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Speaker 1: Delving deep into the archives of Perth music history. Clezies

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box grooming again, that grooving and that music

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Speaker 1: you put your neck out is going on. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it was. Anyway, let's lift up the lid. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we've lifted lid on the Tragic Music Box today and

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Speaker 1: we're going back to nineteen eighty six. It was a

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Speaker 1: beautiful year. What a year. It was eighty six the

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Speaker 1: year it all started for the West Coast yours least,

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Speaker 1: not the actual footy, but it was. That was eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: but the setting up of the club, it had to happen. Book. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: After the WAFL directors and the eight clubs voted twelve

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Speaker 1: to two for WA to join the expanded VFL competition.

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Speaker 1: I wonder who the other two were. That might have

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Speaker 1: been a secret vote, I think on TV in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty six and Kanti and Greg Peace read Channel nine

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Speaker 1: news in Perth. Yeah, lovely man Greek Pierce and Kanti

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Speaker 1: that beautiful voice they were followed, Yeah, followed with some

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Speaker 1: current fee by Terry Willisey, the legend from the legendary family.

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Speaker 1: Terry told me, Terry told us all Nott's Landing was

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Speaker 1: the Dallas spin off starring the always glamorous Donald Mills

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Speaker 1: Allman starf Absolutely Yes. A decade before Gladiators Australia, Billy J.

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Speaker 1: Smith and Fiona McDonald hosted It's a Knockout, featuring amateur

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Speaker 1: athletes from around Australia playing silly games for a massive

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars prize pool. Hilarious and that's what the

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Speaker 1: voice every guy sounded like a bit. Here in Perth,

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Speaker 1: the Western Mail was our alternative newspaper on Saturdays, full

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Speaker 1: of lots of nice color. We mail Western Mail just

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Speaker 1: on Saturdays. It cost you forty cents to buy it.

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Speaker 1: They sadly it didn't stop the paper from losing fifty

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Speaker 1: million bucks over the next seven years. Not great business, yep. Now.

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Speaker 1: Live venues in our city included big pumps like the

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Speaker 1: look and Burroughs Scarboroughoroad. Yeah, the Nook and Busters are

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Speaker 1: in Inelou, the Generator at the Morley Park Hotel, Newport

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Speaker 1: down in Frio, the Raffles, of course, and the Lookout

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Speaker 1: at ob City at scar before it became Rendezvous. I

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Speaker 1: got Shenz shens was a beauty you could go on

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Speaker 1: all day couldn't you yeah about all those different pubs

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Speaker 1: of herdis Back in nineteen eighty six, Cleo magazine introduced

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Speaker 1: its most Eligible Bachelor's list. These were all celebrity blokes.

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Speaker 1: So the first list in eighty six included TV host

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Speaker 1: and musician David Rain, James's brother. Yeah. Cricketer Simon O'Donnell

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Speaker 1: before he became the horse guy, he was pretty dishy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he played footy as well. Hugo Weaving make Kilder. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he did Yes and Kilda and played cricket for Australia.

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Speaker 1: Actors Hugo Weaving, Gary Sweet and Tom Burlinson before he

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Speaker 1: was the man from Snowy River. And when Gary had hair,

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Speaker 1: I think Gary had some hair named married Jonah Griggs

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Speaker 1: and he did a little kid called Buster and we

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Speaker 1: moved to the live gig of the time nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 1: October of eighty six. Lease, I know you're like me

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Speaker 1: and you think of these guys as been brilliant. Scottish

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Speaker 1: band Simple Minds came to Perth. Was there, Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: played the Entertainment Center on there Once upon a Time tour.

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Speaker 1: Great album. By this stage of the album, the band's

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Speaker 1: seventh had been out for a year, so they had

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Speaker 1: been on the row for a long time and we're

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Speaker 1: in killer form. It's just one of those great nights

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Speaker 1: now as charismatic frontman Jim Kerk gliding onto the stage

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Speaker 1: to watch him, oh so joy. Yeah, it was unreal,

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Speaker 1: was it? What an athlete? Eight thousand fans went nuts

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Speaker 1: and you were there. I was there. The sound of

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Speaker 1: Waterfront from the previous album Sparkling and their own kicked

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Speaker 1: it off. What a great way to kick it off,

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Speaker 1: such a great song. Yeah. Look, we heard a run

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Speaker 1: of songs from Once upon a Time, the album of

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Speaker 1: the moment there was Come a Long Way and the

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Speaker 1: brilliant ghost dancing. Jim stalked and crouched his way around

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Speaker 1: the stage. I used to do that crouch and then

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Speaker 1: popped back up. I just don't know how he did it.

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Speaker 1: We spoke to him recently about it. How good he

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Speaker 1: was it doing all that kind of stuff. He was

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Speaker 1: like a man possessed. Then it was mega hit time.

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Speaker 1: We got promised to you a miracle, don't you forget

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Speaker 1: about Me? And featured the crowd of course going off

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Speaker 1: doing that hey hey hey hey with Jim, which was

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Speaker 1: very cool and then of course more from the new album,

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Speaker 1: Oh jungle Land the title track, and Charlie Birchall he

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Speaker 1: didn't know as Jim was walking around being the perfect

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Speaker 1: front man. Charlie Burchall just pretty much stood still most

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Speaker 1: of the time. So he's blazing Gitars set the place

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Speaker 1: a light. Absolutely all the things she said, she said,

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Speaker 1: live and kicking and sanctify yourself. The encore included the

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Speaker 1: fan favorite someone Somewhere in Summertime, which is a beautiful

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Speaker 1: Is that a great song? A frenzied version of love

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Speaker 1: song and I'm trying not to sing the more. The

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Speaker 1: apartheid anthem Sun City as well, which was big at

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Speaker 1: the time. That was a big movement against the South Africans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it huge? And a lot of stars involved in

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Speaker 1: at Springsteen and the Low and Little Stephen and then

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Speaker 1: a party ended with a cover of Slime The family

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Speaker 1: Stones danced to the music. Who would have thought Simple

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Speaker 1: Mines would play that, but it was wonderful. On the

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box on ninety six AM