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This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/21 Arthur Clarke & the future — spaceships for hardships Truckin’ on bowel power The Guide Vol.2 No.11 I Marchl9-25 to 1974 30^ Successful uggling By a former customs officer Son of garbology
UR LETTERS pages this week Richard Beckett O carry cries o f shock and dismay from readers over last issue’s garbology story. beats up The reception to Morris’ romp through the week’s news the rubbish o f the famed met with mixed response: Paul Slicky, arts writer for T ’S A MAN’S LIFE WITH BHP: Melbourne’s Sunday observer, hailed gar IThose members of the army who bology as a new art form, a more honest jjjxj moaned that their chances o f promotion and more authentic portrayal o f modern jjjjjjj: flew out of the window with the end of times than some o f “ works o f art” jjjjjjj: the Vietnam war, may shortly be able to ensconced in our art galleries. What’s join the private army o f BHP. Reports more, we have seen people snooping from Saigon state that the company around our trash. Morris is not disillusion :j:j:j: that really runs Australia, irregardless o f ed with the chagrin o f some readers and M who is in power in Canberra, is expected promises to continue with his vocation jjjjjj to approach the South Vietnamese gov- and stresses he meant no harm . . . ■:&: ernment and bid for oil prospecting This week for those who intend travel jjjjjjj: rights o ff that country’s coast. It ap- ling to exotic places abroad and who wish jijjjjj parendy intends to do this despite the to return with memorabilia our govern jjjjjjj fact that there may be slight objections ment considers contraband, a former cus from the federal Labor government; toms man gives advice you won’t find in :j:j:j: that the money it pays to the Thieu the Qantas travel guide (p.9). regime for these rights may have more Sometimes members o f the federal than a slight bearing on the outcom e o f opposition com e up with sensible state jjjjjjj the democratic struggle still being waged ments. Malcolm Fraser, shadow minister jjjjjjj in the paddy fields; and also despite the j:j£j fact that it might cause a few other for labor, was praised by the Australian Cameron’s attitude has been vigorously Robert McLeod was freshly charged by jjjjj international problems in as much as at on monday for his comments about the supported by opposition leader Billy commonwealth police with two counts jjjjj jjjjjjj: least part o f this area is claimed by “ asian worker affair” when he said Aus Snedden who proclaimed: “ It is about o f assault. One o f his associates in the jjjjj jjjjjjj China. It is understood that BHP, which tralia had no right to rob third world time Australia was rid o f people osten affair was also charged proving once jjjjj has had a lobbyist operating in Saigon countries o f their technicians and profes sibly proclaiming themselves to be lion again what aboriginals have been saying j:j:j to support its claims, will shortly turn sionals. tamers or w ood carvers or process work for generations - you can't trust the jjjjj jjjjjjj itself into a paramilitary organisation ers well knowing that no vacancies exist, bloody white man. jjjjj Perhaps Fraser should have been at a jjjjjjj and set up its own form o f national talk given by writer, futurologist Arthur and in this way, avoiding working.” In :j:£:j conservice training. Application forms HITE BOYS CAN’T TRUST S i C. Clarke in Sydney last week where he future all the unemployed would be Bjjjj to join this new peoples army can be WHITE MEN EITHER: Sydney j;jjj impressed the country’s leaders o f indus well advised t o get a decent haircut, W Bjjjj obtained by personal application in any newsboy, Tony Fairweather, aged 14, jjjjj try with visions o f space travel, o f bright adopt a humble attitude and never, ever jjjjjjj: steel mill. while selling papers in Sydney road, was jB and shiny hardware with which to colon go swimming at a holiday resort. Only those dying o f tuberculosis in back alley bailed up by two men armed with a jB: ise the rest o f the universe . . . but, yes, at HAT WAS THAT ABOUT SERV slums will be judged fit enough to kiss shotgun and robbed of 45 cents. jjjjj: the expense o f the “ developing coun ING THE PEOPLE? Federal gov- W the assessment officer’s rings. tries” . It was left to Papua New Guinea’s jjjjjij: ernment backbenchers are preparing to [OIN THE CMF AND DIG FOR jiB chief minister, Michael Somare, to take ' BODIES: The federal government j.B : jjjjjjj put their case to a committee formed of ] HE’LL GET DAMN ALL FOR him to task. Ian Stocks interviewed jjjjjjj: themselves for salary increases which is considering a plan to stop the CMF jjjjjj STARTERS: Nineteen year old Clarke and attended the discussion (see :j:j£ will take their wage packets up to the S playing their interminable war games jjjjjj Peta Mullen, who wears the crown o f opposite). jjjjjjj trifling figure o f $25,000 a year plus through national parks during weekends :j:j:j Miss Tasmania, has applied for the dole. It wasnt intended that way, but that’s jljjjjj allowances. They are doing this because, and expending valuable ammunition on ijijij However, the national coordinator of how it turned out. Drugs — more on they claim, the present salaries force target practice. Instead the jolly lads in jjjjjj the Miss Australia quest was quick to mushrooms (p. 18), Abbie Hoffman’s co jjjij:j older MPs to retire on the starvation khaki will in future help out in national jjjjjj point out that the girl really was a hairy caine bust and the hysterical drug laws of jjjjjjj wage level of $7000 a year or roughly disasters. Thus, they will be able to jjjjjj slacker by stating: " I ’m sure there must New York (p. 10), smuggling (p.9), Mc- :j:j:j: $140 a week — some $30 above the recognise a body in a battlefield in the jjjjjj; be jobs available for a girl like Peta, even Dope’s roundup of the “scene” (p.7) — :j:j:j: national average wage. Explaining his future. jijij: if she has no qualification. She could get take up a portion o f this week’s paper. jjjjjjj colleagues plight, Sydney Labor back- a job as a shop assistant or something ULL HIS NOSE AND HE’LL SB Still, there’s lots o f goodies for those who jjjjjjj bencher Paul Keating said: "It’s a bit like that.” LICK YOUR BOOTS: Prime min- jjjjjj: know all they wish to know about dope. jjjjjjj rough working a 15 hour day in those P ister Gough Whitlam, after several jjjjjj: 'dreadful conditions in Canberra, having Veronica Parry, our ecology writer, months o f abuse from industrial leaders :j:j:j: jjjjjjj to spend three days a week away from NSIDE HE’S REALLY CRYING: writes on shit, its uses, abuses and how it in a speech to the Australian institute o f :j:j:j: jjjjjjj home, then work most weekends for the Despite the fact that a few gentle could end the “ fuel crisis” . . . if only I directors, soothed the enemy by stating jjjjjj: jjjjjjj pay we are getting.” One’s heart bleeds, men investigating his tax affairs have people werent so ashamed about it. The that his government really loved them, jjjjjj; BjB especially when one realises that back- expressed amazement that the president nightman could so well be your local that there were now close contacts j:j:j:j jjjjjjj benchers now have to struggle along on o f the United States could lose yet service station attendant (p.20). between government and business, that jjjjjj; jjjjjjj a salary o f only $14,500 a year plus a another document that might incrimin Cherry Ripe writes on the rise and fall he welcomed the fact that private banks jjjjj:j j:j:j:j minuscule electoral allowance of $4100 ate him (his so called letter allowing him o f Sylvia and the Synthetics: once Aus were back on top of the pile and that jjjjjjj jjjjjjj: a year - just over $350 a week. tax exemptions for vice-presidential tralia’s roaring, balling, house-packing many businessmen had been invited to jjjjjjj papers donated to a grateful nation) bunch o f high powered drag queens, they participate into aspects of official gov- jjjjjjj he salary increases have dear brave Richard Milhous Nixon ap have now taken a nose dive from lack of ernment policy. :j:j:jj TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE: peared at the Grand Old Opry, Ameri energy and inspiration (p.l 1). T The federal government has ordered ca’s centre of country music in Nash ombs away fo r peace: op- jjjjjjj Things, a section o f the paper we SB assessment officers in the department o f ville, Tennessee, played Happy birthday Bposition leader Snedden in a curi- jjjjjjj couldnt think a more appropriate name SB labor and social security to crack down to his wife on a piano and twirled a ous statement outlining his grasp o f j:j:j:j for, is open to readers who have some jjjjjjj: on work dodgers who are preventing yoyo. In retaliation the Grand Old Opry matters o f foreign policy, said he wel- jjjjjjj thing they want to lay down to the parliamentary backbenchers from get- band played God bless America. corned moves by the United States to jjjjjjj multitudes — how to mate rabbits, how ting salary increases by wilfully spend- upgrade the Diego Garcia base in the jjjjjjj to clean hookahs, how to repair a stump- jjjjjjj: ing government money to stay alive, HO CARES WHAT WE PROMIS Indian ocean because it was in the jjjjjjjj jump plow, what’s the best route to jjjjjjj: The officers have been ordered to con- W ED, GO TO JAIL ANYW AY: interest o f Australia for the United jjjjjjj: Cedar Bay, anything — and we pay. jjjjjjj: centrate on beach and holiday areas Breaking a few pledges about non prose States to maintain a continuing threat in j:j:j:j Finally, we offer our commiserations jjjjjjj: where the wicked are believed to be cution, made when the gentleman con the region. He then added lamely that jjjjjjj to those washed out by the floods up jjjjjjj living. Labor minister Clyde Cameron cerned bailed up to the department of his party, when in government, had jjjjjjj north. Dont let it get you down. Things jjjjjjj said there was no place for slackers aboriginal affairs with a pistol during always intended to recognise China, so jjjjjjj down south aint all roses either. SB living the high life on $23 a week. the official opening o f parliament, there. jjjjjjj Love, Eds The Living Daylights is published every tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn street, West Melbourne, Victoria. You can write to us C/- PO box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03)329.0700, Telex AA32403. SYDNEY OFFICE: Stephen Wall, 18 Arthur street, Surry Hills, 2010. Telephone (02)698.2652, tuesdays to thurs- days. EDITORS: Terence Maher, Michael Morris, Richard Neville, Laurel Olszewski. 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Arthur C. Clark, the creator of 2001, scorched through Australia for IBM to pep talk the leaders of business. His premises are badly programmed, suggests IAN STOCKS in this rem arkable discussion
RTHUR C. CLARKE is best known international resources exploitation. Can the fuel over the distance. the great eras o f exploration. TLD: All this exploration and adventure for the authorship o f 2001 - a we really trust these men? TLD: Is it worth spending millions and A millions to make the systems of space is very male orientated - what happened space odyssey, which Stan Kubrick di Fuller’s geodesic dome principle may rected from his original story. Since the have enabled wandering heads to build travel more efficient? to the 13 women astronauts who never success of the film, faithfully supported habitable domes out of car roofs, but it Well, we could have stayed in that little flew? by the counterculture with a little help also did sterling service in Vietnam as valley in Africa - we’d be extinct by now Utter nonsense! They’ve never even con from John ("it’s my favorite film” ) Len- helicopter shelters and bomb storage - you have to think that life’s worth sidered women astronauts. There were no non, Clarke has become a travelling sci- centres. And science, whatever its ideals, living. women who could pass all the tests, the ence-guru, a quasi-expert in the futurol is energy intensive: it is committed to the “The major point is the standards were set much too high. Now ogy stakes. idecil of more and more power in less and they’re training nurses and all sorts o f peo A tallish, dapper man in middle age, less hands. With a world population ap phasing out of agriculture ple to go into space. In fact women are far with a taste for too-tight mohair suits, proaching three billion, can we really - agriculture has failed - it’s better adapted to space than men; they Clarke is a real trans Atlantic man, the afford these people? can put up with more nonsense than men can. last o f the technology generation, with * * * a temporary episode in his feet in the seas and his head in the TLD: Has the space program helped stars. At least, that’s the way it seems. TLD: What do you think of the wholesale human history we’re Russia and America through the Cold War But his wallet is still firmly in the rejection of technology and energy con not farmers, we’re period without conflict? mainstream o f industrialised life. His sumption by the counterculture? Absolutely. We’d be dead now without three day trip to Australia was funded by That’s a temporary phenomenon in the hunters.” the space program. Satellites have stop IBM with some cooperation from the States, already passing because they real TLD: Why are many o f the astronauts ped thermonuclear war - the reconnais- Australian Institute o f Directors. ise they can’t earn a living - it’s as simple going over to underwater work — Scott ance satellites. It’s impossible for each to Clarke lives most o f the year in Sri as that. The shortfall in the production o f Carpenter for instance? steal a march on the other because they Lanka (Ceylon) where he runs an under scientists has already bottom ed out and I can claim credit for that: I brainwashed have a perfect view of each other’s activ water research institute cum tourist at there’s now an increase. I’d like to think Werner von Braun into scuba diving and it ities. TLD: What is the sociological role of traction, and jets away for brief lecture that the main reason is that science (as was developed for research into weightless tours. He is still busily writing science opposed to technology) is simply knowl ness. The tank that he built was used to science fiction? fiction and also contributes to serious edge, and if you’re not interested in simulate conditions in space, and it was If you include stories like Gulliver's trav scientific journals. When we met him at science that means you ’re not interested that tank that saved Skylab; they were els - anti-utopian literature - they have Sydney’s Wentworth hotel he had just in the real world. able to simulate the conditions o f the been sociological because in some times been fitted for a tuxedo to wear to dinner TLD: Why do you live in Sri Lanka? faulty wing in the tank and save the the only safe way o f criticising the status and was attended by an over-solicitous Because I dont like to be anywhere else - mission. quo was to imagine a world in which you but helpful IBM man called Tony Britten, all my friends, my books, my dogs are TLD: Are our priorities right in encourag could satirise these things. This happened and was obviously exhausted. We shared there - also my business, Underwater ing space travel over exploration and the interview with a staff writer from Safaris, is there. I spend very little time study of the sea? Sydney’s Sun-herald. underwater but I like the organisation; Our priorities are never right and we In many ways it was like hearing a bad taking people out, that sort o f thing. never know till too late what we should replay o f Buckminster Fuller - Clarke TLD: What’s the solution to energy short have done, but there’s no way of doing shares the impediment of being partly ages? anything about that. Y ou can say that the deaf (though unlike Fuller he uses a There’s no energy shortage - just intelli Apollo program was too early - it was hearing aid) and there is the same ramb gence shortage and stupidity pollution. done for the wrong political reasons, but ling exposition o f scientific, quasi- The energy requirements for space travel in fact it’s probably the best thing the philosophical and futuristic ideas, mixed are trivial - when you run a car for a day human race ever did. Imagine if Australia with bald statements of fact. And like it does enough work to take you to the had been discovered 50 years earlier. Fuller, if you dont succumb to this moon. TLD: ????? hypnotic science shamanism, you are left TLD: How? SUN-HERALD: What material benefits with a slight uneasiness, an unwillingness In terms o f kilowatt hours it takes about are we going to get from the planets? to share this super-technocrat’s point o f ten dollars worth to get a man to the Listen, this earth is just a pinpoint - view on the world. You are nagged by so moon. But our techniques are so ineffi there’s 200,000 times the surface area in called science’s activities in the past three cient that it takes a billion times that this solar system alone. We dont even decades — with a very high proportion of much. Ten dollars would be the absolute know what we’re going to do with it. But the world’s leading theoreticians employ minimum - 1000 kilowatt hours. The any time we qo into a new environment ed in militaristic and state enterprises, or trouble with rockets is that we use 99.9 we find tremendous new powers, potential at the very least heavily involved in percent o f the fuel to carry the rest o f and inspiration. The great eras o f art are MICHAEL SOMARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974 — Page 3 “There’s no energy world population controlling 100 percent m ent white dominated development and the o f the food ? Unaware of the irony between his traditional lifestyle of his people . . . and shortage - just Yes. standpoint of white technological suprem their unwillingness to substitute the TLD: Well, what about places like Sri acy, and the position Somare was in, profit motive for their sense o f humanity. intelligence shortage Lanka - the whole social structure o f so Clarke gave his audience a picture o f the He attacked the individualistic basis o f and stupidity called underdeveloped countries is based stars - the great achievements o f space Australian and european law, especially on communal food production? technology. with regard to property, and the support pollution.” I know. You’re going to have the most He described how weather satellites this law gives to the “ atomic family” — appalling social problems. What are you saved crops, and gave infrared pictures o f the “ separate, lonely family” created by western developments. in the US during the McCarthy era. The going to do with these millions of un world mineral resources (“just write to Somare promised a hard line on com science fiction guys were the only ones to employed farmers. But one o f our NASA and they’ll send you the most panies like Bougainville Copper - which stick their necks out. psychological problems is that we’re not beautiful pictures” he urged his audi negotiated its mining agreement in the TLD: What about the problems o f the cut out to be farmers - we’re hunters. ence). They drank in his vision of the last days of colonial government, and last third world? There won't be enough TLD: What about the people o f the third boundless riches that lay in the stars, year took out $158 million in clear technical goods and materials to go world - the people of Niugini who without mentioning the mess which profit, leaving only the wreckage o f the round? suddenly find they can’t produce their would be left on earth - with a wrecked island’s ecology and community, and a I'm in the middle o f the third world in Sri own food as efficiently and cheaply as we ecology, totally unfair social divisions of lousy $25 million as the local share. Lanka. can fly it to them from Australia - it’s wealth and enormous social and political TLD: Do you want to see these people happening already - they have less and problems as a result. less time to adjust? Clarke’s views on development of de driving cars? ANY people will have to choose prived countries start with the dogma o f No I dont, that’s one of the themes of my They’re going to have no time to adjust. between the selfish, inhuman ideal birth control, then (and only then) im M talk; Dont commute, communicate. I TLD: What role is industry going to play ism o f Arthur C. Clarke and the m onopol proved hygiene and health care and, dont drive. I can’t drive a car. in helping these people to accustom ists he serves, or the claims o f the people themselves to rapid change? finally, improved agriculture. “ In reverse TLD: What about the effect o f mass air o f the third world to control their own order you have catastrophe.” The big travel on places like Sri Lanka and Bali - I havent the answers . . . but I do think I lives and resources. have some of the questions. priority was education (to our way of life disruption o f the communities? Despite the achievements o f western presumably) and NASA was already giv To some extent yes, and I feel a bit guilty TLD: What are the questions. technology, it’s obvious that man’s great ing India the use o f a TV satellite and because I'm trying to encourage tourism. We will have to make these changes. We leap to the stars is going to be made from 5000 TV sets. According to Clarke — But Sri Lanka needs foreign exchange and have to start thinking about them. I’m o ff the backs o f the third world. By third world countries were flocking to get that’s one way of doing it. going to talk about the exploitation of Clarke’s own admission millions o f the satellite television and development ori TLD: Are you interested in low energy the sea. We will be exploiting the sea as world’s population are going to have no entated software. Somare, already grap consumptive schemes? we have the land. It’s got great potential. time to adjust, their lifestyles disrupted in pling with the problems of a traditional I hate waste, that’s why I like things like Although this will also be a temporary the interests o f efficiency. Somare’s final economy currently being wrecked by tape recorders and small computers, tele phase - soon all food will be synthetic. appeal for understanding and respect pre white development, didnt seem in the vision instead o f moving tons o f hardware But nothing’s inevitable - you can dictably drew less applause than Clarke’s slightest impressed. round in clouds o f smoke. You d o tre choose alternatives sometimes, if you act supremacist spiel. . . soon enough. Clarke spoke on development, without mendous things with negligible power. “ As I see it, most people in our coun * * * once mentioning any moral or humanitar My talk with IBM is about progress try work hard, live decently and are towards 2001 and how technology will EXT day Arthur Clarke addressed ian ideals. His model for development is the United States, which became rich and proud of our traditions and our way of change our lives and can change them for the Institute of Directors in Austra life. We are ordinary people, trying to N powerful through use o f the railroad and the better. The major point is the phasing lia - 700 captains of industry who preserve what is best in our way o f life the telegraph. “ With jet and satellite com out o f agriculture - agriculture has failed together control probably 90 percent of and attempting to solve our problems. - it’s a temporary episode in human Australia’s industry and natural resources. munication we can create the United “ We have to deal with pressure from history. .. States o f Earth — colonising worlds yet They scattered themselves in the easy the outside world to change our values IBM MAN: That's a depressing thought, undreamed o f.” (At this stage there was chairs o f the concert hall o f the Opera and traditions. We will absorb these pres I’ve got a farm. a hearty round of applause, understand House, grunting appreciation at Clarke’s sures by working out our own solutions Three percent of the world oil production pep talk on the endless future o f tech able when you realise that over half the companies represented were foreign own to our problems. I ask you today that could feed the world as synthetic protein. nological development. On the rostrum, you do not expect these solutions to be We’ve got to stop burning oil and start next in line to speak was Michael Somare, ed or controlled.) * * ¥ the same as those you would work out eating it. chief minister o f Papua New Guinea, who for us. Papua New Guinea can make its TLD: So you see a running down of flew down especially to state his govern HEN Somare got up and cited the own decision and it will do so.” agriculture, with two percent o f the ment’s views on technology and develop T complete culture clash between Lady Jane and the law left behind in peace. The clifftop GILLY COOTE cameraman was a cop gathering EOPLE have been talking evidence. Pabout naked bathing near Camp Cove, so recently two Glebe women decided to check it out. Back in Sydney after idyllic occupation isolated northern beaches, they found Lady Jane beach small and WENDY BACON relatively crowded. ast Saturday, a group About 60 people were there, L of Sydney women opened some old and fat, some young and the Elsie Womens Refuge at num beautiful, some naked and it was a bers 71 and 73 Westmoreland peaceful scene. Or seemed so. street, Glebe. The refuge will be There was this guy on a cliff with open to any woman or child who a movie camera, but people flash needs emergency accommodation, ed their mirrors into his lens and and like its London counterpart, went back to their books . . . until Chiswick Womens Aid, is par a fullsome woman in a black ticularly intended for women bikini emerged from the water escaping from violent domestic and fronted two girls. “ You are situations. under arrest for indecent behavior. The houses, like many others Put your clothes on and follow in Sydney’s inner city areas, have me. stood empty for some time. They Arrests had been going quietly are owned by the Church of Eng on the beach for some time. land who originally intended to Twentyfive people were herded develop the area and is now into paddy wagons waiting on the negotiating to sell the property to cliffs and taken to Woollahra the federal government who will police station. There the police retain them for low rent housing. were almost apologetic about the Saturday’s occupation follow whole affair, saying they were ed months o f fruitless attempts to acting on a complaint. Now when obtain a house free, or on a very you can only get down to the low rent, from Sydney property beach by ladder after a long hike owners. Scores o f private develop from Camp Cove the idea of a ers, the Church o f England and cranky old wowser going to such the federal government all