42nd Street - The Demos

1980 - 42nd Street, Phil M, Neil C, Greg A, Darren A

Phil Melifont who played in 42nd Street has sent

me these demos from the band that Greg and

Darren Atkinson learnt their trade before going

onto the wonderful Ups and Downs.

I'll let Phil give us the history of this important

Brisbane band
Thanks Phil

1979 Greg A, Phil M, Darren A, 42nd Street

42nd Street was a Brisbane based power-pop band

1979 – 1981 The band derived the name from a track

on Piper’s (Billy Squier) 1976 album

The original lineup was Greg Atkinson (Bass/Voc),

Darren Atkinson (Drums/Voc), Ken Allen (guitar),

Phil Mellifont (guitar) with some occasional vocals

by Steve Black. Ken Allen left the band in October

1979 just prior to the recording of the

single ‘Work it Out’ / ‘Afraid of the Dark’,

released December 1979 For several months the

band played as a three piece and February 1980

the demo’s ‘No Money’ & ‘She’s Not Real’

were recorded.

Neil Coombe (guitar) joined the band around April

1980 and soon after ‘Mistaken Identity’ was

recorded to be included on Radio 4iP’s

‘That’s Queensland’ album.

In August 1980, 42nd Street gained third place in the

Queensland final of the ‘Hoadley’s Battle of the Bands’,

and at that time a number of demo’s were recorded

including ‘The Boys are After Me’, ‘Too Late’ and

a cover of The Records song ‘Starry Eyes’

The band moved to Sydney in April 1981 and like

many others broke up a few months later- shortly

after recording the demo ‘Tomorrow’

Work it Out

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded November 1979

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

No Money

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded February 1980

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

She’s Not Real

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded February 1980

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

Starry Eyes (cover - The Records)

Recorded August 1980

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Neil Coombe

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

Tomorrow

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded June 1981

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Neil Coombe

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

Afraid of the Dark

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded November 1979

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

The Boys are After Me

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded August 1980

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Neil Coombe

Guitar – Phil Mellifont

Too Late

Music/Lyrics by Atkinson/Atkinson

Recorded August 1980

Bass/Voc – Greg Atkinson

Drums/Voc- Darren Atkinson

Guitar – Neil Coombe
Guitar – Phil Mellifont

1980 - Greg Atkinson, Neil Coombe, Phil Mellifont

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Ed Kuepper and Mark Dawson - Live at the Spiegeltent Brisbane Festival 2011

Well its been a long time since I last saw these two play,
something like 20 years. An I saw at least 3 gigs including
the wonderful Spring Livid where they played in Albert park
as the sun went down!
Tonight in an equally impressive venue the amazing
Spiegeltent they play to a sell out crowd that they had eating
out of their hand.





This gigs brief was a re-imagining of Ed's debut solo album
Electrical Storm and his 1990 Ed and Mark classic
Today Wonder.
And re-imagined it was, especially the Electrical Storm,
tracks that originally had a very different treatment.
Also gone was the 12 string that Ed always played
during that period with Mark.
Still acoustic but more complex, with just the 6 strings.
Stand out tunes were, the title track Electrical Storm,
a blinding Palace Of Sin and Master of two Servants.



Today Wonder was even better, those songs are still as
magical as they were 20 years ago.
The highlights of course were the song Ed tells us
was the reason the Berlin Wall fell,
Everything I've got belongs to you, which became
a wonderful singalong.
Horse under water, which he no longer plays by
striking the strings with a pen and the song
first made famous by the Laughing Clowns
and re-recorded for Today Wonder, Eternally Yours.
This morphed into the Tim Hardin's track
If I Were a Carpenter .
By the end the audience gave them a standing ovation.
Ed tells us Mark was recently voted the words 9th
best drummer and Ed is of course the worlds greatest
Guitarist so how could you go wrong!



You can find a video of electrical storm and a recording from

the night Here at Turn it up

Gathering fest. was cool...

It's a nice venue full of great sounds..  got there late and missed some stuff I would have loved to have caught up with - escpecially Jim Rockfords and Bertie Page Clinic. Arrived just as William Barton was setting up. This guy is amazing - he has an almost Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn thing going on when he is singing in language.. A simple setup of bass n didge with a bit of apple magic.. I would see him again in a flash .

Another band I would seek out are Glockenspiel http://www.myspace.com/glockenspielmusic
never heard of em b4 but really impressive stage show -110% energy .. not bad for a couple of diks..

Toothfaeries rocked the shed with even more energy...I only caught a few songs and wandered around to the main hall for the highlight of the night.
Screaming Tribesmen are indeed back..A big show with no disappointments.. If you live in Sydney or Melbourne don't miss out on this one..

Just a short clip - good news is they had cameras set up so hopefully a dvd package coming soon!
And one more short clip :)
There was this skull watching EVERYONE!! - kinda fereaked me out...


no audio from me on the day.. machine packed it in - awaiting neighbour to get home so i can borrow his shottie and finish that machine once n forall... future youtube clip in it methinks...

