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Roadrunner 1(1) March / April 1978

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Donald Robertson Editor

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Description Contents: 3 - Snippets. 4 - nocturnal. 5 - Young Hodern. 6 - Death of Punk? 7 - Pin up. 8 - Gary McDonald. 10 - Mickey Finn. 11 - Bob Dylan. 12- Beach Boys. 14 - Denniz Tek. 16 - Record reviews.20 - Sports/'Hooks 21 - ' Dick' Clapton.

Publisher Norwood, South Australia, 24p

This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/roadrunner/1 ADELAIDE'S MUSIC PAPER Volume One N o .1 M arch/April 1978 30 centa.

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Roadrunner Crew, Page 1 - Cover. Page 2 - T h is one. E d itors - C r e d it s . Donald Robertson Page 3 - Snippets. Stuart Coupe. Page k - Iio ctu m al. Design & Layout - Page 5 - Young Modern. A lla n Coop Page 6 - Death of Punk? Construction - Page 7 - Pin up. Alex Ehlert, Sue, Don­ Page 8 - Gary McDonald. a ld , S tu a rt, and a Page 9 - More o f same. cast of thousands in Page 10 - Mickey Finn. a b sen tia. Page 11 - Bob Dylan. Page 12 - Beach Boys. Page 13 - Beach Boys. Contributors s “A staggering and awesome performance by Page 1*» - Denniz Tek. Heather Venn, Larry Meat Loaf...the surprise album smash of ’78. Page 15 - Denniz Tek. Buttrose, Alex Ehlert, — Power Play Page 16 - Record reviews Donald Robertson, Page 17 - More r . r . ' s Mark B u rford, Stuart Page 18 - In t e r e s tin g Ads Coupe, Clever Trevor, Page 19 - Y e t more r . r . Frank Carmody , Page 20 - Sports/'Hooks Festering Mick Malici­ Page 21 - 'Dick' Clapton ous and W ill Denison. Page 22 - Ads and Ends Page 23 - Real beaut ads Page 2U - Illustration. P h o to 's - Steve Hardacre and Joe Roadrunner Volume One Murray. No. 1. Back Cover illustration Published monthly. by Bain,

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ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 2 { snippets)

Hi there funky dudes Webb and drummer Rob Deep, Mountain High', 2Bth A p ril and Joan foxy chicks and Crosser are getting a their last single Arm atrading some­ spaced out pension­ new band together but release here...Radio time in late May.,,,, e rs . Welcome to the it will probably be a Birdman have at last Strong rumours that news and g o ssip page. while before thet left the country E lv is C o s te llo and I f VOU have any news emerge from the re­ after a protracted Ian Dury w ill be here or go ssip that you hearsal room...there delay while tours in June and perhaps think might interest were rumours flying were arranged from Patti Smith in July.. the people of South around the Sphere New York. Birdman Big new supergroup Australia we'd love Organisation that the will be touring Dept: John Wet ton to hear from you,.,.. Joe Hooker Band may Europe with the (ex King Crimson, The b ig news o f the have broken up but we Flamin' Groovies Family, Uriah Keep, moment is, of course, don't have anything (that includes the UK) and B rian F e r r y ), the imminent a r r i v a l definite on that..... and there is a poss­ Bill Bruford (ex o f those ' 60's h e a rt- Rum Jungle were ibility they will do Genesis, Yes, Crimson) throbs, the Beach Boy forced to cancel some live work in the Alan Holdsworth (Soft Boys and the poet o f their trip to Melb­ States after that..,. Machine, Gong, Jean- the last generation ourne due to slack On the home front Luc P o n ty ), and Eddie Bobby Zimmerman, Now o rg an isa tio n from tours coming up Jobson( Roxy Music, we a i n 't got much on the Melbourne end. include George Benson Zappa and Curved Air) the Boys, they all Apparently the venues at Apollo Stadium on . . . .whew..have got a seem to be living a lined up for the band 21st March, Foreigner band together. They're fairly laid back were not really what at Festival Theatre calling themselves UK existan ce on the manager Ray Dyett had on 16th A p r i l, B i l l y and are c u rre n tly American West Coast in m in d ,...T h e Lone Joel at Festival recording their first these days....but we Rangers have split up Theatre 4/5/6 A p r il, album t o g e t h e r ... have heard that the - John White lead Dr Hook at F e s tiv a l that's all for now.... reason there was such sin ge r has l e f t due Theatre on 12th and a delay in the announ to work p ressu re, Festering Mick Malicious -cement of Bobby's John Hyland pedal backing band fo r h is steel player, has had tour was that the /,im to leave due to was o f f e r in g a mere hearing troubles. Ian Roadrunner Playlist. $300 a week pocket Stellick has left to Shirley Stachan; Alex Ehlert: money to pro sp ective form a boogie band 1. Aja - Steely Dan. 1. Debutantes, musos. Now we a ll and A lex, the bass 2. B u ffa lo Norton. 2. Wild in the Streets know that Sara is player has also left 3. Bolero - Ravel, - Garland Jefferies. squeezing Bobby for altho' we don't know Neil ( Modernlove Songs) 3. Shake Some Action - her alimoney but S300 why. Jo Moore, Tom 1. Jesus of Cool — NTck The Flam in' G roovies...... I mean even S t e llic k and Scott Lowe . Stuart Coupe. Kevin Porridge gets Opie have got a new 2. L.A .M .F . - Johnny 1. Jesus of Cool - Nick more than that. band together called Thunder's Heartbreakers Lowe. The 'hooks were in H a b it .. . .Soapbox Ork 3. uutrageous - Kim Fowley 2. Bom To Run - Bruce town la s t week (see going down a bomb at Festering Mick Malicious Springsteen. review la t e r in mag) their new residency, 1, Anarchy in the U.K. Donald Robertson: and S h ir l had some the Cremorne Hotel, - Sex Pistols. 1. Women in Uniform - ju ic y Countdown gossip despite losing steel 2, Roadrunner - Jonathon Skyhooks. all of which is a bit player Steve James... Richman & the Modern 2. New Boots & Pantiesll too ju ic y to p rin t With the Uni's going Lovers - Ian Dury. back there are a here. However he did 3 , Semaphore Signals - 3. Johnny Rotten on say he W asn't too couple of good free Wreckless Eric. Capital Radio - (private impressed with Bed concerts coming up - David Woodhall(Rocturnal) tap e. ) Symons' s i n g le ...... Young nbdern w i l l be 1 , Jesus of Cool - Nick and when you compare p la y in g on the Barr Lowe. Smith lawns on 10th i t with the new THE ROADRUNNER FREE SINGLE COMPETITION 'hooks e f f o r t you can March at 1.00pm and see why...... Band Stiletto will be play We at Roadrunner have got FIVE autographed break - up dept: Riff lag at flinders on copies o f Norman Gunston's c la s s ic punk opus Raff have split down the 9th of March in ' I Might Be A Punk ( But I Love You Baby ) ' the middle, which is the evening ( in the b/w his heartfelt rendition of Elvis' ' Love bad news fo r a l l you amphitheatre behind Me Tender' to give away to five lucky people new wavers since they the lakeAust­ who can tell us which character Gary McDonald were the h o tte st NW ralians overseas: played most o ften in the Aunty Jack Show. combo around town. The S a in ts ' new The singles will go to the five untidiest S in ger Danny Johnson s in g le , 'Know Your e n tr ie s . and bass g h it a r is t Product' getting E n trie s , marked ' The Roadrunner ' I Might Geoff Stapleton have extensive airplay in Be A Punk ( But I Love You B a b y )' Free S in gle gone to Melbourne to England., .apparently Competition' should be addressed to 14 Donegal try and break into it's a little softer St,, Norwood and the winners w ill be announced the scene there, than their killer in the next issue of Roadrunner. while guitarist Gregg version of 'River Competition closes 1st April 1978.

ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 3 ------(radio)------

Rocturnal

WOODHALLS’ r o l l . By the time you Rocturnal On Teevee ton' s last song, but read this Rocturnal, nevertheless an inspir­ RADIO David Woodhall's FM Even though the Roc­ ing first effort consid­ rad io show i s no more turn al ra d io show i s no ering the drivel that's UNPLUGGED and in i t s place w i ll more, the ABC is going been dished up as rock no doubt be more c la s ­ ahead with the planned ipusic television in sical music. Not to 13 week te le v is io n Australia during past suggest we've got any­ s e r ie s . The Rocturnal years. "Finally he set fire thing against classical TV Show began on Febru­ David Woodhall is to the radio. He piled music - but 2l* fucking ary 28th at 10.^*0 in a l l compere and a l l the some paper around it. hours a day?????? states except Victoria programs are produced where it has to wait by Henry Prokop who He struck a match to When F.M. first began 2 months w h ils t they organ­ was form erly producer the paper. We sat the­ Rocturnal was program­ ize a time in the pro­ re watching it, I had med in the timeslot of the much reminisced never seen anyone set gramming. of 10.30 on Saturday about S o lid A ir, The fire to a radio before. I f you were at Sports whole idea with Roc­ night until 5.30 on As the rad io gen tly o r somewhere e ls e fo r turnal is to give same Sunday morning. Hence burned away, the flames the first program of exposure to Australiam the name - nocturnal the week s e r ie s o f bands who have had bagan to a ffe c t the rock becomes Rocturnal 13 ho minute programs you l i t t l e o r no t e le v is io n songs that we were lis- - very good. This time missed a rather excell­ p u b lic it y and are, in ening to. A record that slot came about despite ent program beginning the minds o f David and was no. 1 on the Top 1*0 repeated p le as from with Richard Clapton's Henry, deserving of a suddenly dropped to no. rock, fo lk and ja zz shortlived band who re­ little. So far they've 13 inside of itself. announcers that they corded Goodbye Tiger filmed Radio Birdman, be given r e g u la r time and fe a tu rin g form er Kevin Borich, Stiletto, from 10pm to 12 mid­ McKenzie Theory members Jo Jo Zep, Billy T, Phil night each night. This drummer Greg Sheehan Manning, Skyhooks, Side­ was both an eminantly w inder, Ayers Rock, Rob­ se n sib le time and a l l ­ and v i o l i n i s t C le is Pearce. There was an ex­ yn A rch er, Stephen Fos­ owed for the develop­ cellent series of pain­ ter, Peter Beagley, ment o f la r g e r , more tings by British surre­ Some Dream, and Mickey regular audiences as alist Woodroffe. These Finn, Also included in people would expect provided visuals for each program w ill be one o f these three Scarlet Rivera^ 's mus­ one overseas a r t i s t . m usical forms to be ic, Good stuff although Those planned include available each night a I suspect it may have Neil Young, Van Morri­ at the same time. But seemed a l i t t l e w ishy- son, and Bette Midler. no - that was much too washy on those archaic To gain some cellul­ logical. And too much black and white things. oid fodder for future time f o r the efhn ics U nlike Countdown they programs A latenight Don't you know people showed the f u l l o lip o f concert was organised want Beethoven, Bach Randy Newman doing Short early in February at and S travin sk y, etc People - with the intro which 300 insomniacal A song that was no. 9 at that time of night of Newman giving that individuals watched, became no. 27 in the to see i f the $200 wellknown gesture to live in the studio on middle of a chorus tuners working and i f people in the music bus­ a bloody hard floor, about loving somebody. the sound blends w e ll iness like our Molly. the Sultan Brothers, They tumbled in popul­ with the furniture. Tfte Sultam Brothers Some Dream, and an in ­ arity like broken birds The next step was the played one song - why sp ired set from Jo Jo Then i t was too la te they didn't use an for all of them." recent decision to axe Zep, without doubt the Rocturnal completely. Eagles film clip in­ best performance I've As a response, if there stead amazes me - the seen them give anywhere. Such was Kichard Brau- is any hope of it being only difference is that The whole band r e a lly tigans fictional desc­ brought back, people the Eagles don't look f i r i n g a f t e r a show at ription of the demise who listen to the prog­ so stupid - th e y 're not the Marryatville earlier o f a rad io sta tio n from ram or simply feel p o stu rin g way out west in the n igh t and "Twen­ his short piece, Pac­ that there should be cpuntry rock musicians ty shows in fo u r days" ific Radio Fire. Now, a v a rie ty on the F.M. - or at least they're as Joe Camerlerrii in Australia there's station (the only one closer than the Sultans. put i t as he dedicated been another radio a v a ila b le to South Dutch T ild e r s was h is u­ King o f Fools to Ray burning but this time Aust listeners) should sual competent self - Dyeti t i l the lis t e n e r s have phone, write or call he should be black and So that's it. Do your­ been burnt too. The AUC at the ABC and r e g is ­ 60 remarked someone s e l f a favour and try to in its infinite wisdom, ter some disapproval next to me. In retro­ keep away from the ex­ and upper c la s s good o f the sta tio n s meas­ spect an e x c e lle n t cellent Tuesday night taste decided to rem­ ures - and make it f i r s t show w ith the on­ T iv o li shows to see a ove from its precious heard. There is also a ly criticism being the few of the Rocturnal FM airwaves that deg­ petition protesting dow nhill end to the shows. I'd suggest enerate collaboration against the axing being program - a little too they're the best tele- of noise claiming to c irc u la te d by Andrew lowkey e f f o r t was Clap­ be music - rock 'n ' McHugh, ( continued on page 22)

ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age U {new wave)

young modern

For a band that has been an egotist) and returned to You introduce the song*New togeth er fo r only fo u r months A delaide to get something new Wave'as a surf song on stage. Young Modern have received a together because in his own Are you taking a poke at the lot of media attention-articles words, "There's less pressure new wave? in RAM, Juke, the Advertiser here, A band has time to devel­ " I t s an a ffe c t io n a t e parody" and A delaide U n i's On D it, op. " answered John."There's a lot of I caught up with singer John had a friend whose bro­ good s t u f f come out o f the new John Dowler, guitarist Vic ther played in a high school wave - a lo t o f r e a l ly bad Yates and drummer Mark Kohler band called Suggestion who were stuff too. Some people are cal­ at John's North Adelaide flat looking for a singer and as li n g us a new wave band, which the night after they played they say in the tra d e s, the I d o n 't mind because i t s the the Marryatville as support rest is history. thing o f the moment. We are to Rum Jungle (my second view­ Apart from three songs the still going to be playing the in g o f the b a n d .) Why a l l the Young Modern repertoire is same thing whether its called interest? I asked John, Completely original. The three new wave or n o t." "I've got a lot of loyal non—or ig in a ls are an obscure Young Modern usually finish f r ie n d s ," he laughed."B ut no, Stones number,'The Singer Not t h e ir se t w ith an o ld Spare 1 think its because we're a The Son g,' John M a y a ll's 'On Change single called 'The Big r o c k 'n 'r o l l band and there Top o f The W orld' and a surp­ Beat.' John played me the ver­ aren't any other rock'n'roll rise novelty encore. Andrew sion recorded by Spare Change bands in Adelaide." Richards, bass, Mick Jones, last year. Virtually the only Now there are some people guitar and Vic all write the resemblance is in the lyrics. who would perhaps dispute that music for the original songs Young Modern have taken out but there i s no denying that w hile John takes care o f the the tempo changes and the the Young Modern brand of music ly r i c s . elaborate musical embroidery is melodic, catchy, irrepress­ All the mid-sixties influ­ and replaced them with strai­ ib ly danceable and the most ences that I detected in the ghtahead rhythmn and a foot refreshing sound to be heard music turned out. to be bands tapping beat that is the per­ around Adelaide since, ooh, that Vic and Mark (18 and19 fect backdrop for John's lilt ­ The T w iligh ts? (Those o f you respectively) had never heard in g vo ic e. too young to remember the (Velvet Underground, Kinks, I could go on because a l l T w ilig h t s , and f o u r - f i f t h s Flaming Groovies) although the songs are good. Automatic, of Young Modern fa ll into that John put a l l three among h is My fa v o r it e Drug, Red Dress On category, ask your older bro­ favorites. Vic told me that ( i d o n 't know how I feel/When thers and s i s t e r s . ) his musical inspiration came you come around/ You got that Young Modern came together from the period when rock red dress on - sounding lik e last year when John Dowler supposedly died, 1959 to 1962} the Velvets as the music builds, left Melbourne and his band the era of insipid pop, one peaks and ebbs) and the band's Spare Change, and returned h it wonders and P h il S p e c to r's tour de force, *1 Get So Excit­ to A d ela id e.(T h e r e s t o f Wall of Sound. ed, ' a long slow poignant opus Spare Change resurfaced recen­ Were you try in g fo r a s ix ­ of lost love. Its the only tly in Parachute.) John said t ie s sound then? slow song the band do and in he left Spare Change after "No," answered John,"that's much the same way as E lv is disputes within the band(he ju s t the way we p la y . None o f Costello's 'Alison' acts as a admits to bein g somewhat o f us are brilliant musicians.” reflective counterpoint to the Tell me about your song rest of their set. 'Wanna Be A Birdman.' . And what of the future? " I t s got nothing to do with The band have plans to make Radio Birdman," said Mark. some demo tapes soon and with ANDY "Well it has, in that it them as a basis, try to get a was o r ig i n a l ly in s p ire d by single out. They are playing our f i r s t ever g ig which was about once a week at the moment supporting Radio Birdman at usually supporting interstate UPTON the Unley Town H all," added acts a t the M a r ry a t v ille and John,"Mick was really pissed there is a possibility of them off with the fact that they getting a residency at a hotel got a really great reception in Elizabeth. Its early days & and we d id n 't . So he came up yet but with John's undoubted with th is chorus, "Wanna be a stage charisma and his experi­ birdman/ I heard it on the ence in the music business the radio/Birdman." X didn't want groupr have a gre a t chance o f CRISIS a song about them so I changed negotiating the many hurdles Convey their best wishes to it to a song about a guy who faced by up and coming Adelaide wanted to f l y . " bands. If there is to be a ROADRUNNER "I think people in the aud­ renaissance in Australian rock ience think its about Radio then my money i s on Young Mod­ for future success. Birdm an," commented Mark. ern to be right there in the " In fact its about the front line. See them while you DAVE BOWMAN MANAGEMENT ille g it im a t e son o f Howard can - Adelaide might not be PHONE 269 360^ Hughes who inherits his fath­ a b le to hang on to them, er's love of flying." Donald Robertson.

ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 5 -( p u n k }-

I t was oqe o f those times that you look at your watch. You know, lik e the moon lan din g or Kennedy getting shot, Larry the breadline, on the street, tion lik e you do with fa c t s . But rang me from the A.B.C. not merely clo se to the action by whipping up public hysteria " Hey, have you heard the but IN the fucking action. They about punk the B r it is h press news?" were on the bottom o f the p ile got it banned all over the U.K. " N o ,” and were pissed off enough abo­ made Johnny Rotted into public " The Sex Pistols have brok­ ut it to get off their arses enemy No. 1 and created the en u p ," and s t a rt t e l l i n g peoplo about atmosphere of violence that re­ " VfhatJ" i t . su lted in Rotten and Paul Cook " Yeah, its in the News," Now because there are a hell of the Pistols, not to mention " Have you got i t there?" o f a lo t more people at the bo­ many o th ers, g e ttin g jumped and " I ' l l go and get i t , " ttom of the pile than there are beaten up on the s t r e e t . They I looked at my watch. I t was at the top, these people started made Johnny Rotten into a bogey **•33 p.m. , the 19th o f January, to get a following. Nothing very man - a monster. Larry read the article over the unusual about that - it's a path So fo r most people the Sex phone. that has been trodden by many P is t o ls w eren 't r e a l. They had a New York, Weds Punk rock sin g working c la ss lads and la ss es great gimmick going w ith th e ir -er Johnny Rotten says he has ( the Beatles, the Stones, the rebel image, but they were just left the Sex Pistols for good. Who to name but three.) adopting a pose. People in Aus­ Oh shit. Oh fuck, I thought. But the thing that character! tralia were prejudiced about Rotten said, I ain sick of -se d the P is t o ls rig h t from the punk b e fo re they ever heard any working with the Sex Pistols, s t a r t was t h e ir r e fu s a l to comp­ due to sensational media cover­ I never want to appear with them romise themselves or their music age. I know people who say they again . in any way. They d e lib e r a t e ly hate punk rock yet they have Oh no, I don't believe it. set themselves outside the star/ never heard anyl Maybe, just Talking of the reason behind money gratification system - in maybe the Sex Pistols breaking the break up, he s a i d ,' We had fact they dedicated themselves up for the reasons Johnny Rotten gone as far as we could go. Eve­ to smashing that system. outlined,i.e. that they were ryone was try in g to turn us into An impossible goal perhaps, but getting too popular, w ill make a b ig band group and 1 hated tha they gave the business the bigg­ those people think again. - t . They wanted to make up anot­ est shake up i t has had in years W ell, what DOES the break-up her v ersio n o f the R o llin g Ston­ The f i r s t clash with the pow­ of the Sex Pistols mean? It mea­ es. On the last night in San Fr­ ers that be came when the Pisto­ ns that Johnny Rotten was sin ce ­ ancisco there were 5*000 people ls appeared on the Thames Tonig­ re when he said he didn't want to and I knew i t was g e ttin g out o f ht T .V . show. When B i l l Grundy live his live as a holiday in hand . ' asked the band to say something the sun. That he meant i t when And then I thought, yeah. Per outrageous, they obliged with he sa id he d id n 't want to be a -feet. Brilliant. Good on you a stream of ripe insults. superstar. And Most importantly, As a result of the subsequent that ifyou want to hear good Johnny, you d id n 't compromise. press outcry ( T.V. Fury Over exciting rock music - DO IT The Sex Pistols said when th­ Punk Rock F i l t h I were the banner YOURSELF. For punk is at heart ey started that they were going headlines in the Daily Mirror 1970's urban folk music. Not to play their music for themsel­ the next day) the Pistols were folk as in three pullovers sing­ ves and th e ir frie n d s . To resu r­ ditched by E.M.I., their record ing about the Wild Rover, but rec t that intim ate bond between company, sh o rtly afte rw ard s. folk in the sense of music with audience and performer that sup­ They didn’t last long with their a human scale - a people's music e rs ta rs lik e Rod Stewart and Mi­ second record company, A&M e ith ­ strongly rooted in social reali­ ck Jagger had given up fo r h o li­ er, Established artists like t ie s . < days in the sun. Rick Wakeman kicked up a fuss The rock business is a very p ' We want to see more groups about the band, and the fa c e le ­ pow erful machine. So i f you want like us,' John said in the early ss men at the top o f the organiz to take it on for your own ends days of the group. And his wish -a t io n ( who are more concerned without it gobbling you up you came true. The Sex P is t o ls smas­ with money than music ) withdrew have to throw a spanner in the hed through the music business their contract. ( There were works every chance that you get. like a division of Panzers thro­ reports of the Pistols paying Johnny Rotten had no intentio ugh a troop o f obso lete ca v alry . a v i s i t to the A&M o f f ic e s and -n of getting gobbled up. He And through the gap came pour­ indulging in their favorite sp­ proved himself a man of princip­ ing the hordes - the Damned, the ort, destruction,” but even if le by his action. He has sacri­ C lash , the Buzzcocks, the Boomt— that really happened, what else ficed himself in order that the own Rats, the Adverts, Elvis did A&M expect from a band whose music w ill survive. C o s te llo and countless oth ers. first single ended with the wor­ A l l dedicated to r o c k 'n 'r o l l , ds, " I waana be/ Anarchist/ Get The Sex P is t o ls may be no all dedicated to music that is pissed/ Destroy," Did they think more but that a i n 't the end o f li v e , e x c it in g and fre s h . the Pistols were kidding?) punk rock — oh no! Like Obi And why is this music so fre­ U n fortu n ately that i s the a t­ Van Kenobi in S ta r Wars, the sh, so vibrant? Simple, Because titude that the gutter press force w ill be even stronger o f the raw m aterial used in i t s has taken from the start. The by their self inflicted demise. construction. The people who cr­ Everyone loves sensation. You "We can be Heroes." eated this music were living on don't have to think about sensa­ Donald Robertson

ROADRUNNER L a r c h / A p r il P age 6 ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 7 -(personality)-

“Ricky Nelson and

Our patience was beginning to wear a bit thin. We had been told to be at the Hotel Austra­ l i a at 2.00 p.m. for an inter­ view with Gary McDonald, alias Norman Gunston, but the android receptionist was saying that Garry was s t i l l in Melbourne with Molly Meldrum, the roadies said that yes, he was h ere, he had just finished rehearsing with his band but no, they did- n 1t know h is room number and the c lean in g la d ie s knew the number but they w eren 't t e lli n g . The guys from 5KA and -the News didn't seem too concerned as they lounged around the foyer so I s a id , what the h e l l , w e 'l l w ait here w ith them. And as we were getting into tales of prima donna pop stars ( well now take Van Morrison, there's a tempera­ mental guy for you...) in strode Gary McDonald carrying a tuna sandwich and a carton o f orange ju ic e . " Oh, h i , " he s a id , a l i t t l e nonplussed by the seven pairs of eyes focused on him. " Ah yes, the interviews. Well where shall we do them? Here? My room?" " How about your room," said the man from 5KA. " Righto th en ," and we a l l piled into the lift and up to the 6th f lo o r . The room was the same as a m illio n other motel rooms except for the magnificence of the view " Horrible wallpaper isn't it?" said Gary. Vile, we all agreed. The man from 5KA was f i r s t o f f the mark a f t e r we a l l s e ttle d down, Gary on the bed, the guys from the News standing around lo okin g awkward and us a l l s i t t ­ ing on the floor, "I wonder if you could do a few spots for the show tomorrow night ( the 5KA Music To The World Concert.) " Yeah, sure." " Well what can I tell you about it? There's John Vincent, Pics by Steve Hardacre, Ken Noake and his Ocker Orchest­ r a , LRB, Cheetah, Dick C lapto n -" " Dick Clapton?" ( laughter) " Can you do something with that?" Gary pauses for a moment, co­ l l e c t s h is thoughts and ! hey p r e s t o jlt s Norman Gunston ta lk ­ 1 lik e d the idea o f doing a number where you ing out of the radio at you­ spat at the audience and dropped your daks.... " Ricky Nelson and the fa n - dooley Hi swingers, this is Norman Gunston reminding you th­ at tomorrow night I'm going to I usually do 'Liza With a Z' in my cabaret be at the Australian Music to act. Cabaret act, sounds great doesn't it? the World concert ( shows how powerful the PA is, eh? - I've

ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 8 the fandooleyc...”

got some friends in Sweden wh " Angus Young from AC/DC." _ " Why? Too many people gettin are gunna be listening to it- " Yeah. Punk never r e a lly upset?" I don't want to drop any names took off here, thank goodness. " Yeah. I used to say in my but I bet you can guess who they It's only the trendies that have cabaret act, are there any Elvis are!) Yeah, its going to be a picked it up, A lot of queens fans in the audience? Pretty up- • really far out concert, I'm going lik e punk rock. They seem to setting isn't it? Not knowing if to be performing and Kunoath and like that aggressive, macho there's Brylcreem after death. the Ockr Orchestra - that's one stance, I do n 't lik e punk ro c k ." That really,.woof ( shakes head) of the reasons to come late - What are your tastes in music I dropped that because i t was a and a ls o Cheetah, a fabulous " I've got really MOR tastes. bit heavy, I don't have any ido­ s in g in g duo from Melbourne - I like Steely Dan, though I woul ls you see. I just used to sing a couple of young ladies with -dn't call them MOR. I don't li­ the song after that. Then at one big things in front of them I ke rock much ( a slight tinge of club someone c a lle d o u t ," Aw, p r e d ic t, and a ls o LRB, L i t t le sadness in h is voice ) I must be give it a rest mate," And I tho­ River Band, Sounds pretty good getting old, I listen to Weather ught, yeah I think I w ill." eh? Tickets at the door. Hurry Report, a bit of Chick Corea, " How did you feel when Elv­ though, only 15,000 l e f t ! " Michael Franks. I like that rea­ i s died?" " Yeah great, do you think lly laid back sound," " W ell I was never an E lv is you could do another one without As the guys from the News fan . What upset me was thin kin g the 15,000 left though?" pack up and start to leave, Gary about the sort of life he'd led. Poor b a s ta rd . Dying a t 42 and being found naked in the bath­ room hanging over the toilet." " What songs do you do on stage these days?" " A lo t o f new wave songs like 'Delilah' (laughter) Its about a guy who couldn't get a " Without the 15,000 left? expresses concern about his cam­ Job. T h a t's why he was w alking OK, ( pause ) Hi funky dudes, era which he had dropped at reh­ past her house. 'Salute to Abba' foxy chicks and spaced out pen­ earsal. He and Steve, our intre­ - you know, that single sold s io n e rs , , , " pid photographer, indulge in 35.000 copies and I didn't get I was amazed. Rather, I wou­ some fancy camera talk, spotted a penny. The company went bank­ ld have been if I hadn't been with references to split image rupt. Anyway, what else? Sherb­ laughing so hard, Gary proceeded viewfinders, central weighted et's 'Howzat', 'Jailhouse Rock', to reel off four radio spots in spot meters, 1.4 lenses and oth­ 'Send In The Clowns', 'Rio', and a row, each one funnier than the er mysterious terms. then'Punk'. 'Punk'sold really last. The man from 5KA went aw­ I show Gary a copy o f S tre et well here. No-one picked it up ay happy. Fever the punk fanzine Stuart in the eastern states. I only do Then i t was the turn o f the and I brought out la s t year. seven songs normally. I usually News. " Oh my god, a punk m agazine- do 'Liza with a Z' in my cabaret " Why did you leave the ABC?" how many o f you are camp?" act. Cabaret act, sounds great Mainly because they were tr­ Gary flicked through the mag doesn't it? No, in my club act ying to run my career, said Gary with interest. Who is Wreckless I do 70 minutes but I do a lo t They were trying to tell me that Eric? he asks. o f stand up ch ats. I c a n 't do I couldn't do any ads. '' I saw him in England last too much comedy in a concert Gary went on to talk about year," I say."He reminded me of situation. People aren't in the h is new con tract w ith Channel a cross between Norman and Joh­ r ig h t frame o f mind f o r i t . " 7 which is for four one hour nny Rotten," At that juncture we had to Norman Gunston s p e c ia ls over the " Good sin g e r i s he?" leave it as Gary had an appoint­ next ten months. The first of th " Yeah, very nervous on s t a ­ ment a t Channel7. We a l l l e f t the shows w i l l be on your sc re ­ ge. " with smiles that lasted for most ens sometime in e a r ly A p r il. The " AWWW ( sounds hurt ) New of the day, Gary McDonald may format is basically going to be wave d o esn 't appeal to me at a l l not be A u s t r a li a 's f i r s t punk the same as the old Gunston sho­ In theory I think it's fine. I rock superstar, but he is the ws, with a mixture of interviews just don't like the sound of it. best and funniest entertainer songs and sketches. There i s go­ " So the 'I Might Be A Punk, operating in Australia today. in g to be a "How To Get A Job" But I Love You Baby' s in g le was Ask anyone who went to the 5KA sketch and a spoof on the Rest­ just a send up?" Music To The World concert at less years called the Restful " Yeah." Memorial D riv e . Somebody ought Years about pensioners unable to " Whowas in the backing band? to bring Barry Humphries back get work as babysitters. It sounds like Ross Wilson was from wherever he's hanging out What got you in te re s te d in th e re ." these days and set up a 'B a t t le punk rock? asked the man from " Yeah you can hear him. He O f The Champions' T .V . S p e c ia l the News. was sayin g to Ross Hannaford- featuring Australia's two great " W ell I was read in g a lo t Sing louder you can hear my voic a lt e r -e g o s , Norman Gunston and about it and it sounded pretty -e too well. Ross Hannaford pla­ Dame Edna Everage, That would boring. I liked the idea of doin yed guitar on ' Love Me Tender'- be something to see! Are you - g a number where you spat at " That's a great song." listening Channel 7? " I had to drop i t from my the audience and dropped your Donald Robertson, Stuart daks, like, who's that guy..," a c t. " Coupe and A lex E h le rt.

ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 9 Mickey Finn

Mickey Finn have been attract­ were looking for a singer b i t hard to p igeon -h ole ing increasingly large audiences but we couldn't find one, our music. I suppose we just to their Thursday night resid­ so process of elimination try and create a bit of ency at the Tivoli Hotel, All and t h a t 's how I got the jo b , energy and make i t danceable. the band members have been p la y ­ R.R. Is it all original? That's pretty important if ing around Adelaide longer than U. Yeh we wrote 'em all you're doing the k d of they care to remember - with R.R. Do you do most o f the song- gigs we are doing, v a ry in g amounts o f success. wri ting? R.R. Seems to working, at the The bands line up is Mauri U. Mauri s t a rt s o f f w ith the Tiv especially, Berg (g u it a r ) J o f f Bateman (drums) g u it a r ideas and I add so - U. Well, they've been incred­ B i l l McMahon (b a s s ) and the c a lle d words and m elodies ible..., I 'de really like to legendary "Uncle" on harmonica to that. Then we get down in p la y the T iv to kOO people. and vocals. Mauri played in cellar and I put the harp Y'know play under sardine yesteryear Adelaide bands Head­ b i t s on top and J o f f plays conditions. If you get the band and F ra te rn ity , J o f f ju s t along. But it's Mauri”who firing, if everybody is a with Headband and "U ncle" with sardine then it sorta goes both. FLASH through the crowd. I f Musically the band combines you get 200 people you gotta raucaus country rock, with a pick each person up indiv- late sixties Hendrix/Cream feel, ually. If you get a mob it topped off with "Uncle's" vocals i s easy to spark them o f f . and stage movements lend in them­ R.R. What about the p o s s i b il it y selves to Captain Beefheart com­ o f g e ttin g a record out? parisons as he growls, crouches, U. Just that Alberts have said struggles and falls about on come up to Sydney and spend stage u tte rin g more sounds than some time in the studio and words. see how we work as a team. Roadrunner decided to find out Once we have a product may­ more about Mickey F i n n ...... be we can work out a contr­ R.R. How long has Mickey Finn act if everybody is happy- been on stage? which is brilliant!} We U. M/F. since December la s t , comes up w ith the r i f f , the couldn't ask for any more, R.R. How long were you together idea and that's how it R.R. Any intention of working before that? starts off. interstate or are you just U. We were together for at R.R. How would you d e sc rib e the going up to record? le a s t 18 months b e fo re that. band. You seem to be getting U. Well, we'de love to play all But for the first 6 months an older audience at the Tiv 'round the world - don't get to a year i t was more or You're the type of music me wrong but we'de like to less writing songs, mucking they remember from the e a rly get an L .P . down and get around and having a blow. seventies? a ir p la y b e fo re we go - then I was a relu c ta n t sin g e r. We U. I d o n 't know, I fin d i t a (Continued on page 22)

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ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ri1 r a g e 10 -( live vibes) DYLAN no more heroes?

" No more h eroes" sang the Stranglers on their last single- no more Lenin, T rotsky, S t a lin , Marx or Engels. To the 'punks' there are no more heroes — a dethroning of the Jaggers, Per­ rys, Framptons, Scaggs' Elton Johns and if you're going to be fair, the Bob Dylans of the ro­ ck world. Those figures who now play ten concerts a year and de­ mand from the loyal ever increa­ sing fees for their prescence on a distant stage for 60-90 minut­ es . But why the strange sight on the 19th of February, when even the punks arrived to queue 12 hours in order to get front row tickets for the forthcoming Dyl­ an v is it ? I mean here you have a rock star asking $ 12,50 a tick -et, playing an atrocious outdo­ or venue and no doubt perform ing a minimum of new material in the midst of his past hits ( some of which stretch back 15 y ears) most of which w ill be ground out the way that Presley used to gr­ ind out 'H eartbreak H o te l' and The B e a tle s , i f they were with us today, would probably sing ' I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' Why the exception for Dylan? the man who created a myth with­ Greil Marcuses description of The man who revolutionized rock out the aid of the media- hidden the on stage appearance sounds music in the sixties in that as effectively as Howard Hughes like a description of Status Quo. legendary marriage between God after his motorbike accident - "On stage they MOVED: Dylan and and the Devil, poetry and elec­ fleeting concert appearances - Robertson charged across the tricity, is hardly a world sha- Bangla Desh - Guthrie memorial - stage, playing head to head, tterer these days in terms of Chilean benefits - then total w hile Rick Danko rocked back and innovation - a N e il Diamond cum 197** tour exposure - surprise forth,..,to open their numbers, Sinatra for the less trendy un­ visits with the Rolling Thunder D ylan, Robbie, and Danko would der 30' s or even kO'a ( the 18 Review - even the president mus­ turn and face the drummer — he year olds who had their lives t sometimes stand naked - but would raise his sticks high, sud­ changed by 'B lo w in ' in the Wi­ what's Dylan really like when denly bring it down with a crash nd' would now be 35 years old he hops under the shower? - as the three guitarists leaped probably married/suburbanised is this self created God really into the air, kicking the song with the mandatory two kids who flesh and bones or is it bread off as they hit the ground." - w ill come along too.) blood and water? maybe i t a i n 't that e x c it in g The reasons fo r h is a t t r a c t ­ When he came to Australia in anymore - maybe n e 's ju s t a ion are hard to fathom, but like 1966 Dylan was a tired, torment­ boring old fart trying desperat­ the one in eight Americans who ed creature - ravaged by drugs e ly to r a is e some money to li v e applied for tickets for Dylan's and the pressu res o f tourin g - after Sarah's done a Britt Ek- 197** tour, a majority of Austra­ touring for audiences prone to land to him - and he probably lia n s w i l l go to the concerts as heckling, slow handclapping, deserves it a ll — whatever happens an event - not a concert, but a booing, and walking out as he he's coming - he probably won't gathering - a social occasion - staggered out to begin the come again and the experience of something like popular culture's second half of his concerts - bein g THERE - AT A BOB DYLAN answer to the first night at the that was the e le c t r i c h a lf - a CONCERT - is probably not worth Opera. betrayal - a sellout to the rock missing - even if you are scep­ Throughout a ll the years he's music world of the Beatles and t i c a l - and anyhow, what w i l l been a rocks tar Dylan has manage the Rolling Stones - wasn't your friends say if they go and -d to keep a sense of mystery - Dylan purer than that ? Craig you don't- it really isn't a good an aura o f unknowing surrounds McGregor described him in Aust­ thing for your social standing h is movements, h is m a te ria l, and ralia as being baby like - not to go - you might even get o most significant of all- his fath ered by the Band - treated on the Advertiser's social pages person and p e rs o n a lity . What with respect but ultimately - you know - Seen at the Bob does he look like? Why is he so fathered - playing on a revolving Dylan concert wearing a lovely,. influential? Is he really so stage in Sydney - breaking his ...yes I suppose it's all come small? I ju s t want to see him- guitar in Melbourne - playing down to that - it probably is to be there- to have experienced rock 'n' roll likenno-one had allover now baby blue. S tu art Coupe