turned lengths seems insane. down the womens requests. Coming in the midst o f the Last weekend the women — streaking phenomenon, the arrests with the help of a few local highlight some bizarre anomalies residents, including kids — have in the law. The five women arrest been cleaning up die houses and ed were charged with indecent mowing the lawns, much to the behavior, the men for indecent amazement of a male reporter exposure. Women with their who thought there must be men bikini bottoms were not arrested hidden out the back. The 24 hour and the older fatter males were roster has begun. Page 4 - T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 Pic by official skinhead photographer, Ag 4 ^ ^ c S"3 o . t s of 3 Sa" ’c9 f t s ' " ' . y * 'o - """I -'"*•«« v/,. , / v « « • * " ' - I " " '" THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — marchPage 19-25, 1974— DAYLIGHTS 5 LIVING THE s >► s w 4 * /9? ocal a c io S t K j £ * * & ^ 7 F £ t r S ft/ c z A n A o h w ', Pentridge starts to bum They dont have riots because the prisoners know they would be“slaughtered”. PIOTR OLSZEWSKI reports N EX Pentridge prisoner, prisoners in B division went on copy are made of, just the routine ed. He was "rehabilitated” to the Prisoners Action Committee and Archie Butterly, 27, this A strike and an “ ugly situation” humiliation a prisoner is put extent that on his release, he La Trobe university students for week served a writ against the arose. The governor decided to through, how a prisoner "packs struck out and allegedly killed a their action in demonstrating out Victorian social welfare depart play things down and had a chat shit all the time” as warders jangle Salvation Army couple with a side Pentridge. He said, “ This ment for unlawful detainment. with Archie, telling him that the keys outside his cell and jeer and shotgun. There was no “ motive” . group has been inciting prisoners Here is his story. beating was really only for his threaten him, telling him that Archie described how prisoners to take radical action. With their Archie, who’s been “ inside” own good because prison officials tomorrow morning they might are now much more politically radical ideas they might think for over seven years on a man were sure that he was going to just kill him. Archie’s most hated aware than they were when he they are helping prisoners but slaughter charge was supposed to escape and wanted to dissuade chore was the daily emptying of a first “ went in” . According to him, they are only alienating them.” have been released on february him from such foolishness. Sort of dirty, stinking, shit bucket into an student action in particular has Houghton criticised the PAC for 14. Archie discovered that it was a friendly warning. equally foul cement pit immedi done a great deal to encourage speaking over loudspeakers out customary (not legal, just custom Archie didnt quite see it that ately before breakfast. Archie also inmates to improve their lot, and side Pentridge for the past few ary) for prisoners to be given a way. After getting out of H his hated the way the warders come in changing the general public’s Sundays (TLD Vol 2/7, 8 and 9) little bit o f extra “ punishment” only reaction was that he "wanted into his cell at any given time and total apathy towards, and lack of and said: time after their sentence has been to burn the fuckin joint down’'. messed things about, pushed him knowledge of, prison conditions. “We’ve stopped them now, but completed if they’ve been trouble However, later he resorted to dif around, ripped up letters and Archie Butterly warns that prisoners have access to the news. makers and Archie Butterly cer ferent tactics - he caused more books, and generally made an Pentridge is very “ tense” at the They can read what these groups tainly caused a lot of “ trouble” at trouble in 1971 by issuing a civil already miserable life more miser moment and if anyone gets bash have to say.” The demonstrations Pentridge. writ through the supreme court able. ed the prisoners will burn Pent werent “ stopped” . Despite police He first caused “ trouble” charging three warders, Ackland, Archie passed his matriculation ridge down. Butterly maintains attacks, demonstrators kept re Chanter and Le Feuvre, with as about “ three or four years ago” during this period. He said that in that there’s been no mass “ vio turning to Pentridge and stopped when he wrote letters to three sault. The case hasnt com e up yet. the end he wasnt so interested in lence” at Pentridge as there has demonstrating for the last two social reformers decrying the con Then on friday, march 8, this passing matriculation for the been at Bathurst because Pent weeks only because they felt year, Archie got his freedom fol ditions o f C division. Pentridge educational benefits; it was his ridge officials are more severe and they’d achieved what they set out officials read these letters, didnt lowing the issue o f a supreme personal victory against the ruthless and meet the slightest to. court writ o f habeas corpus after like them, and gave Archie a warders who tried to discourage insurgence with extreme hostility. Houghton also said that C divi serving 22 days illegally. Now he’s “ stretch” in H division on the him by continually destroying his A sit down strike last year was sion is due to be pulled down in suing the social welfare depart charge o f “ suspicion” . He claims study material. quelled with a baton charge. two weeks. Prisoners say that this three warders gave him a beating ment for this unlawful detain He described the most violent is bullshit. Houghton mentioned ment. broke his nose and cheekbone, bashing he’d heard o f in Pent FOOTNOTE: this a few weeks ago but to quote and gave him concussion. The day * ♦ » ridge. It happened to one Bossy AT THE same time I was in a a prisoner “ not a brick has been after his beating Archie collapsed ARCHIE explained this week why Barrett. Barrett was severely bash Brunswick house talking to Archie touched, not a brick”. In fact and was taken to hospital where he is risking his freedom (he’s now ed, continuously for almost a Butterly, prisoners at Pentridge only very recently $40,000 was he spent two days in the casualty on two and a half years parole) by week, and left in a cell. He was were attempting to burn down C spent in painting this division, ward, and was then returned to taking political action against then put “ on drugs” and suffered division. Nine fires were started, fixing the guttering etc. If C divi Pentridge to spend a further three Pentridge. further humiliations like being eight in the cells and one in the sion is not pulled down very days in an observation cell, during He described the day-to-day drenched with fire-hoses in the roof. quickly, Houghton can rest assur which time he had no food. degradations he’s lived with for yards. Archie says that after this Victoria’s social welfare minis ed that he will face intensive Word of Archie’s vicious beat seven years; not the sensational treatment Barrett “ went o ff a ter, Houghton, when talking rioting at Pentridge. i— i ing spread through Pentridge, the bashings that headlines and hot bit” . Barrett was recently releas about this uprising, attacked the Blacks focus i on Brisbane WARD McNALLY IOLENCE could flare in remove them, until the Queens V Brisbane when angry abo land government undertakes to riginals stage a protest against get o ff its collective arse and do continuing bad conditions for something constructive to relieve many o f their race in King George the conditions o f near starvation, square soon. illness and homelessness o f a large Brisbane is Australia’s most number of fringe dwelling abo racist city. King George square riginals. was landscaped on the exact spot Don Davidson, 46, an aborigin where several aboriginals were al and a social worker on the shot down by whites in cold federal government payroll, told blood at the beginning of white me this last week. Davidson is the settlement in Queensland. youngest of 13 children. Like his The protesters plan to pitch brothers and sisters before him, he Black fists: The anger moves to Brisbane tents and live in them on the was born “ behind a mulga bush square, and to resist any efforts to out west” . got to do something for our "How bad is police brutality in at night and maintained a watch He is a man o f his people. He depressed, oppressed brothers and Brisbane. Tell me for real, Don.” over police paddywagon patrols knows what he is talking about. sisters.” “ Tell you for real! Man, you’ve and squad cars. Knows the feeling running like an I suggested police would move got to see it to realise how damn When the paddywagon or electric current through the Bris them from the square. “ And how ed bad it is. See the results o f it squad car crew visited a cafe or GRAND bane black community . . . can you stop them?” I asked. on men when they’re fresh from club frequented by blacks the pig SAT. I know Davidson well. He is “ The police can try. They the police station, with bruises on patrol showed itself, and stayed probably will. Perhaps they’ll suc their bodies . . . Listen, man, I’ve close by, observing proceedings. 23RD quietly spoken. Thoughtful. He doesnt talk for the sake o f hearing ceed too. But not until after taken blokes to doctors up in Red There’s strong evidence proving MARCH Fancy Dre: his own voice, or to impress they’ve met a hell of a lot of Hill who’ve been beaten up and its existence prevented the arrests AAardi others. And when he talks o f resistance. Not until after w e’ve turned loose, and I’ve taken the of many young aboriginals who violence boiling close to the sur let it become known that unless medical certificates proving that would otherwise have been arrest face he means it. He doesnt have the government does something to violence was used against them to ed — simply because they were to approve o f it. In fact, he prevent it happening, winter will police minister Hodges, and noth black. $ 5 0 deplores it. bring serious illness, even death, ing has happened to stop it going When I asked how violent the to many people already ill and o n . . . King’s square protest could be, First But he knows it is there. He hungry . . people with nowhere “ Sure, he’s listened to me. Davidson replied: Prize for can’t chase it away. So he does to sleep. . . ” Studied the certificates and talked "Violent! Dont ask me how the best the next best thing. He is sound “ What about the Bornfree around the problem, but he hasnt violent. That’ll depend upon costume ing warnings! Lighting by Hugh Mel Aaron Club? (TLD, 2 /9 ) Isnt that set up stopped it. We’ve got to stop it whether or not some degree of Last week he told me: “ Some to accommodate the homeless of somehow. . . ” government commonsense o f us have warned police minister your race, Don?” When he talks about police prevails. But you can take it from Hodges, and police commissioner “ The Bornfree Club is already bashings Davidson knows his sub me, tempers are razor sharp.” Whitrod. We’ve told them our shockingly overcrowded most ject. When I first met him, two “ Guns? Knives?” I prompted. people are sick to the teeth with Compost nights with the destitute, the ones years ago, he was an active mem “ Christ, I hope n o t . . . but you ’jhremervixs soottnncv conditions as they are - as w ho’ve lost all h o p e . . . But desti ber of what Brisbane’s black and I both know that there are acoustic soends they’ve been for far too long . . . life LnMattjTfws tution, lack o f food 6ven, is only community called the “ pig blacks with guns and we both "We’ve even told them we’ll one reason for the planned pro patrol” . know that after the Canberra siege ORMOND HALL pitch tents and do all we can to test. We will protest at the same Comprised of a group of anything could happen. It might MOUBRAY ST, PRAHRAN advertise the plight o f some o f us time against continuing police strong, mature aboriginal men the not be a simple gesture next rime to the public,” he added. “ We’ve brutalitv.” pig patrol manned its own vehicles Page 6 - T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 □ Shane, said he was minding the OR PESSIMISTIC dope busted in Australia each month? smokers who like to indulge McRoach has been asking around, dope for a friend who was F hitchhiking and didnt want to get in gloomy orwellian fantasies and but no one seems to know for doomtrips, McRoach presents the sure — informants say that Mel caught with it. Pugh was placed “ bummer" o f the week. bourne narcs average six busts a on probation for two years. Not only will Big Brother be day, or 40 a week, but this has yet Last week’s TLD article on a watching you in 1984, he’ll also to be verified — McRoach is Surfers Paradise bust shocked have cut o ff your dope supply — working on it. some Melbourne trendies who that’s one o f the objectives of the goshed and gollied about the bar Single Convention on Narcotics, barity o f Queensland police. What a United Nations agreement Dope smugglers they dont realise is that it’s hap signed by approximately 100 pening in Victoria as well. Freaks living in a Carlton house that’s countries in 1961. Under the of the world unite been busted several times gave a terms o f this convention the use o f cannabis for other than medical cROACH has been con description of a recent 3.00 am and scientific purposes must be M tacted by Release, a London bust. Cops burst in brandishing "discontinued” by September, based organisation involved in the revolvers and heavied everyone 1984. Documents tabled at this drug smugglers cause, to provide considerably. One freak, not used convention classify hash with data on "what wicked drug smug to being in such close proximity heroin as totally prohibited nar glers can expect if they get caught to a pistol, sat visibly shaken. A cotics. in your fair country” . cop stuck a gun in his face and McRoach considers it worth Release, who publish an ex said, “ What are you shaking for while to have a brief look at the tremely informative book called pal?” Truckers bible (it tells you every history of world wide dope re enforcement, has offices in most econom y? thing you need to know about strictions. major cities of the world where Consider the facts - quick cash international dope smuggling) The first world wide ban drugs are grown, produced, or returns, high profits and con For what it’s worth admit that they havent had much against hash was the result o f the consumed (which is just about stantly growing demand. Site news from Australia. HE MELBOURNE Herald second Opium Conference at the everywhere, including Australia). benefits include decentralisation League o f Nations in 1925. An The Australian entry in recently ran results o f a Of course, Tricky Nixon’s the and an increased induction of T Egyptian delegate tabled a report Truckers bible currently reads: gallup poll in which 1878 "A us man you can basically blame for youth into the rural econom y - to the conference, a wild diatribe “ Somewhere in the befuddled tralians 16 years o f age and over” all this - he detests dope and rails How ya gonna keep ’em down in against hash, which included state brain o f the author is the impres were asked this loaded question: against it at any given oppor the city after they’ve been to a ments such as: sion that the sentence for import “ How wrong, if at all, d o you tunity. Everywhere that Tricky marijuana farm? “ Chronic hashishism (not to be ing is one year in the Northern consider the following to be - looks, he sees DOPE. The * * * confused with the lesser evil, Territory and a maximum o f seven exceeding the speed limit when insidious weed has even invaded acute hashishism which ‘occurs Dope fink of anywhere else. The majority o f driving, cheating on income tax, his own bleak corridors of power. when the consumer uses seizures made by Australian cus driving a motor vehicle under the He recently had to “ transfer” his hashish irregularly’ ) is extreme the week award toms are incoming airmail par influence of alcohol, prostitution, official military guard at Camp ly serious, since hashish is a cels.” smoking marijuana?” David, the crew o f his presidential GAIN the award goes to toxic substance, a poison Release also acts as "prisoners According to the poll, 65 per yacht Sequoia and one quarter of detective sergeant M. J. against which no effective anti A friend” assisting legally, if pos cent of all respondents regarded the navy’s 137 man elite Washing (Bumbling) Bell o f the Victorian dote is known.” sible, before sentence, and after marijuana smoking as “ very ton ceremonial guard unit for police drug squad. an d . . . sentencing they provide counsel wrong” , 23 percent said it was suspected dope smoking. Bell — who recently was “ The illicit use o f hashish is the to imprisoned smugglers on how “somewhat wrong” and 10 per alleged to have left behind pre * * * to best occupy their time inside cent said it was "n ot at all principal cause of most of the signed blank search warrants in a cases o f insanity occurring in and how to avoid getting the wrong” . Dope quote house he’d busted (TLD 1/9) and Egypt.” prison blues. An age group breakdown who more recently left behind his The French delegate at the They also compile data on showed that 50 percent o f people of the week notebook at another house he’d conference supported the Egypt smugglers in prisons and would aged 16-29 considered marijuana busted - had one o f his two ian and stated that in the Congo cROACH awards it to Mr like to know details o f missing smoking “very wrong” , 31 per charges against Michael Henry there were “ several tribes o f W. Keighley, Country party Australians who might be incar cent considered it “ somewhat M Cahill dismissed by the magistrate savages and even cannibals among member o f the NSW legislative cerated in some hole somewhere wrong” and 18 percent said it was because of “ clear disparity” in the whom the habit is very pre council. During a debate in the without assistance. If you know “ not at all wrong” . evidence between Bell and his valent” . council on thursday, Keighley anyone who is missing, and you travelling companion, detective said: “ Marijuana does not change think it’s likely they got busted This report was issued late last senior constable G. K. Beach. year to London police as part of a person’s personality, but rather for dope, contact McRoach who Cahill, who figured promin Finally their training in apprehending heightens it or emphasises it. If, will try to follow up on the ently in the court case against Bell for instance, we slightly uptight details. ecause of the illicit “ drug offenders” . over the presigned search war Following this conference, the members o f this chamber smoked For a copy of Truckers bible, nature o f dope, and the rants, had been busted by Bell for B League o f Nations passed various cannabis, we would remain what send the Aust. equivalent o f 40p, paranoia o f “ consumers” , com speeding (in a car) and possessing regulations against drug abuse, we are - uptight.” plus 12p postage to Release, 1 munications among smokers is Indian hemp. In court, Bell said and these regulations were either Keighley said marijuana should Elgin Avenue W9 3PR, London. extremely ineffective. McRoach's he and Beach followed Cahill’s car replaced or reinforced by the not be a criminal offence, and However, it’s best to wait for raison d'etre is to improve it - if and, when Cahill noticed them Single Convention. penalties for the use or sale o f it publication of the updated ’74 you have any snippets o f news, behind him, he sped up to 45-50 Several UN agencies are now would be more appropriately issue, which is due soon. knowledge o f busts, newspaper mph. involved in “combating illicit placed under the Summary Offen McRoach, o f course, will keep clippings, anything to do with Bell said Cahill could drive at traffic” - the World Health ces Act than under the Poisons Act you informed. dope, send it to McRoach. If you this speed because the left lane o f Organisation, the Food and Agri (which does not differentiate be provide a stamped self addressed the road they were on, Hoddle culture Organisation and tween “soft” and “ hard” drugs). envelope, and your item is used, street, had been clear o f cars UNESCO which has a Division o f This motion was passed, slightly McRoach will reimburse you by although traffic was generally Bang they’re busted Narcotic Drugs. In june 1972 this amended, by the council and mailing you two fertile seeds. heavy. Later Beach testified that division regretted that "un referred to the legislative assembly HE SMOKERS lot is one o f Busted folk, wishing to know it was the right lane which had founded statements were being for further discussion. Keighley ignominity in the case of their rights, or wanting a sympa been clear of traffic. T spread to the effect that cannabis also urged that marijuana be inves busts — which, due to their fre thetic lawyer, should also contact Cahill’s barrister, John Weller, was not a dangerous substance” tigated by a government com quency, have beocme “unnews McRoach care o f TLD. alleged that Bell had drummed up and recommended to governments mittee o f inquiry. worthy” . However, if you’re a the speeding charge and suggested “the application of the most This is not the first time the celebrity, or the prodigy of a severe control necessary to pre Country party has made such that Bell wanted to get even with celebrity, and you get busted, Cahill for having given evidence vent the abuse of, and the illicit surprising statements (for them) you’ll score publicity. against him. Cahill was however traffic in, cannabis” . on dope. Last year Bob Katter Stolid Melbourne citizenry put on probation for three years The UN also runs a training MHR said that he would be head were recently shocked by the for possessing Indian hemp which, unit in Geneva where customs ing a Country party committee to widely publicised bust of VFL according to Bell, was found men from “growing” areas are investigate the use o f marijuana footballer John Howard Cassin. under Cahill’s car seat. Bell main trained how and where to look for and other drugs in Australia. Dis Cassin was found guilty o f posses dope. cussing this committee, Katter tained that Cahill agreed at Rus sion and fined $750 and placed on A Commission on Narcotics, a said “ Contrary to some opinion, sell street police headquarters to a a $200 good behavior bond for 12 committee comprised o f delegates there would not be a more con recorded interview but would not months. Cassin’ s captain-coach sign it. from various countries, meets centrated group o f swingers in Des Tuddenham testified on his annually to co-ordinate the activi parliament than members o f the Incidentally, Bell is rumored to behalf saying that Cassin was a Country party” . ties o f the above mentioned agen be Melbourne’s number one bust great player and a man o f great cies. Finance for all this is McRoach has heard no more boy. Reports have it that Bell is courage. about this committee and, being obtained from UNFDAC, the UN the most regular visitor down at Tuddenham also said, “ I know the cynical bastard that he is, he is Fund for Drug Abuse Control. Melbourne’s Herborium, where that he is a person who can take intently curious as to the Country McRoach’s interesting question cops bring their little bags o f discipline and if the court can be party’s interest in dope. Is it o f the week is, who is basically “ vegetable matter” to be officially lenient in its findings I know their because they have realised the analysed and verified as cannabis. responsible for this fund, who trust will not go astray” . benefits commercial dope would mostly finances it, and who is By the way, does anybody Two young (unnewsworthy) have on the lagging rural trying to gain outright control o f know how many people are girls who were busted with Cassin it? received much lighter penalties. TANDEM Happy Reading from If you answered America, go Cassin is appealing against the BOOKSHOP « McKEOUGH’S W take a toke, you’ re right. How BOOK EXCHANGE severity. ever, the American attack against OPEN 7 DAYS 342 Pitt St., Sydney — Corner Melbourne’s footballers werent drugs doesnt stop here - they AND 7 NIGHTS Pitt & Liverpool Sts. 61.3133. the only ones affected by dopq — have their own, very “ effective” 75 DARLINGHURST RD COMICS, SCIENCE FICTION, the cultural mob got it too when Bureau of Narcotics and KINGS CROSS. ART AND ALL GENERAL the son o f famous artist Clifton Dangerous Drugs. This bureau, PHONE: 358.5660. READING BOUGHT, SOLD Pugh was busted for possessing 12 AND SWAPPED. almost totally concerned with law ounces o f marijuana. Pugh Jr, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974— Page 7 Perched upon the balustrades of the houses of higher learning,SIMON MARGINSON, former Editor of Melbourne University’s. FARRAGO,here takes off with a regular Daylights feature - fun & games on the cam p u s... SWOTLIGHTS Meanwhile,fromArmidale,GRAEME DUNSTAN reports residents have reacted to the accommodation squeeze & are now squatting in education department property. The Armidale express (or Dis tress, as students refer to this Your sadly senile town rag) printed a letter from a lecturer at the CAE. He shitcanned the squatting and campus the picketing because one student had missed one lecture because of it. A teacher of teachers he is and regiment he wrote this: “ Ninety-five per cent of the students are very nice people who are trying to become needs you! the leaders o f tomorrow . . . Why ACK in the Menzoic ages, dont students get the feeling that Australia was thought to be the people who want to be friends B are people like the matrons of the defendable, the news about the two residences and all the staff of H-bomb having encountered some the teachers college who control obstacle on its journey south. Amid the general air of militarism the destiny of students.” The housing crisis remained that existed then, hundreds o f real enough though and it was tertiary students flocked to join realised that it was being aggrava their own part-time armies, the ted by institutional hocus pocus. various campus CMF units. The late 50s and early 60s, Three miles out o f town is a deserted Marist brothers seminary however, saw something o f a decline in CMF membership. It is which last year was leased by the probable that the expansion o f education department for a col school cadet units and the conse lege. The college was operated for quent pre-tertiary experience o f only two terms before student army games had a bit to do with disinterest and vandalism led to its it. Precious few were, even then, closing. This year it had remained willing to do that sort of thing closed down even though there twice. was two years of the lease left to But when Pig Iron Bob intro run. duced conscription, one effect The tenants union resolved to was to enormously boost entry occupy it but nothing happened into CMF units. You see, as long for five days. Then in a sudden as your 20 