Gigs – Tours & Media 1985 – 2015
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GIGS – TOURS & MEDIA 1985 – 2015 Complied by Mark Taylor 1 The Allniters, formed in Sydney in 1980, were one of Australia’s most popular touring live bands of the early 1980s. They are recognised as being the first Australian band to introduce ska music to the gig going public on a mass scale. Between 1981 and 1984, the Allniters released seven singles and one album several of which became hits on the national charts. The Allniters disbanded in January 1985 with some of the band reforming later in the year. This booklet includes all known gigs and media interviews for the period 1985 to 2015. This is a work in progress and will be updated as new items and information comes to hand. Mark can be contacted at [email protected] Updated: October 2014 2 1985 On The Street: July 27 1985 ESTABLISHED Ska/Reggae band have stopped regular work to break in new members. They are looking for guitarist. Trumpet/guitarist. Keyboard/backing vocals. Musicians interested contact Jason AH 977 4464. No time wasters. 1st auditions Sunday evening ‘Following the Allniters split, one of the splinter acts will be a group with Peter Travis, Brett Pattinson and Julie Conway with the Allniters’ guitarist Martin. Travis has spoken to Mentals Martin and Peter about giving them some of their songs not used by Mental As Anything.’ – Music Press - August 1985 th On The Street - 7 August 1985 The all-new and (it sez here) improved Allniters will hit the road in September. Original up-front-persons Peter, Brett, Julie, Martin and Steven will be joined by Dale Ryan on drums (ex Leftovers) Peter Bolke on bass (ex Cockroaches, Mark Fuccilli on sax (ex Big Five), Mark Tanner on guitar (ex Mustard Club), and Michael Allan on keyboards (ex Private Lives). 3 Allniters are Allriters again! Daily Telegraph - 5/9/1985 by Roger Crosthwaite. The Allniters, Sydney’s answer to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, have returned to Sydney stages this week, as little over nine months since they broke up, Their split late last year was not surprising since a 10 member band is an awful drain on finances. But singers Julie Conway, Peter Hill-Travis and Brett Pattinson. Guitarist Martin Fabok and trombonist Steven Luke – all original Allniters – have been joined by five new members to make up the new, improved version of the band that made pork-pie hats compulsory wearing in those heady days of 1980/81. Tonight the Allniters will crowd the stage at Ingleburn RSL, tomorrow they play Cronulla Workers Club, Saturday Blacktown RSL and Sunday they will launch their new single Wake Up Sydney at the Tivoli in the city. The distinctive ska sound is still their trademark, though they claim to have added new elements with the new line-up. The band will give away 400 copies of the record to the first comers to the Tivoli show. Welcome back, Allniters. Those who are about to dance salute you. 4 5 On The Street. September 1985 The Allniters have returned! The all new Allniters are back again and they advised it’s not a reunion. Maybe it’s a show of force with a line up of ten and the sound to match. 5 September INGLEBURN RSL – Sydney After disbanding in 1984 they performed and hit the road on the flipside of ’85. If their September performance at the 6 September CRONULLA WORKERS – Sydney Tivoli is any indication, the Allniters will recoup their old with Bobby Sox following and pick up more as time rolls on. Old favourites such as Hold On, Love & Affection, & Montego Bay are still 7 September BLACKTOWN RSL – Sydney big sounds, however, the idle chatter and incidental 8 September TIVOLI – Sydney camaraderie, complimented by their new material makes the with Tenement Dance Allniters a complete live performance. Wake up Sydney! Who could sleep when they’re around! 3 October JAGGERS LOCAL INN - Sydney Good Luck! Good luck Allniters! We await your new single. with Naughty Rhythms 4 October BALMAIN LEAGUES CLUB -Sydney with Bobby Sox 5 October BANKSTOWN RSL - Sydney with the Playboys 6 October WYONG LEAGUES CLUB - NSW 30 November CARINGBAH INN – Sydney With Naughty Rhythms 1 December ST GEORGE BUDAPEST SOCCER CLUB – Sydney 27 December MANSFIELD TAVERN (Rock Arena) – Brisbane, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 28 December MANSFIELD TAVERN (Rock Arena) – Brisbane, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 29 December BALLINA OPEN AIR CONCERT – Ballina, NSW Supporting Mental As Anything 30 December BOMBAY ROCK– Surfers Paradise, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 31 December THE PATCH – Coolangatta, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 6 Courtesy of Dale Ryan 7 8 9 10 1986 2 January BAY HOTEL Deception Bay - Brisbane Supporting Mental As Anything 3 January MOOLOOLABA HOTEL – Sunshine Coast, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 4 January MOOLOOLABA HOTEL – Sunshine