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Leif Garrett probably wasn't Cause reruns in the borrowed T- born when 1 heard my first Bird)... But really, you couldn' Beach Boys song on Adelaide t hope to meet a n ic e r bunch ra d io . A frie n d o f mine says of kids anywhere in Marin County that he was s i t t i n g on a comb­ They were true to their school, ine harvester, 500 km inland, they kept clean by surfing eve­ when he heard h is f i r s t , and ry day, the girls told their wondered what they meant by parents the beach parties were "sea". Another friend says he Fun and the boys told their pa­ was li v i n g in a choked grey rents the beach parties were industrial city in northern Fun, and they B eliev ed in the England when he heard his first Dream. And why sh o u ld n 't they? and wondered what they meant JFK was still alive, he'd stop­ by surfing. Yet another swit­ ped the Cubans and Russkies ched the radio off thinking it h adn 't he ? The p ric e o f ic e ­ was an ad. fo r washing pow der., cream at Disneyland was as A l l o f which goes to show that stable as the price of gas, tracing back the roots of your the lo ng summer evenings seemed very own Beach Boys Experience to stay tw ilig h t fo re v e r, and can be an o n t o lo g ic a lly p re tty as Herbie Marcuse used to tell far out experience. 1962, and h is band, Then the r e a l was where were you? rational and the system delivere Just before I begin by div­ ed the goods. Which i t d o esn 't iding this article into two any more. parts - i.e. the sociological So just as a socio-cultural and d iv in e aspects o f the relic, the Beach Boys music is music of this heliophiliac pretty with-it stuff. And if quintet, I ’d just like to you too were a blond, blue­ point out to Donald and Stuart eyed, tanned, surfing, middle- that I do want a copy o f '20 class Australian in the sixties Golden Greats' for writing this then y o u 'l l know what I mean Because you see, a l l you when I say they were white soul, dearest patrons of the true they were talking to us, they rock journalism genre - I love knew what hangin' fiv e was and surf music, and always have. how i t f e l t to get dumped and I knew about the Winos and the feeling of a great V8 coupe 'Savage Surf even before it the windows down and the smell was played on R o c tu m a l. And of hamburger blowin' in as you I had a copy of the Sunrays' cruise the strip checkin' things ' I L iv e For The Sun' in low er out. (Actually my Mum only had high school. I used to sing, an A-40 and I d id n 't get to dr­ "I live for the sun ive it till 1969f which was a be-e e -ca u se i t means fu-u n" b i t sm all and a b i t la t e but I actually had Beach Boys Isn’t it time you got singles as well because, you see, I went to a college - a lb e i t a c a th o lic one - and M s , National Mutual The Savings Bank thus qualified for a place in the middle class - albeit the Advantage lower part. So it's not surpri­ sing that their music appealed to me, being middle class rock. When the Stones were still spi­ ttin g and the B eatles hadn 't been fitted out in Beatle jack­ ets, the Beach Boys were already the damdest nicest bunch of kids any parent could meet. Oh sure, so they drove Daddy's T- I am proud to have the members of Bird at 95 on the drag at mid­ one o f A d e la id e 's most p ro gressiv e night, and they disappeared all summer from their own beach to rock bands as my clients go on a s u r fin ' s a f a r i a l l about the States ( well probably to the next beach 5 miles down the coast and used to r in g Mom and Pop every afternoon as they fin­ Savings and Cheque Account*. ROGER E. WELSH 277 4400 Bankcard. Deposit Stin k. ished work at the gas station Christmas Club. Travel Services, n / so's they could take Patty to Personal l.uans. Home Loans, Supertellers the drive-in to see Gone With 1226 South Road, and the convenience of over 140 branches throughout South Australia. The Wind and Rebel Without A Clovelly Park S.A. Iw-1 ...... K' " » '•‘•'■1. * “ -Hktos

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nevertheless I Intuited the bit about cars in their early stuff) Their first record, 'Surfin', got to number ten in L.A. and after that it was all clear glass for the Boys. The white middle class youth of the world loved them even i f the others didn't have the faintest idea what they were singing about. And even for them the harmonies were n ic e . But there's also a divine aspect to the Beach Boys. They were sun worshippers and we all know sun worship has been popu­ lar everywhere but England for a long time. And even in England so we're told about Stonehenge the sun used to be stronger than it is today. In Egypt, of course, sun worship was the big thing for a lot of fashion cyc­ les. It's not a widely known fact that the Chosen People were actually held as slaves in Egypt for a very specific purpose. Recent archeological finds in the N ile d e lta have now been accredited as polystyrene kick boards, and with the help of common sense guesswork, scient­ ists have reconstucted some of the marvels of this ancient sun­ worshipping country. They now b e lie v e the Chosen People were lined up along one bank of the Nile and instructed to kick with their kickboards, thus creating vast waves that moved across the river. And we a l l know the r e a lly great waves that Moses and Je­ hovah finally made for them in the Red Sea. American middle class youths the West Coasters who were to become the H ip p ie s, were the inheritors of this tradition of sun and surf worship, and ADELAIDES NEWEST, FASTEST SHOWING in the mid 1960's they all lived for the sun. iMUSIC STORE INVITES YOU TO COME DOWN AND INSPECT OUR RANGE OF PRO I actuallt had some public­ ONLY GUITARS AND CUSTOM REPAIRS. ity material about the Beach Boys that Donald gave me. It was from C .B .S . and some H o lly ­ SPECIALISTS IN wood Public Relations Agency, OLD GUITARS and to ld me a l l about the W ilson NEWGUITARS boys and their relative and fri­ AMPLIFIERS end who comprised the group. CUSTOM REPAIRS (I also learned that the Captain PRIVATE TUITION suid Tenille and Glen Campbell were in the band at different s t a g e s !) WE THINK MUSICIANS HAVE BEEN WAITING But unfortunately I left the FOR A STORE LIKE OURS FOR AGES!1 handouts on top o f the washing COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF machine, and we must have lost them the other day when we wash­ C a ll at 69 Goodwood Rd W ayvllle ed our c lo th e s . So I c a n 't r e a l l or -y tell you anything about the 67 Leader St Goodwood Beach Boys. Larry Buttrose.

ROADRUNNER K a r c h / A p r il P age 13 The fo llo w in g is an In terview ce a f t e r the Radio Birdman con­ tions I'd better make it clear with Deniz Tek, the Guitarist cert at the llnley Town Hall - right now that I believe that in Radio Birdman, and Johnny the last time Birdman played in audiences are second in import­ Kannis, who toured with Birdman S.A. before going overseas. ance only to music in rock'n' and who i s s t a r t in g a new band I f you start wondering why r o l l and music i s something to in Sydney called Johnny and the there are so many questions be listened to, not talked H it Men. The in te rv ie w took p la ­ about audiences and their reac­ about.

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* i b Je M Joe by Pic TREVOR WHITE 6 THE MARCIA HINES BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO ROCK'N'ROLL TALENT QUEST LEGTRAP HOTEL, BIG BROADCAST '78 -CUTTER SISTERS BLAZES 1, OLD MARINER HOTEL CHRIS FINNEN TIVOLI HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL PETER DEAN t THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO ROSS WILSONS HONDO ROCK MARRYATVILLE HOTEL THE RAIDERS FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL THE H ABIT LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL S ID E WIND ST. LEONARDS INN FR ID A Y 17TH MARCH THURSDAY 2 3RD MARCH FEATHER ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM RHAPSODIES BRIGHTON HOTEL MOONLIGHT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TOMLIN ABBEY D ISC O , GAWLER MICKEY FINN TIVOLI HOTEL GAMBLE PETER JACKSON HOTEL THE FOUR REASONS LEGTRAP HOTEL SHAMROCK HIGHLANDER HOTEL PETER DEAN & THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO TREVOR WHITE 6 THE MARCIA HINES BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO TOTAL DISCO TILL DAMN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL THE ECHOES FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL SIDE WINDtR MARRYATVILLE HOTEL BEN POOR AKA HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL FRID AY 24TH MARCH ANDY UPTON 6 CRISIS RED HOUSE DISCO MOONLIGHT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM ROSS WILSONS HONDO ROCK MARRYATVILLE HOTEL T JET BRIGHTON HOTEL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA CREMORNE HOTEL PETER DEAN & THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO CLEAN CUT LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA CREMORNE HOTEL BIG BROADCAST '78 - GLITTER SISTERS BLAZES 1, OLDMARINER HOTEL SATURDAY 1BTH MARCH TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL FEATHER ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM ROCK'N'ROLL NIGHT LEGTRAP HOTEL, TRAPDOOR DISCO SATURDAY 25TH MARCH REVUE BAND BRIGHTON HOTEL MOONLIGHT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM STATIC PETER JACKSON HOTEL CARTER BROS. BAND BRIGHTON HOTEL THE ECHOES FIESTA VILLA_ FINDON HOTEL PETER DEAN & THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO TREVOR WHITE 6 THE MARCIA HINES BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO SKY MULTIPLICATION, FINDON HOTEL HARVEST HIGHLANDER HOTEL SPOTLIGHTS HIGHLANDER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL STATIC FIASHEZ, HOTEL AUSTRALIA TOMLIN FLASHEZ, HOTEL AUSTRALIA CHALICE POORAKA HOTEL THE RAIDERS POORAKA HOTEL BIG BROADCAST '78 - GLITTER SISTERS BLAZES 1, OLD MARINER HOTEL THE HABIT LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL ROSS WILSONS HONDO ROCK MARRYATVILLE HOTEL SIDE HINLtf! MARRYATVILLE HOTEL MORPHEUS BOATSHED DISCO

SUNDAY 26TH MARCH SUNDAY 19TH MARCH MOONLIGHT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM FEATHER ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM CHALICE ' 7 b M 1W RUGGERS DISCO _ FERRETTS RUGGERS DISCO SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA A LOCATE PUMP HOTEL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA ALOCATE PUMP HOTEL BIG BROADCAST '78 - GLITTER BLAZES 1, OLD MARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES, OLD MARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL ROSS WILSONS MONDO ROCK LARGS PIER HOTEL BEN FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL

TUESDAY 21ST MARCH

SIDE WINDER TIVOLI HOTEL MOONLIGHT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TUESDAY 28TH MARCH WEDNESDAY 22MARCH B IL L Y T TIVOLI HOTEL MOONLIGHT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM THE MANNING BAND ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM Ross Wilson’s Mondo Rock.