year old had joined the burst of energy we did it. Thank part-time army beforehand, even you Victoria street, the spirit and if his marble came up, the conse inspiration lives on. quences were not fatal - he By the time we got together merely ended up doing five years and got there it was Wednesday at 30 days a year. His mates were evening and in the darkness with able to piss o ff altogether from torches and candles we explored. the CMF as soon as they were It consisted of three acres with ballotted out. These regiments one grand old squatter house, a 37 (especially the campus based ones, room accommodation block with as students tend to be a little large meeting room, stables, wash greasier than mo st when their own house, tennis court and pavilion. welfare is concerned) were in Inside the house there was a bil a haven for a particular genre liard table, equipped kitchen, fur draft dodger. niture and lots and lots o f space. Unfortunately for the CMF, its We lit the fire and began. The popularity was thus closely tied to first major visit was SAM, the the political pendulum. The Socialist Action Movement. They effects of Gough’s triumph are had not been able to be there at well illustrated by the entry the entry, they were having yet figures o f the Melbourne Univer another meeting. Socialist Arm sity Regiment: in may 1972 the chair Movement. They came and intake was 63; in may 1973 it was went. five. Next day authority arrived in Much less a battle, you could the form o f Ron Davis, registrar hardly get together a decent game £ o f the CAE. He walked in to see o f two-up with numbers like that. ^ the floor being swept and books One would expect the campus $ being read. He was gruff but, after CMFs to quietly sink into the asking us to leave, he agreed to exactly what parts o f the paper who wish to lay it down. There void, especially with the extra man management” . For, they add, meet us again that night. were obscene, though it could will be longer features on matters threat o f Barnard-induced dis “as a boss (and you may be one Davis arrived for the meet have been a back page article o f great importance. One thing we bandment hanging over them. But soon after graduating) you’ll be ing. We told him we proposed to entitled Cod fucks women, about particularly want to include is the (part-time) Anzac spirit is nowhere if you dont understand make it a self-managing co-opera original grafix — photos, cartoons, once again standing erect among these fundamentals.” the activities of a group of ANU tive student community, where Jesus freaks who held a fake line drawings. So have a look us: a big recruiting barrage has * * * people would control their own womens lib meeting during Orien around your own mind factory, been opened up on first year AT Macquarie university, some lives and live and learn and grown tation Week to try and swell their and send the results to Daylights. students at several universities and bonehead in administration has in the experience o f it. numbers with a few first year Accolades and money will follow. CAEs. proposed a Real Estate Course — Davis admitted he had been girls. However, this sort o f One example will suffice. Mel ie. property investment — for influential in committing the heading is not a serious matter bourne University Regiment has undergraduate students. While education department to the lease these days, what with the flood Dis left hundreds of pink leaflets lying they’re at it they may as well run and how disappointed he was that gates opened and all, and Woroni’s around in the union foyer. They one in playing the stock market or the rugger buggers did not see the co-editors Martin Attridge and orientation blaze Broaden your outlook. on how to dodge taxes. possibility for graceful living the Shane Moloney suspect deeper Dwelling at length on the fringe * * * seminary offered. He left saying motives, to whit the chronic paper benefits involved, each leaflet IF YOU go to the ANU you might Week he was off to Sydney next day to shortage afflicting the newspaper states, “ All attendances are paid have noticed that the second EEMINGLY the student talk about it with the fatter cats. business. For as soon as Maxwell and pay is tax free ... A recruit’s edition of Woroni was rather late. action in Armidale was to It was something in the tone Printing Company decided not to S $6.61 a day will buy a lot of beer There’s a long and sordid story be a one week wonder. The squat rather than the content o f the release that edition they turned and there is ample opportunity behind this. ters at Newling house were fading conversation for it left us con every copy into pulp, probably to for promotion to NCO and com The issue was originally printed away. Maguire, the now nationally fident, confident in ourselves. No be converted to stock for re missioned rank (which means in 5000 copies by Maxwell Print notorious landlord, managed to cops, no confrontation hassles. cycling. more pay).” ing Company, Sydney. But after a remove his $47 a week blacks and we would if we focused our * * * MUR lays to rest the old bull special meeting o f the board o f find takers at $60 a week for his energies on it, be free to make this shit about the army training you directors they refused to release NEXT WEEK this column will nondescript bungalow (TLD, seminary a fascinating freedom, a to kill people Pointing out that it. A company lawyer told Woroni balloon enormously: it will 2/10). And there was talk of magic theatre, a voyage to un shooting is but a very small por it was considered obscene: “ We’re become a lift-out supplement outside manipulators and the need known possibilities in ourselves tion o f what you get out o f CMF not an underground press” , he solely devoted to studentography. to study — talk spun o f fear, fear individually and collectively. training, the leaflets emphasise said, “and we dont print under News will be included, emanating o f self-made decisions and fear o f It will always be a growing "the opportunity to learn and ground material.” from numerous campus corre living without and beyond Big thing. At present we are only 10 gain experience in leadership and Maxwell's never explained spondents and any other readers Brother. or so. Come up and join us. Page 8 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 Bringing it all back home A word from the wise for aspiring smugglers. The author imparts the fruits of several years experience with the department of customs & discloses classified information to help you through the gate F someone tries to tell you stances internally. A man can hold I he has a foolproof method approximately 200 grams o f hash o f smuggling, tell him about Mr in his rectum without discomfort. A., the man who used to make Women are even more appro dolls out of hash, coat them with priately endowed. The world eight layers o f enamel and export vaginal record (caught) I believe is them. Mr A. is now playing with 400 grams o f heroin: What a girl! himself in H.M. Prison, Amster IN YOUR PERSONAL BAG dam. GAGE: A game of Russian Or what about Mr B., who roulette where the disadvantages made a pair o f snow skis around a generally outweigh the advant core o f heroia Seamless, beauti ages. There are tw o types o f fully polished, undetectable, even check. a dog couldnt sniff it. Mr B. now has ten years to meditate on the (1) Random. The Primary, or harmful effects o f X-rays. immigration officer (the one who Mr C. thought he was pretty asks you if you have any danger cool. He filled 26 small rubber ous drugs, been working on a farm balloons with THC, swallowed etc.) places a colored sticker on them with his breakfast and your customs declaration (the boarded his plane for the States. form they give you in the plane or One o f the balloons broke in his boat). On this sticker is a letter stomach. He got terrible smashed, followed with three numbers. A passed out for a couple o f days, certain number, say seven, is but recovered, proving once again selected. This number remains un the old proverb that it’s impos known to the primary officer, so sible to smoke too much dope. dont bother asking him what it is. However, the other 25 balloons If the last number on your sticker were passed naturally into the is seven, the preventive officers hands o f eager customs men at the (the ones who search your bags) hospital. give you a 100 percent baggage Discouraged? I should bloody check. You have a one in ten well hope not. Just remember two chance o f getting this check. things. (2) Intuitive Check. If the First, when you are smuggling, primary officer doesnt like the you must be prepared for a lot of hard work. You must learn every look of you he will write "4/6” or thing you can about customs pro some other strange code on your cedures so that you can make a declaration. This is a sign for the list o f all the things that can preventive officers to give you a possibly go wrong with your 100 percent check. If you see scheme. Examine this list item by something like this written on item and plan ways of avoiding your form and you have a suitcase o f smuggling each danger. full o f substances, declare them there is. Positively Second, TELL ABSOLUTELY immediately and you will get a for masochists only. NO ONE YOUR INTENTIONS. A lighter sentence. Your chances o f ON YOUR PERSON: If you have LARGE NUMBER OF BUSTS' getting this check depend on how a friend in customs get him to RESULT FROM TIP-OFFS. Trust freaked out you look and how check if you are on the Boarding no one but yourself. much overtime the customs men Officers Warning and Suspect There are quite a number o f want on the day. Alert lists before you leave Aus different types o f smuggling. Let’s If you want to bring in sub tralia. You will be on it if you glance at some o f these. stances in baggage, the best meth have a passport and are wanted by od is the good old false bottom the police or customs, are a trick. Make sure it looks like a real deserter, are a known smuggler or bottom. You can get them done have been busted for dope. If you IMPORTING PARCELS: Not a professionally in most eastern are on the list, or think you might particularly reliable method. countries. Dont make it too thick be, dont try bringing anything on Never import anything illegal - half a centimetre at the most. your person. from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, In Fill the space completely. Fit as donesia, fJouth Africa or other much stuff into the main part of likely countries. Britain is the the suitcase as possible so that safest, particularly around Christ you need two or three people mas time, but still, it’ s risky. sitting on it to close it. The Dont have parcels sent register customs man will be less likely to ed because if the substances are empty the suitcase knowing that detected, the men will be waiting he has to repack it all and close it for you. Your signature in the again register book is implicit o f owner COMMERCIAL IMPORTATION: ship. This takes a lot o f knowhow, If the post office holds up your organisational skill and dedica parcel on a pretext, eg. insuffi tion. For the serious smuggler cient postage, return the card they only. send you after writing “ not this SMALL CRAFT: A good idea is address” on it. While awaiting a to incorporate the substances into parcel keep a very clean house. the keel o f the vessel. IN LETTERS: This is an almost If you ’re sure you are not on REMEMBER: foolproof method o f smuggling. the list, the body method is one 1. Obey all quarantine regula Customs are not permitted to o f the safest, provided that you tions - bugs are a bum trip. open A class mail (letters) without behave "normally” when entering. 2. Use all o f your passenger the consent o f the addressee. The Be clean shaven, wear nice concessions. If you dont want all limitation with this type o f smug clean, pressed “ casual” clothes the stuff yourself, get it for other gling is the amount o f substances (with no suspicious bulges), dont people. Singapore and Hong Kong that can be put in a letter. How look nervous or excited, look are still the best duty free ports. ever, this method is ideal for such slightly bored. To avoid looking 3. Do smuggle. Customs micro drugs as LSD. Many thous nervous, take three or four really reckon they stop between five and ands o f trips can result from a deep breaths, slowly, holding each ten percent of all illegal imports. piece of treated blotting paper. one in for ten seconds and then That’s a bit of a wank on their UNACCOMPANIED PERSONAL exhaling slowly. Think about part. If you use your head there’ s BAGGAGE (ie. baggage that pre something nice. Your nervousness only a slim chance they will get cedes or follows your arrival): will vanish. you. This is the most dangerous form It is best to place the sub- GOOD LUCK! THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974-Page 9 Yesterday’s heroes fade quickly from public concern, especially if they’re busted for dealing cocaine, like Abbie Hoffman, The Coke the flamboyant catalyst of the 60s youth movement. In this extraordinary letter to Abbie’s lawyer, ALLEN GINSBERG passionately unveils the true Conspiracy significance of the coming court case. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: So I bear witness that Abbi? sibility o f past and fresh present narcotics law politics. On behalf of political poet Hoffman is not an ordinary citi Abbie Hoffman's reported arrested zen, member o f a silent majority News o f Abbie Hoffman’s arrest proposes shock, dismay and with friends and a group of of citizens compliant with government men over three 1984-style bureaucracy and acqui mental rejection o f the idea that pounds of cocaine, I wish to share escent to remote control war. life imprisonment for cocaine my thoughts: Hoffman is a patriot who has drug entrapment by police (with First, I bear witness to his fought the good fight to waken no eligibility for parole for 15 to his fellow Americans to the cor 25 years, depending on pro special experience in the honor use, able cause o f peace protest in the ruption of their own traditional nouncement of the judge) is a ideals. Like Tom Paine, he is a too sane response to the fact of face of violent denial of human expensive! civil rights to citizens in America classic example o f philosophic and cocaine and its elitist use in USA. for psycho-^ and out o f it, especially during the poetic dramatist o f public ideals, Mandatory life for cocaine is neu logical course of Indochinese war activity a pamphleteer and book man, rotic, irrational, a hysterical swipe generally, foisted on this nation by govern seeking liberty from his illegal war at people's souls, a polyphemous traditionally ment. Abbie Hoffman has already and police state, not touched body crusher punishment, a killer been jailed many times for seek deeply by the courts, till late - sport o f self- idea - it is not sober social indulgent ing, with peaceful fire and good they were touched deeply by response to cocaine usage and millionaires and more humored street theatre and Abbie Hoffman. special problems, it is no help to recently gaga rock stars. astonishing public drama, redress Thus his social position as a old ladies in the street mugged by The seriousness o f of grievances for the bad luck of leader or theorist o f new survival ignorant junkies conditioned to the Vietnam war. society credits him with delibera punishment promised by .deprivation, violence and pain Reviled and insulted at first for tion and reason. In recent conver vengeful prosecutors - one ! with police bureaucracy and mafia articulating a now commonly held sation Abbie explains his arrest as of whom characterised fattening on the illegality o f opinion o f that war, he defended the following circumstance: He Abbie Hoffman’s hapless addiction. Life in jail for anti war himself and others against re was researching relationship be alleged dabbling in cocaine hero Abbie Hoffman and friends peated government accusations of- tween mafia drug dealing and as “ insidious and treacherousl is national folly. conspiracy, illegal speech, gesture police for a new text he was as homicide” — opens up the! I pray with body speech and and public assembly in urging the preparing for publication. Thus he great drug question - not sol mind OM AH HUM for courts and war end. In this situation he got trapped in the middle of a much o f Hoffman’s legal or government and public to recog became a hero in a nation en cocaine sale surrounded by police moral guilt, which notion! nise the strange delicacy and his dealing with each other while gulfed with moral catastrophe, is considered whimsical in fact.‘ torical charm of the situation in posing as big time gangsters. and no man of any generation in His arrest raises the publicly which they are placed together his right mind can be but grateful In time o f communal apathy- with peace poet Abbie Hoffman suppressed drug question: for Abbie Hoffman’s, inventive synchrpnous with Abbie Hoff | and myself. Sincerely yours, can we endure longer the total national communication o f the man’s recent disillusioned with Allen Ginsberg war’s madness and folly. I remain drawal to private life (after crises insanity and incomprehen- grateful for his righteous indig o f his public efforts to confound nation over the Vietnam war, the government police bureaucracy moral power of his deeply-felt and war led him to be attacked resistance to the injustice o f it, from left and right), Hoffman is Heroin provencale and his demonstration o f free now to be congratulated on an imagination against mass com arrest which by its very surprise, its simultaneous whimsicality and placency at the mass murder in l l o f France is under a cloud jn France, a change of dessert his father asked him a which we were all involved seriousness, re-unites many o f his A today. There are avalanches q u e stio n but Claude only Abbie Hoffman was one o f the fellow workers once again to resist and slippery autoroutes in France. government means continuedno nodding. “Are you first souls in the nation to make the steamroller o f police state meditating?” he asked Claude. consciousness sensitive to the power crushing another live citi w SLi,Thef yFrt^ y’4 «™ n ° change of government Claude dipped his spoon listlessly zen’s body. Eichmann-like nature of our pub changed today, the radio says. and the S m ile S o f the in the chocolate mousse and soon Mr Hoffman’s arrest for lic war-guilt. Thus any legal case The change of government . . left the table. in which he is involved is a matter cocaine dealing does not bear doesnt mean much to anyone yO U ng h a n g lOW On toward resolution o f the real I went to find him. He was in of deep political consideration, really - except the governors - tViP m nnth cn savs requiring special attention, “hard drug” problem in America, because it is just a matter of m e m ou m > so saYs an alcove o ff the livingroom, making tantric designs, very much straight heart judgment and in any way, shape or form. shifting the same old bad faces. MIKEZWERIN Government’s visioned sen involved in them. I sat down exquisite moral care - that public For example, the minister of the sophisticated Perfectly French, tence of life for Abbie Hoffman silently and watched him. Claude resentment against him as god- interior police) became minister The oppositioil been reduced resolves no whit the real tor resembles his father except for a fool o f conscience should not crush of agriculture and the minister of tQ wish sh liberalism, menting drug problem in America, prominent nose and long black him in his present legal difficulty. agriculture is the new minister o f -chipping away at detaiis nke how curls. But the eyes are the same We are now in the midst o f but only adds more pain and the interior. national scandal o f government hysteria to the scene. . to react to the Solzhenitsyn affair, . . . deep, misty, as if used to tears The real drug problem in The old minister o f the interiori and they sound like sore losers, ... the look of today’s French misbehavior called Watergate. was shifted because he has been Even though it costs a lot more, America is that government nar youth . . . confused, afraid, High politicians preaching law and unable to catch any of the new all the French really seem to care order were themselves habitually cotics bureaucracies and organised wave of bank robbers in Pans about is driving around just like lonely. breaking Bill o f Rights laws in the crime have had a status quo work ( Chicago-on-the-Seme ) and before During dinner I had mentioned interests o f the creation o f some ing relationship for decades. This because he got caught bugging the a visit I had made to a small sort o f police state. This pattern arrangement denies legitimate offices o f the satirical weekly La * * * commune just outside Carpentras. o f Watergate crooked-heartedness opiate addicts reasonable access to canard enchaine. The old minister Claude looked up from his designs was precisely the government pat their specific medicines. The black of the interior also had a habit of WITH a friend I drove down to and shyly asked if I could give tern denounced prophetically by market for opiates consequently doing pigheaded things like Aix-en-Provence last week to have him their address. I said sure, Abbie Hoffman. Some of these created serves to increase the busting autonomist movements in dinner with a prisoner of high asking why. same Watergate actors defamed number of addicts, not decrease Brittany, Corsica and the Basque overhead; an old hipster friend “ I want to leave school.” and prosecuted Abbie Hoffman it, serves only to increase the country although these who got stuck in a glossy I dug out the address, wrote it precisely for his vocal and theat social disorientation of addiction, “movements” were mainly four magazine 15 years ago. He down and handed it to him: “ Why rical resistance to their war. not cure it, serves to discredit guys who get drunk Saturday supports three ex-wives and six do you want to leave?” machine. He too wrapped himself helpless, sick citizens, not minister night and set o ff a bomb kids. He would like to drop out He remained silent for a few in the flag, threw free money o ff to them. This arrangement somewhere. Monday morning but since he can’t afford to he beats and then said: “ My besl the balconies o f the stock market, increases the pain o f addiction. they’re back in the shop again, bought a couple o f houses and friend died last week.” wrote forbidden words on his This arrangement profits only nar Instead o f busting the guys he eats steak. Though bourgeois I was almost afraid to ask: brow, woke the younq to national cotics control agencies and busted the movements which gave enough, his house in Aix is lined “ How?” disaster, and practised exorcism organised crime networks. Both them much more importance than with books and tasty art and we Claude returned to his tantric o f a black magic operating in the depend on continued criminalisa- they have. The movements have were sitting in antique chairs. Two designs: He O D ’d.” highest reaches o f respectable tion of addicts to maintain their been on the front pages and now a o f his co-workers were there, plus The next day we heard that a government — illusory statistics, complementary parasitic exis lot of ordinary people in those a theatre critic from French German hippy who lives in the lying, public deception, con tences. Both groups have grown remote and poor parts o f France television. His son Claude played a pretty village down the road has spiracy mania, even mass as with the growth of the black have started to think that maybe fine record collection from Fats smack for sale. That night a sassination in Vietnam, Operation market they have created. In this there should be a movement. Waller to Lou Reed to window of a photography shop in Phoenix confessed in public situation the medically sick junkie Y ou’ve got to give these McGloughlin. a neighboring town was smashed before Congress. Constriction by is a victim, treated like a Jew gaullist'pigheads credit. When the Conversation was subdued, and most of the stock stolen. It government o f his own liberty, under Hitler, driven mad in the energy crisis hit they went right to Even the smiles were sad French was the first grand larceny anyone such as wiretapping, has I believe streets to seek relief from unen the energy. They made bilateral society is closed on so many in the village can remember. A been proven in court in the course durable pain and social degrada deals for 20 years supply o f oil levels. When I asked questions friend told us she thinks someone o f numerous trials by which the tion imposed on him by police with Kuwait, Libya and other about the magazine, they were is siphoning off her heating fuel. government tried to knock Abbie bureaucracy and organised crime. arab countries and fuck shrugged away with: “It’s not We decided to start locking our Hoffman and his peace friends out Cocaine in my experience is a everybody else. They were fast such a bad place to work.” Claude door today but found we dont o f action against war and growth drug neither hard nor soft, offer about it, smart, ruthless and was silent through dinner. Over even have a key. o f the police state. ing too short a flash for com m on Page 10 — THE LIV IN G DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974 At last it can be told, the low life and dizzy times of Sydney’s outrageous drag queens, by CHERRY RIPE w h o w as there when the action was hottest. THE DECADENT T has been a long and tedious DEMISE ing which has now gone too. goodbye for Sylvia and the Syn Rehearsals were an evening o f drunken thetics. They were a four-night stand of dancing and dining at someone’s place 18 months ago that has long outlived its The cast then was a floating 20 but reputation. Cabaret is a poor substitute never that many turned out for rehearsal. * * for their long gone sexual anarchy. Gone, Dropping acid and raiding .whosever drag { $ too, the audience orgies, the implicitly wardrobe, dressing up, making up, trying * J political confrontation, and their un- out a new look, parading freshly acquired * * abashed and total amorality. The for-real tat from Cleveland street op-shops. * * butchness o f hairy chests and balloon tits Then there was the working out o f + * has become nothing more than tatty-chic numbers, individual routines involving * J mandraxed transvestitism. They are re gorilla suits, live pythons, or chorus lines { duced to the university circuit, teamed up of bathing beauties, or Allen* with a tired Kings Cross stripper and her Jones-inspired black leather absurdities. £ * innocuous sado-leather routine, and ped- The same show was never done twice. ♦ J died to poor unsuspecting freshettes as a They were turning out a new one every * porn show. two weeks. There was the working out o f J The Synthetics ceased to exist as an an order o f tunes or tracks for th e * artistic entity well over a year ago. It had