at Tamworth, 2004. As a tribute to Slim, his country music friends more than fifty-two years. What you have in front of came together to raise funds you is the result of a lot of work, a lot of laughs and towards building his Centre in his hometown of Kempsey, NSW. more than a lot of memories. Some memories brought laughter, certainly, but some brought sighs as well. When I look at some of the photographs used to illustrate a song or story, I think that, at the time the picture was taken, none of us would have thought so many other people would see it one day. Never would I have believed that my life and Slim’s would produce such richness in friends, family and experiences as it has. We were adventurers in a way . the road had a beckoning feel to it. It’s true that the pair of us could never wait to see what was over the next hill, whether it was a bulldust hole in amongst the corrugations or a boggy stretch of a blacksoil road, or even just a good spot by the side of the road where we could stop and boil the billy, waiting for the others to catch up. Whatever it was, we loved it as we sailed eagerly along our way, grizzling about it, laughing about it and sticking to it regardless of our reservations or complaints. What’s a few whinges between friends and lovers, after all? 2 I’ve BeenBeen There There (and (and Back Back Again) Again) At eighty plus one, I no longer perform onstage six nights a week in small towns and big cities all over the nation. But I wouldn’t have missed the chance of doing it for anything. Looking at the photos I took on our very first tour in 1954, I know that Slim and I had no idea our lives would turn out the way they did. We just wanted to be able to travel and sing, to write about what we saw and how we lived. How could we have even dreamed that technology would one day broadcast Slim’s voice and image to the world as he led Australia in singing ‘Waltzing Matilda’ during the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics, or that he would be the first singer to have his voice beamed to Earth from outer space? I also see the photos of my family in front of me. Anne grew up to be a leader for country women artists in her breakthrough early recordings, a fine singer and songwriter; David went a different way to begin with . an emergency medicine specialist, but still a musician and songwriter at heart. Kate, Anne and Greg’s daughter, is a good writer who can sing and harmonise; James, her brother, is a singer and songwriter involved in music and film work. Daniel, David and Jane’s son, is a medical student at present; Hannah, his sister, is a singer and writer working in the music industry. They were almost all onstage for my birthday concert, and they all came on tour a couple of years ago for the Family Reunion album we recorded together in 2008. How many other eighty-year-olds have such a record of a family that sings with her? I wonder how many other women can say that their family has given them as much love and care as ours has given to Slim and to me? Slim and I have certainly been there, as the saying goes. We’ve also been there and back again, and you know what? We would probably still be doing it if we’d had our own way. Even now, and even on my own, there is nothing better than to head out of town on one of the roads we travelled so often. Yes, been there . and back again. You’re telling me we did! Joy McKean Introduction 3 A familiar sight backstage was Slim and his battered red teapot. I’ve Been There (and Back Again) OLD TIME COUNTRY HALLS Slim Dusty, 1983 As I pick up my guitar to sing another song I hear the walls of this old hall: ‘You’ve done this thing too long; You know you’ve been around for years, I guess you’ve shown us all.’ I talk like this when I reminisce, with an old time country hall. I joined a tent show as a kid with a dream and an old guitar, De Silva’s All-Star Cavalcade and Dante was the star; He taught me lots about the game, today I understand He was a great magician, and he was a fine old man. I’m a howling cattle crooner, I’m an old time dinosaur; Hey, let me sing where the rafters ring, In an old time country hall. I’ve been on the road for forty years and Dante could equal that, You’ll find his faded posters still in some halls way out back; I like to go backstage and dream sometimes and just recall The shows I’ve had, the good and bad, shared with these country halls. I’m a howling cattle crooner, I’m an old time dinosaur; Hey, let me sing where the rafters ring, In an old time country hall.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • A Popular Passion
    18 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW A POPULAR PASSION From Fats Waller to Slim Dusty, popular entertainment has made the world go round. The left has tended to view it with a jaundiced eye — sometimes celebrating it, more often damning it. Craig McGregor doesn't think either response is enough. Here he looks at what makes rocking around the clock tick. hen I first began writing lives we led. It was the time of the exposed), the really surprising thing about popular culture, great Alf controversy (Alf equals is the diversity, and richness, and W instead of just living it, I ocker), and Admass, and the imagination which people manage to was mainly concerned to defend it Suburban Desert, and Barry bring to I heir lives despite the system. against the attacks of elitists, Humphries' ultra-right caricatures of Most lives, looked at close up, traditionalists and cultural all who lived there, and intellectual reveal profound and eternal authoritarians — and, to my despair at the Ugly Average Aussie. I meanings. These are expressed in a surprise, some of the heaviest mean, that was me. million subtle and unsubtle ways: in criticism came from the left. love, work, families, sport, pop It seemed like a betrayal, and, to songs, parties, gardens, barbecues, 1 mean, here 1 was, this likely lad a certain extent, it still does. The left pubs, races, weekends in the bush, with impeccable lower-middle-class stands for the rights, dignity, history, Friday night at the club, Anzac Day, origins from Haberfield, where red creativity, culture, ideals and infinite demos, strikes, jokes, yarns, Sundays brick bungs stared eyeless at each (and yet untested) possibilities of the in the car, births, fucks and death ..
