This Five Minutes - Swing Between The Flags

This Five Minutes were one of the greta Brisbane bands

from the first half of the 80's. They played around all the

major venues, made it onto some Classic Brisbane

compilation albums from the era. Their single How? B/W

Reaction Time made it to 81 on the ZzZ hot hundred

in 83. This is a 6 track Cassette that the wonderful

Paislie has digitalized and shared with us.

Thanks Palisie!

Track List

01 - Sometimes (The Night Time)

02 - Complications

03 - No-one Deserves To

04 - Changes

05 - Wonderworld Arcade

06 - Lou in Green

Members

Tony Moore: vocals, guitar

Tom McKeon: vocals, bass, vocoder/synth

Greg Gilbert (aka "Des Johnson"): drums

Other members included:

Guy Petersen: guitar, vocals

Greg Wadley: bass

Ian Wadley: trumpet

Pat Ridgewell: organ

Martin Mackerras: sax

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Cubbyhouse Fanzine and Cassette "What We Did On Our Holidays"

A rare piece on Brisbanes music history,
a do it yourself fanzine and a cassette with
some very rare Brisbane recordings.
The Dumdums on the first track was none
other than Tex Perkins and his first band.
Pork a legendy band that incited both rapturous
joy and intense dislike.
My Tangled Shoelaces were a fantastic, wimisical bunch
of kids whome went on to become Wonderous Fair,
my personal favourites.
And This Five Minutes an excellent band that were also
a fav of mine. Chuck discovered a long dead post on the
blog that started me off blogging,
asked me if I had the said recordings
and found somehow in his attic a long forgotten copy of
the original fanzine that was sold with these recordings.
Bazzil from prehistoric sounds did the original digitaliztion
of this casstte.
Thanks to Baz and Chuck for all of this.

Heres what Chuck has to say

long b4 there was desktop publishing apps there was the
prehistoric photocopier and some scissors....
not the flashest fanzine ive ever seen but a very interesting
piece of brisbane music history i think...
now finally completed for me, with bob's and bazzill's help
with the audio component i had long given up hope of ever
tracking down.
ALL HAIL THE BLOG

Track List
01 - The Dum Dums - Voodoo Doll
02 - Pork - In
03 - Tangled Shoelaces - On The Sea
04 - Tangled Shoelaces - You Can Come Too
05 - This Five Minutes - To Sir With Love
06 - This Five Minutes - One To Ten
07 - Des Johnson - Never Home
08 - Tea For Two - Solid Instrumental

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This Five Minutes - 7" Single How?/Reaction Time

I do so love this band, great sound so I'm very pleased to
post this single.

This 5 Minutes were an interesting part of the Brisbane Punk
scene which developed in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
The mostly three piece played at every major venue at one time
or another.The band was a regular item at the X-Roads Club,
at the Atcherley Hotel and later at The Purple Hearts Scooter
Club, at the Australian National Hotel.


The original music tended towards a more "jazzy" or "funky" feel.
Tony could also come across all "moody", if he chose.
They also played interesting cover versions of Steve Harley
and Cockney Rebel's Come Up and See Me (Make me smile....)
Lulu's To Sir With Love, and Elvis Presley's Occupation GI Blues.


The 7" Single How?/Reaction Time reached number 81 on the
4ZZZFM Hot 100 for 1983. It reached number 80 in 1984.
After playing about most venues for a couple of years,
the lineup started to change often.
Various members continued making music in such bands as
DogFishCatBird, then Small World Experience.

All Thanks to Chuck for ripping and sharing this little beauty.
Stay tuned there's a heap more to come from Chucks expansive
collection.

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