sound recordist, and writing up a sequence * evolved quite simply out of a group of of numbers that would become the J friends fundraising effort to finance their “ script” on the dressingroom wall. And-k own retirement to the country. Their that was the rehearsal, energetic a n d * reputation was longlived for such momen outrageous, as much of a party as the * tary brilliance. Hit by factionism and show would be. { decimation o f talent, many lost to foreign But preparation for shows got less and £ parts, some just drowned in after-show less. And the move to bigger and less inti- * champagne breakfasts (that were suppos- ■ mate venues brought last minute censor J^ ed to have eaten up all possible wages), ship. With it came a slackness, falling J and left penniless by abscondance with back on stand-by numbers, and the audi J collective funds, their energy had gradual- ence from being participants, became 4- ly drained. voyeurs. But it was fashionable accept $ It didn't take a desk calculator to ance that thrust commercialism on them. J figure that 300 by three dollars a head Never known to say no, especially to a * * was lining someone’s pocket. Or setting free drink, they were susceptible to all the £ up steam baths in Melbourne? But by SYLVIA AND “free grog” offers of trendy winebar 5 * then it was too late anyway. The self- openings, gallery firstnights, offers o f * * appointed management had begun offer- money for a show at a record launch £ " ing around a Synthetic package at an THE SYNTHETICS (though they didnt really fit in with Ross * asking price o f $1000 with the cast o f ten Ryan’s image!), even finally to the fashion . * to be paid $10 each. cum-pellets, blood pouring down the chin ed across a bare arse. Or the wry humor pages o f that liberated-housewives maga- { J From the jampacked writhing dancing, o f a bathing belle as she gorges a raw of The Housewife's Dream, alone in her zine, POL. Socially their presence had be- * 4- fucking-in-the-frontstalls shows at the sheeps heart, hit in the face with a whole boredom masturbating with the suction com e an asset. They moved from b ein g * } Purple Onion, the Synthetics moved on tray o f rotten raw fish hurled on you pipe of her Hoover, or deluged with taken up by the underground press (Dig- £ * to the newstyle censored performances to unsuspecting, it was designed to make household products, body commodities, ger) to the esteemed pages o f the Bulletin. * * sitdown audiences of 1500 at Paddington you puke. Or go wild. It went wild. Iggy emptied on the stage and the audience. Although back then they were still not ac- * town hall. It had become too hot at the and his Stooges or the New York Dolls There were those into straighter drag, ceptable to the “ What! Drag queens on a J Onion. The vice squad were just too are mild by comparison, except they pretty dresses and highheeled shoes who childrens program!” GTK audience, as* interested, even to the point o f arresting werent around then! These “ girls” did lip-synch mime to their favorites, like they now are. “loiterers” on the pavement outside. werent just a show biz gimmick, rather a A tiskat A taskat, the sort of individual Recently the Synthetics act doesnt J Some said they even went as far as “Fuck you! We like it the way we are!” cabaret that they do now rather shoddily even rate as cheap trendy entertainment, * sending down an old female vice-trooper militancy. It was a flagrantly perverted and unrehearsed. The political content their shows have become so tedious. They £ in full drag to try and gate-crash the display o f appalling bad taste, sexual has gone. So too the committing of event! are reduced in-between-reels o f retro £ anarchy and gay abandon, role confusion outrage for the sake o f outrage, exposing movies at the Filmmakers Coop, billed as* Changing to the new venues o f mass - menaswomenasmen - in a theatre of the people to their own cut of points. Watch Sylvia and the Synthetics in (between) £ audiences and “No Pubes” completely Horrific. ing two guys getting it on at a range o f the Barkleys of Broadway. Or more altered the content and feel of the shows, The politics of it were a bit confused. five feet at eyelevel would lay on the line recently still, last week, descended to the as it did the commitment and energy It was up to the individual in the choice whatever hangups you may have. But banality of the campus circuit, providing * within the group. Save for “ private” and choreography of a particular number. chances are you’d get down and get it freshettes with their Orientation week appearances in poolhalls, derelict butch It ranged from a version o f Y ok o Ono’s on too in the pits with half the rest o f the pom ration. But there was hardly a cock ers shops and demolition parties, their dirge Woman is the Nigger of the world audience. The stage routines were more to be seen, save for one incident at a four-night stand brilliance had jaded. with its chorus o f drags all chained like a sideshow at an orgy. It was here the lunchtime show, where the catcalling* There’s no mistake, the Synthetics together, to "Eat your heart out” scrawl Synthetics picked up a dedicated follow- J were always deliberately tasteless. They obscenity-screaming audience largely left * * were a total anathema to the silicone- to entertain themselves for the $ 1 .5 0 ,* titted shave-pitted showgirls o f Capric- managed to lay hands on one o f the drags j cio’s and Les Girls, those deodorised and indulged in a bit of on the spot * trans-sexual perfections o f femininity. poof-bashing, tearing her dress to shreds. Here were no ostrichplumed catwalks, no The Synthetics were unique. They . ^ Real Women pushed up and pinched in, were wholly indigenous, not a poor- * if with their cocks tucked invisibly back up cousin imitation o f a drag theatre group £ 4 their fannies. “ This is folk art” someone you might find in San Francisco like * * had scrawled in shaving foam across the the Cockettes, long before Lou Reed * scarlet backwall above the clouds. They “ came out” (as I was informed by an * were about on-stage real violence. And Amsterdam queen) with Walk on the w ild * sweat. And glitter. Not your fake cine side, beyond Iggy Pop and the Dolls. matic violence, those synthetic casualties But they had no overblown estimation * were real. Mandied K.O.s, bloody as o f themselves or their ability: “ All glitter, * saults on equally bombed partying partic no talent” was a catchcry. They were a J ipants, stretching the limits o f tolerance send up of the carefully and expensively * to consummate release. That was their contrived real-woman transvestitism that £ anarchy. you find in plush clubs, with its horm one* Their whole sexuality was political. and silicone subservience. Masturbating with ten foot pythons, The handbills and word o f mouth gave way to posters and well advertised large fucking vacuum cleaners (The Housewife’s venues; their spontaneous energy Dream), bananas shoved in and out o f an open pussy, flayed with a stream o f relinquished for repe-titive body-commodities, pressure pack shaving- commercialism impromptu outrage for creams, deodorants, hairsprays, writhing law-abiding compromise, militancy for masses o f nakedness, cocks and arses dreary complacency, the five remaining entwined in a slippery mound o f soap- faithfuls plod tediously on, a long way } flakes, cornflakes, buckets of water and from november 72. But now there is Betty Spaghetti and glitter by the lib bag, sprayed with silver Uoris laid in the aisle at last years UNSW orientation week. the Raviolis. Over to you Melbourne. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974— Page 11 The last poster show Page 12 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974 A LffTOUT/GUIDE TO W H A T ’S ON IN THE WEEK AHEAD. EXHIBITIONISM town hall. Info 53.6719, wed, fri, sat. EXHIBITION OF ALL WEEK LEAR by Edward Bond: PAINTINGS by prisoners: Parade theatre, 663.6122, Robin Hood Committee, Surry Gallery — mon-fri, pm, 9 pm, mon-thur. HEADS: Genesians, 420 nightly 8 pm; wed, sat, 2 SYDNEY 441 Riley street, Surry 9.30-5 pm; sat, 9 am-11.30 D o n a tio n . Kent st, City, 798.3608, pm. Prepared by Stephen W all, who also acts Hills, 2010, 211.2646, 4 pm; sun, 9 am-1.30 pm. A W INTER’S TALE: Manly 8.15 pm, fri, sat only. THE FANTASTIC KS: Bon as TLD outpost and copy host, Tuesdays pm-8 pm, $2.00. JON LEWIS EXPERI Silver Screen, 7.30 pm THE PHILANTHROPIST di Pavilion theatre, 30.7211, to Thursdays, at 18 Arthur street, Surry TEN LEADING ARTIST MENTAL PHOTOG (check first), 977.5503, — early brain damage: The tues to fri, 8.30 pm; sat, Hills, 698.2652. POTTERS: The Potters RAPHY EXHIBITION: $2.00, except tues, wed. Independent, North sun, 5 pm, 8.30 pm, $3.50. Gallery, 97a Bourke st, Bonython Gallery, Paddo, Sydney, 929.7377, 8.15 Student rush: 15 mia Woolloomooloo, 11-6 pm, tues-sat. MUSIC pm, w ed to sat only. prior to performance 357.1021, t ues-sat, US AND AUSTRALIAN THE EMPIRE BUILDERS: $ 2. 00. 10,30-5.30. FUNK ART: Art Gallery TRANSITION — ROCK: New Theatre, 519.3403, CRADLE OF HERCULES HARRY GEORGESON — of NSW, mon-sat, 10 am-5 Oceanic hotel, wed to sat. fri, sat, sun only 8.15 pm; — world premiere by M. ★ Attica: see films, all week welded steel sculptures: pm; sun, 12-5 pm. STEWART AND McKAY, sat, sun, 2.15 pm. Boddy: Opera House drama Sculpture Centre, WALL H A N G I N G S ROCK etc: Jools, Crown NO NEED FOR TWO theatre, 8 pm nightly; wed, 241.2900, tues-sun, 11 am- POTTERY, JEWELLERY, st, Darlinghurst, 31.5228, BLANKETS by Ted Egan: sat, 2 pm. Info 663.6122. 4 pm . CERAMICS AND VEGGIE 9-3 am. Action starts about Australian theatre, EROS AND THANATOS JANET MANSFIELD SANDWICHES: Hunters 1 2 .3 0 am . Newtown, 51.3841, 8 pm, — based on Herbert STONEWARE POTTERY Hill Gallery, 89.2282, U NITY JAZZ wed to sat. Marcuse's “Eros and (designed for living) but tues-sun, 2-5 pm. ENSEMBLE: Old Push, JESTERS — good oz gear Civilisation”, a book I ★ The Fantastics: see still very still: Divola 8-12 pm, thur to sat only. on holidays: Nimrod Street couldnt put do w n as I G alleries, 165 R o w n tree st, FILM theatre, 33.3933, tues to couldnt understand it: theatre, all week Balmain, 827.301 8, ' T H E A T R E sun, 8.30 pm; wed, sat, PACT, 264 Pitt st, City, thur-sun, 11 a m -6 pm . R Y A N ’ S D A U G H T E R : 5.30 pm, 8.45 pm. 8.30 pm, fri and sat only. New Arts Cinema, Glebe, THE TAMING FORCE by THE LOVER — lunch hour HOLDSWORTH WALKS GALLERIES — good tues-sat, 7.30 pm; wed, sat, Paul Burns: Old Church, theatre: “ Q” theatre, AMP, mixed exhibition, some 3 .3 0 pm. Palmer st, East Sydney, 8 Circular Quay. Info WALKING TOUR OF heavies: 85 Holdsworthy N E W CINEMA pm, $2.00, sat, sun, mon 33.5744, 1.10 pm. THE ROCKS: start at ★ Would You Believe: see st, W o ollah ra, 3 2 .1 3 6 4 , RETROSPECTIVE: Paul on ly. WHO’S WHO: Ensemble, Sydney Cove Redevelop mon-sat 10 am.5 pm. Winkler: Filmmakers DONT LISTEN LADIES: 78 McDougall st, Milson’s ment Information Centre THE BURGHERS OF CAL Cinema, 31.3237, 8 pm, Marian Street theatre, P oint, 9 2 9 .8 8 7 7 , 8 pm, sat (watch for falling bricks) at freebies, Sunday AIS by Auguste Rodin — tues, sat, $1.50 tues-sat, 8.15 pm; sun, 5 pm , 8 pm. 1 0 .5 0 , 2 .5 0 . $ 1 .2 0 fo r 1V* reproductions anyway: ATTICA — US prison film: 7 .3 0 pm. KISMET by Rockdale hour walk. $2.50 only sat, David Jones Art Mart, Paddington town hall, 7 THE EAGLE HAS TWO Music Society: Rockdale sun. JAZZ cnr Market and Clarence greatest living musicians in streets, City, 5.00 pm-7.00 TUESDAY India today”— Ravi HERBIE MANN: Science pm , free. Shankar. He would know? theatre, NSW uni, 1-2 pm, DON FLETCHER, JOHN Zakir Hussain — Tabla 50c. MCCONNELL, ANDY ANDY PANDY — Looby George Harrison’s latest RHYTHM AND BLUES AND JULIE GEORGE, Loo in bed; could be good: record. Would George JAZZ BAND: White Horse MAC AND LORNA Channel 2, 3.20 pm, Harrison know?: hotel, Newtown, 7.00-10 FOSTER, DAVE WHITE: unemployment special. Conservatorium of Music, pm, free. Elizabeth hotel, City, NEW SOCIETY — ideas 8.15 pm, $4.20, $3.20, DEEP BAYOU: Stage 8.00-10.00 pm, 80c. I and events in behavioral students $1.00. Door tavern, 211.0411. LINDA BRAN: Red | science, social research and MILES MOONEY: Harry’s EAST COAST JAZZ Rileys, Surry Hills, education: ABC Radio 2, Wine Bar, 165 Flinders st, BAND: Unity hall hotel, 7.30-12.00 pm. 7.15 pm . Dario, 8-1 0 pm. B alm ain. (THE SURREAL 1ST GREG LAWRIE AND IAN DOC WILLIS JAZZ RADIO, TELEVISION DREAM: FIRST OF 4 W INTER: French’s Tavern, BAND: Albury hotel, PARTS — Ernst, Dali, Oxford st, 7.45-10 pm. Paddo. JAZZ ON A FRIDAY Warhol: ABC Radio 3, IAN MASON — piano: BLUES GUITAR with NIGHT — Eric Child, Kym 8 .3 0 pm . Stage Door Tavern, 7-10 LARRY: Hang Toe, 217 Bonython: ABC Radio 1, | LARCENY INC stars pm. Commonwealth street, 7.15 pm. Edward G. Robinson, Jane AL HEAD: Red Riley’s Surry Hills, 7.30 pm, 50c. ICE PALACE — movie Wyman, Broderick Wine Bar, Surry Hills, 8-12 NOEL CROW’S STONED with Richard Burton, I Crawford — underground pm . Free. CROWS: Woolpack hotel, Robert Ryan, Carolyn banking: Channel 10, 10 Parramatta, 7.30-10.00 Jones — all have cold feet pm. pm. in Alaska: Channel 10, SIBERIA — the endless JEANNIE LEWIS, PETER 9 .0 0 pm. horizon. A national WEDNESDAY BOOTHMAN: French’s BOWLS — lawn, for the geographic special: tavern, 7.45-10.00 pm. use of, highlights of double Channel 10, 7.30 pm. KEVIN GOODEY — championship: Channel 2, TRAD JAZZ: Limerick 1 1 .1 5 pm. PERSPECTIVE: Cancer MEETINGS Castle, Surry Hills, 7.30-12 IN CONCERT with Deep — meeting the challenge: pm. Purple, Buddy Miles, Rare PALESTINIAN, ISRAEL, Channel 2, 8.50 pm. J A C Q U E S L O U SSI ER Earth, Rory Gallagher: AUS DEBATE: Front Classified “ A’’ huh? TRIO play Bach jazzily: Channel 7, 11.00 pm. I COULD GO ON lawn, Sydney uni, 1 pm-2 Sydney town hall, pm . SINGING — movie, Judy 212.2244, 8.15 pm, $4.60. Garland, a singing star falls off her stool for Dirk FILM SATURDAY Bogarde: Channel 2, 10.20 NFT A G. W. Pabst and pm. Kl DS D O N ’T LOOK May Ophlus season — DANTE’S INFERNO: Stop BACK/KEEP ON the merry-go-round, I want BATMAN DESERT HAWK, LETTER FROM AN ROCKING/DYLAN, UNKNOWN WOMAN and to get off with Spencer ABBOTT AND BERRY, LITTLE JOYLESS STREET with Tracy, Rita Hayworth: COSTELLO: Filmmakers RICHARD: Union theatre, Garbo: Aust Govt Centre, Channel 10, 10.40 pm. cinema, 2.00 pm. Sydney uni, 2.00 pm, 50c. Hunter st, 7.15 pm, $1.20, THE OLD WOMAN WHO N E W CINEMA 8 0 ce n ts students. LIVED IN A SHOE: AMP Members only. Join at RETROSPECTIVE — Paul theatre, Circular Quay, door $3.00. Winkler: Filmmakers 30.3271, 2.00 pm, adults DIE FLEDERMAUS by BRETT AND BUTTER cinema, 10.00 pm, $1.50. $1.60, kids $1.00. Johann Strauss: Opera AND JAM ON HIS FACE: ir Nureyev in 11 am a Dancer’ : see film, thursday I A M A D A N C E R — ADVENTURES IN FOL: Filmmakers Cinema, 10 with Nureyev, Fonteyn, The Independent, House, 8.30 pm, $3.00. CHRIS TAPPERNAC AND CENTRE — Dave de pm, $ 1 .5 0 . but not Shirley Bassey: 929.7377, 2.00 pm, $1.20 D A Y T I M E C I N E M A DAVE FURNISS: Forest Hugard, Brian Crawford, 2001 — A SPACE ODYS Opera House, 6.30 pm, adults, 60c kids. (mainly for women with Lodge hotel, 7.30-10 pm. Arnold Gnauck, Norm FRIDAY SEY, Manly Silver screen, 8.30 pm, $3.00, students kids): Filmmakers Co-op, MERV ACHESON TRIO: Kidd — Singers from floor ROCK 8.00 pm, $2.00. $1.50 at 6.30 pm only. FILM 1 2 .3 0 pm . Bellevue hotel, Paddo, welcome: Red Lion Inn BENEATH THE PLANET WHIRLPOOL and LAURA FRENCH CINEMA — 7.30-10 pm. hotel, cnr Pitt and OF THE APES: Turner HOT ROCKET, 69’ERS by Otto Preminger: AMP I A M A D A N C E R w ith | L 'A S C E N S E U R P O U R PETER BOOTHMAN Liverpool streets, 8-10 pm. Hall, NSWIT Building, 4 S H I B A S A : A v a l o n theatre, 7.15 pm, $1.20, Nureyev, Fonteyn, Bozo: L’ECH AFAUD, L. Malle ENSEMBLE: Limerick AL HEAD: Freudian Slip, Harris st, Broadway, 12.15, community hall, 7.30 pm, 80c students, members Opera House, 2.00 pm, ( 1 9 5 7): Filmmakers Castle, 7.30-1 2 pm. Redfern, 8-12 pm 5.15 pm, 40 cents. $ 1 .4 0 . on ly. $3.00, kids $1.50. Cinema, 6 pm, 10 pm. IAN MASON: Stage Door DON MORRISON: Red UMBERTO D . — CAMP DANCE with LA BOHEME by Puccini, Members only. Join at Tavern, 7-10 pm. Riley wine bar, Surry Hills. Neo-realist classic: Wallace NITRO: Balmain town FOLK, CONTEMPORARY Zeffirelli: Opera House, door $3.00. B O B BERNARD theatre, Sydney uni, 6 pm, hall, 8.00 pm, $2.00, 6.30 pm, 8.30 pm, $3.00. 12001 — A SPACE ODYS- QUINTET with John 4 0 cents. FILM B Y OG . CONTEMPORARY SONG RISE AND FALL OF j SEY, Manly Silver screen, McCarthy: Old Push, 8-12 SOLARIS — a Russian PIRANA: NSWIT Union WRITERS CONCERT with SQUIZZY TAYLOR — N. 8 pm, $2.00. pm. Free. space film: Opera House, RISE AND FALL OF building, 4 Thomas street, Bernard Bolan, John Buesst (1968): Filmmakers 7.30 pm, $2.00. SQUIZZY TAYLOR — N. Broadway, 8.00 pm, $1.50. Dengate, Mick Flanagan, cinema, 10.00 am, $1.50. SLAUGHTER HOUSE Buesst (1969): Filmmakers Al Head, Bob Hudson, BARBARELLA — R. Cinema, Dario, 10.00 pm, WORKSHOPS ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: FIVE — Kurt Vonnegut: HOME: Dennison hotel. Phyl Lobl, Bill Morgan, Vadim (1972): Filmmakers $ 1 .5 0 . Vanity Fair hotel, 7-10 Union theatre, Sydney uni, 69ers: Brighton hotel. Don Morrison, Graham cinema, midnight show, BEDROOM MAZURKA: 16 mm Film, candle pm . 2 pm, 50 cents. Seal, Al Ward, Peter Day: $ 1 .5 0 . Union theatre, Sydney uni, making, silk screening, TIM BROWN — piano: Science theatre, 8.00 pm, MEPHISTO WALTZ and 2.00 pm, 50c. pottery, woodwork Northbridge hotel, 7.30-10 CLASSICS $1.50, students $1.00: CONCERT FOR BANGLA DARTS KELIMOCUM, N F T A film — same as workshop: Old church, pm . RED LION FOLK DESH: New Arts cinema, THE FIRES OF ERIC DAVIS, MICK Palmer street, East Sydney, DON DE SILVA: tuesday. CENTRE — Declan Aftley, 660.6207, 11.15 pm. LONDON: Opera House, FLANNIGAN, JANE 8 .0 0 pm. Macquarie hotel, the ’loo, Bill Morgan, Peter Dodds, 8.15 pm, $5.00, $3.75, HE RI VAC, ANDY AND J A Z Z , R O C K 7.30-10 pm. Colin Watson, Denis Kevins A IR W A V E S $ 2.5 0. TONY, MIKE JACKSON: THEATRE PETER BOOTHMAN — Singers from floor WEDNESDAY LUNCH Elizabeth hotel, City, 8-10 DICK HUGHES: .Stage ENSEMBLE: Limerick welcome: Red Lion Inn THE WORLD OF JAZZ HOUR CONCERT — pm, 70 cents. Door tavern, 7.00-10.00 THE HOSTAGE by Castle, 7.30-12 pm. hotel, cnr Pitt and with Eric Child: ABC classical music: J O H N E W B A N K : H a rry ’s pm. 211.0411. Brendan Behan: Cronulla JERRY — solo guitarist: Wine Bar, 165 Flinders st, Liverpool streets, City, Radio 1, 1 0.25 am. Conservatorium, Main Hall, PETER BOOTHMAN Arts theatre, 523.6888, 8.00-1 0.00 pm. Old Push, 7.30-1 1.30 pm Dario, 8-1 0 pm. PICK OF THE GOONS: $ 1 .00 , 1.10 pm . ENSEMBLE: Limerick 8.1 5 pm. PACT FOLK: YMCA ABC Radio 2, 12.00 noon. Castle, 7.30-12.00 pm. THE FIRES OF LONDON cellar, Liverpool street, ABC GARDEN OF THE HERBIE MANN SEXTET: — music theatre: Opera C ity . AIR: ABC Radio 2, 8.40 THURSDAY Opera House, info TRADITIONAL INDIAN J A C Q U E S L O U SSI ER House, 8.15 pm, $5.00. AL HEAD: Emma's bar, pm. 29.2595, 8.30 pm, $5.30, MUSIC — Haripasad TRIO play Bach: Sydney FOLK, CONTEMPORARY EROS AND THANATOS: laurasia, Shivkumar town hall, 212.2244, 8.15 $4.20, $3.20. PACT, 264 Pitt street, City, 69’ERS, Brighton hotel. Continued over page arma. “Two of the pm, $ 4 .6 0 . 8.30 pm, free/donation. THE LIVING D A Y LIG H TS- march 19-25, 1 9 7 4 - Page 13 ★ Video Theatre- Duval Creek workshop: see video, Sunday TUESDAY ROCK MORE SYDNEY BLUESTONE: Country MELBOURNE Club hotel, Preston. FREEBIES Chris & Eva 5 1 .9 5 6 3 or leave messages BENNELONG TRIO: LA DE DAS: Croxton Park IT STARTED IN NAPLES KATHY DELANEY, 51.7425, write Flat 8, No. 7 Irving hotel, Preston. AND FINISHED UP ON CRISPIN DYE AND IAN WOULD YOU BELIEVE — avenue, Windsor, 3181. TV — stars Clark Gable, M cCLOUD, P A U L an ABC panel game — be Sohpia Loren: Channel 10, part of the audience: BRAND, CHRIS DUFFEY FOLK 8 .3 0 pm. AND RUSSELL HINTER: Arcadia theatre NATIONAL RADIO Chatswood, ring 43.0433 Kirk Gallery, 422 VARIOUS usual and THEATRE: Lady ext. 4777 for seat ALL WEEK Cleveland street, Surry unusual artists: Commune Wlndemere’s Fan by Oscar bookings, 7.30, free. Hills, 8.00 pm, $1.50. $2.50, studs. $1.00. CRYSTAL VOYAGER: coffee lounge, 580 Victoria Wilde: ABC Radio 2, 8.30 THEATRE BILLY THORPE LA DE LILIES OF THE FIELD: p m Brighton town hall, ends street, N.Melbourne. DAS, BAND OF LIGHT, ON YER MARX — Aussie Malvern theatre company, thurs, 8.30 pm, 63-1039 PETER PARKHILL: CREATURE FEATURE — STEVIE WRIGHT: Marx Bros: Pram Factory, 29 Burke road, E. Mal Frank Traynor*s, 100 Lt Tomb of Ligeia: Channel Hordern pavilion, 1.30 vern, thurs-sat, 8.15 pm, 7, 9 .3 0 p m 325 Drummond street, Lonsdale street, city. $ 1 .6 0 . $1.40, studs. $1.00. RADIO THE BAULS OF BENGAL MONDAY Carlton, tues-sun 8.00 pm, $2.50, studs. $1.50, WHAT THE BUTLER — Shiva, Karli, Garnesh FLICKS T V , R A D IO SAW — produced by Loris COUNTRY MUSIC: KZ, JAZZ and Nimbin present: ABC 347 -7 1 33. LA MAMA: 205 Faraday Blake: Williamstown Little 5.00-5.30 am, mon-sat. Radio 2, 11.10 pm. IF — Anderson: Science THE STORY OF POP: street, Carlton, fri-sun, theatre, 4 Albert street, MUFF: Polaris Inn hotel, theatre, Uni of NSW, 6.00 OUR PE R M I SSI VE ABC Radio 1 (2BL), 10.00 9.00 pm, $1.00. Williamstown, wed-sat, 551 Nicholson street, ROCK ’N’ ROLL pm, $2.00 (includes SOCIETY — the Very Rev am. WHY BOURNEMOUTH? 8.15 pm, $1.00 all. N .C arlto n . membership). Ian George shakes up the RADIO THEATRE — and THE MISSING LINKS KARVAS JUTE: Penrith SANJURO by Kurusawa: population (maybe): AR, Hopcraft into Europe: — two comedies by John High, 8.00-12.00 pm. Opera House, 7.30 pm, 10.20 am, mon-fri, except ABC Radio 2, 4.00 pm. Antrobus: Actors theatre, FILMS FILM STEVIE WRIGHT BAND: $ 2. 00. Wednesday. THE WORLD ABOUT US 196 Church street, Rich Hornsby Police Boys Club. IKIRV (living) by LATELINE: AR, 10.15 — LAND OF THE mond, fri-sun, 8.15 pm, THE GODFATHER (R): CHINESE FILM: Prince FLAKE: Oceanic hotel, Kurosawa: Union theatre pm. SIMMER DIM: Shetland is $2, studs. $1.00, 50.2534, mon-sun, till 27th, Carlton Philip theatre, 7.30 pm. Coogee (afternoon) Sydney uni, 7.30, $1.00. lands doco with oil explora ends sun. cinema, Faraday street, CAUGHT and A MODERN BAND OF LI GH T, tio n as v illa in : Channel 2, THE ONE DAY OF THE thurs-sun 7.45 pm, 90c, TV HERO: Ophuls-Pabst FLAKE: Taren Point 5 .0 5 pm . JAZZ, BLUES 3 4 7 -5 5 24. series, NFT A, Dental Youth Club. YEAR — by Alan TOM THUMB — Stan Seymour: Alexander GTK: Ch.2. 6.30 pm, theatrette, Grattan street, BAND O F L I G H T : NED KELLY (NRC) and Freberg voices it: Channel HERBIE MANN SEXTET: mon-thurs, 10 minutes of C arlto n . Chequers. theatre, Monash uni, Clay HANGING HIGH (M) with 7, 6.30 pm. Opera House, concert hall, to n , m on-sat, 8 .1 5 pm, sat progressive rock. LOVE IS A MANY SPLEN- MAGIC: Abraham Mott Clint Eastwood: Footscray THE WILLESEE SHOW: 8.30 pm, $5.30, $4.20 2.15 pm, $3.50, studs. DORED THING: Prince hall, Argyle street, Rocks, Grand, Paisley road, mon- Channel 1 0, 7.30 pm. $ 3 .2 0 . Philip theatre, Melb. Uni, 8.00-1.00 pm $2.00, 541.3992, conc. for sat, 7 .4 0 pm, $ 1 .4 0 , GALLERIES WILDLIFE SAFARI TO JERRY — Solo Guitarist: schools, ends sat. 68-1 138 . 1.00 pm . ETHIOPIA — The High Old Push, 7.30-11.30 pm. SOUTH AFRICA — JAZZ THE GLASS CURTAIN: TRAVELS WITH MY DAVID VOIGT — Paint Simien — The Roof of Tait theatre, 107 Leicester AUNT (M) and ENGLAND ings, pastel drawings: tues- Liberation films: Agora Africa: Channel 2, 7.55 ELECTRONICS Theatre, Latrobe uni, Bun* ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: street, Carlton, fri-sun, MADE ME (M): Dendy sat 10.00 am to 6.00 pm, pm. 8.15 pm, $2.50, studs. doora, 8.00 pm, tickets at Vanity Fair hotel, Malvern, Glenferrie road, 7 sun 2.00-6.00 pm. SUNDAY PLAYBILL — OUR NON-PE R MISSIVE $1.50, 347.1515. door. 4.00-7.00 pm. days, $2.50, 509-0555. PAINTINGS — past and Trapped: ABC Radio 1, SOCIETY — a doco on our THE REMOVALIST: Rus DAVE STEVENS AND present II, those born after 8 .0 0 pm , N-PS: ABC Radio 2, 10.20 sell street th eatre, city, THE SENSUALIST: Trak, MERV A C H E S O N : 1930: Realities, 60 Ross CHANGE OF HABIT, am. mon-sat, 8.15 pm, pre 445 Toorak road, nightly MEETINGS Bellevue hotel, Paddo, street, Toorak, mon-fri movie — Elvis Presley, ROOM TO MOVE with dinner fri-sat 5.15 pm, 6.00 and 8.30 pm, sat 2.30 3.00-6.00 pm. 10.00 am to 5.30 pm, sat Mary Tyler Moore — Chris Winter: ABC Radio $4.20, studs. $1.75, season pm, sun 5.00 pm, $2.50, GROUP MEDITATION: DON DE SILVA: Louis 1 0 .0 0 to p m moral: It’s OK to kiss a 1, 8 .0 0 pm . ticket available, 654.4000. studs. $1.20, 24-9333. 2.00 Ananda Marga, 141 Barkly tavern, Paddo (afternoon) nun but dont get into the THE SECRET WAR OF LOCK UP YOUR DAY FOR NIGHT (NRC): SENSE ’N NONSENSE — street, Carlton. DEEP BAYOU: Stage habit: Channel 10, 8.30 HARRY FRIGG — Paul DAUGHTERS — produced Rivoli Twin 1, Camberwell sculpture by Don Walters: Door tavern, 211.0411, pm. N ew m an as an escape and by Ian Brown — musical junction, nightly 7.45 pm, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne 7.00-12.00 pm, $1.00 bull artist: Channel 9, 9.00 comedy: Pumpkin Players, sat, sun 4.15 pm, $2.25, uni union, mon-fri 10.00 THEATRE BLUES WITH JOHN THE ODD COUPLE — , pm . 314 Church street, Rich studs. $1.00, 82-1221. am to 6.00 pm. BURKE: Limerick Castle, Walter Matthau, Jack MONTY PYTHON’S mond, tues-sat, 8.15 pm. PHOTOGRAPHIC FORTUNE IN MENS Surry Hills, 7.30-12.00 pm. Lemmon — camp it up for LOVE: Rivoli Twin 2: ENEMY by Robin EXHIBITION — Cartier EYES (so you think D O N D E SILVA: the living rooms of the FLYING CIRCUS: above address, nightly 8.15 Channel 2, 9.25 pm. Maugham: Viaduct theatre, Bresson 2nd floor and prisons are good for Macquarie hotel, The Loo, world: Channel 9, 8.30 pm, sat, sun 5.00 pm, ground floor, National prisoners, eh?): Prahran 7.30-10.00 pm. pm. 27a Cromwell road, South $2.25, studs. $1.00, STAGE EVENTS Yarra, 8.15 pm, wed-sat, Tech, Round theatre, 8.00 DOC WILLIS: Beresford THE EXECUTIONER — 8 2 -1 2 2 1 . Gallery, St. Kilda rd, city. pm, 51.0381. hotel, Surry Hills, movie with George THE NIGHT OF THE 7.30-10.00 pm. Peppard, Joan Collins; spy N O E L C R O W ’ S S T O N E D drama yet again: Channel IGUANA by T. Williams: CROWS: Red Neds, 7, 8.30 pm. Turners Hall, NSWIT, Chatswood, 8.30-11.30 pm. 1974 RINGLING BROS Harris street, Broadway, ALL WEEK $1.00, 8.00 pm, AND BARNUM AND THEATRE THEATRE BAILEY CIRCUS: T H E NATIONAL Channel 7, 6.30. BALLET OF SENEGAL: INSANITY SHUFFLE — FILM Capitol theatre, City, ADELAIDE EROS AND THANATOS: Monash theatre group: 211.0199, monday to Merran and John, P.O. Box 135 Upper see frid a y . Adelaide Uni Little T H E H O S T A G E : see ROBERT RAYMOND’S Saturday, 8.15 pm, $3.70, Sturt 5156. Phone: 278-1811. $4.70, $5.70. theatre, monday-saturday, frid a y . AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE 1.00 pm, $1.50, studs. FILMS: Opera House, VAL DOO NI CAN — $ 1. 