Lifestyle "1983 Redux Zeitgeist Surf School"

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Deckchairs Overboard 1983
John lead guitar, lived up the road from me, went back to medicine and practices in Melbs now.....Paul Hester first band, first clip.

 

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24. "Like a snake calling on the phone" is the opening line of which song by The Saints?

The Age we’re getting with the indie zeitgeist with this quiz question last Sunday.

I might do a ‘first line’ quiz at some stage.

For now, I love the first line of the song ‘Chicken Killer’, from Born Sandy Devotional. - “I knelt, I aimed, I missed, I ran …”
It does do much in a dramatic / poetic / literary sense. A much underrated track and one of my favourites on the album.

The narratives on this album are brilliant. Each track is like a snippet from a wonderfully conceived short story.

 

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"We've got two......"

 

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1983 Melbourne Fashion World: The Style Council aka The Big Three

Punk a Photographic Journey The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene

 

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1982 Seaview Ballroom

 

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Ok - we all love a good list. Here's a bit of a list of I bands I can remember seeing, starting with the more notable acts I saw at the Ballroom and then wandering off to other times and other places. Going back to a point I made in an earlier post, I saw the majority of these bands in St.Kilda.

The Birthday Party, The Fall, The Violent Femmes, The Dead Kennedys (Seaview Ballroom and Monash Uni), Public Image Ltd, Iggy Pop, The Damned, The Clash, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, The Laughing Clowns, The Models, The Go Betweens, The Triffids, The Residents, The Scientists, The Moodists, U2 (1984), David Bowie (1983), Nico, R.E.M.(1989/1995), Smashing Pumpkins, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Died Pretty, The Sunnyboys, The Screaming Tribesmen, The Trilobites, Harem Scarum, The Celibate Rifles, Plays with Marionettes, Scrap Museum, Olympic Sideburns, The Curse, The Hard Ons, Honeymoon in Green, Feral Dinosaurs, Ed Kuepper, Depression, The Johnnys, The Moffs, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, The Pogues, Arcade Fire (In Seattle), The Huxton Creepers, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, North to Alaskans, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Pulp, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lloyd Cole, Patti Smith, Courtney Barnett, The Cure, New Order, Boomtown Rats, Gary Numan, Hunters and Collectors, Psychedelic Furs, Lime Spiders, The Saints, Spiderbait, You Am I, The Church, The Wreckery, The Reels, Sacred Cowboys, Billy Bragg, Blue Ruin, The Fauves, Magic Dirt, T.I.S.M. and plenty more I can't remember offhand.

As you can see, they are all jumbled up. Ring any bells?

 

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Fashion Design Council
Founded in Melbourne 1983

"By the mid 1980s a spontaneous, creative convergence saw young artists and designers take up residence in Stalbridge Chambers, a nineteenth-century building in the heart of Melbourne. Robert Pearce set up a studio for the short-lived but influential Crowd and Collections magazines, and the FDC based its headquarters in a room on the sixth floor. During this period other tenants included designers Desbina Collins, Martin Grant, Fiona Scanlan, Gavin Brown’s Plain Jane label, milliner Tamasine Dale and artist Jenny Watson." Ref: NGV



Notable Melbourne Studios 1980-early 2000's
Above the Jimmy Watson Building Chappel St Prahran various Artist studios, Jenny Watson, Elizabeth Gower, Howard Arkley to name a few.
Stalbridge Chambers was Little Collins St near Queens St (All evicted by the end of the 80's when it was refurbed)
Hardware Lane...various residential & studios
Upstairs over Mars Leathers, Elizabeth St..various Roar artists after Brunswick St.
Carlow House was in Flinders Lane closest to Elizabeth St 30 yr home of Marcos Davidson & posse, renown jeweler, Melbs raconteur extrordinaire-ran the Melbourne Bomb comp off either St Kilda pier or Port Melbourne pier depending on year (all evicted and refurbed in early 2000's)
Nicholas Building Cr Swanston & Flinders Lane (My studio home for 18 years till they trippled the rent and started refurbs not the same as it was)
Majorca House Cr Flinders lane & Centreway place, everyone evicted and the building refurbed in late 1990's
Centreway House, Cr Flinders lane & Centreway place.....independant Art Studios mainly ex VCA & some RMIT... some f$#@wits got us all evicted in the mid 90's..it remains empty to this day.

