I played Bass in a blues band called Sneekers with Lindsay Wells, Gary Green RIP, Ron Parker RIP, Howie Smallman. We had a huge scene at the Mossie Park Hotel for 4 years then and equally long stint at The Orient Hotel in Fremantle. Great band, we hung around for 20 years and had the record for the biggest crowd at the Charles Blues Club. We were from 60’s blues rock bands playing in Clubs in Perth like Whiskey Au Go Go, a place called the Colosseum when I was 14. The entry age where we played was 21. We never went East because we were rooted here with kids and families. Great times great fun great music. Glen
I’m 19 heavy in the Perth scene. All the bands are still mates always sharing and hyping each other up. We get the Eastern bands here and say there is nothing like it over there.
Thanks for a great doco. Love to go back in time. The Raw sound of WA. Great collection of Artists. Ammonia, Dav loved ya. Thanks to Shelia from Artswa given the support we needed too. 😎
I grew up in W.A. in the seventies and early eighties. I remember the blues thing well. Dave Hole came from WA. My brother was involved with a band called "The Bourbon Street Angle Grinders." lol Good to see so many Perth bands doing well. I used to pass the Dingo flour mill travelling between Perth and Bunbury, which has really grown a lot since I lived there.
Dave Hole is amazing and well respected and lauded in North America. Remember nostalgically his brilliant packed out shows at the Castle Hotel in Sorrento in the 90s and his classic 1st album , one of the finest original pieces of music to come out of WA. Still playing regularly around the local pubs.😀🎸
@@mattbarbarich3295 First saw him at Murdoch uni circa 88 (think). Small crowd, but he knew how to rev them up. And at a large venue, something like Bindoon Rock (???). He's still going? Good for him, talented man.
Forget about moving to the eastern states, ur band struggled to get out of the Shaftsbury Hotel and play at venues like The Subi or The Albion. That was our dream!!
Venues like the Shents and the hotel that used to be across the road from West Leederville train station (I've forgotten it's name, it's long demolished and is an old age retirement home) would let punk and indie bands play, give them a chance. Now you get some swanky bar in Northbridge and they want you to pay to play or want the majority of the door..
Fifteen years on from this doco and the Perth scene is in tatters. Most of these bands are long gone. It was the early bands that built the foundation for what the rest took for granted and then sold out and disappeared. The only ones anyone looks fondly on from the 90s and early naughties are sleepy Jackson and jebediah.
A bundle of bands from this era and doco still live/record here. Of course like 18 years has passed and music has changed alot, there is less pubs and ;ess bands - more electronic focus. But you can still see plenty of live bands at The Bird, Ronnie nights, Clancys, Civic/Milk bar, Rosemount, Buffalo bar, Mojos, Seasonal brew co, Rodneys bait n tackle, Lyrics underground every week.
Damn good tale. But not one mention about RTR community radio which were the only radio station giving these bands airplay. Half of these music clips are from “in the pines” concerts showcasing Perth Indi music and doing it for over 30 years. Just saying
Early Punk was about being an individual, and the early bands had that in spades. Hernando’s etc was a great scene until the crowds started to believe the crap from the English tabloids that to be a punk you HAD to wear a leather jacket and safety pins, spit at the band and beat up the other fans. Look at the Sex Pistols BEFORE Sid Vicious. MUCH more individualistic. The next wave with the spiky mohicans was even more regimented. So good on Dave Faulkner for always following his own path.
I wonder why people go on about this so much. Ultimately the ‘uniforms’ did little to change what was happening musically, except for the very small scene of hardcore ‘oi’ punk bands, who didn’t really contribute anything much to music. And especially in Australia, the scene really followed its own path, remaining changeable and vibrant.
I remember there was live footage by Something In The Water crew at amplifier bar - possibly 2007ish 2008? It was only uploaded onto Myspace and possibly Vimeo (by memory??) If you can find please, please upload it. thanks alot
The unexplored point is this about WA and South Australia - the nexus between formal and popular music existed within the official education system and surrounding communities. What the yanks call College Town band scene. But that Education level is WHY you get the good music. I have to go. But this environment existed BEFORE this period you discuss, for a full two generations, classical and folk if you prefer those terms.
Murdoch uni! Had that tiny original social club when I was there late 80s early 90s. $6 to see the Go-Betweens. Small uni, tiny venue, terrific times. Pushrods band members went to Murdoch. $8 to see The Saints. I think it was someone from The Saints who said something offensive on stage and got a tub of flour thrown on him. $6 to see The Church, but Steve Kilbey had a few issues, too, if I recall. I loved it because it was cosy and you knew half the crowd. Unusually for me, was quite successful there at taking women home. I miss those days.
lol. I had Dave Warner albums and triffids albums and victims ep. I love Dave …but some of the people in this video have made enormous contributions to Aus music. Calling them one hit wonders only shows how incurious about Aus music you are.
Were was Alan Simpson about V Capri or Mag7? They won awards, were on Countdown. Whoever made this doco did a really crap job. Missed so many others pioneering bands. 😢
V-CRAPPY were NOT pioneering. WORST band in PERTH amongst all the other cover band TRIPE. This doco is about original bands that wrote GREAT MUSIC not the SHIT you are into. V-CRAPPY couldn't even write a B-Side and had to put stickers on the back. USELESS. Strachan stop licking Simpson's ballz.
"A feeling of hostility" Flick can't be more right, the attitude of people toward anything remotely off centre, or even left wing in Perth made sure you copped and earful, and at times a fistful of abuse.
Ironic, because I remember that differently, like today left leaning people have always sounded off ..and saying Australians aren’t and weren’t generous is bs
Wow I just realised that most of the bands from the 90s and early 00s I got to see for $10 or less, Gosnells civic centre in 95/96 had some great bands play, Jeb, beaverloop carnival ect makes me feel a little old but great to see
Haha, hilarious! "Blues bands what have they got to be blue about" well what have Punks got to be complaining about coming from Perth! Thats why the Saints couldve never been from Perth. John Meyer had more talent in his little finger then most of these desparados combined. The Triffids didnt make the album of the year for W.A.in 1985 but Trilogy who are a legendary band still here and overseas not that these elitists would ever acknowlege that. Yeah you tell 'em Rolf!
@@maryburke5423 Expand your horizons , and check out Black Alice too while ur at it and the cult classic futuristic Aussie film Sons of Steel they were involved in in 1987 too.
The same catalyst that produced great Brizzy bands like the Saints, Go-Betweens, the Colours, etc, produced great Perth bands. The Saints _could_ have come from Perth. Brisbane & Perth, 1970s & 80s, the most repressed, dull, constricted, conservative capitals in the country. Zero energy, poor venues, and repressive state governments stifling creativity and even more, alternative thought. But had an inverse effect- people rebelled. New talent bursting on the scene with their own individual sound and shitloads of talent. Artists and creative people threw off the shackles and music started to thrive. Perth & Brizzy went from musical non-entities to towns punching above their weight. it was great to see. I didn't get to WA in the 70s but Brizzy began to sparkle. If you were young in Qld, you had to dodge Joh Bjelke's gestapo in The Valley. Running your car off the road, roughing you up as they searched for drugs, feeling 17 year old girls up in pat downs... Get past that and a small handful of venues really rocked. And that repressive atmosphere brought out great new artists, in music, writing, the arts.... John Birmingham used to make me laugh.
I’ve been playing an original band since the early 90s, I watched this with keen interest, but I gotta say most of the stuff I’ve heard on. Here is absolutely crap