Other highlight of the day - meeting this guy -

Greg -drummer for Razar and the Leftovers

I hope you dont mind me sticking this pic up on the web, Greg... He originally posed for this shot so I could give it to Steve Kunde for bootlegging Razar t-shirts and not giving him a cut - LOL

4ZzZ did an outside broadcast on the day and featured many interviews of the days entertainers. You can catch those interviews on the ZzZ podcast web page found here - http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/podcasts/music
your looking for uploads with the 18 Oct dates as interviews not labeled Gathering Fest- just labeled by artist names... happy hunting!

Sir Ed Kuepper plays again!

Brisbane's very own original punk roker the right 'onerable Sir Ed plays a couple of gigs in the next few days with ol' mate Mark Dawson..

Found this nice clip the other day on the ol tube thingy



Ed on "blah blah blah"

..also found this old clipping in the "pile"...

Rave magazine 5june2007 page 10

I still cant for the life of me explain why i didnt go to the pig City concert  arrgghhhhh but luckily a cd is available - Saints -live at pig city 2007..
review of the Pig City Saints gig by Robert Forster here - http://www.themonthly.com.au/music-robert-forster-tales-pig-city-saints-616

Lil' Fi and the Delta Rhythm Kings -Yip-Yah!

Lil' Fi plays the Gathering festival on saturday at 4:40pm so ffs dont be late!
Gathering fest. timetable here - http://www.thegatheringfestival.com.au/timetable/

Bundy grrrl Lil' Fi hooked up with the remnants of the Howling Moondoggies in the early 90's and this great blues combo rocked brisvegas for years at venues like the Orient and the Bombshelter at the Story Bridge hotel.. great times and great sounds..
download here
Lil' Fi
Blind Dog Donnie - http://www.myspace.com/dirtyblinddog
Trevor Casey
Trevor Gollagher
other members over the years include Coogie Timms and Felicia Sowinski

more recent Lil' Fi info can be found here - http://www.lilfi.com/

best Lil' Fi story - Colonel Windsor tells me they supported B.B. King once and B.B. wanted to wisk Fi away to the States for blues entertaining training.....
best Lil' Fi aural - Fi getting up and belting out some mighty fine blues with the Bondi Cigars at the Orient way back when calendars started with a 1...

John Malcolm @ the Gathering fest.

Guitar magician John Malcolm is playing the Gathering festival at 4pm so get yer skates on and get there early!!



John Malcolm doing his rendition of "Razors Edge"

more John Malcom can be found here -  http://www.johnmalcolm.com.au/

Custard are back!

Lots of live music goodies coming up in the next few days...


Custard live on "Recovery" back in the day...

Custard are doing a few reformation shows with the brisbane show happening at the powerhouse on saturday- info here - http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/custard/
some great reads can be found - http://www.musiciscrap.com/davemccormack/press/Custard_TimeOff_Aug2011.pdf
and here - http://www.scenemagazine.com.au/index.php/section-table/58-cover-stories/1535-custard
and if you look over at brendans blog you can find some custard live from the Hi Fi flood benefit and a meredith fest  here - http://turnitupto10.blogspot.com/2011/03/flood-benefit-at-hi-fi.html

and lots of stuff here - http://www.musiciscrap.com/index.html

It's a shame that the two Medews are playing the same nite... already booked in for the Screaming Tribesman myself....

 update
thanx for the sounds - http://turnitupto10.blogspot.com/2011/09/ummmm-custard.html

Grant Mclennan - JJJ Tribute 13.05.2006

Roert has sent a link in the the SSS blog for a wonderful

Tribute done by radio station JJJ, many thanks Robert!

You can find the J files post, a 3 hour Gobs post

Here

Now over to Robert.

Hi, Robert from Melbourne again. This following is a link

to another go-between's related JJJ show.

This is the hour-long tribute the station put together

about a week after Grant passed away,

broadcast 13.05.2006.

Various musicians and Brisbane identities talking

about Grant and his impact.

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Tyrone's Ukulele Heart

Pic by Grant Heaton

David who has contributed on this blog before with

his fabulous bands Friends of the Iguana and the Goodbye Notes,

is spreading the word about a new (well, kind of new!) musical

project. He is seeking to fund a recording to be called

Ukulele Heart which will be a collection of original ukulele songs

by Tyrone, David's alter ego.

In many ways similar to the Kransky Sisters who I covered in the last

post, Tyrone's act is funny, very musical and very entertaining.

Theres some great clips up at Tyrone's Youtube channel Here.

So check some more of the diverse wonderful music of Brisbane.

Now over to David!

Tyrone has quite a history, and may be strangely

familiar to Brisbane music lovers.

He played the first Livid Festival in 1988, with comedy

group Skins on the Wall, and appeared at several later

Livids, including one memorable set between

Screamfeeder and psychobilly outfit Fireballs.

(He was the guy with the iguana)

He has played at the Zoo many times,

the Cairns and Melbourne Ukulele Festivals

and took his show Ukulele Mekulele to the Sydney

Opera House.

He’s aiming to record his first album, and you can find out more

about the project here at Pozible.com