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Speaker 1: We would be singing a man at Work song to

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred people, and men at work began the roads.

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Speaker 2: Not only did the people party in the venue, but the.

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Speaker 1: Dance was a wavelock Colesyanly says pers Pub Crawl at Pinocchio's.

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Speaker 3: Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only Magnet House,

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Speaker 3: a mecca of dance and diversity, right in the heart

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Speaker 2: Well, gather up.

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Speaker 3: All your stong bags. We're talking to Michael Parks about

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Speaker 3: the riffs.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, mate.

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Speaker 4: Morning your morning.

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Speaker 2: Did that take your straight back?

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Speaker 4: Oh god, it just makes me feel very, very very old.

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Speaker 2: Triple old.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, nineteen eighty one another yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, there we go.

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Speaker 1: We did have that catch up last year talking about

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Speaker 1: when we did the Perth Pub Crawl series with Perfect Strangers,

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Speaker 1: but we thought we'd concentrate on the rifts today.

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Speaker 4: Mike, Yes, yeah, lovely. Okay, what would you like to know?

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Speaker 3: Well, let's start with the name. Obviously a riff of

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Speaker 3: musical riff?

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Speaker 4: Was it?

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Speaker 5: I know we came it came from a movie. I

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Speaker 5: think that it was about a gang of street thugs

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Speaker 5: and stuff and Barry Lytton sort of picked the name

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Speaker 5: and they were called the Riffs.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it was a west Side story, Yeah, it was

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Speaker 3: very west Side story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, more more than Boggies and Widgies at Scarboro. Yeah yeah, yeah, Parks.

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Speaker 1: I went through the Tragic Music Box yesterday and tragically

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Speaker 1: I found a gig ticket to the Angels Flowers and

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Speaker 1: Rifts Sunday, March one, nineteen Anyway Entertainment Center.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I remember that.

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Speaker 2: It must have been a huge night to play at

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Speaker 2: the Incense what I can remember.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was a very huge you know.

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Speaker 5: I mean we used to knock around with those the

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Speaker 5: boys from the Angels back in the sort of Jimmy

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Speaker 5: and the Boys days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, back in Sydney. But yeah, that it was lots

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Speaker 4: of fun.

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Speaker 3: What were the regular haunts around town for the Riffs.

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Speaker 3: I know you used to play at the Herdy.

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Speaker 5: Herdy Sunday session at the SUBI We played there quite

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Speaker 5: a bit. Down at the Cot that was another sort

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Speaker 5: of gig Friday nights.

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Speaker 4: Oh god.

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Speaker 5: Where lots of a hotel on Sterling Homeway that was

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Speaker 5: a big one for us. Yeah, yeah, lots of lots

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Speaker 5: of those places have closed down. Or they've stopped having

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Speaker 5: a real shame.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well the lands are worth too much. But is

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Speaker 1: it weird when you drive past some of the old

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Speaker 1: venues and then and they're not open anymore.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're usually retirement diligious.

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Speaker 2: That isn't it?

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Speaker 4: The Swan Born the Shed Hotel retirement is.

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Speaker 3: I keep saying, we've come full circle. Yes, I used

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Speaker 3: to go there for that, and now I can go

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Speaker 3: there for that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be going back.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about the band's last gig. It was pretty infamous.

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Speaker 4: Oh the last gig? Yes, where come on? Give me

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Speaker 4: give me some remember gig?

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Speaker 3: Christmas gig first and last Christmas show was the Red Parrot.

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Speaker 4: I think the Red Parent that was. I don't know

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Speaker 4: whether that was a reunion gig. It might have been,

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Speaker 4: might have been.

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Speaker 5: A reunion gig or I'm just trying. I can't actually

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Speaker 5: remember if it was the last.

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Speaker 3: You did have a lot of reunion.

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Speaker 2: It was like kiss just coming back, yeah, but like like.

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Speaker 3: You were rip yeah.

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Speaker 4: You go, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 4: that Red Parrot gig.

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Speaker 5: It might have been one where Mikah was on a

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Speaker 5: We had him hooked up to a flying thing that

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Speaker 4: Remember the red with the harness that was.

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Speaker 1: It was he trying to be Pink years before Pink.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Was there any safety involved?

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Speaker 4: No safety No, no, no, what is it? Nhi.

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Speaker 2: You didn't have to pass any kind of test before him.

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Speaker 3: I think about the Red Parrot though. It was as

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Speaker 3: I recall it was, it was a place where you

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Speaker 3: didn't show a great deal of emotion. You just sort

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Speaker 3: of you just swayed. You were you were all in

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Speaker 3: black and you just kind of swayed a little from

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Speaker 3: side to side.

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Speaker 2: So that must have really woken up the audience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, there was a lot of those sort of special

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Speaker 5: things that people were sort of into back those they

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Speaker 5: had that.

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Speaker 4: Sort of glazed look on their face.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were dancing like a lane from Seinfeld.

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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's the opposite a special thing, like a special sandwich

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Speaker 1: before the gig baby.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, basically sandwich. We won't going that to further.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, paksy is it good when you catch up with

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Speaker 1: some of the guys and reminiscens a bit of that

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Speaker 1: going on and you're all a bit too busy in

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Speaker 1: the world.

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Speaker 5: Well, well, Barry Litton, the drummer who started this whole

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Speaker 5: thing off.

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Speaker 4: He's in News Zealand.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's over there. Glenn White, the guitarist who was

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Speaker 5: from Matt Finish that we came dragged over the.

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Speaker 4: Birth with us.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's back in New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: Porl Mika O'Har has left the planet, sadly floating away

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Speaker 4: in the in the ether somewhere.

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Speaker 5: And Marshall Rushford, who was up We got him in

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Speaker 5: around nineteen eighty one. He used to playing in a

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Speaker 5: band called the Venetians. Yes, keyboard player.

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Speaker 4: He's selling real estate over in Melbourne, real estate. I'm

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Speaker 4: really sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you're doing all right mate, you do well?

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Speaker 3: Yes, actually I think we were. We had a song

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Speaker 3: played earlier today. It was from the eighties and I said,

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Speaker 3: a nice saxophone came in New Clay. You said, what

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Speaker 3: was the eighties that the Sacks? It was John it was, yeah,

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Speaker 3: take the sack.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Duranne, Duranne, all the bands actually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even Spandal had one with Steven Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, so.

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Speaker 1: Many great men. He's We're really glad that you could

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Speaker 1: join backing again. Yes, I heard about our big party

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Speaker 1: on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you were super bad.

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Speaker 4: I've heard about this big.

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Speaker 3: Party, Pinocchio's Friday Night.

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Speaker 1: If you're it's time appropriate to it's six to eight pm,

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Speaker 1: is it's appropriate?

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Speaker 4: So sort of seven year olds can go along as well? Exactly, Yeah, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: If you're not doing anything, we'll see the park and

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Speaker 2: I'll be checking you the door mat just in case

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Speaker 2: a special sandwich.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Michael.

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Speaker 1: Guys, thank Michael Parks So I used to call it

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Speaker 1: in Parksy after all years in the radio as well,