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THE MANNING BAND ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TEXAS ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM CHRIS FINNEN TIVOLI HOTEL CHRIS FINNEN TIVOLI HOTEL PETER DEAN & THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO MU SKAT FIESTA VILLA, FINDON MUSKAT FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTIE TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL B IL L Y T ST. LEONARDS INN THURSDAY 6TH APRIL THURSDAY 30TH MARCH TEXAS OLD LION HOTEL DISCO THE MANNING BAND ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM MICKEY FINN TIVOLI HOTEL MICKEY FINN TIVOLI HOTEL SKY • LEGTRAP HOTEL SWAIN LEGTRAP HOTEL MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO PETER DEAN & THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD ARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL B IL L Y T MARRYATVILLE HOTEL FRIDAY 7TH APRIL

ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM FRID AY 31ST MARCH TEXAS GEMINI BRIGHTON HOTEL THE MANNING BAND ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM CRISIS HIGHLANDER HOTEL RHAPSODIES BRIGHTON HOTEL MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO HARVEST HIGWANDER HOTEL SHAMROCK FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL THE RAIDERS POORAKA HOTEL PETER DEAN & THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL DELUX FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL MUSKAT POORAKA HOTEL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA CRFMORNE HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL SATURDAY 8TH APRIL BEN REDHOUSE DISCO B IL L Y T MARRYATVILLE HOTEL TEXAS ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA CRENORNE HOTEL SHANNON BRIGHTON HOTEL MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO SATURDAY 1ST APRIL SHAMROCK MULTIPLICATION, FINDON HOTEL FRESHWATER HIGHLANDER HOTEL THE MANNING BAND ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL MUSIC MACHINE BRIGHTON HOTEL PETER DEAN £ THE DEAN BROS. BAND OLD LION HOTEL DISCO SUNDAY 9TH APRIL SKY FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL THE RAIDERS HIGHLANDER HOTEL TEXAS ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL SOAPBOX ORCHETRA ALDGATE PUMP HOTEL BEN POORAKA HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL B IL L Y T MARRYATVILLE HOTEL TUESDAY 1 ITH APRIL SUNDAY 2ND APRIL DESERT RAT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM THE MANNING BAND ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA ALDGATE PUMP HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL B IL L Y T LARGS PIER HOTEL WEDNESDAY 12TH A P R IL

DESERT RAT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM CHRIS FINNEN LEGTRAP HOTEL MAGNACATA TUESDAY 4TH APRIL OLD LION HOTEL DISCO PATERSON BAND FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL TEXAS ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM I TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL

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DESERT RAT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM ROSE TATTOO ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM MICKEY FINN TIVOLI HOTEL CHRIS FINNBN TIVOLI HOTEL DALLAS LEGTRAP HOTEL MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO PATERSON BAND FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL

FRIDAY 14TH APRIL THURSDAY 20TH APRIL

DESERT RAT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM ROSE TATTOO ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM RHAPSODIES BRIGHTON HOTEL MICKEY FINN TIVOLI HOTEL SHAMROCK HIGHLANDER HOTEL SHAMROCK LEGTRAP HOTEL MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEI. DISCO PATERSON BAND FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL DEAN BROS. BAND POORAKA HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL FRIDAY 21ST APRIL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA CREMORE HOTEL ROSE TATTOO ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TRISONICS BRIGHTON HOTEL SATURDAY 15TH APRIL GAMBLE HIGHLANDER HOTEL DESERT RAT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO OBSESSION BRIGHTON HOTEL PATERSON BAND FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO BEN REDHOUSE DISCO PATERSON BAND FIESTA VILLA, FINDON HOTEL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA CREMORNE HOTEL TANGENT HIGHLANDER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2. OLD MARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL DEAN BROS. POORAKA HOTEL SATURDAY 22ND APRIL

ROSE TATTOO ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM SUNDAY 16TH APRIL CARTER BROS. BAND BRIGHTONHOTEL DESERT RAT ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM MAGNACATA OLD LION HOTEL DISCO SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA ALDGATE PUMP HOTEL SHORT CIRCUT HIGHLANDER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL TOTAL DISCO TILL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLDMARINER HOTEL

SUNDAY 23RD APRIL

ROSE TATTOO ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TUESDAY 18TH APRIL SOAPBOX ORCHESTRA ALDGATE PUMP HOTEL ROSE TATTOO ARKABA HOTEL, TOP ROOM TOTAL DISCO TfLL DAWN BLAZES 2, OLD MARINER HOTEL

ROADRUNNER GIG GUIDE PAGE D Talks

Deniz: You've gotta ask the ing around and raising their think its cool. questions - come on, arms and shouting " yay hup". Q: So that's trendy too. Q. OK. T e ll me what audiences Yay hup has got nothing to do D&J: Yeah, you like, what people you get with fascism - it came out of J: They wouldn't dress like that in Sydney and how they compare a R. Crumb comic. And its fun i f they d id n 't see i t in a magaz with here. to chant - i t makes them f e e l -in e s . D| In Sydney it's turned into a like a big tribe. D: Its just a fashion. trend. A lot of people go there Q: Maybe t h a t 's what people ob­ Q: You don't like it? not for the music but because ject to ? That sort of,., 'mass D: It's not to do with the music its hip... We hate 'em. consciousness'. Like crowds tur­ - not our music anyway. But if Q: Why? ning in to mobs. they want to do i t , then i t ' s D: Because they're not putting D: Yeah. I think some people up to them, I d o n 't o b je c t to anything into it. They are just get scared by it but its... it but... there's no real rea­ energy parasites. Nothing bad has come out of it. son for us to be identified with Johnny: A ft e r an encore they The only tbad thing that's come the punks other than the fact yell out because all their frie­ out of it is some people calling that we play fast. nds yell out - its cool. us fascist. I thought about i t once, and Q: How do you feel about reque­ Q: Do you get that sortvof reac­ I realised that 'punk' started sts? tion everywhere? off as a term used by Journalist D: We never do them. The sets D: One time a g i r l tore down -s to describe garage bands of are carefully programmed and our flag and ripped it up... the m id -s ix t ie s who had one h it we can't accomodate requests. at a g ig . then disappeared. That's what The audiences we like most are Q: Why? punk rock w a s ... And then, a the ones who come to have fun. D: W ell... because she thought couple of years ago it came to Q: The people who dance and get i t was f a s c is t and she reacted be a sso c ia te d with new young right into it? emotionally against it. Red bands who played fast, energetic D: Yeah - the ones that have Symons said we were Nazis in a music with a lot of enthusiasm fun in anyway they like to newspaper in Melbourne. Y'know but without necessarily having have fun and not ju s t show up that's groundsfor a libel suit technical proficiency - and from as part of a scene. cause none o f are N azis and none there i t became a fa sh io n . Qi How do you t e l l them apart? of us have ever been Nazis - or Now t h e r e 's ripped up T -s h ir t D: You can tell. We like hostile communists. -s on sale in Paris for about audiences too. Q: Just for the record, are you ^600, People in the upper ech­ Qj Because they make you work democrats - are you into democr­ elons of society in Manhattan harder? acy? have punk parties where they D: They make you work harder, D: We're not into politics much show Sex P is t o ls movies and pass they make you extend yourself at all, as a band. I could tell out safety pins, razor blades - they make you do things you you about my politics personally and chains at the door as guests couldn't do otherwise. It also but it wouldn't be relevant. come in. That's all it is now helps band spirit to have enem­ Q: No, it wouldn't. - a fashion. ie s . D: The band is not a political Q: Do you think you're going to Q: How? u n it, get fucked up by that? D: Well it brings the band to­ Q: Have your audiences changed D: No, cos we're not identified gether. If everyone loves the much since you used to play the with anything. band all the time its bad for Oxford Club ( in Sydney.) Q: But you are identified with the band. D: Only in that there are more the punk/new wave movement in Qt What about the people who people coming, because now its some people's eyes. say you are fascists - because a scene and i t s become fash io n ­ D: Yeah, but we'll keep doing of your song 'New Race.' able to like us, things - you see we're not guid­ D: I don't understand that be­ Q: Is that true of Adelaide? ed by that, we're guided by our cause,, . The lyrics of that song D: I c a n 't t e l l y e t. I Dunno. own internal guidance system have got nothing about fascism Last night (at the Unley Town and so w e 'l l n a t u r a lly d iverge in them. W e're not in to any kind H a ll) i t seemed p re tty good. again . P u n k 'll get more and more of socialism, National or other­ People seemed there to have fun overdone and p e o p l e 'l l get more w ise. - no scene. They seemed to be and more sick o f i t , but hope­ Q: And the "yay hup" chant? discerning in that they respon­ fully they won't get sick of us D: What's that got to do with ded more at the app ro p riate t i ­ because w e 'l l always be on the fascism? mes. Like i f we played a song path that we're on. Our decision Q: I don't know. But some people particularly well we got more -s aren't based on the latest seem to think that when the kids response, which doesn't always punk happenings. When that goes go "yay hup" and r a is e th e ir apply. down it doesn't mean it takes arms t h a t 's f a s c is t . Q: What about the punk fo llo w ­ us with it. D: But they usually raise clench ing you've attracted here? Q: You might lose some of your -e d f i s t s - t h a t 's a communist D: Who? audience, s a lu te , Q: The k id s who've been coming D: Only the ones we want to lose J: It just goes with the ya-a- along wearing Sex Pistols badg­ anyway. In fact sometimes it ay hup - i t s something cool to es and s t u f f . l i k e that, makes you want to do rea c tio n a ry do. J: They dress up like that cos things in order to speed up the D: I t makes them f e e l lik e they they see the P is t o ls and the process — to do things which are part of it if they can par­ Damned in magazines and on T.V. those people wouldn't like. t ic ip a te by screaming and jump­ T h a t's why they do i t - they (continued on page 22 )

