1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: We would be singing a minute works to twelve hundred 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: people that men at work and begin their own I. 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: Don't need the people party. 4 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: And then the bands was a way of Lisa's pub 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: drawn today Slim drew himself Jamie mccanty, good morning. 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 2: Believe it. This is ob scene. 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 3: Getting up this hour of morning is like tortuing for 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 3: a rock and roll mate, What are you talking about? 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: What are you talking about? It was the defibrillator outside 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,319 Speaker 2: for ready to go. Yeah, yeah, we didn't know you 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 2: needed a rider. Yeah. Sorry. Lisa is practically a doctor maker. 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 2: I'll give it. 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: Google having about the mouse, did a condition? Google assussitation 14 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: time doctor Google that cassette. The quality sounded also, that 15 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: was unreal. I had a transferred to see a few 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: years back because I've got one cassette left right on 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: my shelf. And the interesting thing about it was on 18 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: the back of it, we had this sticker that we 19 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: had to put on manually. So we all came to 20 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: the office one day and sat down with you. I 21 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: think there was about two and a half thousand cassettes 22 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: and a couple of boxes, and then we had all 23 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: these stickers and we. 24 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: Had to apply the sticket to the back, which. 25 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: Was warning this cassette contains hidden Christian messages. 26 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 4: Oh like the opening ceremony like that. 27 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been controversial, hasn't they? 28 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it sold really well. Yeah good. 29 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 4: You recorded that live at the OBA back then play 30 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 4: the full version because it went for about twenty five hours. 31 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: But the reason why I sent it through is because 32 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: it's really indicative of how that the crowd used to 33 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: go off at the OBA. It was an absolutely unique 34 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: in its own way because it was licensed for the 35 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: remy were playing. It was licensed for two hundred and 36 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: twenty five people, and I know because we had the 37 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: door charge on so we had a head count and 38 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: there was an excess of six hundred and six hundred 39 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: and fifty average every single Saturday night. 40 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: So that was extraordinary. But it just wasn't shaped or 41 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: made for it. 42 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: But for some odd reason, it just had this atmosphere 43 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: like no other, like for. 44 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: Example, just what it was and eighties on the beat. 45 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: It was, and all that facade of the OBH was 46 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: covered in glass, yes, in the studio, and while we 47 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: were playing, especially in summer, the condensation with all the 48 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: people being sort of sort of so tightly packed in there. 49 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: He used to rain on the inside of the windows. 50 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: He was out of control, but that was your fault 51 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: because you guys were so good, right. 52 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: Well, yeah good. 53 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: It's a weird thing, though, cleary because the Fats Band's 54 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: history was one where none of us had any experience 55 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: playing in a band prior to join starting the Fats Band, 56 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: and we all came from very like bizarre sort of backgrounds, 57 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: like a Drummond was from a punk bank called the 58 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 1: Tarantulas and the Kansas City Killers KKK. It was spelt 59 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: and they used to play at the places like the 60 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: Wiz Bar, which you keep talking about in. 61 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks, which is great. 62 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: Our bass player never played bass before, but his brother 63 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: owned a bass. 64 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 2: It was close enough. 65 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: The lead guitarist was actually a bass player whose mother 66 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: had a left handed lead guitar because he was handed, 67 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: so he was in and this is how the story went. 68 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: So none of us really had an experience, but we 69 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 1: had this absolute drive to actually start a band because 70 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: I was working on a project called Godspell because I 71 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: came out of weight with the theater, Arts and journalism 72 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: degree and the band that we put together for the 73 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: orchestra for God's Spell was basically the embryo of what 74 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,119 Speaker 1: the fat Span became. And none of us, as I said, 75 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: I had an experience in the rock and roll game, 76 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: but we thought, well, you know, this sounds pretty interesting. 77 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: And at that time that was coming into the recession 78 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: and there was no money being spent in theater or beings. 79 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: You know, there was no funding. 80 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: There was no funding it yet nothing was going on, 81 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: and all the theater companies were really alarmed. I could 82 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: see that my future as an actor was pretty limited 83 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: in Perth, so I thought, let's try something else, and 84 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: wanting to keep performing, we decided maybe the fat Span 85 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: might be. 86 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: A good forum. And it just worked. It clicked. 