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Choir Boys, Dave Warner from the Suburbs, Do Re Mi, HooDoo Gurus, Hunters & Collectors, Icehouse, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil, Mondo Rock, Radio Birdman, Renee Geyer, Richard Clapton, Sunnyboys, the Reels, the Saints, Triffids
Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OwLIY9moA
Bury me deep in Love – The Triffids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJrtCmcoq0
Alone with you – Sunnyboys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWR5n-ZT4xI
Aloha Steve and Danno – Radio Birdman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWArUaViXsA
Suburban boy – Dave Warner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLbyaNbhHdU
Know your product – The Saints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbf5gD6S2W8
Man Overboard – Do Re Mi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mkidP2OUCk
Great Southern Land – Icehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUAMuwRFHEM
State of the Heart – Mondo Rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG74cOf5-EM
Girls on the avenue – Richard Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlnz95SZwBk
Stares and Whispers – Renee Geyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cepSg0HswdE
What’s my scene – Hoodoo Gurus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWrW3qJ2HOA
Run to Paradise – The Choirboys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbovKqsJPc4
He’s gonna step on you again – The Choirboys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69wQsfrbSU
Throw your arms around me – Hunters and collectors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS6MU0R-2c0
Live it Up _ Mental as Anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etdXzGAZWA
Quasimodo’s Dream – The Reels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE
Power and the Passion – Midnight Oil
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Great pub. Reading through comments I noticed too we therefore have strayed into reflecting on pubs. When I came from North Queensland and went to an event in Tasmania, I was amazed at the difference between pubs there and NQ, not that I had a lot of experience of them then. Inside though they were so well appointed and in Adelaide. Later I saw others not so cosy and tavern like. In Cairns we hung out on shopping days to meet up in the lounge of the Hides Hotel. It was beautifully cool and open to the environment with appropriate decoration that made it cool.
I went off to find a ‘ticular track to post here and came across this reference to my late brother’s son, Damon (that isn’t Damon in the pic). In Scotland. That would be happy for my brother. My dad would be so amazed at this modern world and its now ease of transmission of knowledge and people.
http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/ian-matthews-and-damon-wilson-to-headline-scottish-drum-fair-587673/
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The bloke playing drums…
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I’ve been there maybe once or twice. I worked in Chatswood for many years. I noticed the difference in pubs in Tasmania compared most the rest of the country. I’ve also noticed how they style has developed over time. These grand federation buildings to the art deco etc. Modern day taverns seem boring by comparison. They’re often the only place you can get a decent feed in some places.. Recently had an overnight trip away. Stayed in a Pub only because the rest of the group were. Room was dreadful but dinner was good.
Interesting name for a band in a discussion about pubs “The Temperance Movement”
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We have gone back to The Royal here in Bowral, they have renovated it, and it looks really nice, wooden floors and even a lovely Kilim under the billiard table, real plants and pretty flowers and old pictures on the walls… and food is good again…
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That’s nice to hear, helvityni. Nothing like good pub tucker and a hospitable decoration with its old pictures on the wall. Yummmm. 🙂
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algy, interesting you comment the room was dreadful. It’s not crash hot where I stay in a pub sometimes locally. Next time I will try the food. Bring a sample of the serviette and menu:) Yes, name for a band in a discussion about pubs. I reckon he can pretty well please himself now what the name of the band is he plays with:) When his dad and I were children, his dad played saxophone but our older brother played the drums (and spoons…useful in a pub with a microphone. 🙂 ).
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This one still had cigarette smell in the carpet. shoe. The whole room looked like it hadn’t been touched since the 1970’s bar the TV. It had two single beds and a double bed. one of the singles was comfortable enough to sleep in. Others at work suggested one night would be your limit. They now choose a motel in the town. TI asked about breakfast and they had given that up as they couldn’t get the staff to come in but suggested a cafe down the road. Good breakfast that lasted most the day.
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Pretty impressive to retain the cig smell in the carpet that long, algy. Preserved for posterity. Go there and get your acquired Brain Disorder…I mean acquired COPD. I was a cig smoker and have inherited a dose probably so I am like a frightened rabbit in places like it, trying to look Kool, oops sorry cool. 😉
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Not being able to get staff! A local pub the publican falls out the door and trips over his feet on the pavement almost. How dreadful is that. Therefore the place is too dangerous to hang out in because he is in disrepair. I do get lonely algy sometimes not even having a pub I can call into for a drink and perhaps a cup of nice coffee. C’est la vie. There are worse things to worry about.
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Its more they won’t come in early. And on pubs it was more for the bands than the beer.