    [Show full text]
  • The Aim of the Club Is to Encourage Juvenile, Junior, Adult Singers and Musicians to Perform at Club Functions Or on Stage
    The aim of the Club is to encourage juvenile, junior, adult singers and musicians to perform at Club functions or on stage. Also to promote country music in Townsville and the surrounding areas. TOWNSVILLE AND THURINGOWA COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC P.O.BOX 1518 Aitkenvale Mail Centre Aitkenvale Q4814 Mobile: 0417 199 744 Darryl Pitt Email: [email protected] PATRON: Councillor Ray Gartrell MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE PRESIDENT: Darryl Pitt 0417 199 744 VICE PRESIDENT: Eddie Albert 0400 606 259 SECRETARY: Maureen Pitt 4725 4756 TREASURER: Val Peters 4723 3661 MEMBER: Glenda Albert 0415 811 544 Appointed Positions MAGAZINE EDITOR: Beverley Davis 4788 0107 MUSIC CO-ORDINATOR: John Brent 0402 248 854 ASST MUSIC CO-ORD: Laurie Reilly 0448 957 747 PROPERTY OFFICER: Shane Barratt 0407 178 741 ASSISTAND SECRETARY: Glenda Albert 0415 811 544 ASSISTANT TREASURER: Glenda Albert 0415 811 544 PUBLICITY OFFICER: Veronica Barratt 0407 178 741 PUBLIC RELATIONS: Ian Foster Griffith 0415 880 841 YOUTH LIASON OFFICER: Sammy White 0450 721 094 WEB SITE www.ttcma.webs.com President’s Report for August G’Day All, Well we’re off to a flying start for the second half of the year, with Hughenden on the first weekend, then back to Townsville on Monday, and out to Toomby’s on Thursday, to get things ready for the weekend. From the amount of enquires we have had the campout should be a great weekend, so if you can’t come out and camp pop out for a day trip (or two). Don’t forget there will be no St Josephs at all this month.
    [Show full text]
  • Public Access Work Begins at Slim Dusty Centre a Key Milestone in the Development of the Slim Dusty Centre Is Close to Realisation
    Public access work begins at Slim Dusty Centre A key milestone in the development of the Slim Dusty Centre is close to realisation. Work has begun to widen the pavement at the South Kempsey site, which will enable full public access to the $6 million facility. Slim Dusty Foundation CEO Kathryn Yarnold welcomed the prospect. “At long last,” she said. “Ditchfield won the contract, and I would anticipate the roadworks will take two or three weeks to complete. “Public access enables us to complete and secure the associations and agreements that will bring further investment into the Slim Dusty Centre. “This will allow us to include the travelling exhibits from the infrastructure for the shop, commercial kitchen and cafe. Powerhouse Museum, and allow ongoing access for work on the A ribbon-cutting ceremony by Slim Dusty Foundation chair Centre’s museum shop and cafe area.” and son of the late country musician, David Kirkpatrick, will The roadworks would enable the centre to develop its formal herald the next phase of the project. association with TAFE North Coast, Kathryn said. Further announcements regarding the staged opening of the The educational institute has collaborated on the floor plans centre will be made in the near future. and will undertake the construction and installation of the Story and photos, by courtesy of The Macleay Argus Ray Hadley on stage with part of the huge Birthday Bash audience. Slim Dusty Centre website • www.slimdustycentre.com.au More artists announced for 2014 Slim Dusty CM Memories Week More artists have been announced and proud to be Mitchell grew up for this year’s Slim Dusty Country giving back some with Slim and Music Memories Week at Kempsey in of the wonderful Shorty through October.