00. ROCK Missed him didnt you. Last continuous 10.00 am-6.00 ★ Zabred Cartoons: All week at show, last Saturday. Too pm, adults $2.00, kids E X H I B IT I O N IS M $ 1. 00. HOME: Alexander Mackie bad: Hordern pavilion, SA govt, tourist bureau theatrette LIDUM’S ART GALLERY College, 1.00 pm, 8 .1 5 pm. THERESE DESCROU- — David Boyd and others: YOUX FRENCH CINEMA HOME: Dennison hotel The Common, Beaumont, 1962: Filmmakers cinema, (evening) FOLK, CONTEMPORARY 11.00 am to 6.00 pm. 4.00, 6.00 pm, $1.50, CONCEPTS — exhibition members only. AL HEAD: Red Rileys of conceptual and post SUNSHINE CITY — wine bar, Surry Hills, BOOK NOW image art: 14 Porter street, ALBIE THOMS: 8.00-12.00 pm, free. Parkside, 2.00-6.00 pm, McCallum room (old THE SANGHA IN THAI DOUG ASHDOWN, MIKE free. Union), Sydney uni, 6.30 SOCIETY: The Chinese MCCLELLAND, KATHY MUNGARRA ARTS — pm , 50c. Buddhist Fund of DELANEY, BUDDY Australian hand crafts in WOMEN SEASON — Now Australia, 56 Dixon st, WILSON, SEA RUN: silver, timber, copper, Voyager and Marred Haymarket, march 28, 8 YWCA, Liverpool street, stoneware and pewter: Da Woman — Bette bavis and pm. 8.00 pm, $1.50. Costa Arcade, monday- Humphrey Bogart: Opera SELF DEFENCE friday, 9.30 am to 5.30 ROD AND JUDY JONES, House, 7.15 pm, $1.60, KARATE COURSE: Info, pm, Saturday 9.30 am to ANDY AND TONY, $1.20 students, members Womens House, 61.7325. 1 1 .3 0 p m MEADOW BAND, only. LABORATORY ART GALLERY OF ROBERT POMEROY, THEATRE, POLAND — MUSIC WITH FILMS SOUTH AUSTRALIA — ANDY GEORGE — Jerzy Grotowski: St Mary’s, CONCERT by David Sidney Nolan, aboriginal auditions between 7.00- cathedral, Chapter hall. Ahern and AZ Music: art and German expres 8.00 pm: Elizabeth hotel, Info 31.6611. Students Filmmakers cinema, Dario, sionism: North Terrace. City, 8.00 pm-10.00 pm, $3.00, adults $25.00. 8.00 pm, $2.00. AVENEL BEE GALLERY 8 0 c . COLLEGIUM MUSI CUM — Indonesian arts and MIXED FOLK: Edinburgh ZURICH — S w i s s CLASSICS crafts: 16 Lockwood road, Castle, 284 Pitt street, Chamber: Opera House. Erindale, 10.00 am to 5.00 26.6943, 8.00 pm. Info Elizabethan Trust, MUSIC ON THE HOUR — p m Musica Viva, march 29, ABC’s sop to the masses: AUSTRALIAN AND NEW FETES 8.15 pm. $2.60, $2, $1.20. Opera House, 1 1.00 am ZEALAND WEAVING — D O N BURROWS thru to 4.00 pm, $1.00, help build a woven house: VILLAGE BAZAAR — QUARTET: Opera House, kids 20c. 78 Jerningham street, Food, clothing, craft, cool, march 26, 8.15 pm. $5, THE FIRES OF LONDON North Adelaide, 12.00 laid back and uptight $3.75, $2.50. Details in Hymn to Saint Magnus noon to 5.00 pm Paddi ngtonites: Village and Miss Donnithorne’s 2 9 .8 4 4 1 . church, Oxford street, THE SCOTTISH BALLET A LADY OF FASHION — maggot: Opera House, 8.15. an exhibition of womens Paddo, 8.00-4.00 pm. with Margot Fonteyn: pm, $5.00, $3.75, $2.50, fashions from 1800 to check first. D etails J. C. W illiam son theatres, GPO box 2525, 1940: Carclew, North JACQUES LOUISSIER Adelaide, 60c, kids 30c. TRIO play Bach ’cause Sydney 2001, april 22-may SUNDAY 4 th . INTERNATIONAL that’s what they are known PHOTOGRAPHY — superb SYDNEY PHIL- for: Sydney town hall, Indian photos: Freemasons VIDEO 212.2244, 8.15 pm, $4.60. PHARMONIA SOCIETY: '74 season, info box 3454 hall, North Terrace, 10.00 am to 10.00 pm daily. VIDEO THEATRE — Kl DS GPO. Ph. 929.6215. street farming from C IR C US London, Durval Creek THE MAGIC TRAVEL THE GREAT MOSCOW workshop: Feutron BOX — kids fantasy by CIRCUS with Bozovitch GREAT MOSCOW CIR building, 31 Bay street, John Mulligan: New the Dancing Bearovitch: CUS: West Parklands, tues, wed, thurs, sat at 8.00 pm, Glebe, 8.00 pm, $1.00. theatre, Newtown, 2.15 Wentworth park, march 29 pm , 70c. for 9 days only. Info wed 2.00 pm, fri 5.30 pm, MUSIC KIDS FILMS: Filmmakers 212.2244, Flying TAA, sat and sun 1.00 pm and cinem a, 2 .0 0 pm (see Qantas and Air India — red 4.00 pm, $6.20, $5.20, DON MORRISON, THE S a tu rd a y ). ticket day specials maybe. $ 4 .2 0 . Page 14 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974 ★ Asia Festival continues at Melbourne uni this week with lots of interesting things ★ ‘ Vietnam must have real peace now’ ...A Saturday moratorium, commencing Treasury gardens,9am, bring sturdy walking shoes OUTDOORS MADDER LAKE: Sun Polanski: Monash uni nery, Harry Andrews — POETRY Marius Webb: AR, 7.15 BAND: Polaris Inn hotel, downer hotel, Geelong. union, Clayton, 7.30 pm British discipline and what p m C arlto n. DANCING THROUGH BIG PUSH: George hotel, Z: Agora theatre, Latrobe it leads to: Ch.7, 9.00 pm. POETRY WORKSHOP: A MERRY PROGRESS — PHIL DAY, JULIE WONG THE YEARS — just what St. K ild a. uni, Bundoora, 8.00 pm, Saxon Hall, Saxon street, go to sea once m ore: 1 1.1 0 and FAT ALBERT: Frank it says: Flagstaff gardens, LA DE DAS, CLOUD tickets at door. Brunswick (behind town pm, A R . Traynor’s, city. try 12.1 0 and 1.10 pm. NINE: Sandown Park THURSDAY h all). A*LL NIGHT CONCERT — SOUTH AMERICAN HOT hotel. Hans Georg, Danny ark POT with famed Latin SKYLIGHT: Prospect Hill MEETINGS ROCK THEATRE TV Spooner, Phil Day, Dutch American band, bring your hotel. High street, Kew. FORTUNE AND MENS Tilders, Julie Wong, sombreros, amigos, to the OIL POLITICS IN ASIA: TANK: Whitehorse hotel, LINDA GEORGE — my Conway family: Outpost Nunawading. EYES: Agora theatre, Treasury gardens, 12.10 Mike Moreau, Rotunda 6, Latrobe uni, Bundoora, own kind of music: Ch.2, Inn, 52 Collins street, city, FOLK JIGSAW: Croxton Park 9 .4 0 pm. and 1.10 pm. Monash uni, 1.10 pm 8.00 pm, $1.50, studs. 9 .0 0 pm . hotel, Preston. DR JEKYLL AND MR in d RED HOUSE ROLL $ 1.0 0. M E L B . U N I VARIOUS: Polaris Inn HYDE: Ch.7, 11.00 pm. i ne BAND and TRAIN: Waltz ASIA FESTIVAL hotel, 551 Nicholson OUTDOORS JAZZ »ria ing Matilda hotel, Spring- BURMESE WATER FES street, N.Carlton. CLASSICAL TIVAL: 1.00 pm and DANCING THRU THE vale. BRIAN BROWN QUAR .L: SKY: Sundowner hotel, FRIDAY street artist (aft), Concrete YEARS — just what it TET: Commune coffee L t G eelong. GUITAR SOLOS and lawn. JAZZ says: Treasury gardens, ROCK lounge, N.Melbourne. BIG PUSH: George hotel, POPULAR SPANISH CHINESE PAINTING: Rm 12.1 0 and 1.10 pm. STORYVILLE JAZZ St. K ild a. SONGS, Jochen/guitar, 3.7. FRANK TRAYNOR'S SOUTH AMERICAN HOT DINGOES, CAPTAIN BAND, DUTCH TIL CLOUD NINE: Grovedale and Muriel Luyk/mezzo CARRUM: Indian billiards JAZZ BAND: Beaumaris POT: Flagstaff gardens, MATCHBOX: Camberwell DERS: Manor House hotel, hotel, Geelong. soprano: Union theatre, R M 3 .8. hotel, Beach road. 1 2.1 0 and 1.10 pm Civic Centre. cnr. Swanston and Lons BLUESTONE: The Power Melb. uni, 1.10 pm, free. CHINESE CHESS: Rm FREE JAZZ: Commune LA DE DAS: Whitehorse dale streets, city. tel, House, Lake Albert drive, 3.9. coffee lounge, N.Mel hotel, Nunawading. set, Albert Park. BATIK: Rm 3.10. bourne. M E L B . U N I BIG PUSH: Croxton Park MISSISSIPPI: Matthew MEETINGS IKEBANA: Graduate ASIA FESTIVAL hotel, Preston. F L O O R S H O W Flinders hotel, Chadstone. lounge. Union building, METAPHYSICAL REBEL TANK: Sundowner hotel, Geelong. 1.00-2.00 pm BLUES SUMI-E — Origami, Union LION — Existentialist dis EARTHA KITT: Dorset building. cussion group: Graduate UPP: Hotel International, Gardens hotel, Croydon. DUTCH TILDERS with CHINESE CALLI FOLK Broadmeadows. nee lounge, Melbourne uni RADIO band and JOHN CROWLE: GRAPHY: Martial arts. union, 8.00 pm, enq. CLOUD NINE: Prospect Frank Traynor’s, city. DEMONSTRATION GEOFF AND DIANE Hill hotel, Kew. FILM RN HOLLINS, GEOFF VAN- 7 5 8 .5 7 9 4 . T H E S U R R E A L I S T (Trophy hall, Beaurepaire SKYLIGHT: Winston ibst ACUPUNCTURE — Mr T. DREAM — art from Dada centre) DERVELST, DANNY Charles, Toorak. F E L L IN I’S S A T Y R IC O N : ita l SPOONER: Dan O’Con Loh, surgeon: Masson to Warhol: 2CO, 3GI, FILMS JAPANESE C A L L I FOX, MATT TAYLOR: Trak, 445 Toorak road, eet, theatre, Chemistry build 3WL, 3WV, 8.30 pm. GRAPHY: G r a d u a t e nell, cnr. Canning street Monash uni. Toorak, 11.45 pm, $2.00. and Princess street, N.Carl ing, Melb. uni, 1.05-2.00 THE WOOD DOVE - MARKED WOMAN and lounge. MADDER LAKE: Matt SUNDAYS AND iN - pm. Dvorak: AR, 11.10 pm. NOW VOYAGER: NFTA, IKEBANA: Graduate ton, 8.00-1 2 pm hew Flinders hotel, Chad- nce TALKS ON INDIAN SUB CYBELE: Athenaeum, Dental theatrette, cnr. lounge, 1.00-2.00 pm. JULIE WONG: Tankerville stone. Ini, CONTINENT: Public lec Collins street, city. 10.30. . Grattan street and MAHJONG: U n d e r Arms, cnr. Johnson and AYERS ROCK, BUSTER BEDROOM MAZURKA j Nicholson streets, Carlton, ture theatre, Old Arts TV Flemington road, Carlton, graduate lounge, 1.00-3.00 BROWN: Teazer, city. and THE MAN WHO 8.00-10.00 pm. M elb. uni. p m MACKENZIE THEORY: SHOT LIBERTY VAL- ora season or individual tickets JOHN CROWLE: Frank SLIDE SHOWS, ASIA THE FORGOTTEN MER E.Kew Presbyterian LANCE: Union theatre un- available at door, $1.20, Traynor’s, city. FESTIVAL: Union house, MAIDS — Jacques Cous Church hall. Melb. uni, 1.30 pm, tickets s at studs. 80c. EVENTS Melb. uni, 1.00-2.00 pm. teau: Ch.O, 7.30 pm WORLD OF SUZIE ACTION MEETING ON MADDER LAKE, AYRES at door. SWAN SONG — Reminis WONG and VIA SINGA PHOTOFLORA ’74 — 90 ROCK: Matthew Flinders NIGHT THEY RAIDED JAZZ ABORTION: Lower Mel cences of an aged actor: PORE: Prince Philip minutes of top compe bourne town hall, 7.30 pm, hotel, Chadstone. M IN S K Y ’S and B IL L IO N Ch.2, 9.45 pm tition slides: Beaumaris BLUESTONE: Di Marco’s DOLLAR BRAIN: theatre, Melb. uni, 1.30 DAVE RANKIN AND HIS speakers. Civic hall, Balcombe road, hotel, Essendon. Alexander theatre, Monash p m ELASTIC BAND: Alma LORD JIM: Prince Philip MISSISSIPPI: Monash uni. uni, Clayton. 1.30 pm. )N: 8.00 pm, 99.31 58. hotel, 32 Chapel street, St. OUTDOORS theatre, Melb. uni, 7.30 kly WEDNESDAY K ild a. p m OWEN YEATMAN: Pros TRADE FAIR, ASIA FES ROCK STRAW DOGS with RADIO FOLK MEETINGS pect Hill hotel, High street, TIVAL: Concrete lawn, Dustin Hoffman: Union Melb. uni, all day. MIKE GALLAGHER, LA DE DAS: Sandown KODALY'S SONATA, Kew. theatre, Melb. uni union, FETE: Wizo, Prahran town PETER PARKHILL: STUDENT MOVEMENT Park hotel. OP.8 — Pierre Fournier — FRANK TRAYNOR: 1.30 pm, tickets at door. hall, 10.00 am, Greville Union hotel, cnr. Fenwick IN INDONESIA — J.P. HOT CITY BUMP BAND: the only guy who can play Exchange hotel, Chelten THE REVOLUTIONARY street entrance. and Amess streets, Carlton. Sarumpaet. with discus- | NS Whitehorse hotel, Nuna- it, it seems: AR, 8.30 pm. ham. with John Voigt: BUSHWHACKERS AND sion: Public lecture ink wading. fo r Alexander theatre, Monash N E W M U S IC BULLOCKIES BUSH theatre. Old Arts, Melb. RED HOUSE ROLL ran uni, Clayton, 1.30 pm, RADIO .0 0 BAND: Croxton Park tickets at door. AS YET UNARRANGED: hotel, Preston. KNIFE IN THE WATER — THE HILL Sean Con Commune, N. Melbourne. BOOKS AND IDEAS — Continued over page ford National Theatre of KIDS JAZZ S N O O K E R E D !: see tues FILM David Allen: Salisbury TUESDAY Canada: Her Majesty’s day, but 11.45 pm. College of Advanced Edu theatre, 8.15 pm, $6.00, HISTORY OF THE SHAKUNTALA KALI HOLLYWOOD GREATS cation, Smith road, Salis ROCK ZAGREB CARTOONS: SA $4.00, studs, half price. govt tourist bureau theat B L U E S : see tuesday. D A S A : see tuesday. WOMEN IN CINEMA — bury East, 8.00 pm, $1.20, THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL C O L O N E L B O G I E ’ S: OH WHAT A LOVELY usual concessions. MOONSHINE JUG AND rette, 1.00, 2.30, 4.00 pm, first of new National Film PLACE — Esson, South Inglewood inn, Lower W A R : see tuesday. STRING BAND: Modbury free, really brilliant. Theatre of Australia season Australian Theatre Com North East road, Ingle hotel, 8.00 pm, 60c. JOURNEY ON COBB & of films starring Bette pany: Arts theatre, Angus CO — performing puppet wood, 8.15 pm, free. Davis, Jean Harlowe, Mar KIDS street, 8.15 pm, $3.70, company: State govt, Kl DS lene Dietrich and Katharine studs., half price. DAN MORGAN AND THE JAZZ theatrette, state admin, Hepburn: State govt CORALIE LANSDOWNE building, Victoria square, CLASSICAL ZAGREB CARTOONS: theatrette. State admin BOUNCING BUNYIP OF SAYS NO! — contem see tuesday. BANDICOOT REACH — HISTORY OF THE 9.30 am, 1.00 pm, 2.30 building, Victoria square, porary drama — Nimrod JOURNEY ON COBB & childrens play: Playhouse, BLUES — Margaret Road- pm, children and adults ADELAIDE STRING 7.40 pm, members only Street Theatre: Theatre, 62 QUARTET — Beethoven: CO: see tuesday. Murray Park College of knight on Jazz: Sheridan 30c. (membership $3.00 — over Burbridge road, Hilton, Union Church, 1.10 pm. Advanced Education, 4.15 theatre, 11.30 pm, $1.50. 18 years, join at door), 8.15 pm, $3.00, studs., PIANO RECITAL — Lance pm. HERBIE MANN AND HIS program $1.20, students half price. Dossor: Elder Hall, 1.10 EVENTS ZAGREB CARTOONS: SEXTET — Jazz at its best: EVENTS 80c. HELLO AND GOODBYE see tuesday. Adelaide Festival theatre, pm, free. — Athol Fugard: Little RECITAL — chamber FOLK MUSIC CONCERT JOURNEY ON COBB & 8 pm, $5.30, $4.30, $3.30. HAPPENING — Music, theatre, Adelaide Uni, 8.15 film, poetry, video, bring music by Collegium AND AUSTRALIAN THEATRE AND DANCE C O : see tuesday. pm , $ 3 .5 0 . Musicum, including Haydn CLASSICAL your own event: Ragatent, CINEMA — RAGA Arts THE ICE AGE — drama by Elder park, 8.00 pm. and Bartok: Adelaide town group: Ragatent, Elder AUSTRALIAN DANCE Dorst: Theatre, 62 park, 8.00 pm. MEETINGS FOURTH OF FIVE BACH AUDIO VISUAL CON hall, 8.00 pm, $5.00, THEATRE — “Four Regional Theatre Com $3.50, $2.00, stud, conces AUDIO VISUAL CON in RECITALS — by Andrew CEPTS — the way of the Stages”, “Inside” and pany: PAC theatre, 8.15 C E P TS : see tuesday. GAY LIB IDEOLOGY >er, Tchaikowsky (piano): cross: Christ Church, sions avail. others: Scott theatre, 8.00 pm, $3.50, $2.50, studs, A N T IQ U E F A IR : see tues MEETING — guys: 88 Hill Da Adelaide town hall, 1.00 North Adelaide, 6.00 pm. AND SO TO MUSIK — pm, $4.00, studs, and pens. concessions available. day. street, North Adelaide. ay- pm, $2.00, $1.00, studs, ANTIQUE FAIR: St. Triton Trio: Edmund $2.00, children $1.00. SNOOKERED! — Adelaide Wright House, 8.15 pm, GROWTH MEETING — .30 half price. Peter’s Town Hall, 10.00 THE AUSTRALIAN Uni Footlights Club: Late $3.50, studs., $1.75. centre for the real to ELECTRONIC MUSIC — am to 1 0.00 pm. BALLET — world premiere night supper revue: New SCENES FROM OPERA: TV approach to people: 1 Tristam Carey, visiting FREAKY FILMS AND of ‘ ‘ Perisynthy on” : OF Little theatre, Adelaide PERFORMANCE BY see tuesday. Adelaide Festival theatre, William street, Norwood, composer: Elder hall, Uni Union, 11.30 pm, North Terrace, 1.10 pm, OVERSEAS STUDENTS: THE MOVIE, CRAZY 8.00 pm, $7.00, $3.50, 8 .0 0 pm. $1.50, studs., $1.00. YEARS — nostalgic look at inal free. Murray Park College of studs, half price. SHAKUNTALA KALI THEATRE Warner Bros first ten years res- RECITAL — SA Sym Advanced Education, Lib T H E IMAGINARY DASA — Indian classic of talking pictures: ABS2, EVENT phony orchestra, Henry rary sun deck, 12.00—2.00 IN V A L ID : see tuesday. drama, Rex Cramphorne DREAMS, DEATHS AND 9 .4 0 pm. RY Krips (conductor), Kurt pm. THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL and the Performance ENTRANCES — Monash and Gunter (violin) — Mendels P L A C E : see tuesday. AUDIO VISUAL CON Syndicate: Australian theatre group supper show: ad, sohn and Brahms: Adelaide CORALIE LANSDOWNE C E P TS : see tuesday. Mineral Foundation, Con- Womens lib centre, Bloor .00 town hall, 8.00 pm, $4.20, RADIO S A Y S N O !: see tuesday. yngham street, Glenside. court (off Currie street), $3.20, $2.20. THURSDAY T H E IC E A G E : see THREE ONE ACT PLAYS 11.00 pm, $1.50, studs., EXHIBITIONISM EW THE GOLD DIGGERS — WOMEN — OUR BODIES, tuesday. — “The Les Darcy Show”, $ 1. 00. JAZZ The Triton Trio: Edmund OUR SELVES: VL5UV G A R G O Y L E S : see tues Jack Hibberd (a world HATFIELDS — David PAINTINGS AND ise: Wright House, 8.15 pm, 1 0 .0 0 a m day. premiere); “A Married Flannigan and Jim Robin SOUTHERN JAZZ BAND: PHOTOGRAPHY — plus eet, $3.50, studs. $1.75. MAJOR AUSTRALIAN DREAMS, DEATHS AND Man”, James Searle; “The son: Maughm Church, 8.30 .0 0 SCENES FROM OPERA — POETS: VL5UV, 11.30 am Flagstaff hotel, South ENTRANCES: see Wednes free food, music, drinks: Frog”, Patrick Whelan: pm, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50. Road, Darlington, 70c, Ragatent, Elder park, includes “ La Traviata’’ and and 8.00 pm. d a y. Matthew Flinders theatre, T H E IMAGINARY studs. 50c. 11.00 am to 3.00 pm. 4 — “La Tosca”, Pro opera HAMLET ON ICE — adult 8.15 pm, $2.00, studs., INVALID: see tuesday, HISTORY OF THE ens consort with Thomas pantomime, Adelaide $ 1. 00 . but 2.00 pm only. B L U E S : see tuesday. to Edmunds: 1.10 pm, Mead OTHERS theatre group: Sheridan B R E A D — Jesus revue: THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL >rth hall, behind Baptist theatre, 50 Mackinnon OTHERS Holy Trinity Church, 87 P L A C E : see tuesday. parade, North Adelaide, Church, Flinders street. North terrace, Adelaide, TRANSCENDENTAL f \ L CORALIE LANSDOWNE CLASSICAL 8 .1 5 pm . COMMAND PERFOR 8.00 pm, $2.00. MEDITATION: 11 lerb S A Y S N O !: see tuesday. HATFIELDS: see Wednes MANCE — 73’s best OH WHAT A LOVELY Frederick street, Welland, ons THEATRE AND DANCE 8.00 pm, free. T H E IC E A G E : see RECITAL — Bruderhans d a y . rostrum speeches: YWCA i. 00 WAR — the St. Jude tuesday. and Harris play selected SNOOKERED!: see tu e s hall, 7.45 pm. AUSTRALIAN DANCE players: St. John's Church, G A R G O Y L E S : see tues classics for flute and piano: d a y . THEATRE — first program Halifax street, city, 8.15 day. Elder hall, 1.10 pm, free. EUREKA STOCKADE: “Children of Time”, Liz pm, $1.50, $2.00. WEDNESDAY B R E A D : see tuesday. RECITAL — Graf/Holliger/ see W ednesday. FRIDAY IR- Dalman, “Hi Kyo”, Jaap DIMBOOLA— bawdy Aus THREE ONE ACT Wytten Bach play selected SHAKUNTALA Flier and others: Scott tralian comedy: Olde Kings P L A Y S : see tuesday. classics: Adelaide town BLUES jes, FOLK K A L ID A S A : see tuesday. theatre, 2.30 pm and 8.00 Music Hall, 8.15 pm. EUREKA STOCKADE — hall, 8.15 pm, $4.50, Dm, THREE ONE ACT pm, $4.00, pens. and GARGOYLES — late night musical play directed by $3.00, $2.00. SMOKESTACK LIGHT am, CATACOMBS — open P L A Y S : see tuesday. studs., $2.00, children revue, Regional Theatre Robert Kimber: Union SCENES FROM OPERA: NING: Eagle hotel, and night, anyone may play: 1 MACBETH — directed by $ 1. 0 0 . Company: Theatre 62, theatre, Adelaide Uni, 8.15 see tuesday. 20, Hackney road, Hackney, T H E IMAGINARY 11.30 pm, $2.50, $2.00, free. pm. THE GOLD DIGGERS: IN VA LID — Moliere, Strat cushions $1.00. D IM B O O L A : see tuesday. see tuesday. Continued over page THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974— Page 15 MORE MELBOURNE ***************** uni, 1.00-2.00 pm. POST, JOHN MATTHEW, 8.15 pm, $5.30, $4.20, MENTAL RETARDA DINGOES, SID RUMPO: $ 3 .2 0 . RADIO BAND: Commune, N.Mel RADIO TION — Alan Clarke and Matthew Flinders hotel, COUNTRY FEVER: King SUNDAY bourne. Ann Clarke: Robert Black Chadstone. ston hotel, Richmond, COUNTRY AND ROOM TO MOVE: LO, | wood hall, 8.00 pm. ELROY BAND, MISSIS 2.00-6.00 pm. ROCK WESTERN SHOW: DB, 8 .0 2 p m SIPPI: Beaumaris Civic 8 .0 7 am. FILMS NEW MUSIC: AR, 8.30| Centre. MATT TAYLOR, MAD AMERICAN TOP 40: KZ, p m THEATRE BLUESTONE: Di Marco’s FILM DER LAKE, MISSISSIPPI: 9.00-1 2.00 noon. DAY AT THE RACES - B O O K N O W hotel, Essendon. Kardinia Park, Geelong, TOM TOMS IN NASH Marx Bros: Agora theatre, I OEDIPUS REX — present- SKYLIGHT: Prospect Hill SUNDAYS AND lunch. VILLE — history of pop: Latrobe uni, 8.00 pm SCOTTISH BALLET withl | ed by Tin Alley Players: hotel, Kew (aft) and at the CYBELE: Athenaeum, MISSISSIPPI, DINGOES: LO, 1 0.00 am $ 1 .5 0 . Dame Margot Fonteyn and! Union theatre, Melb. uni, Power House (eve). city, 10.30 pm. Parkdale Football ground, TRIBUTE TO BILLIE Ivan Nagy, usual agencies. I 18.15 pm. Book: 53.8072 DINGOES (aft.) SID 2001 for adults ($1.50) 4.00-5.00 pm HOLIDAY — Kathy | or 25.5278'. RUMPO (night): Matthew while kids watch childrens MISSISSIPPI: Teazers. Lloyd: LO, 12.30 pm SID RUMPO: Iceland. HOPCRAFT INTO FORTUNE AND MENS Flinders hotel, Chadstone. film (60c): Agora theatre, SKYLIGHT: Winston EUROPE — play: AR, 4.00 I EYES: Agora theatre, see Latrobe uni, 8.00 pm. Charles, Toorak. p m I thursday. FANTASY: Croxton Park SUNDAY NIGHT RADIO ASIAN CULTURAL CON FOLK hotel, Preston. 2 — From Adelaide Festi CERT 1 — diverse cultural THEATRE val: AR, 7.30 pm traditions of Asia: Prince PETER PARKHILL: Dan TRAPPED: LO, 8.00 pm Philip theatre, Melb. uni, O ’ C o n n e ll, C a r lt o n , OEDIPUS REX: Union FOLK 7 .3 0 pm . 3.00-6.00 pm. theatre, Melb. uni union, KERRY AND BRENDA 2.00 and 8.00 pm, MACDONALD, BRUCE bookings 53-8072 or GRAHAM LOWNDES: TV Outpost Inn, city. RADIO DEVE: Commune, N.Mel 25-5 2 7 6 . bourne, 1 0.00-3.00 am. ASIAN C U L T U R A L DANNY SPOONER and ONE MILLION YEARS GORDON MACINTYRE: BC — stone age rock THE PRIMARY YEARS: GLEN TOMASETTI, CONCERT 2 — a different Frank Traynor’s, city. drama: Ch.0, 8.30 pm. | AR, 7.15 pm. HANS GEORG, PHIL light hearted program to DAY: Outpost Inn, city. frid a y ’s: Prince P hilip CACTUS FLOWER: Ch.9, HERB ELLIS — jazz on a 8 .3 0 p m friday night: LO, 7.15 pm. DANNY S P O O N E R , theatre, Melb. uni, 7.30 GORDON MACINTYRE, pm . N E W M U S IC LIVING IN A MACHINE JOHN GRAHAM, JOHN — CITIES — exponents of CROWLE: Frank Tray- POSSIBLY: C o m m u n e, the machine cities tell us SATURDAY nor’s, city. FLOORSHOWS N.Melbourne. what it will be like in the CLASSICAL year 2000 — solve all our ROCK EARTHA KITT: Dorset problems mate: Ch.9, COLLEGIUM MUSICUM Gardens hotel, 725-6211. FILM 1 0 .3 5 p m CRAZY CRUSH, FOX, OF ZURICH with Paul DINGOES: Teazer, 255 Sacher play Mozart, CHINESE FILM: Capitol, Exhibition street, city. Takemitsu, Bartok, Haydn: RADIO city, 2.00 pm JOHN GRAHAM AND Robert Blackwood hall, LA PRISE DE POUVOIR MONDAY BLACKSPUR, ISAAC Monash uni, 8.00 pm, COUNTRY MUSIC: KZ, PAR LOUIX XIV (Rossel AARON: Ormond hall, $3.00, studs. $2.00. 5.00-8.00 am. lini), LE MUR (Roullet): FOLK Moubray street, Prahran. PICK OF THE GOONS: Fitzroy Film Society, 124 BIG PUSH: Whitehorse A R , noon. Napier street, rear of PHIL DAY: Frank Tray hotel, Nunawading. JAZZ & COUNTRY NATIONAL TOP 40: KZ, bluestone church, $2.00 nor’s, city. JOHN RUPERT AND THE 2.00-5.00 pm. m em bers. HENCHMEN: Croxton DAVE RANKIN AND HIS AMERICAN TOP 40: KZ, MEETINGS V Park hotel, Preston. ELASTIC BAND: Lemon 7.00-1 0.00 pm COUNTRY TRIDENTS: Sundowner Tree hotel, 10 Grattan LADY WINDERMERE’S P L A T O ’ S R E M E D Y F O R hotel, Geelong. street, Carlton, 3.00-6.00 FAN — Oscar Wilde: AR, BLUESTONE: Prospect BLUESTONE and MISSIS DECADENT SOCIETY — Hill hotel, Kew. pm. 8 .3 0 p m Mr L. Furze-Morrish: SIPPI: Southside Six, THE PLANT WITH BAULS OF BENGAL: AR, Moorabbin, arvo. Theosophical society, 188 M IFFY: Polaris Inn hotel, 11.10 pm, brilliant group Collins street, city, 7.00 FOX and LA DE DAS: C arlto n. of travelling Indian musi pm. N E W M U S IC PCYC Frankston — get it SKYLIGHTS ( a f t ) , cians. on. JUNCTION CITY JAZZ NIAGGRA: La Mama, 205 Faraday street, Carlton. THE GRAND WAZOO and BAND (eve): Prospect Hill TV OUTDOORS fry i MARDI GRASS NITE: A hotel, Kew. Jovan promotions special — VICTORIAN JAZZ CLUB: TARAS BULBA — Yul DANCES OF THE fancy dress contest ($50). POETRY Manor House hotel, city. Brynner, Tony Curtis in NATIONS — Kolobok i n : ISAAC AARON, HERBIE MANN IN CON 16th century fight for free Dance company: Fitzroy P O O R T O M ’ S P O E T R Y SHARKS, TARKIO, COM CERT: Dallas Brooks hall. dom: Ch.0, 8.30 pm. gardens, 3.00 pm ★ Straw Dogs: wed.at Melb- uni H A M L E T O N IC E : see CLASSICAL CLASSICAL Chantilly coffee lounge, 4| thursday. Kensington road, Nor-1 S N O O K E R E D : see tues RECITAL — Sergio and UNIVERSITY OF wood, 8.00 pm. I Eduardo Abreu (guitar MORE ADELAIDE day. ADELAIDE CHAMBER WOMENS LIB GENERALI EUREKA STOCKADE: ists): Adelaide Festival ORCHESTRA — soloist MEETING — songs,! theatre, 8.00 pm, $5.00, see Wednesday. Edward Krick, includes poetry, music and grog, I Hindley street, 7.30 pm, THEATRE: see thursday, $4.00, $3.00, studs, half EXHIBITIONISM B R E A D : see tuesday. Mozart: Elder Hall, 1.10 bring best and worst I I $1.00. plus performance at 11.30 OH WHAT A LOVELY price. pm, free. records: Womens centre, I see tuesday. RECITAL — winners of pm. PAINTINGS AND W A R : HUNGARIAN STATE Bloor court (off Curriel T H E IMAGINARY PHOTOGRAPHY: Raga M A C B E T H : see thursday. A B C competition: SYMPHONY street). JAZZ IN V A L ID : see tuesday. te n t, see thu rsday. DREAMS, DEATHS AND Adelaide town hall, 8.15 ORCHESTRA — Bartok THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL ENTRANCES: see Wednes pm, $3.00, $2.00, $1.00, and Beethoven: Adelaide DICK FRANKEL AND P L A C E : see tuesday. day. studs, half price. Festival theatre, 8.00 pm, RADIO THE DISCIPLES: Somer CORALIE LANSDOWNE HATFIELDS: see W ed n es $7.20, $5.20, $3.20. set hotel, 197 Pulteney SAYS NO!: see tuesday. SATURDAY day. RECITAL — Emma Den WOMEN — OUR BODIES, street, 9.00 pm, 80c (to T H E IC E A G E : see tues THEATRE BLUES Hollander, harpsichord: OUR SELVES: VL5UV, Red Cross). day. KIDS Edmund Wright House, 8 .0 0 p m HISTORY OF THE G A R G O Y L E S : see tues HAMLET ON ICE: see SMOKESTACK LIGHT 8.00 pm, $2.50 pm, studs. CHINA SINCE CHAIR-I B L U E S : see tuesday. day. DAN MORGAN AND THE thursday. N IN G : see frid a y . $ 1 .2 5 . MAN MAO: VL5UV, 8.30 | B R E A D : see tuesday. BOUNCING BUNYIP OF AUSTRALIAN MOVING p m HAMLET ON ICE: see B A N D IC O O T R E A C H : see SOCIETY — premiere per CLASSICAL thursday. thursday but only at 11.00 formance, featuring Bob FOLK THEATRE AND DANCE S N O O K E R E D : see tues Beswick and Jaap Flier: a m EXHIBITIONISM RECITAL — Collegium day. Christ Church Hall, North AUSTRALIAN MOVING M usicum : see Wednesday, M A C B E T H : see thursday. SOMERSET HOTEL — Adelaide, 8.00 pm, $2.00, EVENTS S O C IE T Y : see Sunday. PAINTING AND PHOTO-| but program Mozart. OH WHAT A LOVELY anyone welcome to sing: studs. $1.50. Reservations 197 Pultney street, free. ADELAIDE G R A P H Y : see thursday. ! BACH RECITAL — the W A R : see tuesday. AUDIO VISUAL CON phone 3 39 -3 0 1 8. ANTHOLOGY — historical DREAMS, DEATHS AND fifth by Andre Tchaikow- THREE ONE ACT AUS C E P T S : see tuesday. drama, S.A. theatre com sky: . Adelaide town hall, T R A L IA N P L A Y S : see ENTRANCES: see W ed n es pany: Edmund Wright JAZZ KIDS see tuesday. tuesday. day. House, 1.00 pm, $1.50, AND SO TO MUSIK: see D IM B O O L A : see tuesday. TV THREE ONE ACT studs. 75c. H I S T O R Y O F THE P L A Y S : see tuesday. ZAGREB CARTOONS:| Wednesday. THE ICE AGE: see tues B L U E S : see tuesday. see tuesday. SCENES FROM OPERA: HARLEM G L O B E day. see tuesday. KIDS TROTTERS POPCORN G A R G O Y L E S : see tues KIDS | ORGAN MUSIC SOCIETY MACHINE — Harlem day. CLASSICAL MEETINGS OF ADELAIDE — the ZAGREB CARTOONS: Globetrotters turn variety OPTIMISM (or the Mis | Corinthean singers and see tuesday. artists, includes Bill Cosby L E T ’ S T A L K T O T H E adventure of Candide), — T H E G O L D DIGGERS: GAY PRIDE WEEK! Adelaide recorder consort: JOURNEY WITH COBB & and Cass E llio tt: A B S 2 , ANIMALS — tour of the National Theatre of the see tuesday. ORGANISING C O M -| St. Peter's Cathedral, C O : see tuesday. 