87 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: But in those days, though, to be fair, I mean, 88 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: people gave us a lot of chances to get out 89 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: to learn our craft and get it right. And there 90 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: was great examples playing at the time, like the Frames, 91 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: the Jets, Flash Harry Flying fonts of rallies. I mean, 92 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: the bands were just epic. So you just go and 93 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: see some of these bands. It was like a you know, 94 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: a bridging course of how to how to play rock 95 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: and roll on Perth. So we learned our lessons pretty 96 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: quickly and for some reason, we went from zero gigs 97 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: from I. 98 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: Think June when we sort of launched them. 99 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: By July we were playing the Albion on a Thursday, 100 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: the Silver Slipper and Netlins downstairs, and the Broadway Fair 101 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: shopping Center on the Friday, and the Saturdays then became 102 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: the ABH and that was just it that just blew 103 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: out of proportion, and it stayed that way for several years. 104 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 2: With so many great venues. It was like a smakes board, 105 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: wasn't it. It was? 106 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: And hearing in these interviews this week has been incredible. 107 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: The ship and park was amazing, like you know, and 108 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: now it's not there. I mean I used to go 109 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: to the overflow like I'm sure you guys, and now 110 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,679 Speaker 1: it's not there, you know. And seeing the Generator's gone, 111 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: the Florida Florida went, you know, the Herdsman changed. It's 112 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: quite sad because those rooms, albeit the fact there were 113 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: large scar rooms and could carry it at least one 114 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: thousand plus people, we became famous for sort of like 115 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,799 Speaker 1: pulling big numbers into moderate sized venues and continually packing 116 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: them out for a few decades. So that was probably 117 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 1: what our Forte was. And the essence of the band 118 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: because of the way we didn't have any experience in 119 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: rock and roll. 120 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 2: We always felt it needed to be a variety show. 121 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: So it was an eight piece band when we started, 122 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 1: with two girls and six guys playing multiple instruments, singing 123 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: all forms of stuff. And when we started, we were 124 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: basically a fifty five to sixty five era band, So 125 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: it was a bit like Fingerprints, but like a big 126 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: version of the Fingerprints in a way, because that's what 127 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: they were famous for. 128 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: And we sort of kept that energy going. 129 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: And as music morphed, like the Commitments came on board, 130 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: Tour of Duty was out with huge soundtracks coming out, 131 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: so that really fed our sixties vibe and also the 132 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: rhythm blues vibe, which I became a massive fan of 133 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: so and that's how the band sort of developed it. 134 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: But the variety aspect then and now is the most 135 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: the greatest asset of the in my opinion anyway, those. 136 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 4: Two Duty soundtracks, they were my research for the bands 137 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 4: that I've missed, you know, just ahead of my time, 138 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 4: and I don't think. 139 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 2: A lot of people did. I'm sure of it. 140 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,559 Speaker 4: By the way, it's off topic, but I love God's 141 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 4: Spell who was that gorgeous woman that did Day by 142 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 4: Day in pre per year telethon back in the way. 143 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 2: We'll never forget it. Forgot she was Queen and Poppa once, 144 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 2: which he was. I will never forget that performance as long. 145 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 4: But anyway, back on track, lovely college guys. The longevity 146 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 4: of your band, what what do you think has led 147 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 4: you guys to still be doing it around town time? 148 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: The energy of the team collectively, always putting their cards 149 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: on the table every time they go to work. That's 150 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: the only way you can survive. I mean, I think 151 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: people will be pretty sick of me after thirty eight years, 152 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: so you know they are what they're going to get, 153 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: you know. 154 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 2: What I mean. 155 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: The hair is the hairstyle what never. It's not going 156 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: to saw some good hair photos of you. Yeah, but 157 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: that's that's the reason why I'm happy to be bored. 158 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: I had no conscious hairstyle whatsoever. And my mother was 159 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: a hairdresser and the day I walked in board, she 160 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: just shook her head and just went, what's. 161 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 2: Going on here? 162 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: Yeah? It's really the energy collectively of the team that 163 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: put it out on stage, and it's just a joy 164 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: to be with. And we've had some reunions in recent years. 165 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: We went back to the A b H last year 166 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: at least from clean and it was it was really 167 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: nice to see not only the fans come back and 168 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: and sort of like misbehavior as they used to do 169 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: back in the day, because that was the thing about it. 170 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: There was nothing like the o BH. It was just 171 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: a different level of energy. And I'd been to the frames, 172 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: I'd been to flying Funds at the u w A 173 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: refectory and you know, and it was just pandemonium when 174 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: the Funds of Wellings were playing. But the OBH, do 175 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: I say it went to another level. I've never seen 176 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: misbehavior in an audience like it. 177 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 2: Did you ever need the net in front of you? 178 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 2: The cage? 179 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 5: You know? 180 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: Blues Brothers for all days we went to the country areas. Yeah, 181 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: there were some places in the country we used to 182 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: think that maybe a fence up the front might be 183 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: a bit handed. We used to keep barriers at the 184 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: front of the stage to have stopped people trying to 185 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: jump on stage, but that never worked. 