    [Show full text]
  • Slim Dusty the Very Best of Slim Dusty Mp3, Flac, Wma
    Slim Dusty The Very Best Of Slim Dusty mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Folk, World, & Country Album: The Very Best Of Slim Dusty Country: Australia Released: 1998 MP3 version RAR size: 1773 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1551 mb WMA version RAR size: 1515 mb Rating: 4.9 Votes: 780 Other Formats: MP2 AA MOD AIFF RA MP1 MPC Tracklist 1 –Slim Dusty Pub With No Beer 2:55 2 –Slim Dusty Lights On The Hill 3:02 3 –Slim Dusty The Biggest Disappointment 3:00 4 –Slim Dusty Three Rivers Hotel 3:23 5 –Slim Dusty Ringer From The Top End 2:27 6 –Slim Dusty Where Country Is 3:47 7 –Slim Dusty Leave Him In The Long Yard 2:50 8 –Slim Dusty Plains Of Peppimenarti 3:10 9 –Slim Dusty Duncan 2:34 10 –Slim Dusty Charleville 3:00 11 –Slim Dusty Indian Pacific 3:25 12 –Slim Dusty Sweeney (Live) 3:12 13 –Slim Dusty G'day G'day 3:08 14 –Slim Dusty Walk A Country Mile 2:43 15 –Slim Dusty When The Rain Tumbles Down In July 2:37 16 –Slim Dusty I'm Going Back Again To Yarrawonga (Live) 1:32 –Slim Dusty With Joy McKean And Anne 17 Old Time Country Halls 2:32 Kirkpatrick 18 –Slim Dusty Camooweal 4:11 19 –Slim Dusty We've Done Us Proud 4:25 20 –Slim Dusty Country Revival 2:17 21 –Slim Dusty Cunnamulla Feller 2:09 22 –Slim Dusty By A Fire Of Gidgee Coal 2:57 23 –Slim Dusty Losin' My Blues Tonight 3:20 24 –Slim Dusty Featuring Rolf Harris Wobbly Boat 3:00 Companies, etc.
    [Show full text]
  • Politics and Country Music Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
    Politics and Country Music Just a Thought ‘Thanks KFC for your sponsorship’ From Have you ever experienced bribery? Of course you have! Bill Northcott! ‘We Like it Like Do you truly believe what politicians say? Of course you don’t! That!’ ‘Push’ is more important than ‘Pull’ Well you can believe this if you like. It contains bribery and especially if you’re going through a promises. revolving door. The life and career of country music legend and bush icon, Slim Dusty , mentioned many times in previous Gawler Country Music Club Newsletters, will be celebrated in a new development in Aunty Kay’s Kempsey, NSW, ‘….if the Coalition wins government.’ Question Time How’s that for genuine political generosity and sincerity………. Q. There is a train one kilometre long, Sorry but ‘Bullshit!’ travelling at a rate of one kilometre per minute Venue: Munno Para Bowling & Recreation Club Monte Carlo Winners through a tunnel which is 1 kilometre long. Cnr. Curtis & Main North Roads Munno Para Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile , and local Nationals MP, Luke Hartsuyker, recently announced a $6 million pledge at a Well done Jennifer and Rob. You obviously never won a Christmas Turkey! How long would it take for the train to pass special fund-raising concert in Kempsey where members of the completely through the tunnel? late Slim Dusty 's family performed. "For those of us who live in regional Australia in particular, but Jeanette’s Four in a Row also for those in the cities, Slim Dusty was the quintessential When a country artist has four hit records in a row Aussie," Mr Vaile said.