7 .3 0 pm. Adelaide zoo with its Deaf: Her Majesty’s DAN MORGAN AND THE ROCK ’N ROLL LIVES, director: ABS2, 6.30 pm. MITTEE — all welcome: North Adelaide, 8.15 pm, POETRY theatre, 8.15 pm, $5.70, [ $ 2.00. BOUNCING BUNYIP OF AUSSIE GREATS — $4.20, $3.20. B A N D IC O O T R E A C H : see history of Australian rock RECITAL — Wightman POEMS FROM A TRUCK: A COMEDY OF ERRORS thursday. featuring Mike Rudd, EXHIBITIONISM plays Mozart and Britten: Norwood area, 10.00 am. — S.A. Theatre Company: | Elder hall, 1.10 pm, free. Johnny O’Keefe, La De Arts theatre, 8.15 pm, Das and Ross Wilson: PAINTING AND PHOTO THEATRE AND DANCE $3.70, studs, half price. MEETINGS NWS9, 6.00 pm. GRAPHY: Ragatent, see VINCENT — starring Tom B O O K N O W ROCK ON — top Aus thursday, but 2.00—6.00 FILM THE AUSTRALIAN Fleming, solo show: Scott tralian rock performers p m theatre, 8.30 pm, $3.50, N A T IO N A L T H E A T R E I BALLET:'see tuesday but taped in concert in Rymill U.S. UNDERGROUND studs, half price. OF THE DEAF: Her! FILMS — also new Aus WOMENS LIB: Womens also at 2.00 pm. Park: ABS2, 6.10 pm. DIMBOOLA: see tuesday. AUSTRALIAN DANCE Majesty’s, march 25th to I tralian movies and new Centre, Bloor court (off OTHERS SHAKUNTALA KALI T H E A T R E : see thursday, 30th, 8.15 pm, $5.70 to! film by Martin Fabinyi: Currie street), 8.00 pm. EXHIBITIONISM D A S A : see tuesday. $3 .2 0. but 2.30 pm. Ragatent, Elder park, 8.00 HAPPENING — music, pm , $ 1 .0 0 . T H E IMAGINARY PAINTINGS AND mobile theatre: Elder Park, EVENTS IN V A L ID : see tuesday, PHOTOGRAPHY: Raga 6 .0 0 p m but also at 2.00 pm. te n t, see thursday, but THEATRE AND DANCE AUDIO VISUAL CON CORALIE LANSDOWNE 2.00—6.00 pm. C E P T S : see tuesday. S A Y S N O !: see tuesday, DREAMS, DEATHS AND but also at 2.1 5 pm. MONDAY ENTRANCES: see W ednes T H E IC E A G E : see tues day. TV day, but also at 2.30 pm. SUNDAY JAZZ Bool HATFIELDS: see Wednes THE BRIDE OF GOSPEL FOLK 81 Bourke Street, Melbourne day. RANCHO NOTORIOUS — P L A C E : see tuesday, but SMACKA FITZGIBBON AUSTRALIAN BALLET: western with Marlene also at 5.00 pm. CATACOMBS: 1 Hackney AND HIS BAND: Adelaide ^£A/£> * f 0 c £ n t $ F o& . O U /Z. see thu rsday. Dietrich: ABS2, 10.15 pm. G A R G O Y L E S : see v tues road, Hackney, 8,00 pm, town hall, 8.00 pm. AUSTRALIAN DANCE day. 80c. /WS-W jo ?AGE CArALo^GE. ' r ‘s h v r Til f t - - ? T*- i I ", V 3 . > t l . I ■ If Next week Daylights introduces a new news supplement for students of all ages, so this is the final double spread poster; drawn by Johann Kruys, a visitor from Amsterdam. IM i C'l'fii i V i i .VviVv| jb- - IJ I| l|!, H r - i v .S .- ' Jy -Cv;.-.* *£ i ?• .+*■ v.ji*;;: Ijv . / V. 3$?.vi .a X t - • ^ 1 • • > 4 , \ V • •.■•.•I t$ C IV''V*'* f t - -S h Vj ,.. • ••*#. ft.|1‘ J'V' . v / ■.•:::•• ' .• .v .v .'-.V v y a L-AV:;. &• : 4 ^ » > ; - “< .v y c U V • : > r v • • THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1 9 7 4 - Page 17 Baba knows best Muktananda,currently visiting Australia,causes spontaneous MORE meditation,according own names. To meditate you NE o f the most amazing to IAN ALFORD don’t have to change your name book trade phenomenons of O or job, you don’t have to change recent years has been the your clothes or move out of your enormous popularity of books by house. I don’t want to start a Baba Ram Das. No self respecting PROGRAM Salvation Army.” Of course he hippy household would be has people to help him along the without its copy o f Be here now MELBOURNE way and he leaves centres behind somewhere amongst the roaches March 12, 19 . . . Assembly Hall, 156 him where people can meditate Collins Street, 8 pm. and Pink Floyd albums, while and get it on. But if you think TASMANIA Seed’s cosmic wall chart has anyone’s acting pushy you’re phone St. Helen's 76 1397 replaced flying ducks as the dec welcome to tell them to shove off. The, orator’s means to enliven an SYDNEY April 5, 10 ... Village Church Hall Baba’s continual advice is otherwise dreary prospect. Cnr. Newcombe & Oxford streets, "Meditate on your own Self. Over three years ago Baba Ram Paddington. 8 pm. Worship yourself. Find the April 7 . . . Cell Block Theatre, East mind Das slipped into Melbourne hardly contentment that dwells in the USHROOMS have always got noticed, accompanying a little Sydney Tech. 7.30 pm. heart.” Meditation is a a pretty bad press. Although known Indian yogi bearing the April 9 . . . Sydney Uni., Great Hall, 8 spontaneous occurrence in his M it is true that m ycology - the title Swami Muktananda pm. presence. There’s really nothing to Meet Baba personally at 30 study o f fungi - has, until Paramahansa, adept master o f learn - it simply arises out o f Wellington street, Kew, Melbourne recently, been a sadly neglected Siddha Yoga. That simply means relationship with him He has phone 86 9213 and 16 Fairlawnavenue, science, there is not really any the Swami’s very high, he's the power to awaken Kundalini - a Turramurra, Sydney, phone 44 4966. excuse for the wholly misleading followed the discipline of a long latent energy that lies at the base “ inform ation" in the Magic line o f spiritual masters and that o f everyone’s spine. Maybe it Mushie article in last week’s Day he’s passing that same knowledge house in Kew, Melbourne where starts with a look, word, or lights. After all, one wouldnt ex on in the form of direct experi they lived for three weeks. gesture. It rises up and penetrates pect the VD issue "to have an ence to all who are attracted to it. Baba Muktananda is back on fine nerve endings and clusters article warning about contagion- the first stage o f his second world making the body strong, healthy Those of us who discovered all carrying toilet seats! Yet that’s Amanita Phalloides tour. He’s come to lecture and to and supple. Yogic positions may this in 1970 soon recognised about how accurate the fungi establish a living relationship with occur spontaneously. The grateful accidentally. The symptoms, if Muktananda as the strongest, “ facts” were. as many people as possible. He recipient feels charged with vigor unexpected, can indeed be quite most colorful personality ever to Hallucinogenic mushrooms are utilizes his various yogic, musical, and drops many old and retarding frightening. About half an hour come this way. Ram Das invariably members o f one of two and poetic talents to help bring habits. The relationship formed after eating there is stomach described being with him as "like distinct families, PSILOCYBE or about a brotherhood o f man. with Baba at this time provides discomfort - it feels like a block riding the tail o f a com et” . He felt AMANITA. Those used in Called “ Baba” (father) by his the basis for steady improvement o f ice; the body feels heavy; the it so strong in America he Australia, known variously as Blue followers, he does not propose in individual and social life. legs feel rubbery; space distorts; immediately decided to join Meanies, Goldtops, or just Magic any new movement or sect but is and astonishing visual disturb Muktananda for the rest o f the Awareness o f Baba has now Mushie s, belong to the first group, a living example of the truth he spread to many more people than ances occur ranging from simple tour. hence the name of the psycho represents. At Tullamarine airport he was directly able to contact in illusions to the creation o f entire They complemented one active component psilocybin. Re an Age repprter 1970. Probably millions will be unreal scenes. another perfectly - Muktananda cent interest in the Psilocybes was asked Baba affected this time, yet Baba’s All this is, o f course, nothing didn’t speak English and needed sparked by a retired New York in “ What teaching remains personal and compared to the emotional effects popular figure like Ram vestment banker Robert Gordon are your involving. From his lofty ranging from uncontrolled giggling Wasson and his wife Valentina less Das to introduce him to the followers viewpoint he comes right down to to the most profound feelings of than 30 years ago. Western audiences — Ram called?” earth to sock us some truth. mystical insight. It is important to Noticing strong cultural Das needed a guru to guide Baba Example: "People speak o f high realise that, although the effects differences in attitudes to him through the spaces replied, and low in the human body, Both are related to the amount o f mushrooms, they had for many he had to explore. “ They mouth and anus are parts o f the psilocybin taken, there are very years searched for references to Together they turned each have same body, They are equal.” large individual differences in religious uses o f fungi. Their on a marvellous treat then- sensitivity, and the effects o f the Muktananda will be in worldwide search ended in june for the 300 or so Melbourne till march 28 before same dose on different people who found out they 1955 when they ate some may well be very different. moving on to Tasmania and psilocybes in the company of a were here. The video Surroundings and expectations Sydney. His program is being priestess o f the underground tape bank of Ram Das also have a radical effect on users. advertised regularly in the press mushroom cult in Oxaca, Mexico. rapping that featured in It is very difficult for even a and is reproduced above. Some These mushrooms had played an the first part o f Bert trained mycologist to identify a local musos are taking part and important part in Aztec culture, Deling’s film Dalmas was fungi positively, but the other type we’re expecting the night at but their use had been almost shot in the garden found in Victoria (usually in short Melbourne’s Pram Factory totally eradicated by the Spanish o f the Theatre in Carlton to be grass and leaves under trees at the invaders. Their rediscovery by the side o f the road, near streams etc) a feature of the tour. Wassons marked the beginning o f is believed to be PSILOCYBE what is now known as SUBAERUGINOSA. This type, “ psychedelic” research. Timothy popularly known as Goldtops, is Leary (who had already “ dropped described by J. H. Willis as out” from research psychology) follows: “ Slender, flexuose stems happened to receive some from uplift the somewhat bell-shaped the Wassons. (An account o f caps, which are one or two inches Leary’s first trip is given in his broad, olive brown, moist and autobiography High priest!) perfectly smooth. The stems, which, in young plants, are silky white, frequently become variegated with blotches o f green and blue; this staining applies in a minor degree to the caps, which also bleach buff upon drying. The gills (underneath) are thin, unequal and grey-brown, growing darker and inky-purplish with _ _ _ ft 3^6. So much for the psilocybes. The AMANITAS are o f even greater historical interest, although their immediate interest to heads is much less. Right at the outset it must be understood that none of the Amanitas contain psilocybin. AMANITA PHAL There are half a dozen varieties LOIDES (wrongly confused with of Psilocybe in Mexico, one of Blue Meanies in last week’s which is found in Australia. This Daylights) is fortunately unknown is PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS which in Australia. I say fortunately occurs on cow shit in damp because it has been recently paddocks throughout eastern discovered to contain particularly Australia and probably elsewhere nasty cyclic polypeptides which - it has spread throughout the on ingestion irreversibly destroy world with the introduction of the liver function; no symptoms dairying. This is the type are noticed until 15 hours after which sometimes leads to reports eating, by which time nothing o f “ poisoning” when eaten whatever can be done. This fungus Page 18- T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 M TOURS It all began with a modest query from an anxious reader. “ Dutch Fred” replied with a stoned rave last week and we have since been deluged with data on the magic of mushies. Here, PAUL PERRY gives the facts behind a folklore, and V A L H A L L A AL flies you even higher. and the similar AMANITA the red and white Fly Agaric have innocently asked for more details. kind to those who have been going to be infinity” and the VIROSA are responsible for many given rise to intense theological "Well” , replied the farmer, “ my abusing themselves with beer, fags whole line began to revolve in the deaths in Europe; according to debate. The Wassons believed that wife ate some and then thought or acid-forming foods. This mush heavens. Willis there is a poisonous creamy the legendary Soma of the ancient she was a light bulb!" room is not a toy, nor is your At first there was chaos until I or white Amanita in Western Vedic hymns referred to the REFERENCES body, so it says. realised what was happening. Australia. fungi. Robert Graves was Victorian toadstools and mushrooms, I first became interested in the (This has helped me define the AMANITA MUSCARIA encouraged by the Wassons to try J. H. Willis 1963, Field Naturalists Amanita Muscaria after studying word “ CHAOS” ever since.) Then (popularly called the Fly Agaric) to link it to the unknown potion Club of Victoria. Robert Graves’ The Creek myths, the infinite line of beings revolved is the graphic designers mushroom drunk by the initiates o f the Flesh o f the Gods: The ritual use o f The white goddess and several o f with my being as the pivot. I hallucinogens edited by Peter T. Furst. — red with white spots - of Alice Eleusinian Mystery o f ancient his other works where he de could hardly believe what was Praeger paperback, 1972. Greece. Certainly, other religions scribes the cosmic consciousness happening. Then the being on my in Wonderland fame. In Victoria it Champignons toxiques et have been founded upon the that was revealed to him by the left had its turn to be centre, then is found associated with roots of hallucinogenes. R. Heim. Paris. N. pine trees and birches. sacramental use o f hallucinogens. Boubee & Cie. 1963 red ones. He also says, too, that as the being next to him, and all the [The description in Thomas On the other hand, John Allegro’s Psychotomimetic Drugs edited by D. a child he experienced cosmic way down the line it went, until Pychon’s Gravity’s rainbow o f sensational The sacred mushroom H. Efron. North-Holland 1970. consciousness whilst sitting on the the movement o f revolution be artificial cultivation of A. and the cross has found no favors toilet; suddenly he realised all came slowed by distance so we Muscaria displays a curious lapse with anyone - even Wasson. there was to know about the seemed not to move. by a normally faultless The links between mushrooms cosmos. The experience was fleet Then spaces grew between us. technological chronicler of our and magic form a completely The ing. Although he felt he still knew Our unity fragmented and once times. 1 It was, until recently, different - and very interesting - 81 all those things, he was not sure again I hung there alone, but this he knew; ie. the feeling had gone. time even the spaces seemed to believed that the psychoactive story. But to return to immediate When he grew up and took the red contain friendly beings. I became component was muscarine, or else practicalities, remember it isnt a ones, he received the same lucid aware that there were guardians o f bufatein, or both; but extensive good idea to eat a mushroom Sprit ity again. the universe saying things like, research has shown that ibotenic unless someone else who has eaten I had seen the red ones in the "But y o u , really believed it was acid is the secret ingredient. that type previously is there to OME OF us down here in identify it; although no Australian Sthe south are familiar with bush when I was quite young and like this all along, didnt you? That The dried fungus was used by fungi has ever killed, some Amanita Muscaria; they seem to there was no mistaking in my everything is OK and there is a Siberian tribes to produce great and good plot (incredibly produce very severe nausea. If in grow close to pine trees, mainly mind what they were or where intoxication during celebrations doubt, eat a small amount - say on the east side of pine wind they grew. There has been con exciting after all) behind what such as weddings; the mushrooms one or two small mushrooms — breaks, yet are not overfond o f troversy as to whether these Aus you once thought life was when were very expensive since they and see what happens. Taste is no showing up in cow paddocks. It’s tralian Amanita Muscarias are the you were a teenage kid on earth.” had to be brought from indication. And if you do die, mainly the deep, wet wasteland - same mushroom that the intox- Then I woke up. coniferous regions. As much as a your friends will have made an the heart o f the peninsula or up icantes took; biologists give them It also seems to me that this reindeer was exchanged for one, important scientific discovery. around the water catchment areas the same name, but obviously mushroom is one to have visions and the Siberians drank each In conclusion, my favorite above the Dandenongs. These are some of the legends surrounding with, in the form of dreaming or others urine to extend the effect mushroom story (probably the places. I’m deliberately not the european variety would not meditation. It’s not a socialising — it is excreted unchanged. apocryphal). A group of freaks specific about it because I’ve seen apply to the Amanitas of the mushroom. For one thing, it Little research has been done gathering Goldtops near the a few mushroom grounds ravaged “ new” land - or old land, which places the taker in a certain rela concerning the finer points of Dandenongs were discovered by a over the past years - if you are ever you like. tionship to time so that he/she Amanita intoxication, and the farmer. Upon being told by the fated to find them you will, or The land and the mushrooms may not have any memory of the Russian government has stamped farmer they were poisonous, they will show themselves to you. are deeply connected; I have visionary content to reflect upon out its use. A report in a Scottish later. Whereas in acid tripping, they Even then you may not want to found that if you take mushrooms medical journal tells o f a young them in a hostile piece o f land, you material from the subconscious is salmon poacher who boiled a It’s harder to trip on these have a hostile trip We have to brought forward into the con number o f the fungi in beer, then mushrooms than any remember our ancestors wholesale scious mind, the conscious mind is drank the resulting concoction. of the others rape o f this land to understand not aware o f the material gleaned This led to a “ freakout” *4$ I have why the cosmic mushroom might from the red ones. Memories can and temporary experienced; be hostile to us. Any sort of be jolted later when the subcon hospitalisation; the the trip is mushroom wreaks havoc with scious erupts through; the taker remembers in a glimpse that some patient believed completely prejudices and pretensions. The ancients took Amanita thing did happen; that he did his skin different, Muscaria as part o f religious arrive at a visionary place, and the was peeling off is calmer, produces ceremonies; there’s method in content of the experience may etc etc. He recovered less hallucinations but this. It means they didnt just flash on. If this is so, one must fully a few hours later. It was presents a greater understanding gobble it down. Some of them assume that the Amanita Muscaria claimed by his brother that in o f the spirits o f nature. It is the probably avoided nausea by fast is a catalyst for the subconscious some London clubs one could philosopher’s and poet’s mush ing before and during the taking to be opened up by the sub-sub- obtain a drink consisting of room; it has to be taken according o f the mushroom; and by starting conscious if there is such a thing; Amanita Muscaria juice and to rules (unfortunately for some) with a small piece, and gradually or maybe it’s what we call “ OUT vodka; it is called a “ Cathie” after or else a nauseating experience THERE” , that the subconscious the notorious Catherine the Great building up to larger quantities. I occurs. It is the mushroom that contacts. o f Russia. have taken them like this, and shows you a mirror to your own here is part o f a dream I had The best sort to eat are the The psychoactive properties of p h y sici existence: it w on’t be whilst at the peak of a four day tight young bright red ones. The trip. spots on top are part o f the I shut my eyes to have a rest - hymen which bursts as the fruit it was nighttime, and as the trip ing body erupts. Anyway the skin was quite gentle I found I could should be peeled o ff and the doze off every now and then. I tinted flesh eaten. You can make often woke up recalling that these up your own mind about eating dreams had been remarkable but the skin; it’s more likely to make that their content had been for you sick if you are not fit; if you gotten. But I' remembered this are, a little skin may enhance your one. trip. You must start o ff gradually, I was floating in the starry chewing it well, 20 minutes be night sky, alone, content; just tween each mouthful for the first drifting about the sky feeling glad hour, then take it from there that I could really fly at last, and according to how you feel. They what a groove it was. After a dont keep well, so dont pick a lot. while I realised I was not alone; There’s another Muscaria there were other beings who were mushroom that looks similar but feeling exactly the same thing. I it is orange-brown. 'I've never was aware that we seemed like eaten them. Does anyone know balls o f light; and that I was no about this sort? longer free flying but a member of (Incidentally the active alkaloid a long line o f these beings. From in Amanita Muscaria is a sub my left and right I saw them stance called muscarina. The stretch in a vast line right across antidote is atropine.) the sky as far as my vision could trace them. We started to chant; P.S. The red mushroom will curse “ We’re going to be infinity, we’re anyone who wilfully destroys it. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 — Page 19 The Ecology of Shit It can make the world go round, writes VERONICA PARRY, if only we w w t t j t weren’t so afraid of it. HIT, poop, pooh, No. 2, is into People Poop Power and oddly enough so is the Bondi caw-caw. There they are, S sewage works. They let their shit, those revolting words for that produce just enough methane to revolting stuff that comes out of power the plant. But the plant our revolting anal orifices. That comment just about sums up our only roughly treats sewage before repressed abnormal attitude to it is dumped into the ocean and of human excrement, an attitude course on to Bondi Beach! How a about which Freud & Riche have council can be so aware of written tomes, psychiatrists get methane production and still - al rich on and, more seriously, an low this dumping to continue is attitude which has largely led to beyond me. In fact, it’s down the current and critical stuffed up right criminal now that we're fac state o f our globe. If we are ever ing a crisis. to see the 21st century we had better ponder the philosophy of shit - it may be a lifesaver. We spend our lives enslaved to the process of getting and gob bling. No one denies that obesity in all forms is the bane o f our civilisation. Yet we dismiss the outgoing process with the sweep o f an ultra soft florally patterned square followed by the swift swirl of the cistern and away it goes - where nobody knows and nobody cares as long as the awful stuff is completely out o f sight (and for G od’s sake reach for the toilet brush if you’ve left a trace!). And we view our world with this same anal hang upi It’s OK to wheels within wheels, they in turn gaily gobble up the globe, gorge And who knows, life without shit out METHANE, a gas o f such our economic bellies to the full Shell Oil may be a good one. The character as to make petrol look and flush the shit down the same weather would return to normal vague drain. I’m not talking only for one thing. For another we old fashioned. Methane or marsh gas is the most simple of the paraf about industrial waste polluting may be forced to move around fin or methane hydrocarbon group. our water ways, that’s only the less giving hope for the return to the human condition of getting to It’s lighter than air but forms an smear on the cistern. explosive mixture with it which is The biggest offender and thus the one we least like to think safer than petrol vapor as far as fire is concerned. The octane and about is the excrement from the anti-knock value of methane is burning o f fossil fuels. Since the start o f the industrial revolution the carbon dioxide content of our There are a few more marvels atmosphere has increased by fif of people poop power to be men teen percent. This is causing a tioned. Public health problems are substantial warming o f our atmos eliminated, the sludge from phere. How? Carbon dioxide and methane digesters makes excellent other particles we put into the air fertiliser, plants are dead cheap to act as little reflectors sending back set up, the byproducts of burning to earth heat which the biosphere methane are saintly compared to has given off. It’s an atmospheric petrol and, best o f all, it’s as freely phenomenon known as the green abundant as we wish to make it. house effect. By ignoring our in No doubt this last fact is a sore dustrial anal outpourings our point with Shell Oil which may be greenhouse is turning into some why we’ve been so late in hearing thing o f a sauna and the result is a about it. change in the world’s weather Now to the philosophy o f shit pattern which may make the Bris and a little ecological rave. The bane floods an annual event. minute we can get over our hang But whether it’s C02 into the know and trust one another again. higher than petrol and its calorif up about our anal orifices, the atmosphere or tons q f raw sewage However, with due respect to ic value, weight for weight, is time we can muster up the cour dumped daily next to our most alternate lifers and their ability to seventeen percent greater. You age to look at what's in the live by solar bread alone, we must popular beaches, it's time we can run everything from cars to cistern and really care about what consider the rest o f us slobs who will happen to it, is the time that looked seriously at the stuff, es fridges to cities on it. can’t live without an auxiliary our eyes will start seeing a new pecially in light o f the current ego Production of methane from source o f energy. How else we reality. trip which petrochemical com sewage is nothing new. The Ger Ying will meet yang and an panies like to call the ENERGY gonna keep the beer cold and get mans were running cars on it in the Holden to the footy? The awareness that life is a balanced crisis. The real