ROADRUNNER M a r c h / A p r il P age 15 (platter patter)

Talking Heads: 77 es too much to handle product of a matured Grand Piano, Farfisa ( Phonogram ) on 'Psycho K i lle r * - Blondie. Gone is the Organ, Polymoog synth­ This album is an ex­ " I can't seem to fa­ thin production and e s is e r and s t rin g s , ample of just how vari­ ce up to the facts/I'm lacklustre performance Roland Synthesiser and ed the music being lab­ tense and nervous and that blotted the first sings backing vocals elled 'new wave' is. I I can't relax/I can't album. Instead there's is fantastic, really mean putting this in sleep 'cause my bed's a powerful album, strong fillin g out the sound the same category as vocally and musically, and creating a solid, the Sex Pistols is the on fire/Don't touch me produced with a sound swirling background for same as putting Mai I'm a real live wire," much closer to the feel Ms. Harry's distinctive Fraser in the same cat­ This album is the wo of Blondie in the flesh. vocals. I don't want to egory as Fidel Castro. -r k o f a man whose rage It's now possible to see say too much about this Musically this rec­ and frustration is imp- why Richard Gottehrer album. It's just great. ord i s as fre s h and in ­ isoned behind the bars has such a reputation A million times better novative as the first and r e s t r a in t s o f a co­ as a producer and i s in than what wasn't such a Roxy Music album. There mfortable upbringing an such demand by New York bad first effort. is that sense of freed­ —d a college education. 'punk' bands. In the space between the om, of space as the ba­ On 'Don't worry about The sound on P la s t ic two Blondie has matured nd veer off on melodic the Government' he is L e tte rs thunders and much more than a hyped tangents and tempo cha­ try in g to convince him­ roars as the band does Dridgett Bardot with a nges. The taut earnest­ self of the worth of and did at their Adelaide rock band affair to a ness of the music is society's institutions, concert. The h a lfw it s complete rock 'n' roll * mirrored in the singing and when he s a y s , "Do­ from the A d v e rtis e r and band with a solid, exc­ and lyrics of David By­ n 't you worry about me" News that canned the iting, and most of all, rne who walks the thin you feel his uncertain­ A delaide concert must uplifting sound. And line between edginess ty brimming over. have been listening what about the cover??? and c o n tro l. The New York tension outside or mislaid their W ill Denison. Love or confusion is is there on every track complimentary tickets the theme running thro­ controlled, directed ta­ and stayed home tp ugh a lot of the songs ut never tamed. This is watch Number 96. OK, Ian Dury: New Boots and especially on ' Tenta­ an addictive album.i so the Apollo Stadium Pantiesll (Stiff) tive Decisions' - Even i f i t sounds odd is a shitty place for a "Decide, decide, I the first time you hear concert, especially This has to be one told you what to say/ it I guarantee that afta- half full but Blondie of the all time bizarre Confuse, confuse, des­ a few playings it will turned on a great rock and b r i l l i a n t records. cribe what I found" get Inside your head 'n' roll show, playing Although i t has London and on the opening tra­ and it won't leave you a l l tracks from the dripping from every gr­ ck, 'Uh-Oh, Love Comes alon e. You have been album. oove, by writing from to Town' - warned. The m a te ria l and s ty le his Direct personal ex­ "Jet pilot gone out Clever Trevor. is similar to the first perience Dury has mana­ of control/ship captain album but all the inst­ ged to create a set of run aground/Stockbroker ruments have much more individual characters make a bad investment/ Blondie: Plastic Letters prominence. Chris Stein ( B i ll e r i c a y D ick ie, when love has come to ( Chrysalis ) turns out some great Clever Trevor, Plaist- town." so lo s and James D e stri ow Patricia) who embo- The confusion becom­ Plastic Letters is the who apparently plays dy something of the

ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 16 {platter patter)

universal. If you lis­ mming pool." Dury's don't mean stoopid but Presley cut Mystery Tr­ ten hard enough there humanity never fails. you define it or don't ain on a Sun 78" (b e fo ­ is something of you He never becomes trite d e fin e i t / do what you re I was b o m ). ' Anot­ in all his songs. and there is never a du like with it/ its yours. her person' would be And what an amazing -11 moment. Give th is "The plan" is about a exaggerating - slightly v a r ie t y o f to p ics he one a close listen. The g u y 's scheme to r a is e a - but 'someone' would tackles! Apart from the experience w ill be rew­ child by himself with­ be closer to the mark. character studies there ard in g . out the interference of Jesus of Cool ( isn't is a raging requiem to Donald Robertson, the outside world. The he ) i s the f i r s t r e l e ­ •Sweet Gene V in c e n t', theme of alienated ase on Radar Records a saxy entreaty to 'Wa­ romanticism is carried the label that has gro­ ke up and make lo v e 1, Richard H e ll and the over into "Another wn out of Stiff'Records. - "You come awake/ln a Voidoids: Blank Gener­ World',' ( I could liv e Lowe l e f t S t i f f la t e horny morning mood."- ation ( Phonogram ) with you in another world last year and took the a deeply moving and /Not this one) And if real Elvis with him. quietly respectful song Love comes in spurts. you were living in New (N.B. The second Elvis about his father, Oh it hurts. Richard York wouldn't you want album,'Mod of the Year' " My old man was f a ­ Hell comes in spurts on to live in another world. is expected in import i r l y ' ansome/ *E smoked this his first released Come to think of it , if shops s o o n ,) As Lowe too many cigs/Lived in album in Australia. This you live live anywhere was S t i f f ' s resid en t one room in V ic to ria / band exude barely cont­ it'd still be a great producer, w ith 'My Aim *E was tid y in ' i s d i ­ rolled nervous excit­ idea. Its about control I s T r u e ', Graham P ar­ g s ." and not fo r g e t t in g ement "New p le a s u re " - of your life and how much ker and the Rumour the Hymn to the Holy strong Velvets influence. of that have any of us the Damned album T r in it y o f the modern "Betrayal" is slower, got?? and a whole host o f w orld, 'Sex and Drugs the control is there Festering Mick Malicious brilliant singles to and R o c k 'n 'R o ll ( i s but the wired up paran­ his credit, it would a l l my b ra in and body oia is deep in Hell's be fairly accurate to n e e d )' . voice and in the frac- . Nick Lowe: Jesus o f Cool say that S tiff have be­ This is a stunningl tured guitar. This is ( Radar Records - U.K. en rendered limp by his -y original record. It a New York record, import ) d e p a rtu re . leaves no emotion unto- "Down at the Rock and It would be giving ched. From the earthy Roll club", . .Where love When I first heard Spector and Wilson the­ humour o f B i ll e r i c a y ricochets off the walls th is reco rd, i t was p la ir dues ( at last ) to Dickie chronicling his and the crowd are g e tt­ -y in g three rooms away. compare them with Lowe sexual conquests to ing excited and the boys The second time I was Like both he has the ca the raging anger of 'Bl­ are looking hungrily actually in the room but -pacity for constructi­ ackmail Man' to the te - at the girls with only five minutes ng the 'hit' single - deraess of 'Wake Up..' Blank Generation has to write this review. con cise, catchy and ooh and 'My old man' to rightly been called the Someone in Moderalove so memorable. the street gang defia­ anthem o f the new wave Songs called it the re­ Ah yes, the record. A nce of 'Blockheads' - in the same way that cord of the decade ( 70s few brief observations, "How would you lik e one "My G eneration" was I hope). Maybe another b e a rin g in mind that th of them puffing and bl­ the anthem o f the mods person w ill say, " This -is is an objectively owing in your earole/ in England in the Mid­ is the greatest record viewed brilliant album, Or pissing in your swi­ s i x t i e s . By blank H e ll released since Elvis (continued on page 23)