186 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,239 Speaker 3: Right, it works, Oh well, you don't want to stuby 187 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 3: your head what you're trying to see? 188 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 2: No, it's not good. 189 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: But yeah, we've been really lucky for thirty ages playing 190 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: the OBH gig was fantastic, so a lot of the 191 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: original members came back to perform with the band. 192 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 2: And on the. 193 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: Other aspect of it too, which I thought was lovely, 194 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: was that some of the other members that created a 195 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,439 Speaker 1: great foundation back in the nineties and so forth, when 196 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: we're doing that the Aberdeen every Friday night. I think 197 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: for twelve and a half years we had long standing 198 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: residencies at the Breakwater's having with four hundred and fifty 199 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: one shows there before the original lineup. 200 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 2: When the break Horder was in the other location. Wasn't 201 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: it a. 202 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,599 Speaker 1: Real breakwater with Ken and Anne Reid. Ken got to 203 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: love him his past now, but Ken showed his great support. 204 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: In fact, Ken was actually I've got to give Ken 205 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: a lot of credit because. 206 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to book the Fats Band. 207 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: There was a time after about ten or twelve years 208 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: that the phone just stopped ringing, and then Ken gave 209 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: us an opportunity of playing on a Wednesday Wednesday night 210 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: at the Breakwater, and it went from whatever it was, 211 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: a couple hundred people to about seven hundred and fifty 212 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: people every single Wednesday night, and really for all of 213 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: us back in that generation. That's probably when the Fats 214 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: Band was working from Wednesday to Sunday. But on a 215 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: Tuesday night, I'd always go and see Never Never Acadney's right, 216 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: and that was just that was just the bomb. It 217 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: was our chance to see a band because we're always working. 218 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: We couldn't see anymore unless they were multi band lineups, 219 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: and you get to see everybody else's band, you know, 220 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: you know playing back in the day, those looking bust. 221 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 2: Looking Busters and Yeah Rippers and. 222 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: There was the Pilothon rock shows and so forth, and 223 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: they were just incredible. So you catched up with all 224 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: these other bands literally for months or twice a year 225 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: in our own environment, which is you know, good and 226 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: dangerous at the same time. 227 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 4: Well, Tuesday night was a big night if you worked 228 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 4: in the industry, because that was the night that was 229 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 4: considered the night off. I remember we used to go 230 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 4: to the Underground on the on a Tuesday night round 231 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 4: so good. 232 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 2: But what a fire trap it was at the Underground. 233 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: At the Underground when I was working as an actor 234 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: before I got involved with the Fats Band, I was 235 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: actually a statue in the really in the front cabinet 236 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: when he used to walk here. 237 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: Like you're doing a bit of mine with your bit 238 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 2: of mind, but I'm. 239 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: Just doing the statue thing. And then people would walk 240 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: up and bag the window. The windows becomes the face 241 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: like this and I'm going to die in a situation. 242 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: You know, you're sweating profusely because there was no it 243 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: was health and safety nightmare. 244 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, you could have been a Queen's guard mate 245 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: with all you're very stoic. How about the faces you 246 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 3: see in the crowds over the years. You must see 247 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 3: the multi generations show. 248 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you do. 249 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: And I've got to say, like again, it's just the 250 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: loyalty and the friendships that we've forged over the years, 251 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: not just in the band, but with the fans. 252 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: It's been incredible. 253 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: And like you know that they come up and they 254 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: remind you of things that you've have forgotten about. Do 255 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: you remember this gig? And you sort of go, oh 256 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: my god, I can remember that, you know. So they've 257 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: obviously had a great time, and there's people coming back 258 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: now that probably haven't seen the band, Like they've gone away, 259 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: they've had their kids, you know, divorced, you know or whatever, 260 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: y oh, whatever it is. 261 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 2: These days, you know, change sexualities absolutely, you know, and they. 262 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: Come back and they go you know, I remember these 263 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: days and they tell you stories and stuff and it's 264 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 1: just really lovely. Really, you know, I'm in a blessed 265 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: situation really, and a lot of the other people that 266 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: you've had on air, we'll tell you the same thing. 