word for it o f world war two and now thousands course is the PETROL crisis. answer, my friend, could well lie o f plants ranging from municipal system of cycles and processes Sure, fossil fuels are runnino in shit. I mean this in both the schemes to commercial, farmyard will emerge. We will stop chom p practical and philosophic sense. ing through the globe with such out. Ehrlich & Co. have been and family sizes are operating But first to practicalities. insane abandon and cease to be- warning us about it for years around the world, principally in known as the only species than now. But even without such France, India, Taiwan and New, You might not want to have can live in its own excrement. We ecological prophets anyone who Guinea. The entire city o f Milan is anything to do with the stuff but will have developed that sense o f looks past their mouth would not electrified by sewage-produced it’s heaven to a whole crew of ecological awareness which just expect to be able to consume a methane so you can see that this anaerobic bacteria. These won Part of the methane gas conversion may see us into the 21st century. non-renewable resource forever, drous wogs that live without air is no pie in the sky dream. system at the Bondi sewerage treat especially at such a voracious rate. have a heyday eating it and, oh Here in Australia the army ment works. □ Page 20 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 — ------— sive on bop recordings. And the KIM SANDERS reason for this is that the recording techniques o f the time were, by ECHOES OF AN ERA: The best of today’s standards, ratshit. Gone were the guts o f the bass, and gone Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker- were the highs o f the drums and John Coltrane (Roulette RE-120) cymbals - and the cymbals were at (2 record set). the centre of bop drumming. Re ECHOES OF AN ERA: The sult: some very thin and pedes Charlie Parker-Dizzy • Gillespie trian-sounding rhythm sections. years (Roulette RE-105) (2 record The cleaning up o f the tapes, set). incidentally, is very good - but NE NIGHT recently, I was you can’t put something back on to O slumped, rather glazed, in a a tape that wasnt there in the first chair, listening to a tubby little place. fellow playing Dont blame me on The Coltrane session took place the alto saxophone. Suddenly, a in 1960, shortly after Coltrane had blinding flash hit me fair between left Miles Davis, but before the the eyes. “ My G od!” I thought. epoch-making My favorite things "This man can play anything!” date. This was the first time Col Momentarily disoriented by this trane recorded with M cCoy Tyner, insight, I fell to the floor, and had and he was obviously inspired by to be revived by strong coffee. the young pianist’s playing. Ty Next day, when the mists had ner’s unique harmonic approach, cleared a little, I reasoned that, and his use o f ascending and surely, no one could play anything descending block chords over a The big, bad, blowers o f bop: Bird, Dizz and Coltrane. . . . Yet Bird’s seemingly neverend- sustained pedal-tone allowed Col ing flow o f ideas, executed with a trane to further develop the modal facility that is the result o f an experiments he had begun with almost pathological capacity for Miles in the late 50s. practice and study, makes me Coltrane’s nasal, “ eastern” tone Jazz from the lips of and rhythmic sophistication were wonder. Quite simply, he’s the greatest improvising musician I’ve already quite advanced, and al ever heard. though he sometimes got himself into a position where he had The Roulette re-releases may the great nowhere to go, his playing is so full convince those who disagree, for of ideas and sweet blowing that this they contain some of the finest fine blowing on the piece’s bizarre Gillespie has often been put years, was already clearly evident. is easily forgiveable. He really wails Parker (and Gillespie) on record. (and difficult) changes - you can down because of his propensity for The Gillespie Paris concert in on One and four. The music consists o f 12 Parker almost sympathise with Cab Cal clowning, but in these recordings cludes some nice blowing by Diz in Stephen Davis is on bass, and quintet and quartet sides cut for loway when he told Dizzy Gillespie he is right up there with Parker, and both ballad and up-tempo pieces. the drummer is Ed Blackwell, Ross Russell’s Dial label in 1947, not to play “ that Chinese music in that is something you can only say Joe Carrol’s jive singing, as might better known for his later work 13 tracks from a 1953 Gillespie my band” . (Diz was later fired about a talented few. be expected, has not worn well, but with Ornette Coleman and Don concert in Paris, six selections from anyway, after being wrongfully The Dial sides are notable for the leader is in fine lip. His sense of Cherry. An interesting contrast a 1947 Bird and Diz concert, and accused o f firing a spitball. The fact some beautiful ballad playing on form, and of how to build a solo, with Coltrane’s later rhythm sec three pieces from a session record that he pulled a knife - “ only a the standards Embraceable you, are amply demonstrated on I've got tion o f Jimmy Garrison and Elvin ed by the John Coltrane Quartet in little knife” - on Calloway didnt My old flame, Dont blame me and the bluest blues. Jones. 1960. help his case.) Out of nowhere. Parker and Gil Here, as in most bop recordings, Both double albums are It is said that Bird saved his most lespie could work over a tune with the rhythm section is rather dis thoroughly recommended. Two adventurous blowing for live per the corniest of changes and still appointing. It is sad but true that small quibbles, however: The track formances and this is borne out by come up with some wonderful lyric most bop drummers and bassists labelled Scrapple from the apple is, listening to the Carnegie hall ex statements. (and even pianists, for that matter) in fact, Dewey square (which is a cerpts. His playing on the bop Miles Davis was also present on were inferior. Very few could pity - Scrapple is a brilliant tune), anthems Groovin’ high and A night the date, and sounds like what he understand what Parker, Monk and and Bird feathers is attributed to in Tunisia exhibits a ferocity not then was - a beginner in the Big Gillespie were trying to do, and the Parker quintet, although J. J. usually found in his studio record League. But his understated melod even fewer could play it. Even great Johnson’s trombone is clearly ings. ic approach, which he was to' musicians like Kenny Clarke and present. Y ou ’d think they’d be able Confirmation features some develop further in the following Max Roach often sound unimpres to get it right.. . BASIC MILES: Miles ru m peter, composer, and to form a quintet Davis (CBS, T band leader, Miles Davis that became a SBP234408). is one of the most enduring fig dominant factor in the music of ures in contemporary music. It the era. All were stylistic innovat JAZZ A T THE PLAZA: says a lot for his abilities that he ors, but it was the tenor sax o f Miles Davis served his musical apprenticeship John Coltrane which made this with Charlie Parker in the late 40s group one o f the best that Miles (CBS, SBP234436). and since that time has retained ever led. his position amongst the vanguard * * * of truly creative and innovative CBS have recently reissued two musicians. albums made by this group. Basic Twenty years after his stint Miles is mainly a selection of with the Bird, he was acting as studio cuts made between musical mentor to a new genera 1955-60, while Jazz at the Plaza is tion o f musicians - Mahavishnu taken from a live concert cut in John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, 1958. Considering the onslaught Herbie Hancock and Wayne Short of material churned out during er. He is a connecting link be this period the Basic Miles is a tween the electronic music of somewhat disappointing album. It today and the bebop era - when seems CBS is doing the time hon jazz broke from the shackles o f ored trip o f “ filling out” albums musical orthodoxy. The hallmark with some inferior material. Not o f Davis is his association with that any track is bad, but the outstanding musicians: he has a selection is rather uneven. About seemingly infallible judgment in half o f the album contains classic bringing young, untested, talent performances, the rest are relative to his groups, who later developed ly weak. in to giants. The title is somewhat mislead Such was the case in the mid ing. Miles had been an established 50s when he put together a group artist for ten years before he j3^^1ativel^mknowr^nusician^ contracted with CBS, a: THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1 9 7 4 - Page 21 to them a mature musician o f tional with Miles’ searching solo, around Paul Chambers, bass line, is studying music at six. By the time ously enjoys to work in. Flora some 30 years o f age in 1956. at once both sombre and lyrical, a model of economy, combined he was 19 he was working the Purim sings here in brilliant relax This album is hardly Miles’ "clas followed by Coltrane making one with swing. He makes every note Jazz Lofts o f New York, and it ed free-association with the other sics” — they are the things he did o f his classically voluptuous count, nurses some, spits others was here that he first met the late instruments; her voice has an un with Charlie Parker, and later with breaks leading into a solo that in out in devastatingly fast little Joe Farrell. It must have been a canny crystaline quality, relaxed Prestige. So what CBS is offering its oblique, veering way, exacts runs. On I f I were a bell he rewarding meeting, since they re and never dominating. is a selection drawn from their the last ounce o f soul from the explores the middle and lower corded together quite often, She returns to more convention basic holdings o f Miles’ works. number. registers o f his horn, obtaining a through Tones for Joan's bones - al singing on What games shall we Jazz at the Plaza also suffers With exceptional tracks such as shimmering, warm tone that is a Corea’s first album in 1968 - play today, which is a really pleas from imperfections but these are this, or the austerely poignant joy to hear. right up to this session in 1972. ant tune, but unfortunately Nev o f a technical nature. Even by the Round midnight, or the lush big Contrane plays like a man ob After years without having heard ille Potter’s lyrics just dont make recording standards o f the time band sound of Miles ahead, it is a sessed: very intense and exciting, Corea, except on Miles Davis live the grade. But then songs about this is not particularly good: the pity that CBS has filled out the he rips thru successions o f scalar - where he rose out of the heavy the great-all-together-and-paradise balance is rather poor, often the album with a few minor things modulations, constructing, surging, bog and presented some neat play give me the shits anyway. bass and piano are under-record like Sweet Sue just you and Fran- passionate evocations. This group ing - it was amazing to find that Both What game and Crystal ed, while the drums lack adequate dance. It is annoying to think cf was beset by crucial differences, at least five o f his records have silence are on another album, definition. However, despite this the much better material that particularly stylistic approaches. been released lately on the ECM where Corea teams with Gary it’s a thrilling record made all the could have been included. Miles is reputed once to have label. Burten on vibes. However, on that more astonishing by the fact that But the least admirable aspect reproached Coltrane after a partic The musicians on this session session they take Games very fast all these cuts are single takes and of this production is the liner ularly convoluted solo, with "You are excellent: Joe Farrell on flute and miss all the bounce that Corea made with all the limitations o f a notes for the album which are dont have to play every note you and soprano sax; Flora Purim, a gets out o f his main theme. Much live concert. truly emetic. Take this: “ His think o f John” . Miles has always remarkable voice; Airto on drums the same goes for Crystal silence (Miles) fertile mind rebels against But it’s a self-contained entity. been an economic horn player and percussion. It seems that which is one o f those beautiful, constriction, against any invisible It is an album based on one while Coltrane was the antithesis Chick has a taste for melodic bass timeless fills. Here Chick plays cloak. His valves pump adventure. performance and it stands as such. o f this style. Their partnership players - he used Steve Swallow with the spaces between the notes Then. Now. And for certain into On the other hand Basic Miles is with all its merits and limitations on Joan's bones and here we have as much as the particular note tomorrow and beyond.” more o f a concept album with the is compellingly displayed on this Stan Clarke, who must be one o f itself, leaving you to languish on * * * group continually experimenting. album. the hottest bass players around, the note or phrase which has Within the three years that most THE situation has been somewhat The CBS parent company in and certainly not the slowest. Try been, then other times filling it o f tracks on the album were redeemed by the J a z z at the Plaza the USA announced last month it his solo in Some time ago. It out with reverb to carry you made, their styles — both collec which is a far more even produc was embarking on a massive re floats, defying gravity, yet moves forward. Joe Farrell plays one o f tively and individually - changed tion. It lacks the overall polish o f issue program with an initial re like lightning, never sounding those doodling lines which were radically. Miles’ studio work, but it has an lease o f 33 albums. The Australian rushed. Richard Davis and the possible the best thing to come The early tracks sound very unfettered vigor and strength that subsidiary has shown remarkable Bass Club must have nightmares from the 60s school of sax play much the product of a new group more than compensates for this. alacrity in starting this program when Stan’s about. ing. having a ball blowing together, What you hear is an extra here. Hopefully the standard set On Return to forever Corea’s Sometime ago- la fiesta takes while at the same time looking ordinarily accomplished group by these two albums can be main style has not changed much since up all side two and unlike many back to what has happened be playing a very, very, good gig. All tained or, in the case o f Basic Joan's bones, however it is far of these currently popular long fore. Three years later, with Stella musicians are in top form and the Miles, bettered. more direct with none o f that takes it doesnt become an endur by starlight, we hear a group that addition of Cannonball Adderly straining experimentation which ance test, it’s good news all the * * * has matured conceptually and to the horn section gives the became popular in the 60s. Per way. technically. haps this is due to his change from whole thing an extra lift. While RICHMOND STURDY The best way to describe Miles, like Billie Holiday, has two saxes are prone to rather normal piano to the electric piano Corea’s sound is in his own words. the ability to take a rather banal complex solos the overall tight RETURN TO FOREVER: Chick that he plays now - it fits him When talking about Farrell he “ show time” , kiss it, and lift it ness o f the group prevents any Corea (ECM 1022ST). well and he wears it better than said: “ Like me he’s concerned above triviality. He is never far excesses. Miles is in fine, free RMANDO Anthony Corea, almost anybody. with swinging and with a kind o f removed from the blues and Stella wheeling form. On Oleo his inci A born in Chelsea, Massa The title track starts o ff the esthetics o f sound.” ,— , becomes something truly excep sive, muted hornwork, weaving chusetts on june 12, 1941, began eerie spatiality that Corea obvi COUNTRY SPINDLE RECORDS ★BONDI Warren Hudson 79 Hall St.ph.30 5429 ★BALGOWLAH Les Ryan 359 Sydney Rd.ph.94 5642 ★FAIRY MEADOW Tony Bourke Shop 112 Wynleys Chambers, Cnr.Princes Hwy.& Elliot Rd.ph.(042)84 9754 ALSO ART&PRINT SHOP 81a HallSt.Bondi Dali, Bosch, Magritte, Vasarely, Giger, Beardsley Second Hand Records & Books ph.305015 Page 22 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 B. B. KING LAYS IT ON you up and clean you out and a stubby finger at his heart when who loved him which made every So he talks about it, mutters AMOS DRUMMOND somehow make you happy for it hurts, holding his hands out one there happy they’d come and about how he had the blues and H MAMMA. This little having lived the experience with stretched when he’s confused, I hope they bring him back next how everyday he had the blues O pudgy black man hunched them crossing his hands over his chest week. But they won’t for a while .. . One more try to correct the over his guitar (Lucille, baby, you So anyway, I went along to when he’s touched, and holding a so you might as well get to a buzz and then the negro perform know who I mean), filling the Festival Hall in Melbourne the limp hand on hip with bum out record shop and listen to what ing for whites explains he will give syncopated air of the tin-roofed other night to see this man I love stretched when he’s “woman- you ’ll regret you missed. it everything he has, and steps Festival Hall with clean, hot licks so much alone and who has shared ising” . It would all seem so chil back into high gear . . . and riffs — his face a mime’s mask so much, so long (he was one o f dish and simplistic if you didnt Nat’s Then Freeman asks for a d oc - punctuating and approving the 60s “rediscoveries” everyone have ears. tor, as B.B. slumps in a faint, and everything that guitar is saying. likes to talk about so much) and I Not long into the fray B.B. - flash says “ That is it” and the pro Cause mamma, it’s talking and wasnt disappointed. the boy from Indianola, Missis Champion boardrider NAT motors make an extra grand and everyone knows what it’s saying. The warmup group was loud sippi — laid a surprise on the YOUNG travelled down to Syd Australia does it again. He will die Cause it's da BLUES. and subtle as a bazooka, running audience and out comes Herby ney to see B. B. King again. Some before more people understand what it is like to fly. Now I was going to start this at one pace. (That’s another thing. Mann who is playing the following extracts from his rave; so-called concert review with one There are no control knobs at a night in another part of town with T ’S not really hard to put o f those “ It was with a great deal concert.) But it didnt matter what his flute and a leather suit and an You beaut down what B. B. King is o f apprehension” lines, because it they did or who they were .. . No old-time hip look. B.B. was I capable of: together with his was. one came to see them. pleased: Herb looked a bit uncom sounds guitar Lucille, B.B. is capable o f First o f all I dont like concerts Then came B.B.'s backup - fortable and they jammed a while. setting the soul free! The black PAUL COULTER, all that much ’cause I dont like Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals. But it was B.B.’s town that night man stands and sings o f his love ingulars - a new word big audiences and I can’t wear my They played some nice, relatively and after some foot stomping and for this woman with enough notes now being used to describe earphones, and barns are not the tight but solo orientated numbers whistling Mr Mann retired and let S in her range to give a total experi singer-songwriters (read no air very best places to listen to music with the concentration on guitars, the man get on with his love ence on every meeting . . . play, no records, but plenty of if there is subtlety involved. piano and drums. The three-man affair. And so it went. So what is it, what’s that audiences). It was coined last year Second of all, like I said, we're brass section seemed to be waiting B.B. had a few raves to the noise? I’ve just driven 500 miles to describe the group identity of talking about blues. Ray Charles for cabs home for most of the audience. Now he’s truly a senti to see this flourishing love affair Jeannie Lewis, Mike McClellan, once said — before he started night and anyway the barn wasnt mental bloke and this embarrasses again and now the experience will Glenn Cardier and Margaret Road- getting backed by the Mormon really suited or wired properly for some people and sickens others fail because o f poor equipment. knight, when they performed to Tabernacle choir and the Boston brass. And anyway, like I said, I but there was no escaping the I flash to Santa Barbara, Cali gether. Pops orchestra - he would never didnt come to see them either. sincerity. fornia (february ’73) where a Now the New South Wales go out o f business ’cause if you’re Then the tenor sax player Now singalongs usually give stunned audience huddled under a Folk Federation and the cultural feeling fucked up and rotten you informed the masses (some me a pain in the bum and B.B. giant bank o f speakers put office at the University of New dont go home and play rock ’n stoned, some wasted, all waiting) was walkin’ along the stage, out o f through quality amplifiers: They South Wales have organised an roll, you buy a bottle o f gin, put o f the arrival of the king o f blues reach o f the mike, egging every Australian songwriters concert. on the blues and cry baby. Which singing-and-guitar-playing was one on and saying such things as gave the man the room he needed. The concert in Sydney suffered The concert is designed to present is not to say blues is not good gonna lay it on us and it was on. “ 1 can’t hear you ” in a high a program o f original Australian listening music . . . but it’s per This little chubby dude pitched voice. But you just can’t from poor equipment and the contemporary and traditional sonal - between the musician, waltzed in, picked up his instru get mad at the guy. He looked so “ love affair” wasnt consummated. Right from the moment B.B.’s styled folk songs, featuring some you and your mutual ground. ment and let you know who was happy when people started singing frustrated fingers searched for o f Australia’s best singer-song Now some blues players, like in charge - him and Lucille. Little and then he put fingers to guitar some control of the amp. some writers. It deals with one o f the Mississippi John for instance, can use explaining. He sang a lotta old and suddenly it struck me. What thing had to give! So he turned most neglected areas o f Australian stand outside, lay it down coolly, and some new and I kind of hung an opportunity. Singing with B.B. music: original music falling out almost calmly if you’re not listen on the old because it’s less show King backing you up. Live . . . back to the audience and tried to pick off notes over Sonny Free side the category o f “ pop” . ing closely enough. And others - tune and more gut than tender. Man that B.B. has style, he got For some time now there has and I think B.B. King fits this (The thrill is gone wiped me out. taste, he got diversification and man’s big blues backdrop . . . but been a virtual underground o f category — grab ’em, stomp on and Sweet sixteen . . . now that's can whisper as well as scream and it’s not possible under the heavy singers flourishing, occasionally ’em and communicate 'em with gut tender.) hum as well as holler. And he’s a buzz of poor amplification ... the intensity they feel. They fill He acts the songs out, pointing nice man who liked his audience Will he ride it out? Fix it! Fix it! surfacing and pulling audiences when they do. In Sydney, a few progressive wine bars are turning from the usual jazz and rock bands to musicians like A1 Head and Don Morrison to entertain at last madder lake’s sensational new their customers. The audience at traction o f singulars in Queens land has been shown by the suc album, butterfly farm cess o f A more singular show in attracting Jm ost full houses S ingle: Back Seat Song/Butterfly Farm K 545 3 wherever they played, an indica A lb u m : Butterfly Farm L 3 5090 tion that people are starved for this kind o f music. The Australian songwriters concert at the Science theatre out now UNSW on march 22 will be a musical first, not only because it will be the first time this group appears together in concert, but because they will be singing at least two o f their own com posi tions and one by another Austra lian songwriter. Their musical styles are varied. Together they are a very diversified concert o f musicians. Some are heavily traditionally in fluenced, others have worked out their own influences. All ten o f them are Australian and they are good. m m THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS — march 19-25, 1974 — Page 23 DoesBrizzie deserve Bjelke?YES I As the flood waters of Queensland subside another debilitating peril persists.Called“Bjelke Blues” , it’s victims suffer fits of swooning apathy and political myopia. W e ask WILLY YOUNG to give a p rogn osis. OH Bjelke-Petersen is a J Christian and carries a which has to be experienced pocket bible with him wherever rather than described. Visitors to he goes. This leader believes he is these northern beaches are advised close to, and understands the to avoid the seasonal sea-wasps, aboriginals because his church es which happen to be, I think, in tablished a mission on one of the season now. islands where he was chairman for I read in Tracks that Queens several years. land is the hottest surfing state, There he taught the aboriginals but as I seem to have fallen into the “ ethics of living” . They were the role o f your friendly travel granted large acreages o f land and guide, I regret to advise that re encouraged to build houses and cent cyclones have devastated the cultivate the land, but they just beaches. drifted o ff (“ there was no striving Despite a lack of activity, life for achievement” ) . . . well, here seems casual and pleasant. they’ve had their chance. One can rent small farms quite The most horrendous thing cheaply only three or four miles about him is his reasonable man from the city or the university. ner, his paternal concern, and his There are creeks in which to swim absolute sincerity of belief. People and vegetables are choice. I guess I here in Queensland take him very really like Brisbane, but o f course seriously and think he is a strong you have to get to know it first. leader. Okay, maybe a lot o f The nicest vibes I have en people dont take him so seriously, countered here were at the inde but it is impossible to live in such pendent Orwell secondary school an oppressive, puritanical political1 which started this year. Thirtyfive climate and not have some o f it kids from 12-18 years attend and rub off. People I know who work are guided by John Radecki. The and equipment on a large scale. here show alarming tendencies to him anymore?” that it is more established there kids are