1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: I really would be singing a man at work song 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: to twelve hundred people and men at working down the road. 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: Not only did the people party in the venue, but 4 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: the bands. 5 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 2: Was a wavelong colesy, Li says person. Pub Crawl at Pinocchio's. 6 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only Magnet House, 7 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: a mecca of dance and diversity right in the heart 8 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: of the city. 9 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 3: Special guest in our Perth pub crawl this morning is 10 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 3: Martin Celia from the Flying Fundsaarellies. 11 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: Martin, good morning, Welcome, Good morning guys. Yes, I was 12 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: just thinking this morning. Funds Aurelias was forty years ago. Oh, 13 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: stop paying the thing. I don't know how that happened. 14 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 3: You just kind of gave your age away. 15 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: Well you're about seven, so well. 16 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 2: I I did start very young, so you know that 17 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:45,639 Speaker 2: gave me advantage. 18 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 3: Is it true, because I believe you were about fourteen 19 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 3: when you started playing in bands. Was your first gig 20 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 3: at Morley High School? 21 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 2: Yes, it was with some high school friends. And I 22 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: think I'm thirteen when I did my first gig at 23 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: Morley High Wow. Yeah, I still remember that. We played 24 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 2: six songs and I still remember most of them. It's like, 25 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 2: it's funny where you start. Sometimes you still carry that 26 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 2: through to your career. But yeah, Morey High, about a 27 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: thousand people in the score Hall there and then it 28 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 2: went from. 29 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: There popular with the girls being in a band. 30 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: Why you playing? 31 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 2: Well, it didn't do any harm. The interesting thing is 32 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 2: my time I was fifteen, I was playing the Perth 33 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 2: pub circuit. 34 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: Yeah you like Diesela get stuck in the back door 35 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: because you were so young. 36 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, my parents says to drop me off 37 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: or I go with one of the older guys in 38 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: the band. But they kind of knew me, so I 39 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: was okay. But on Wednesday nights we used to do that. 40 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: We're talking about the girl thing. We should to do 41 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 2: this hotel called the Sterling Arms, yes, which is in Guildford, 42 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: And Wednesday night they had stripper on so we'd player 43 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: set so you know, you get to know it's on 44 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: the girls. And I was so much into the band 45 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: and the new mu that I go to school next 46 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: day and the guys and girls and go, oh so 47 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: who's the strip one last night? How did that go? 48 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: And OK, well I don't know, but we've played a 49 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: great version of jump and get right. 50 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: That's funny. 51 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: So that's got how it went. 52 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, But you talk about the girls reaction at school, 53 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: but what were the boys like? You know, were the 54 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: few of the tough guys a bit upset that you're 55 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: getting all the attention? 56 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 2: Not really because I didn't play up on it. But 57 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 2: I've still got friends from school now who some of 58 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: them play, some of them don't play music. And they 59 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: all said, well, the ones that don't play music, so 60 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: we will envy you. We wish we could have done 61 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 2: what you did, ye, which I at the time never saw. 62 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: I just thought it was a normal thing to do. 63 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 3: So enter the Flying Fond of Allies. Like so many 64 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 3: great bands. Half of the band was related. 65 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 2: Were they. There's two brothers in the band, yes, the 66 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 2: drummer and the piano player from Joda Massey. Yeah. So 67 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 2: we started off in a garage in Balcata, right, That's 68 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: where we started off rehearsing. Yeah, and we we used 69 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: to rehearse a tennis ten o'clock on Monday, and we 70 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 2: rehearsed ten to three or ten to two every day. 71 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 2: And then we got the band up enough so we 72 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: could play an hour set and then we went and 73 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 2: did a support to Mental as Anything at the Raffles 74 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 2: and got a great reaction, and then we kept grat 75 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: the sceing and got it up. In those days, you 76 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: had to play a three set dig in per three 77 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: five minutes sets, so you had to have enough songs 78 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: and enough content to get you through. So that's what 79 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: we did and it just went from there. And interesting 80 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: thing with Mentals was I ended up joining the band 81 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 2: years later. 