267 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's a rare treat to be 268 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: able to do what you loved to do for your 269 00:11:59,240 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: entire career. 270 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 2: And albeit you know, I. 271 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,199 Speaker 1: Do have other bits and pieces like theater and so 272 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: forth they go and do. 273 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 2: But the energy of the Fats band. 274 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: What I love about the Fat Span more than anything 275 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: being a front man with that band since it started, 276 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: is is you walk into chaos. It's pandemic, like you 277 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: don't know what it's just. Look, you don't know what 278 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: you're going to get each night, and you're just going 279 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: to deal with it. And you're sure the band's got 280 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: the songs to play. But it's how you approach the 281 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: audience and what are you going to try and to 282 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: vote from the audience, and that sort of game really 283 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: keeps you on your ties, and that keeps you mentally sharp, 284 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: and it keeps you pretty physically fit as well. 285 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 4: You went to Wait, did you ever do any shows 286 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 4: at the weight Tavern? 287 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: I did? 288 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: I might have been there, yeah, taving one away. Yeah, 289 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: So you know that isn't funny. When I was at UNI, 290 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: I was seeing bands like the Riffs, innocent bystanders. As 291 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: I said, you know, when I started UNI, I was 292 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: also going over to u w WA because most of 293 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: my mates from Trinity went to u w W, and 294 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: we'd see bands like that Itchy Feet Flying Funds of 295 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: was just like if he went and saw the fonds 296 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 1: are all his back. 297 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 2: It was like an epiphany. It was. It was like 298 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: a religious yeathering, right, you know. 299 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: I mean, Elf would call out dead ads and then 300 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: you've got eleven hundred people on their backs doing good ass. 301 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: It was the most ludicrous thing you'd ever seen in 302 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: your life. But it was hilarious. But I've never seen 303 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: a band motivated crowd like it. But in those days, 304 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: I mean, the Frames, the Jets, I mean, you know, 305 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to embarrass myself with that. And they were 306 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: frost amazing band, you know what I mean. And they 307 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: were really good at their craft. They were great musicians. 308 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: And isn't it funny that you know even I should 309 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: mention absolutely the number they did and look at most 310 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: of our industry currently the leading band so like Ian Fork, 311 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: Dave Thomas. 312 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: Ian Fork was in tour tour back in the day. 313 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 2: Dave Thomas. 314 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave Thomas is with the Jay Babies when they 315 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: first formed Just Law in eighties. Underground is from you know, 316 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: Jay Babies. Todd's still working. Mark donald Hue from that 317 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: The Frames is playing with Todd now. Billy Jermaine was 318 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: playing drums at me for several years. He's playing with 319 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: Todd Steel. John Calabresi played in The Fast Man, He's 320 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: also playing with Todd. 321 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 2: I mean that generation of musicians, they. 322 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: Just know how to apply their craft to an audience 323 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: and it's still evident evident today. 324 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 2: And I'm sixty. 325 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure some of these guys are older and they're 326 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: still dishing it up and it's just marvelous. 327 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 2: You know. 328 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 3: I took about those big venues, big beer barns. I 329 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 3: do remember one one Sunday walking into the overflow with 330 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 3: my mate and down there in Inalu and be Capri 331 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 3: were on stage. And I've said this to Lesa a 332 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 3: few times. Its Fortnite, there were I reckon six hundred 333 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 3: girls down the front and the jealous boyfriends are all 334 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 3: at the bat the back. But the atmosphere in the 335 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 3: atmosphere was just electric because the great big beer barn. 336 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 3: But it was it was he he was so full. 337 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: Was yeah, A look at those guys and they were 338 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: like a class models on their head side, you know 339 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: what I mean. Like me, I was adeen Stone and 340 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: didn't give us stuff about looking great for an audience. 341 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: It was just like slim gym and I just looked 342 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: the complete opposite. But that was my nickname at school. 343 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: That's where it came from, So slim Fats, you know, 344 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: Bill Haley in the comments. 345 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: There was other bands around that time. 346 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: That were doing really funny things with their names, like 347 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: Jimmynastics and the crash Mats. 348 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 2: I mean I thought that. I thought that was genius. 349 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: And I shared a house with a guy that was 350 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: a drummer for ELROYD Flicker and the Fits. 351 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: And I was just an incredible band. 352 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: They recorded their album in our flat in Kings Park 353 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: Road was Perth, just incredible. 354 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 2: I thought I Spit on your Gravy was a good one. 355 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 2: I think it was an helping punt on your gravy. 