    [Show full text]
  • SACCM Gig Guide
    Keith Keep it Urban Country Christmas Love Pain and the whole Gift Ideas crazy thing The Slim Dusty Movie (Australia Limited Edition) 2DVD/2CD Price: $31.95 Price: $49.95 Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing is the Released November 5 2006 , starring Slim new album from Grammy Award winner and Dusty, Joy McKean, Anne Kirkpatrick with John Blake as the three time Country Music Association (CMA) Male Artist of the Year, Keith young Slim Dusty. Urban. The follow up to double platinum Be Here , this is one of the most anticipated Journey back to an Australia of country showgrounds, back- releases of 2006 and showcases Urban’s breaking roads, irrepressible bush larrikins, long trains and ever- consummate songwriting and vocal talents, rolling trucks, paddocks of ripened wheat and kegs of amber fluid. as well as his searing guitar work. Welcome to the world of SLIM DUSTY. Filmed over 20,000 SACCM kilometres in a variety of frontier towns, truck stops, rodeo arenas It includes “Once In A Lifetime,” the and concert halls; THE SLIM DUSTY MOVIE is a film album’s first single, which upon its release experience like no other! Combining nostalgic historical in the US became the highest debuting single recreations, exhilarating concert scenes and on-the-road candid Gig Guide since the inception of the Billboard Chart. footage with the man himself, this big screen adventure spans 50 Keith is quoted as saying “I think it’s the years in the life of a remarkable performer who was known the sound of being happy and extremely excited world over as "The Man Who Is Australia".
    [Show full text]
  • Sign-Up for Slim! Slim Dusty's Birthday Bash Slim Dusty Centre Website
    With all the activity taking place – a very exciting time indeed – it’s taken us a while to get the latest edition of The Dusty Journal out, but now we have and it will now come to you more often and in an easy to read format. That said, if you ever have any comments or suggestions as to how we may improve the newsletter, don’t hesitate... we want to know! A special welcome to all of our new subscribers who signed up while adding their weight to the campaign to have June 13 declared National Slim Dusty. Special guest Troy Cassar-Daley sings a duet with Joy McKean at Sign-up for Slim! the All For Slim tribute concert at Tamworth in January. Speaking of being busy, we are getting more and more support Radio personality Ray Hadley was MC and auctioneer for the every day for the petition to have June 13 declared as National night with auction items including a specially commissioned Slim Dusty Day. Maton acoustic guitar, a number of unique autographed Slim Dusty posters and signed Akubra Hats. If you haven’t yet signed up - do so today! Visit our website www.slimdustycentre.com.au and follow the links. Winners of the raffle were drawn...first prize going to Leigh Slater from Creswick, Vic (a Mate of Slim Dusty), second to Slim Dusty’s Birthday Bash Michael Jeffrey from Sydney and third to Troy Hargadon (also a Mate of Slim Dusty). Details of our new raffle have been And what a great night it was at Rooty Hill with all of those announced and can be seen on page 3 of this newsletter.
    [Show full text]
  • Slim Dusty Movie Music Credits
    Music Production Rod Coe (Cast, singing) Slim Dusty Joy McKean Anne Kirkpatrick and the Travelling Country Band David Kirkpatrick Gordon Parsons Buck Taylor (Tail credits) The Travelling Country Band Lead Guitar Mick Reid Fiddle and Mandolin Mike Kerin Drums Alan Hockley Banjo and Dobro Ian Simpson Pedal Steel Michel Rose Bass Guitar Bill Graham Location Sound Supervisor Paul Clark Boom Operator/ Recordist Steve Haggerty AAV Technical Supervision Steve Pyle Music Engineer Scott Heming Sound Assistant Chris Piper Concert Sound Mixer Clive Jones Featured Music Where Country is Barry "Morchi" Moyses The Band Played on Traditional Song for the Aussies Slim Dusty Aristocrat Tex Morton Simmo's Tune Ian Simpson Old Sunlander Van Joy McKean Anne Kirkpatrick G. Paige Losin' my Blues Tonight Slim Dusty Wind up Gramophone Joy McKean Trouble Joy McKean Walk a Country Mile Joy McKean Old Feller Joy McKean Drownin' my Blues Slim Dusty My Final Song Slim Dusty When the Rain Tumbles down in July Slim Dusty Camoweal "Mack" Cormack So many Ballads to Play Slim Dusty The Man from the Northland Buck Taylor Old Time Country Halls Slim Dusty Biggest Disappointment Joy McKean Lights on the Hill Joy McKean Gymkhana Yodel Joy McKean Stay Away from me Slim Dusty Keep the Love Light Shining Joy McKean Country Revival Slim Dusty The Isa Rodeo Slim Dusty Stan Coster Rough Riders Slim Dusty A. E. Brooks Cunnamulla Feller Stan Coster Isa R. Ryan Plains of Peppimenarti Slim Dusty How will I go with him Mate "Mack" Cormack Just Rollin' Slim Dusty Pushin' Time Slim Dusty A. E.