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ROADRUNNER M a rc h / \ p r i l Page 18 vocals on the raucous 'Marie Provost' ( also • Don't Go Home With on the 'Bowi' E.P. - Your Hard - On' , and Lowe figured if Bowie supposedly Ginsberg is could put out an album in there somewhere, st­ called 'Low', then he ill not having realised had right of reply ) that to become a compe­ is included here - a tent musician you have great, macabre song ab­ to do a l i t t l e more th­ out Marie P. who died an be a groupie for th­ in her f l a t ( alone and ose that are. friendless in Hollywood Musically the album ru­ - sob ) without leaving ns through country rock, enough food for her do­ singalongs, melodramatic ggies. Of course the extravaganzas, and spar­ l i t t l e m ites had to eat se, almost Pink Floyd- and you can guess the like sounds. Spector's r e s t . " She was a winn- hand is evident throug­ er/That became a doggi­ hout. What he has in es dinner/she never me­ fact done is turned the ant that much to me/ album into a Phil Spec- Poor Marie." to r album - the emphas­ 'Shake and Pop' is is having been taken fr­ about the pop process, om Cohen's ly r ic s and h it records and the ma­ voice and Cohen's pres­ k in g o f pop s t a r s . The ence becomes merely a whole album is really vehicle for Spector's exciting, varied rock' production. n'roll with Lowe util­ request to me and is Crosby and Nashs Live Cohen's lyrical concerns ising his multitudino­ financing my cosmic (ABC R ecords.) haven't changed, altho' us in flu e n c es and con­ travel with the big they do seem a l i t t l e cerns and ends with a airlines - lovely boys. YAWN, yawn, yawn. Yet more a c c e s s ib le than rousing, thundering Since th is record was another Crosby, Stills, usual. Spector gets co­ live version of 'Heart concieved mine Nash and Young mutation writing credit on some of the City' - " Look­ disciples, boss or permutation or what­ songs so maybe h e 's tea­ ing for a heart/in the Hanaford and Joe ever you call it. Crosby ching Cohen the a rt o f heart of the city." - Creighton have decided and Nash together fo r popular song writing. and what e ls e is rock they make sw eeter rmisic another album of boring, In fact the lyrics are 'n'roll all about? As with me and have left repeats of past hits live some o f the best Cohen was said about Coste­ the band - no worries - The Frank S in a tra s o f has ever w ritte n and the others are real trite, tedious country l l o - BUYITBUYTTBUYIT it's unfortunate that BUYITBUYITBUYITBUYITB spaced out musos. rock, llow long are they they are lost and blur­ There's also lots of going to dish up new Stuart Coupe. red by the grandiose distinctive white mans versions of the likes of production. reggae that we feel so Immigration Man, Lee Maybe Cohen sums up the Billy T.: No Definitions strongly about, having Shore, I used to be A rather disappointing (C.B.S.) such great cosmic king, Dej a vu, etc. effect of this album in Reviewed by Mabaraj Ji empathy with our Crosby at least is cap­ the last verse of the broth ers and s is t e r s a b le o f much much more title track: getting their beautiful if his years old solo This is a pretty divine "So the great affair heads pulverised in album is any indication. record, with a lot of is over/but who would Jamaica. Oh how we feel Nash blew his chances groovy karma contained have guessed/it would when he left the Hollies. in its many sacred for their plight. leave us so vacant/and Reviewed — S tu art Coupe grooves. These followers And those lyrics my so deeply unimpressed/ iend. Billy T have o f mine and my fa it h It's like our visit to successfully assimilat­ have obviously been the moon/Or to that oth­ ed a l l those post - abso rbin g some o f the er star/l guess you go Woodstock peace, love Leonard Cohens Death o f consciousness o f mine for nothing/lf you rea­ a Ladies Man. (WEA) m-eat friend Carlos and happiness l l y want to go that fa r " sentiments so lacking Santana. In fact, on Or as some wit remarked, in all this rock music Leonard Cohen's sixth a tracks like 'T \m What "It sounds like the Ron- today. I conclude by album brings together You \re' the cosmos's ettes singing at a fun­ reinforcing the groovin four of the most promi­ appear to have divinly e r a l . " A curious album ess o f th is record and coincided and zoowee nent sixties cult figu­ that leaves me a little we have Santana done thank CBS for getting res, Phil Spector, Bob cold and deeply unimp­ their heads together so Dylan, Allan Ginsberg Australian style, ressed . t'his album contains T could feel the vibes and Cohen h im s elf. Sp­ W ill Denison. Billy T's sort of big of an advance copy - ector produced the al­ single ' Baby T Need thank you a l l . bum and i t has h is d is - t i n c t i v e touch. Bob Your Lovin'' which is Translated from the Dylan sings back-up the band members d ivin e ori

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lo okin g tough and is so clo se to punk i t SPORTS menacing. Ed Bates, SKYHOOKS doesn't matter, plus resplendant in purple a bag of new material TIVOLI HOTEL shirt playing some TIVOLI HOTEL from their forthcoming 1st MARCH really neat licks,etc. 21st FEB album, 'Guilty Until What I'm try in g to say Proven Insane' that is that the whole band sounded real gutsy. Sh- First impressions were was hot and f i r i n g rig h t Skyhooks blasted into irl reckons that the th a tja s Bozz was the from the start. They did The T i v o li la s t week a­ album could be the sh­ Buzz that was where In Trouble With The G ir l nd proved they a still ot in the arm that the everyone was. The place Girls, Cruisin' In A a force to be reckoned Ozrockscene needs. He was q u ie te r than a morgue C itro n ,e tc from the w ith . The band looked may well be right. In on a slow night. Some Debutantes album, some happy on stage, with any case the crowd lo­ Neil Young sound alike Flamin' Groovies stuff, Greg Macainsh and Fred­ ved i t and there was on f i r s t and then...... a couple of Graham die Strauks sharing the pogoing in the aisles SPORTS. Straight into Parkers - great version limelight with Shirley and bedlam in the b a l­ a speedy rock 'n' roll of White Honey, oops , and the whole band swa­ cony as 'Carlton,' 'E­ number. They look real that's it. They finish­ pping jokes between so­ go', 'Wild in the Str- good and e x c itin g . ed with Gloria. A great ngs. ets' and 'Brown Sugar' Steve Cummings th ru stin g night, A great band. The ' hooks previewed totalled the Tiv. Morel himself around like a their new single, 'Wom­ S tu art Coupe Donald Robertson demented hood, and en in Uniform', which

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schooled in the sixties a venom that sometimes show. Demented-gorilla e ra and remebers i t belies his love of style he races about the fo n dly . Jackson Browne and the stage with his Telecast­ Onstage Richard Clapt­ rest of the west-coast er, microphone and singt- on has fun. There are crew, and shows that a e r Diane McLennan in some contradictions good deal of Bowery has tow. Once o r twice he ■ h e r e ,, , rubbed off from his ends up in a heap on the In the past Clapton recent t r ip to New York. f lo o r , but m ostly he remained a part of the The point is here he is makes i t to the micro­ "thoughtful singer-song singing songs involved phone to get out the w rit e r"e t h o s . The con­ w ith the past and p ic ­ required words. Mostly trived "Prussian Blue" turing the Australia we too, the audience dances was a part of this, as know of the last fifteen On this night we even were some fine songs years while his music had a few punks trying like "Strange Days in is growing stronger, to pogo. That's ridicu­ Chippendale" People moving along with curr­ lous; Clapton ’ 8 music still call for him to do ent in flu e n c e s , and is stranger and louder these songs; they don't making money today. but i t a i n 't new wave. r e a lis e that he has There must be something With Clapton on one moved past them, Clapton in this nostalgia! But side we have Dianne smiles and says "times i t ' s more than ju s t McLennan on the oth er. RICHARD CLAPTON change, anyway this th at. For better or for worse band d o e s n 't know any In live performance she became a perform er. BAND of those songs," Clapton is real disproof She now stage manages The new songs, "Deep her pouts and sm iles to MARRYATViLLE Water", "Down in the of the claim made in the crowd perfectly. HOTEL lucky Country" and "Goodbye Tiger" - "the Males respond in a Knee— "Goodbye Tiger" espec­ bands don't seem to play J erk s tyle - "she•s a 17th FEB ially, are the centre­ •round here no more" spunkJ" - Dianne loves piece of his live Good times live on I'm i t a l l . "The kids all retired performance. They a ll afraid, and the sixties Ray Dyett, at the shows when they reach twen­ look back into the past weren't so surprising e n d ,c a lls them number ty-one, and they a l l look to after all. There are one band in the country, But. that really ain't Australia - rock 'n' plenty of kids and plenty ju s t lik e he does w ith my idea of fun,.," roll bands, dancing of bands doing the same most oth er bands he - Deep Water with "Sweet Christiney thing Richard laments brings in. Nevertheless Richard Clapton is over beaches, brown-skinned about. One band these they are good popular 21, In fact I'd say he's girls, horse races, the kids can see is the fun and danceable. been pushing the old old, good times. When Richard Clapton Band. Theyr'e really just kids fart stakes for some he p lay s these songs Clapton professes that who didn't retire at 2 1 . years now. He i s w e ll- li v e he does so with he's out to give a good Mark Burford ~ ' - - - ' - ■ ■ GINGAMEGGS PRESENTS THE TIVOLI EVERY THURSDAY MICKEY FINN

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ROADRUNNER M a rc h / A p ril P age 21 ROCTURNAL (continued iihereas i f you've had uranium from page U) airplay you've got the gladwrap peels from ham rolls in City Square vision has offered in work guaranteed before they gather here by intuition to grasp together the rock music field you go. this strange feeling of Real History: since GTK. What we have R.R. How much longer do tell 3DB how Mum ( "she's dead now" ) hated him at last is the "alter­ you have at the Tivoli? but respect her memory, neglect to say she bought native Countdown" - and U. Veil as long as we every song in her la t e r l i f e - and h is it's great. All the ABC keep drawing the crowds has to do now i s b rin g we can have the venue.. cross to the studio it's "Jailhouse Rock" back the Roctumal FM Alex Ehlert and Stuart announcer seeking yet again the statement ra d io show and contina Coupe. as back Out There everyone clamours to tell ue the TV show perma­ how w e ll they knew him - ( Ever body in THIS n ently. whole c e llb lo c k i s dancin' to the Jailh o u se Rock ) Frank Carmody TEK TALKS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19) P e lv is The Pants The Lip The Grease The. (We made him do i t - ED) Wiat sort of things then white s a tin s h irt and cowboy trim would that be? fat caking the years in thick alabaster ripples Ds Well they pre-empt as the Fifties become a fascist curio - a your s t u f f so fa s t that premature nostalgia - rebels ripen to rednecks MICKEY FINN (continued it's difficult to do and the D.B.C. exposes the idol of song from page 10 ) stuff they don't like who c a n 't remember the words: it can be done quite these days, but... I Today The Herald announced Uranium for Fraser. sensibly. If you haven't suppose just not to pa­ And Elvis closed the door on a naive age. got an L .P ., then i t ' s tronise them in any way the la s t standard fare - discos, who Died b e fo re he got Old. trucks e tc . and the wh­ Heather Venn ole thing is in the red. brrY buttrose JOHN REYNOLDS MUSIC CITY for the best choice of musical instruments in town. We are distributors of all makes of drums ( such as Premier, Ludwig, Rogers Slingerland, Gretsch, Pearl, Tama etc. ) and a full range of percussion instruments. We also stock "Syn-drums" the latest innov­ ation in melodic percussion. In guitars and amplifiers we have such great names as Acoustic, Fender, Gibson, Kramer, Ovation, Ibanez, Eminar, Fade, Aria etc. In keyboards we stock such fine names as Yamaha, Fender, S o lin a e tc. the Sultan B rothers, Graham, Tea, R u s se ll Check a l l th is out at John Reynolds Music C o lin and G eo ff Skewes wish ROADRUNNER a l l C ity , 175-181 Waymouth S t . , A delaide. the very best for rock’n'roll in South Aussie, Ph. 51 3198 and 212 U827 PH. 267 1277 JOHN REYNOLDS HIRE Southern Artists BOOKING ONLY THE BEST IN LOCAL AND INTERSTATE SERVICE TALENT

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