356 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 4: Thanks. 357 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: We used to get away with I mean, I was 358 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: doing a version of Gloria where I changed all the 359 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: lyrics and. 360 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 2: Made it Maria. 361 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: But it was it was sung by like a very 362 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: pissed off Italian husband. 363 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 2: Her name was. 364 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 4: Em Remember a band called Snake People. They used to 365 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 4: do the Sunday session at the Queens when I worked 366 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 4: at the Queen. 367 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: They also played the Brewerial House right shilling highways. 368 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 4: The keyboarders used to do a great recorder solo in 369 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 4: wild Thing You're kidding. 370 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: It was always but we used to see them as 371 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: well because they were great guys. John Roberts was in 372 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: that band as well, and John ended up starting R 373 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: and R Music, which has now become a Henhouse rehearsals. 374 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: Oh yes, so it was originally built. 375 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: In fact, I actually laid some ricks there and actually 376 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: for a couple of days, want to help out building 377 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: the place first. 378 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 3: A couple of days laboring was good and good for 379 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 3: the soul. I've reckoned for many years. I've bumped into 380 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 3: you them boast in the Telethon green room. Oh yeah, 381 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 3: and so many, so many gigs for Telethon. 382 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 2: Well. 383 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: I started the Fast Band first appeared just after we started, 384 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: think October nineteen eighty six, and I think something like 385 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: coup Us three or four in the morning, one of 386 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: those special time slots. 387 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 2: And then a couple of years went on. 388 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: I think Peter Dean approached me at the end of 389 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: one of the shifts that I was working on, and 390 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: I think I was doing the phone room, obviously because 391 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: nobody else wanted the job, and Peter said, look, you 392 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: know I'm getting too old. I think I want to 393 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: move on stick with the Dave routine. I'm too old 394 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: to the late nights. That you consider coming in and 395 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,959 Speaker 1: doing the late nights. And I said sure, and then 396 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: I sort of got involved with John Crilly and Gloria 397 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: Fryer and I started producing and hosting the midnight to 398 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: dawn thing for I think it was twenty plus twenty 399 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: two to twenty four years. But I was also the 400 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: missicle coordinator for telethhone for a number of years as well, 401 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: especially in that transition from the studio to PCC. 402 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, go from the Stuart Hill base, coming from that 403 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 5: two hundred strong audience to two thousand, and then having 404 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 5: this sort of structure the show accordingly, So that was 405 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 5: an interesting way of doing it and taking your live 406 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 5: music knowledge to telephone and making. 407 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 2: It work for the PC. Yeah, it was a good time. 408 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 4: Are you coming up to the Big four to Oh 409 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 4: really it was eighty six. 410 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're already booked at the ABH. Yeah, get it up. Absolutely. 411 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: They were instilling windscreen ones on the inside. 412 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: Who the news is that we're playing out the back now, 413 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: because even though that we're playing in now has been 414 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: so renovated, we would go in there and harm there flooring. 415 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 2: It's quite a fit out, isn't it. Yeah. 416 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: So we're in the Bier Garden, which is where we 417 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: did the readinion shows last year. So we are booked 418 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: to play at the ABH that everybody is going to be, 419 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: Oh my god, you keep us posted. Yeah, well but 420 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 1: forty anything, you know, just to be able to achieve 421 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: forty and then down a stage with people that honestly, 422 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I walked on stage last year, looked across 423 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: to my left to see the girls doing their their 424 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: routines on the right, see the guys doing what they 425 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:55,160 Speaker 1: were doing, and I'm tearing up because it's just wonderful 426 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: to think that after all these years, we're still able 427 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: to do it and the energy is apparent, like you know, 428 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: the band gets counted in and the energy is like bang, 429 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 1: yeah there, So all the lessons that we've learned, all 430 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: the the Yeah, the drive is still there for all 431 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: the spirits there. That's probably the best thing about it, 432 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: and that means that the fortieth will be very very special. 433 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 4: We can tell the spirits still there and the drive 434 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 4: still there, and we don't want to, but we have 435 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 4: to let you go. 436 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, we could probably talk for about four weeks and 437 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 3: I didn't need at all. 438 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: I know, but that might be afterwards, but it's certainly 439 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: going to be intravenous strips after doctor. 440 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 2: It's all good. I love you guys, doing this so. 441 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 4: Lovely to reminisce about those days with you and for you. 442 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 4: Those days have not stopped, so we're happy about that. 443 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 2: Just a baby mate, good to see. That's so cool. 444 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 4: You in trouble