    [Show full text]
  • Gig Guide Hit
    Australia’s First Ever Out and About with Number One Hit Keith Urban Australia’s first ever Number 1 Hit Single has Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy World Tour newly celebrated its comes to Adelaide. First Half Century . April 2007 marked 50 Don’t miss – Keith Urban on Sun 20 May years since the recording when he appears at Adelaide Entertainment of Australia’s first ever Centre. hit single ‘A Pub With No Beer’. This iconic song recorded by Slim Dusty and written by Gordon Parsons , was not only the first ever #1 hit record by an Australian artist , but also Australia’s first ever international Gig Guide hit. Recorded back in April 1957 in the EMI 301 studios, Slim’s best mate Gordon Parsons , known as ‘The Yodelling Bushman’ lent a hand when Slim fell short of songs to record. The song stayed in the charts for over six months and Acknowledgement to sales climbed to unprecedented sales for an Aussie http://www.saccm.com/gigguide/gigguide.htm artist. See www.chuggentertainment.com where Keith speaks Gordon Parsons wife Jeanette indicated that frankly on video about what he has experienced in his Gordon’s song was about a fictitious little country personal life since last October. pub. But we all know the pub is real ….. Don’t we? He has obviously revalued his life-style and good luck In further praise to the song sung by her beloved to this superstar performer . husband, Slim’s wife, Joy McKean , says… “It’s an amazing feat for any song to live so long in the "I have so much at home to be thankful for; everyone consciousness of people and remain so popular for who has supported me through the years, the warm so many years that it becomes almost an anthem, embrace that we've received there," but that is what ‘the Pub’ has done.
    [Show full text]
  • Podcast 97 - Slim Dusty - 12-23-2017 by Rob Mccormack - Slow English
    Podcast 97 - Slim Dusty - 12-23-2017 by Rob McCormack - Slow English - http://slowenglish.info Podcast 97 - Slim Dusty by Rob McCormack - Saturday, December 23, 2017 http://slowenglish.info/?p=2528 Learn English while learning about daily life in Australia, with Rob McCormack Podcast Number 97 – Slim Dusty http://traffic.libsyn.com/slowenglish/podcast97.mp3 Hi, Country music in Australia has a unique Australian flavour. It may not be as popular as pop music, rock music or the other new styles of music, but it still has a strong following. The best known Australian country singer is undoubtedly Slim Dusty. His work is probably the best example of the unique style of Australian country music. In this podcast I would like to tell you a little about Slim and his remarkable career as a singer, songwriter and performer, which lasted more than 60 years. Slim Dusty next to the Big Guitar in Tamworth. (By BackSpace Delete (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], 1 / 5 Podcast 97 - Slim Dusty - 12-23-2017 by Rob McCormack - Slow English - http://slowenglish.info via Wikimedia Commons)Slim Dusty was working on his 106th album at the time of his death in 2003 at the age of 76. He was the first musical artist anywhere in the world to record 100 albums, followed by Cliff Richard. By 2007, sales of Slim Dusty’s albums in Australia had reached 7 million. His most famous song was called ‘A Pub with No Beer’ which he recorded in 1957.