82 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: Oh well, no, that's cool, that's very cool. I think 83 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: of the Flying Fonzias and I think of two words. 84 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: I think of fun and I think a party, because 85 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: that's what people just rocked up to see. 86 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: You guys. 87 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: Wow, it wasn't it. 88 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: It's a really really good musical band, but it was 89 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: also a fun band. Everyone could play well, but also 90 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 2: everyone could perform, and we had the attitude of like 91 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: you've got to go to work, make it fun, you know, 92 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: and that rubbed off to the audience and the band 93 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: worked hard and yeah, so we had a really good 94 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: good run there in person. 95 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: You know what I think of when I think of 96 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 3: do Didy did he dumb? That must have gone off 97 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: at the shows. 98 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: Yes, I remember we actually recorded that song and yeah, 99 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 2: I think I've got a big bit of action in 100 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: the first charts, and I remember doing two videos for it. 101 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: I don't know why we did two videos for that 102 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,119 Speaker 2: one song, right, you have recollection of doing two different 103 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 2: videos for it because it was so many. 104 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: That was one of those songs I was djaying at 105 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: the times and it saved you saved your baking so 106 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: many times. I love that song. 107 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't fail, does Yeah, we have fun with 108 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 2: that and yeah I said that was eight ninety eighty 109 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 2: three to eighty five eighty six somewhere around there. 110 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely, Well, everyone loved the shows because full house 111 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: signs used to go up before your gigs even began. 112 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 3: That's that's would have to be reassuring to head out 113 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 3: onto stage with. What were some of your favorite places 114 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 3: to play other than the Raffles. 115 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: Well, the Raffles we played there every Saturday night any months, 116 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: I think to well, okay as the house and the 117 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 2: only problem was when we start getting a lot of people. 118 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 2: You get to the gig and you can't park any with. 119 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: It's still like that. 120 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 2: Yes, we have to get reserve parking or something. But 121 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: that was when you know you're doing well. Generator was. 122 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 2: I grew up in Morley, so I was Generator was 123 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 2: was a was a home gig for me. Yeah, that 124 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: was pretty good. And I had a car at a time, 125 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: and I remember I didn't get out of second year 126 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 2: to get there. It was petrol was just starting it 127 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: up and then but there's different times then and then 128 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 2: looking by right tool the overflowed that was always ky. 129 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 3: So what are you doing now, Martin? You're still playing. 130 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 2: I hadn't stopped. I still two the last thirty years. Yeah. 131 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 2: I moved to Sydney with a bank called Dave worn 132 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 2: of some suburbs. Yes. Good. So after ponzarelli Is teamed 133 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 2: up with Dave and we were doing gigs record we 134 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: recorded a few albums and then one time we're in 135 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: Sydney and I thought I'll just stay for a little bit, 136 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 2: you know, maybe a couple of months. And it went 137 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 2: onto a year. And I'm still based out of Sydney 138 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: because the bands that i'm with two are out of 139 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 2: Sydney Airport, so I have to be near that. But 140 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: I'll go to come to Perth all the time, and 141 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: I get a few weeks here and they're still such 142 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: a great place. 143 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: And you mentioned Dave Warner about you. You've rubbed shoulders 144 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: and work with a lot of great people, including that 145 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: boke who wrote somebody of those great Skyhawks Melbourne epics, 146 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: Greg McCain's from Skyhawks as well. 147 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 2: Yes, I spent a lot of time with Greg. We 148 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 2: toured together in the nineties as part of the show 149 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: and a band, and I see Greg quite regularly and 150 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: still the same. 151 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. 152 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 3: Well, when you're in town, come visit. Martin. It's been 153 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 3: lovely to chat to you this morning. 154 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: Bring back the memories, Yeah, absolutely great memories. 155 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: Good times, they were really good times. Yeah. 156 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: And forty years in the road. That's going to be 157 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: your memoir title, I reckon, Yes, you right, but yeah. 158 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 3: It's about one. Martin Celia from the Flying Funds are allies. 159 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 3: Good morning, see ya 160 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: Thanks mate, thank you, thank you.