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Speaker 1: And here he is himself, Todd Johnstone, good morning, Good

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Speaker 1: morning to both of you.

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Speaker 2: And it takes me back to the ear and the

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Speaker 2: fact that you guys are rebuilding Pinocchio's with magnet houses.

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Speaker 2: So good because I go back to the days of

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Speaker 2: loaded Dice. So I go back to the days of

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Speaker 2: the frames, perfect Strangers, the Wookies, the jet that was

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Speaker 2: such a great year.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't certainly just on the on the haunting Me note?

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Speaker 3: Was that? Was that in Neighbors? Did they use that

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Speaker 3: with Jason and Kylie?

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Speaker 2: Well, if you go back to Jason and Kylie's engagement

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Speaker 2: ringing moment, yes, Jason was, wow, I can't why is

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Speaker 2: this coming back to me now? Probably could you ask

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Speaker 2: you the question?

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Speaker 3: Yes, well it came straight back to me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, and thank you for a brigida mere. Jason

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Speaker 2: was lying aimlessly on his bed day dreaming about a

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Speaker 2: blonde mechanic that he loved, and he decided at that moment,

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Speaker 2: with haunting Me wafting through his brain cell, you thought,

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Speaker 2: I think I'll go and chase Charlene. That was it

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Speaker 2: was a part of it. I think I got about

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Speaker 2: three dollars sixty five extra.

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Speaker 3: All time oh, anything better than nothing?

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Speaker 1: When and how did you, you know, get fully involved

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Speaker 1: in the Perth pub scene.

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Speaker 3: When when did you get the band together?

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Speaker 2: Well, see my history was my first band was It

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Speaker 2: was at Medoch University, right. There was a couple of

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Speaker 2: great mates and Jeff Price, great guitar player. There were

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Speaker 2: so many great mates down there and we sort of

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Speaker 2: kicked off this little band that was It was just

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Speaker 2: it was called Reflex Action, it was called Manic D.

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Speaker 2: We just did all these originals and then someone said

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Speaker 2: to me, look, the music scene at the time was

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Speaker 2: very divided. There was originals and there was covers. And

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Speaker 2: someone said to me, if you want more than petrol money,

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Speaker 2: you're going to have to do covers. So the next thing,

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Speaker 2: Manic D became the Beavers and we used to play

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Speaker 2: at the cod Slow Hotel. Chew Whis that was another

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Speaker 2: that was it. That was a venue where you could

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Speaker 2: dance on the floor and actually eat had springs in

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Speaker 2: it because I think the white answitude out the bus.

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Speaker 2: And then from there that all sort of melted and

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Speaker 2: then I sort of got invited to join this group

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Speaker 2: of blokes that were starting up a band previously Harlequin tears.

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Speaker 2: I think previously perfect strangers and then we're just combined

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden kapre kicked off. And of

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Speaker 2: course that's must there must be something good with my

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Speaker 2: long term memory, because that was a hell.

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Speaker 1: Of a long time what I had for lunch yesterday.

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Speaker 3: But I can remember going to see guys are perfect strangers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, mate, used to go to those Nook and Buster gigs.

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Speaker 4: I remember they'd be like six hundred girls down the

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Speaker 4: front and all their jealous boyfriends at the back. But

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Speaker 4: it was it was a real division between the between

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Speaker 4: the partners, but big knights, huge nights.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think those days will ever come back,

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Speaker 2: you guys. And you know I'm with great respect the

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Speaker 2: holder the new guys, so I don't even think you're

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Speaker 2: old enough to get int you too. But I just

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Speaker 2: remember those days and Perth, particularly Western Australia, also Perth

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Speaker 2: and also Queensland had a big, a big system like

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Speaker 2: a circuit in Queensland. It did covers and entertained a

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Speaker 2: lot of people. But Perth at the time was enormous

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Speaker 2: and I think that so many people remember those days

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Speaker 2: they'll never come back again. Compliments of youtubing and you

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Speaker 2: can write a song on the end of your bed,

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Speaker 2: put it on YouTube and become famous. The live scenario

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Speaker 2: has sort of disappeared. That's why it's really nice that,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still you know, Priece Love and all

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Speaker 2: that stuff are still doing gigs. They're still bands around,

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Speaker 2: but it's a smaller environment and it's nice to know

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Speaker 2: that the live scene is still there, but it's nothing

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Speaker 2: like it was back in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to know you're still part of it. Where

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Speaker 1: can people catch you these days?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're doing a gig at the Woodvale on on

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Speaker 2: Saturday night. We'll do a few gigs at the Paddington

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Speaker 2: as well, which is good fun. I think. Look, I

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Speaker 2: think there might be another gig coming out next week.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've pretty sure.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of you performing still, we have pretty exciting announcement

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Speaker 1: to make Next Friday night, we are throwing a party

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Speaker 1: at the Old Pinocchio's, the Old Pokes, and you indeed

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Speaker 1: will be performing with your band Peace and Love.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, I got a bell. I feel very

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Speaker 2: excited and the guys in the band, I mean, I

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Speaker 2: really love this, this brotherhood of music. You know a

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Speaker 2: dynamic hypnotics that the Billy the drummer was in the Tiger.

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Speaker 2: Johnny was in Nice Tiger. You've got Donnie and guitar,

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Speaker 2: who was in the Cool Bananas and having a great

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Speaker 2: time there. You've got Mark on bass, he was in

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Speaker 2: the frame. Yeah, and yes, you know, I mean there

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Speaker 2: was always a bit of a roll star. I love

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Speaker 2: I love bumping into people, particularly muse those but also

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Speaker 2: bumping into people that fondly remember those those days. And

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Speaker 2: I think the rivalry back then brought the best out

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Speaker 2: of everybody. Yeah, you know what I mean. Footy teams

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Speaker 2: they want to play well against one another. That's probably

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Speaker 2: what created that. Those big beer barns where people wanted

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Speaker 2: to go and see some good bands.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, jeez, we had the venues, didn't we. Todd

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Speaker 4: became other things later on.

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Speaker 2: We've all turned into fabric shops or carpa.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all these villages.

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Speaker 3: Todd.

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Speaker 1: We're really looking forward to this next Friday night. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to empty an entire can of taffed into my

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Speaker 1: hair in honor of I know, I've already got enough

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Speaker 1: to answer for the ozone lab from back then.

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Speaker 3: Bring just a celebration is there time to grow it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this for us at Pinocchios,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you next Friday night.

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Speaker 3: Good to catch up mate.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting out the likra and the shoulder pads.

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Speaker 3: All right, John, then will see that there.

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Speaker 2: God by