    [Show full text]
  • Great Aussie Toaster
    SLIM DUSTY 10. Aug/Sep 2014 AND JOY MCKEAN RRP $5.95 ‘We lived in caravans 17 years’ ESSENTIAL Great Aussie BUYING GUIDE Toaster Should you buy old or new? Remembering the 1950s icon and its demise In print and online timetoroam.com.au AUSTRALIA’S NEW FAVOURITE CARAVAN AND CAMPING MAGAZINE Issue 10 Aug/Sep 2014 1 BRISBANE 104KM Tweed Heads BRUNSWICK HEADS BYRON BAY LENNOX HEAD BALLINA EVANS HEAD Grafton RED ROCK CORINDI BEACH MOONEE BEACH COFFS HARBOUR MYLESTOM URUNGA HUNGRY HEAD NAMBUCCA HEADS SCOTTS HEAD Port Macquarie BONNY HILLS NORTH HAVEN Taree TUNCURRY FORSTER SEAL ROCKS HAWKS NEST Newcastle SYDNEY 160KM upfront | contents 10 AUG/SEP 2014 upfront 07 / REGO RIP OFF NSW considers changes to soaring caravan fees 08 / ANNEXE GAS BOMBSHELL Red tape forces job cuts 08 / WICKED SLAP DOWN Lewd camper company finally bows to pressure features 18 / CARAVAN CONQUERS THE MURRAY Plonk the floating van completes epic journey RISE AND FALL OF THE TOASTER 20 / RISE AND FALL OF THE TOASTER Heavy metal favourite from the 50s riding high again 28 / NEW OR SECOND HAND? on the roam Help to make the right caravan purchase JAYCO 48 / PEOPLE AND PLACES CONQUEST The VIC caravan industry’s night of nights, 31 / OUR RENO RESCUE plus show highlights Big changes ahead for Roam’s 1969 Viscount 38 52 / MAGNIFICENT MACLEAY tried+tested Coastal gems, land of legends 52 54 / FLAVOURS Magnificent 32 / CARAVAN REVIEW Thai green curry is seafood heaven Macleay Atlantic Caravans New Generation 56 / CELEBRITY CAMPER 38 / MOTORHOME REVIEW Joy McKean, Grand Lady of Music, Caravan Queen Jayco Conquest 59 / MY TOP FIVE 42 / CAMPER REVIEW ON THE COVER Gerry Ryan reveals plans to hit the road in 2015 Freedom Offroad Beyond Carapark caravans, Broken Hill NSW 64 / WHAT’S ON Photo by Phillip Terry Australia’s best guide to regional events this Spring 4 timetoroam.com.au Discover the seven wonders of the Tweed Tweed Coast Holiday Camping Parks has seven exciting destinations that will keep the kids happy.
    [Show full text]
  • Line Dancing Made Easy 'SHOWMAN's DAUGHTER' Evening
    ‘Monte Carlo’ Line Dancing Made Easy ‘SHOWMAN'S DAUGHTER’ Acknowledgment to Susan For the uninitiated and inexperienced line dancer Jarvis there’s more to line dancing than Achy-Breaky Heart or Boot-Scootin’ Boogie. And cowboy hats Being the daughter of aren’t essential . Who wants to carry ten gallons on their Australia’s greatest country head anyway! legend, Slim Dusty , has defined Anne Kirkpatrick ‘I Like it Like That!’ all her life. So it’s only appropriate that her new album… her first Elaine & Jeff Purdie danced into the ‘Thanks KFC for recording for nine years… is right spot at Gawler Country Music simply titled Showman’s Daughter. Club. Congratulations to you both your sponsorship’ on winning your prize… Hope to Anne admits that being Slim’s daughter was very much on see you again when you return from her mind during the time she was recording the album. Monte Carlo… "We recorded the tracks for Showman’s Daughter in Dad’s Just a Thought old studio , Columbia Lane, so I was surrounded by his At Gawler Country Music Club … presence all the time. From Bill Northcott! … Line Daning is In! We’ve left his corner of the studio pretty much the way it was, ‘Small talk is usually the only If you love to dance, then why not join in; and with ‘a and it felt quite comforting for me to be there, working on thing to come out of a big mouth.’ little bit’ of assistnce you can master the art of ‘having a these songs." great time’.
    [Show full text]