given complete freedom wards rightwing capitalism; the “He’s into his own thing . . . seems to be more people going. Some record collections I’ve met and run the school themselves, only other alternative is to be well, he’s just so heavy!” [See People in Brisbane assure me can only be described as far out working in their own time and come depressed. TLD, 2/9. ] that they can do things that they and obsessional. setting their own pace and goals. A few years ago, in 1968, Usually I live in Sydney, but I can’t do in other larger cities. It is But nothing much happens. They go on field trips to Nimbin Queensland university was full o f have lived in Brisbane and visit a matter of accessibility to hard Someone told me that if anyone and Byron bay. The atmosphere is radicals - one could not walk here quite often. When I mention ware. Two new recording studios comes here looking for action, he delightful and totally different three steps without tripping over a with “ the works” have opened ed I was writing an article about takes them to Lone Pine (the from other schools. They like the rad. Feeling was so strong, people Brisbane vibes, people immediately" here and are relatively cheap to emu, koala and kangaroo sanc school, they actually tolerate and actually believed that the revolu put in requests. “ We are doing a hire. One often operates on a tuary). like each other, and affection in tion was coming any day and that play, can you give us a plug?” friendly, cut-rate, weekend basis. There is a large transient popu the form o f frequent cuddles was The Film Co-op, getting on its then everything would dramatical Regrettably I declined. I told lation crashing here for a few extended to John (and me), al feet, has banded with other ly change. Now only apathy them I only wanted stories about months with friends (one always though I’ll mention they did groups (BCG, NFTA and the Fes pervades. “ natural disasters and universal has to know someone) before smoke all my cigarettes. Groups still gather in the beer tival Group) and is getting, with events” . I felt a real bastard; that’ s passing on to the rich hippy fields As I sat in on the daily meet garden o f the Royal Exchange the help of the Australian Council the way Brisbane gets at you . . . to the north or the asian trek via ing, the name of the school took for the Arts, a theatre for its hotel, and there is a commonly very small and nervous town. Darwin. In fact most people do on an aptness, when John an held belief that it is impossible to screenings, although there does In Sydney, I know people on a their living in the country num nounced in a matter o f fact tone, not at the moment appear to be organise anything in any other more existential basis, I know bers outside Brisbane and return that they (the police) had discov place. nothing about their backgrounds much filmmaking going on. The only to talk. It is generally the ered where the school was situat “ What have you been doing?” or case histories, but while I am council is also opening a Com dedicated hippy who goes north. ed. He stated that persecution was “ Living up at Ellis beach (near with them I know them quite munity Access Video Centre, as it While the area around Cairns is inevitable, and advised the kids to Cairns).” well, then we move on and meet is in other capital cities, and indeed a tropical paradise, a large carry their identification cards “ We’ re all going back to uni. again by chance. Here people $12,000 o f the $22,000 grant is section of the coast about 800 and told them about likely pro This is the year o f the big drop-in. seem unsure about extending being spent on hardware: two miles from Gympie to Innisfail is cedure if they were picked up by We’ re being paid” themselves to strangers, I guess it’ s Portapaks, two editing machines fairly inhospitable and the locals the police away from school in “ What’s Denis Walker doing?” just a symptom o f living in a and studio cameras. dont like longhairs, although they school hours. In a real way the “ He’s opened a black commun Here, I’ve also noted that smaller city. Only three Queens (the longhairs) say that the locals school is threatened with closure ity centre at Spring Hill (reserved overseas is an accessible reality via landers went to the Duval Creek depend on them for a casual by the education department and tone).” Workshop, and only a small per the post, and that individuals im workforce. However the north is the city council. Freedom has its “ Doesnt anyone talk about centage to Nimbin although now port records, books, magazines unique in its tropical exotica limitations in this state. HE organic food game Powder and Construction Works Garde Culture at the Tbattle has been lost, at least has published a "radical sources commonwealth centra Bullshit in the southern states. The guide". If you like Access type baffles brains, as me old man used two contestants — the cheerful, information then you'll just thrill to say. confident chemical lobby and the to The powder magazine. It's a 15 It may not be as easy as I have idealistic, more than somewhat, page quarto package crammed made out; for one thing the whole realistic veggieburger addict — x c e M w ith hundreds o f info gems — caper is only in the planning stage were unevenly matched right from alternative media, politics, third at the moment. The Ceremony the kick-off back in '71 when the STEPHEN WALL world groups, education, minority Co-op is the org to contact for game received the kiss of death publications, sexual liberation further info: "A t present, it is arts council grants long ago from the mass media. The price list and include details of print-outs and social action. It is envisaged that the festival would chem ical team was more finished and hence the need now merchandise if bartering." Robert particularly good in its overseas run for one week and comprise powerful, better trained and took to go out into the market place Hennig, 29 Lancing street, Pul- coverage. And most im portantly, permanent exhibitions and thea fo r work. pep pills at half time; the veggie lenvale, 4069 Old. it includes the publisher and sub trical/cinematic productions in lobby was forced to settle for dew Their video gear at the moment * * * scription costs. the theatre during the evenings. kissed, sun ripened oranges at the includes half inch black and white The firs t issue is just out and These presentations might include half way mark. portapack and studio cameras, USH Video is going the L, P & C people are aiming at drawing, music, poetry, film, lec The game has been lost and it editing gear and special effects commercial. It's a good sign 12 issues a year. The powder maga tures and mixed media." Best you is evidenced by the lack of B equipment. They can record as a cash flow should insure that zine is well worth a sub, especially check it out for yourself so that I. supplies of whole, organic foods anything, anywhere — theatrical they will be around for quite a for info fanatics. Costs $5.00 for can stop wasting space on such a in the market places of Australia. productions, pop groups, while. The people behind Bush the year and $10.00 for institu select group of hustlers. Info from So what to do in the face of school/university projects etc. Video came together w ith a heavy tions. Send to PO box 1806Q, 15 Arundel Gardens, London, almost no chance of a rematch? "for a very reasonable price". The slurp of cash lubrication from the Melbourne 3001. W11, UK. Plug on feedback from the deep federal government to provide group is also on the receiving end * * * * * * north: “ The Organic Growers video facilities for the Australian of radical, experimental and Co-Operative of Queensland has activist tapes from US and UK Union of Students Nimbin festival OW about a trip to London? END funky feedback nug video groups. Ring Mick Glasheen an order service available to the last year. All you have to do is gets to PO box 8, Surry public with no size restrictions or on (02)660.7131 or John Kirk H S Back in Sydney they have been convince a few people that you Hills, 2010. Neatest correct entry limits on orders. Bartering can be (02)412.1077. responsible for the only video are in fact an Australian, avant will be returned unopened; the arranged and all transport theatre in Australia (in Glebe each * * * garde artist, talk Qantas into a judges decision is anal and no facilities are available. Set prices Sunday). 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Hypocrisy, your cynicism; from healthy self-searching name is marxism to complacent ego-involvement. Finally, I havent “ found a new Your change in emphasis in the last home and/or job ” but am still in the couple o f editions has disturbed me a same home and at the same job, and bit. I was beginning to hold out real they are the same, fighting for gay hope o f Daylights developing into the liberation even if that means destroy only spontaneous, honest, truth- ing the present marxist-controlled GLF seeking paper circulating widely to stop DF and his ilk from using gay throughout Australia. With articles like rights not for the benefit o f gays but your garbology bit and with Mungo for their (the marxists) own political sneaking into the paper and with other ends. columnists (you are becoming stylised, I will not be silenced or diverted arent you?) becoming increasingly pre despite active attempts by the marxists tentious, I suspect you’re heading the to do both. So back to your typewriter way o f your stablemate. That would comrade Denis or, better still, drop lose me. your multi issue for GLF plans and NOEL MAUD, let’s work together to rebuild the Albury, NSW shattered GLF into an active, proud, worth-belonging-to group working sole Right ly and bravely for gay rights. MARTIN SMITH, rubbish Glebe, NSW YOUR report of the garbage inquiry Red closets shocks me as a blatant invasion of privacy. Your counterculture mob is BY REFERRING to me as “a well behaving like a John Birch Society known prison reformer" (TLD, 2/10) witchhunt. Or was it hunger? Denis Freney has run to true marxist And you might say, “ Well, if he’ s form and used that solitary line o f de got nothing to hide, why should he fence . . . labelism. The shit has obvi mind our going through his trash” . But ously hit the fan, and, I fear, splattered I’ve always heard this rationale coming on to his paper. I’m delighted to note, from the other side. however, that he was careful NOT to PAT WOOLLEY, refute my claim that Gay Lib is a na Balmain, NSW tional joke and is NOT supported by, or representative of, the gay world. Gunning down Gay Lib supports abortion (surely non-sexist “ persons” dont indulge in sex so dont need it), prostitution (one Nimbin or two male hustlers or lesbian pros ERE is an interview I did with might thank them), apartheid (do lib black militant Bob McLeod (see bers support the black races because H TLD, 2/10). When I was editor they are secretly “ size queens” ?), May o f the Canberra College o f Advanced Day (sounds like a distress signal), Education student newspaper Caesar Vietcong (were the bullets only aimed ian. I spent three hours talking with at our “ square” soldiers in Vietnam?) him after he came back from Nimbin. etc, etc, etc. As Bob will quite openly admit, his What the hell has this to do with time inside was done for assault. Prison was a bad experience for Bob but when homosexual law reform or acceptance? I spoke to him he was obviously How can their in-fighting, or verbal starting to get his head together. garbage directed at the square or non- I’ m sending this down as a matter of marxist world, achieve any o f the aims record. He’s obviously changed his that they are so careful to hide? ideas since, but I’ d say his view o f I doubt if Gay Lib (big G, big L) himself and where the aboriginals stand tribal guy could at least think he was a epistle. I still believe that, with ourselves into GLF because we were flower. can ever survive their zealously fought is still the same. patience and understanding, liberal- gay and wanted to battle for homosex Do you think it's good that so many “ When aboriginals ask for land baiter Freney willbe shown the error of ual human and civil rights. But appar for bad publicity and emerge as a people in the european part o f Aus rights people think we want money or his way and escape from the morass ently GLF here is to go the way of representative or viable force, despite to own the land. But money seems so tralia are renouncing its goals and aims, and darkness of marxism thus being an overseas gay groups (see Gay news, any changes that may be made. Who and going back to the land? stupid to me, They dont understand will form a single issue organisation that aboriginals dont want to own the individual and not, as he is now, a October 18, 1973) where, for instance, “ What happened with Nimbin was that cipher. “London GLF ceased to exist over a which is not a political hot potato by when the white people saw the kids up land - they are part of the land. (extracts only) Now for his letter, which was to say year ago and gay liberation is now its marxist links? there, they said to themselves sub JOHN WILKINSON the least an hysterical tirade against more o f a political and intellectual Mr Freney’ s letter is a step in the consciously ‘There they go, acting like right direction. Will the other marxists blacks’. Potts Point, NSW me, a tirade more emotional than ideology than an organisation, not that “ White people are trying to get factual. I shall, o f course, leave Peter it was ever really structured” . in Gay Lib stand up and be counted? away from what they are. But I say, Gay rights French to answer those parts relevant Concerning my previous letter Perhaps then this cancer can be cut out ‘ Dont get away from it, fix yourselves to him (TLD, 2/9), I did not, as DF claims, o f gay liberation (small g, small 1). up’. & wrongs Yes, I am a former member of the take upon myself “the mantle of Come out of your red closets! “ . . . I dont believe in buddhism, state council of the Liberal party of spokesman of Gay Liberation” nor do Christianity or any other form of pray PETER FRENCH, I WAS going to open this letter by NSW but I left the Liberal party I believe it shows I should “ go back ing. I believe in reality: work to make Woollahra, NSW things work. It takes too long praying saying: “ Denis Freney get stuffed,” because of its unprincipled and gutless into the Liberal party” . Were Brian — while you’re praying you got a kid but then I realised that that wasnt attitude to gay rights. Am I to do the McGohan and Lance Gowland taking Living dying o f malnutrition and I dont like quite the fate I wished for DF whose same to Sydney GLF for similar rea on the mantle o f spokespeople for GL that. letter (TLD, 2/10) has provoked this sons? I, and many like me, threw with their recent letters to the com "I felt sorry for the kids because if munist weekly Tribune? They, like me, magic you really think about it you got a hell are gay liberationists and were express IN RELATION to M. Stitt’s letter in o f a lot of hurt in this society. Places ing personal views. the TLD, 2/7 issue, I would like to like Nimbin — well, it’s good that I insist, and will continue to insist, acknowledge Ms Oppenheim’s con people can get away for a time so that tribution to Nimbin and to raise my they can talk about it but up at that GLF is a single issue organisation Nimbin it was like a holiday. even if or despite DF’ s claim that I am hat with respect to the passing o f a real Can young whites learn from the a voice crying in the wilderness. But I lady. Ms Oppenheim acted as personal aboriginals in their search for alter doubt I am And even if I were, I dont adviser and astrologer to many con native ways o f living? see that it matters how many gay cerned with the initiation of Nimbin. “ Young whites can learn a lot but libbers wish to keep GLF single-issued; Fittingly, perhaps cosmically, Graeme there are certain things that we can’t unlike DF, and marxists generally I’ m Dunstan and Vi’ s baby Softly Cy, tell them because they’re white people. not concerned with the numbers game. conceived during that remarkable ten And all white people — young or days in may, was born on the same otherwise — still have no real respect Damn the fact GLF has affiliated for aboriginal culture. with the May Day Committee! How birthday as Ms Oppenheim (february “ It’s very difficult. There was young many gay libbers will associate them 4) as was acupuncturist Norman Stan- Rosalind — the dark girl who’ s doing selves with the move and be on the nard, one o f the last people to see her ballet. She just went to America the May Day march? ‘I’ll wager very few alive. other day. She’s about 19. There were because they know that life for gays This letter is really a salute to that young blokes up on the stage wi th her under communism will be no better, living magic which continually accom doing a corroboree and they made her but probably worse, than under capi panies our lives, and sometimes ob look like a little kid because she didnt trudes publically to remind us of its have the rhythm or the beat that any talism — as it is now in Cuba and the of them did. USSR. presence. To astrologers, mediums, “ She couldnt identify with anything By the way Denis, what do the magicians, bearers o f the magic one she was doing because she’ d been words “ sexist” , “ rip-off” and “ reason and all, all hail! brought up white, she’d been dancing able article” mean? Might I remind DF JOHNNY ALLEN, under lights and in big buildings which that the Canadian gay paper, Body Ex Kaptain Kulture A U.S., are all white things. The aboriginal politic (which DF and other marxists Nimbin, NSW Page 26 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - march 19-25, 1974 Canberra delights LINDSEY Bourke, organist, pianist, painter, film-maker, is showing two new films he made with Mick Glasheen and playing organ, m oog and piano behind them on march 23 and 24 at 8.00 pm in the Coombes theatre, ANU. Price $1.00. Going Go fly backwoods a kite NOEL MAUD PETULANT cop wandered MICHAEL O’ROURKE A with his comrade-in-arms ITES are very beautiful along the shady banks o f Nariel Kobjects, and kite-flying is a creek, wondering if he could order gracious, sociable activity which I the kids to stop leaping from the heartily recommend. tree into the deep hole below. The Kites are easily made, provided tree was on the other side o f the you arent too ambitious. It’s easy creek. It would be embarrassing if to get one up, also, provided it’s a the kids ignored him. He fingered no-nonsense sort of kite with his pistol holster nervously and good balance. continued along the creek Some people regard kites as a Parked beside the green was a kind o f sculpture. There is much bus, and all along the shady side to recommend this view, and were the over sixty-fivers with k tfe: M many flyers build their kites so camp stools, deck chairs, rugs and Shearing a sheep and spinning the fleece with a song o f Nariel they will look interesting or fan cushions. Behind the bus was a tastic. Such kites are seldom suc motor cycle and beside it another, hugely amused by half a dozen music . tending towards hard rock but cessful. Others regard kite-flying and another. About 10 bikes lads who were heaving themselves Twelve years ago Con without the electricity. as a sport. I have heard tell o f there, and many more scattered into the creek with much yelling organised the first black and white I got the feeling the only thing competitions at silly places like around the festival site. and splooshing. He was leaping in folk festival - the first folk festi that allowed the Nariel festival to Buenos Aires or Reykjavik where In front o f the bus were family there with them, I could tell. val ever held in Australia, he says be still so pure, uncomplicated several kites are put into the air, groups with rugs and water On the stage two old dears with some pride. He got a couple and unexploited after 12 years and on a given signal the owners melons and cameras and kids scat were singing Home on the range in o f hundred along and was well was the country organisers in try by mysterious means and tering among the bikies and pen near perfect harmony and some pleased. efficient use o f public relations clever devices to bring the other sioners. Around the green were where in the background someone This labor day weekend more and the press, and the selfishness kites down or even to destroy hippies from Sydney, Melbourne was making like a barnyard It was than 3000 people from all over o f patrons who keep this mirac them utterly. Last kite aloft wins and Canberra; some having a super-corn and was acted out with the country and from New Zea ulous event to themselves rather I, on the other hand, am smoke, but most just talking and such slow-drawling country time land headed for Nariel, 80 miles than risk it being overrun with inclined to think that kite-flying is listening. lessness as to be nearly, if not east o f Albury. Most came to friends and relatives. a philosophical activity - fishing A kid from the backwoods o f completely, a classic performance. relax and listen and- with neither hook nor bait; an The fact that there is no en Corryong clutched a can of fizz in That was the Nariel folk festi Some brought along banjos, activity that is both non-represen trance charge, that local service his skeletal hand like it was the val. An impossible blend of young guitars, harmonicas, accordians tative and non-directive. The clubs provide efficient catering at first time the gas had tickled his and old, affluent and battlers, and all manner o f bush instru insulting advice, “ aw, go fly a little more than break-even prices, tongue and throat. He ambled rustics and sophisticates. A blend ments from gum leaves to tea kite” would lead us to think that that none o f the performers past businessmen sporting three that has been maturing for the chest basses. These were the per kite-flying is an activity reserved charge for their appearances is days growth o f beard and pressing past 12 years since Corryong's formers - a pot pourri o f bushies, for foolish, reckless and wanton perhaps another reason why the movie cameras to their beer guts. favorite son, Con Klippel, decided country dance bands, balladists, persons. This is undoubtedly so, crowds havent robbed Nariel o f its A bloke in his 80s, skinny legs to do something to “ promote and yarn-spinners, pensioner club live- and a good thing too. quaking beneath baggy shorts, was preserve old time traditional wires, folk singers and a couple innocence. □ Hicksville fights back NEXT WEEK OME people said the film For lots o f little reasons the shows from America than realities SPatton was a great send up intentional community movement o f Australia. Look again, Paul, o f war movies, Nixon said it was tends to be at this stage a rural and you will see that shearers r f t V the greatest film he had ever seen. movement. In the country there is drive to the sheds in Kingswoods So it goes with satire as a style o f more space between institutions and Valiants and earn maybe writing. It’s a bit o f a cop out for and people are more real than $500 a week. Farmers are into \ the author because it allows him their roles. There are fewer cops. agri-business, all dollars, chemicals to fence sit. To those who think There is fresher air and fewer day and machines. And widows drink the author made a great point to day hassles like traffic snarls to and play the pokies at the nearest cleverly he says thank you. To drain your energies. And most club. those who thought he missed the important, the isolation from Another part o f the domin point snidely he says I jest, you speedy city blah blah lets a group ation is the conviction that it is all humorless prick. So it is in the of people focus on and develop happening in the city and any face o f this ambivalence that I the relations between and within thing happening elsewhere is a cop venture to make serious comment themselves. Country living facili out, an arcadian escapist trip. on Paul Craddock’s Hicksville tates harmony. True, a lot o f things do happen in {TLD, 2/8). In terms o f investment o f the the city and a lot o f things have to I believe a movement has arisen energy that is available in people, happen to distract from often and I call it “ the intentional com the returns o f joy, self-discovery quite desperate, lonely, hopeless munity movement” . People who and existential world changing life situations. Like having to see have made the great refusal, who come quickly and more profound the latest film. It’s a consumer have taken control of their lives to ly in relative rural isolation. And game that is just not necessary if say no to the myths and institu so it is that at Tuntable, Main your life is enriched by more r tions of the consumer society are Arm, Cedar Bay, Coolah, and so direct relations with people. coming together to seek answers on experimental communities are The alternative to Long Bay is to the big survival question o f our flourishing. not necessarily a bed sitter in times “ How shall we live?” They In opposition to this reversal o f Paddington or Carlton. The are coming together with the in the urban drift is the hegemony o f people behind the loud hailers are tention o f finding the social struc city culture that has developed too busy hassling and hailing to ture, o f founding communities, post war. It’s not until you live in work on alternatives and it is my that will enable them to live joy the country a while that you experience that it is the vision o f fully, creatively and in balance begin to appreciate how much such activists that life is, must be, with the life system o f the planet. “ city” dominates the mass media one struggle after the next. They It’s a big step from the individ and the relations between people. dont have a still centre. But that's ualism o f the drop out attitude their scene. A farmer on 13,000 acres will “ me against the world” so preval It’s a yin/yang situation, I sup ent in the 60s. And it has not build a suburban bungalow and live as if he is in the suburbs. Such pose. While the activists are tear been made without some falter ing down the institution of op ing. At Nimbin we had a gutful o f people have come to be ashamed TOTAL ORGASM pression, the intentional commun the cosmic hippy ravers, “ It’s all and defensive of their country “ Most sex manuals tend to concentrate living. ity people are working at building just happening, and it’s all free,” the non oppressive institutions to your attention upon pleasuring your A part o f this domination can they used to say as they ripped facilitate freedom. These are two partner; I want to show you how to give be seen in the stereotypes used in o ff our energy. And yet Nimbin complementary parts to totality pleasure to yourself.” Paul’s satire. They are city, put happened beautifully and all of us for social change. 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