Coast, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 5 January DALBY COMMUNITY CENTRE – Dalby, Qld Supporting Mental As Anything 10 January BLACKTOWN RSL - Sydney Supporting Mental As Anything 11 January SELINAS - Sydney Supporting Mental As Anything 12 January PENRITH LEAGUES CLUB - Sydney Supporting Mental As Anything 15 January CASTLE HILL RSL - Sydney Supporting Mental As Anything 16 January SWEETHEARTS - Sydney With the Johnnys 17 January BLACKTOWN RSL – Sydney (Early) Supporting Mental As Anything 17 January MITTAGONG RSL – Mittagong, NSW (Late) With the Johnnys 11 Courtesy of Nat Wade 12 18 January SELINAS – Sydney (Early) Supporting Mental As Anything with the Reels 18 January VENUE (Dee Why Hotel) – Sydney (Late) With One Arm Loose and the Flies 19 January SEABREEZE HOTEL – Nelson Bay, NSW With the Feds 21 January BELMONT SAILING CLUB – Belmont, NSW 25 January YARRAWONGA SHOWGROUNDS (Rockalonga Concert) – VIC With Mental As Anything, Eurogliders, Wendy and the Rockets 26 January CRONULLA LEAGUES OVAL (Ronson Rock Concert) – Sydney With Australian Crawl, Mental As Anything, Hoodoo Gurus, Dragon, Cockroaches 14 February SUTHERLAND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE – Sydney (2SM Under 18s) 20 February CARINGBAH INN– Sydney With The Swinging Tees 21 February LOCAL INN (JAGGERS) – Sydney With The Notations 22 February SELINAS – Sydney Supporting Uncanny X-Men with the Johhnys and Tango Bravo 24 February INGLEBURN RSL - Sydney March There are no Sydney, Qld or Melbourne gigs listed in Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Melbourne Age or Brisbane Courier Mail for March. 4 April CHANNEL 10 KIDS TELETHON - Sydney 10 April INGLEBURN RSL - Sydney 11 April VENUE (Dee Why Hotel) - Sydney The Game Of Life, a new eight part ABC Television With Amazing Wolloomooloosers and the Notations rd series aimed at youth issues debuted on the 3 of April 22/23 SWEETHEARTS - Sydney April at 6pm.hosted by Mic Conway. Supporting Madness The Allniters featured in the show’s opening credit sequence performing the title song written by April 24/25 SELINAS - Sydney Brett, Julie, Ralf Franke and Michael Allan. Supporting Madness 13 26 April SHELLHARBOUR WORKERS CLUB – Shellharbour, NSW Supporting Madness 27 April NEWCASTLE WORKERS CLUB – Newcastle, NSW Supporting Madness 29/30 April THE PALACE – Melbourne Supporting Madness 1 May LA TROBE UNIVERSITY - Melbourne Supporting Madness 2 May MONASH UNIVERSITY - Melbourne Supporting Madness 3 May DEAKIN UNIVERSITY - Melbourne Supporting Madness 4 May MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY - Melbourne Supporting Madness 7 May BOMBAY ROCK – Gold Coast, Qld Supporting Madness 8 May MANSFIELD TAVERN - Brisbane Supporting Madness 9May MANSFIELD TAVERN - Brisbane Supporting Madness 10 May MOOLOOLABA HOTEL – Mooloolaba, Qld Supporting Madness 11 May POWERHOUSE – Toowoomba, Qld Supporting Madness 12 May SELINAS - Sydney Supporting Madness 17 May SYDNEY COVE TAVERN - Sydney 6 June BALMAIN LEAGUES CLUB - Sydney With the Notations 7June SELINAS - Sydney With Clapping Hands 14 8 June AVALON RSL - Sydney With Off The Shelf 12 June ROYALS RUGBY CLUB - Canberra Canberra Times – June 5 1986 THE BANNED BAND LEARNS SOME NEW TRICK: BY POLLYANNA SUTTON SKA IS NOT dead. Nor are the Allniters, the 10-member band who hit the stands with Montego Bay, Hold On and Love and Affection the couple of years, and have recently had a line up change. The band is even crazier now but original member Brett Pattinson said that they would try not to tell as many bad jokes between songs. "It is still crazy, almost mental, just fun," he said. Last time the band visited Canberra it was banned for bad language, but Pattinson learned a few tricks from a Queensland tour with Austen Tayshus, who used to disguise himself and slip out the back door before the police came to arrest him. The band re- formed about eight months ago but kept out of the public eye for a while to get its act together. "We are sort of still doing ska but it is changing gradually to pop ska," Pattinson said. "We have still got ska and reggae root rhythms, but we are a bit more commercial than we used to be." The band was working its way into the mainstream to find a new direction, while taking the old direction with it. "That's the problem we had with the old band, we just got stale and nobody was really The Allniters— having a good time anymore," he said. Ska was still healthy in Sydney, he said, with Club Ska (the other half of the first Allniters), Off The Shelf, Itchy Feet, and the Bystanders doing gigs. "It is maybe a little out of fashion but not dead," he said. "I doubt whether it will come back into fashion. That is why we are getting away from it, not because we don't like the music but because every good trend has its day. Pattinson said the Allniters were never meant to be a trend and in spite of the cynics who said they would not last, the band would clock up six years in the business this September.