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I see. Well, that figures re staff.
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Then the telephone rang…I was intending to comment algy how interesting it is moving between different environments and understanding what a pub “is” ( re our experience of say a pub in Tasmania). My experiences in Tasmania were in the rarefied setting of hundreds of musicians of all ages participating in hi jinks…and yet we were welcomed (when I think about it). Marvellous what it means to have a musical instrument in a pub ie ‘a’ voice and often the lead singers. Mate, they could drink. I wonder if the statistics of musicians and alcohol has changed at all since those days. Surely they don’t all graduate to a bottle of alcohol in a hip pocket.
Things you think about when you’re in a pub reflecting on your experience of pubs. So, algy in short, even when I was a pub crawler, it was usually in the context of crawling the music or supporting the venue. (Right that’s it. I’m off to the pub for a drink. 😉 )
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Great stuff, thanks to Algy for savin’ all of those two bob bits to run through the juke box on Fridee nights!
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Thanks Big, Its a big job finding them all.
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Thanks Algernon… memories from the past.. 🙂
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Yes I thought so. I’ve managed to put a couple of lists together and only repeat a band once (because I wanted to).
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The Architecture in Helsinki stuff which I mentioned to Helvi a year or two ago – well finally there is a song from that CD on YouTube – song is Contact High. I still don’t know how to put YouTube link in here (or anywhere). I’d love someone else to listen to it and let me what you think. The group comes from around Albury, basically.
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Their song Desert Island is also on YouTube – I love it. Very cheery stuff when I’m in the car and politics is the last thing I want to hear anymore about. You know what I mean.
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Contact High
Desert Island.
There you go Vivenne. Not bad stuff. Quite cheery and positive. The Elder would like it, she’s into indi music. The Younger might, she’s more post punk or goth punk.
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Thanks Algy – it is different don’t you think.
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It is Vivienne, Not that different to what the Elder listens to. We have similar in the car for those longer trips. There’s plenty of talent around the shop I find.
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It’s Midnight Oil for me, also The Great Southern Land by Icehouse…I so wish that Abbott and Co are not going to ruin the place….
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Nice picture there of The Willoughby Pub….many of the old pubs are rather beautiful architecturally…
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It presents well doesn’t it Helvi, I like the look of these well preserved old Pubs. Iva davies went to Juniors High school albeit at the time I was at High School,
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How cool is this – go to listen to Great Southern Land and the ones to the right include Goanna’s Solid Rock etc. lots of other great Aussie stuff just sitting there to be selected.
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Tuckers Daughter – was in Manly when Ian Moss was singing his heart out at the pub – couldn’t fit inside the door – it was jampacked – made do with the footpath.
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Does anyone remember Mona and the Wailes, Whales or Wales? Two sisters, one was named Bridie, she gave piano lessons and lived in the ‘Boat shed’ at the bottom of Nicholson Street, East Balmain. They often played at the William Walace when a schooner cost 80cents. (Barking above the cast iron grate, near the corner)
Good selection again and again Algy. Thank you
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Thanks Gerard, I’ve heard the name but know little about them.
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Her name, I just remembered is Bridie King, she is a jazz & blues singer. There seems to be a fair amount of her work on You- tube.
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OOOOHHH – lots of goodies here – know most of them and some are top on my fav list. The Reels were superb. Love Girls on the Avenue heaps and heaps.
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Me too, Viv. Ilove Aussie pub band music of the 70s. I had a clutch of additions – the Angels “Am I ever Going to See Your Face Again”, the late, great Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs “Bee Bob a Lula”, Rose Tattoo “Bad Boy for Love”, Anything by Cold Chisel. Make that Everything by Cold Chisel.
FM and I saw the Reels last year live at the Factory in Marrickville – first gig together in 38 years ! Quasimodo’s Dream and the News were great tunes.
And earlier – the Atlantics’ “Bombora” was so good people thought they were American 🙂
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So true re Bombora. The pubs bands I enjoyed in the late 60s were all unknown – bloody good but not famous and I can’t remember their names now either. Are you sure it was 38 years between gigs for the Reels? Not that old surely!
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Yes I think it might be 38 years since they formed. Quasimodo’s Dream was released in the early 80’s.
Many pub bands did rise and fall with some long forgotten (or is that age).
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Watch this space then.
I was a regular at many in the ’70s and ’80s. Like the Bluegum at Waitara or Pennant Hills Inn, not to mention The Charles at Chatswood or the Three Weeds at Rozelle to name a few. Haven’t done anything since kids though.
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