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Speaker 1: Bob Gordon, three time Express magazine editor, is joining us

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Speaker 1: to talk about forty years of Expressed. The show at

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Speaker 1: the ASTA next Wednesday night called Rewind. Bob Moran, you

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Speaker 1: believe forty.

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Speaker 2: Years Lisa and Russel, good morning, No forty years Okay,

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Speaker 2: the idea returning forty and now part of the magazine

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Speaker 2: that's turned forty and I'm older than it is.

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Speaker 3: Where all with you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thank you. It's quite I've been saying it

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Speaker 2: was kind of a journey living it and it's been

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Speaker 2: a trip writing about it, and it's yeah, the sort

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Speaker 2: of the night at the astor will be well, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, just everything falling into place. All the artists

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Speaker 2: who are on the have had a lot to do

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Speaker 2: with Express over the years in different eras, from Dapehole

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Speaker 2: and Don Mariani from the Stems going back and then

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Speaker 2: you know, up through you know, with Cap from Eskimo,

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Speaker 2: Joe and Katie from Little Birdie and Gyroscope and Donna

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Speaker 2: from the Waifs and it goes on and Dave Warner,

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Speaker 2: who's like a w A icon. Absolutely yes, he wrote

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Speaker 2: a sports column, a satirical sports column for Express that

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Speaker 2: have in the late eighties early nineties, and that sounds

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Speaker 2: like even book kid now Yeah, and it was called

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Speaker 2: sports Sport. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But that's such a great, great list of WA artists

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Speaker 4: that you've gone through there, Bob. And you know, very

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Speaker 4: very successful, some of them very very much so nationally

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Speaker 4: and even internationally and and and express you know well

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Speaker 4: and truly part of their journey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of them, you know, like the guys

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Speaker 2: and Escimo Joe and you know Little Bird, and they're

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Speaker 2: also like like Jebediah John Butler, like they you know,

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Speaker 2: would come to when the office was in Osmond Park.

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Speaker 2: I'll recall them like coming in, you know with handwritten

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Speaker 2: press releases and band photos that some friend who you

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Speaker 2: had a half decent camera took of them, you know,

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Speaker 2: often in their backyard standing against the brick wall, you know,

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Speaker 2: their first band photos and stuff like that. And and

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Speaker 2: we would you write about you know, their you know,

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Speaker 2: the early movements, and then when they got them like

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Speaker 2: their debut CD or sometimes you know, before that, their

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Speaker 2: debut cassette, we'd write about them and then you sort

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Speaker 2: of go off into the world and explored and suddenly

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Speaker 2: you know they're you know, coming back through Perth on

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Speaker 2: a national tour or you know, they're hearing updates from

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Speaker 2: them and you know, playing in Europe or or US

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Speaker 2: or something. And it was amazing to be that journey

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Speaker 2: you know, Australian Idol and shows like that kind of

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Speaker 2: misplaced that word a bit, but people do go on

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Speaker 2: them and it was great to just sort of be

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Speaker 2: a part of things that that kind of exploded for

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Speaker 2: really great young bands.

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Speaker 3: Well, they didn't want to be left off that gig

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Speaker 3: guide because we would pour over it like a like

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Speaker 3: a gambler with the form guide, you know, planning our

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Speaker 3: entire week as to what order.

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Speaker 1: We were going to go and see what we wanted

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Speaker 1: to see.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the other thing I approached, Oh, Bob, sorry,

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Speaker 4: I was just going to say, also, it's kind of

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Speaker 4: before social media, and you were saying that the bands

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Speaker 4: would come in and give you their handwritten bios and

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Speaker 4: press releases and all that sort of stuff. Before social media,

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Speaker 4: you guys were the vehicle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was yeah, yeah, it was you know, simple,

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Speaker 2: simpler times. We didn't feel that simple at the time,

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Speaker 2: but you look back and think, well that was yeah,

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Speaker 2: everything was sort of you know, there was the West

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Speaker 2: Austrain was in weekday mornings and the Sunday Times is

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Speaker 2: on your front lawn on Sunday morning, and Express came

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Speaker 2: out on Thursdays, and you know, there just wasn't the

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Speaker 2: sort of avenues of information back then to let you

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Speaker 2: know you know who was gonna, who was touring, who

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Speaker 2: you loved, or you know who was playing at the

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Speaker 2: pub down the road or in the city or whatever.

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Speaker 2: And it was confirmed information and it was all in

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Speaker 2: one spot. And sort of even these days now, when

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Speaker 2: you can find anything that you're looking for, you kind

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Speaker 2: of do need to be looking for it rather than

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Speaker 2: need to fall across your lap.

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Speaker 3: Well, and so many No, sorry, I was just gonna say,

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Speaker 3: as well as the as well as the show on

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Speaker 3: Wednesday night, you have put together a two hundred page

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Speaker 3: coffee table book called Rewind forty Years of Express Magazine

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Speaker 3: that's going to be launched on the night and it

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Speaker 3: is available for pre order through expressmag dot com dot Au.

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Speaker 1: Tickets for next Wednesday night through ticketech. Can't wait, Bob,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a big night.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be n