 

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Ok - we all love a good list. Here's a bit of a list of I bands I can remember seeing, starting with the more notable acts I saw at the Ballroom and then wandering off to other times and other places. Going back to a point I made in an earlier post, I saw the majority of these bands in St.Kilda.

The Birthday Party, The Fall, The Violent Femmes, The Dead Kennedys (Seaview Ballroom and Monash Uni), Public Image Ltd, Iggy Pop, The Damned, The Clash, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, The Laughing Clowns, The Models, The Go Betweens, The Triffids, The Residents, The Scientists, The Moodists, U2 (1984), David Bowie (1983), Nico, R.E.M.(1989/1995), Smashing Pumpkins, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Died Pretty, The Sunnyboys, The Screaming Tribesmen, The Trilobites, Harem Scarum, The Celibate Rifles, Plays with Marionettes, Scrap Museum, Olympic Sideburns, The Curse, The Hard Ons, Honeymoon in Green, Feral Dinosaurs, Ed Kuepper, Depression, The Johnnys, The Moffs, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, The Pogues, Arcade Fire (In Seattle), The Huxton Creepers, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, North to Alaskans, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Pulp, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lloyd Cole, Patti Smith, Courtney Barnett, The Cure, New Order, Boomtown Rats, Gary Numan, Psychedelic Furs, Lime Spiders, The Saints, Spiderbait, You Am I, The Church, The Wreckery, The Reels, Sacred Cowboys, Billy Bragg, Blue Ruin, The Fauves, Magic Dirt, T.I.S.M. and plenty more I can't remember offhand.

As you can see, they are all jumbled up.

You can look them up here in this list 3KZ is Football ...if you can be bothered..........
Bananas; gigs: http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/bananas-st-kilda-vic





Crystal Ballroom gigs


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/crystal-ballroom-st-kilda-vic





Earls Court


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/earls-court-st-kilda-vic





Electric Ballroom 1981


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/electric-ballroom-st-kilda-vic





Paradise Lounge 1980-81


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/paradise-lounge-st-kilda-vic





Prince Of Wales 1982-89


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/prince-of-wales-st-kilda-vic





St Kilda Town Hall 1973-82


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/st-kilda-town-hall-st-kilda-vic





The Astor 1976-82


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/the-astor-theatre-st-kilda-vic





The Palace 1985-1999


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/the-palace-st-kilda-vic





The Venue 1979-1988


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/the-venue-st-kilda-vic?page=1





The Palais 1976-1984


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/palais-theatre-st-kilda-vic?page=1

 

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You can look them up here in this list 3KZ is Football ...if you can be bothered..........
Bananas; gigs: http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/bananas-st-kilda-vic





Crystal Ballroom gigs


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/crystal-ballroom-st-kilda-vic





Earls Court


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/earls-court-st-kilda-vic





Electric Ballroom 1981


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/electric-ballroom-st-kilda-vic





Paradise Lounge 1980-81


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/paradise-lounge-st-kilda-vic





Prince Of Wales 1982-89


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/prince-of-wales-st-kilda-vic





St Kilda Town Hall 1973-82


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/st-kilda-town-hall-st-kilda-vic





The Astor 1976-82


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/the-astor-theatre-st-kilda-vic





The Palace 1985-1999


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/the-palace-st-kilda-vic





The Venue 1979-1988


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/the-venue-st-kilda-vic?page=1





The Palais 1976-1984


http://www.australianmusicdatabase.com/venues/palais-theatre-st-kilda-vic?page=1

Brilliant!

 

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VCA Post Grad House Art School sounds circa 1987................

 

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Film Candy
Released Aust 2006
Adaption of Luke Davies 1998 Novel.
This is a one sided story...of Melbourne Artist Meagan Bannister (dec)...a blazing comet in the Art World in the late 70's early 80's...First show at Tolarnos Fitzroy St sold out in 1/2 an Hour....enormous paintings of gothic flowers....there are always 2 sides to a story... when you die you can't tell it................but some remember.......

 

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Rain Parade What She's Done To Your Mind. 1983 Gem.

 

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1984 Rain Parade – Explosions In The Glass Palace​

Album Recorded in LA in 1983 released in 1984
Review: The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | 21 Minutes To Flow: Rain Parade's Explosions In The Glass Palace Revisited

 

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1984 Which opening song line is this 3KZ is Football ?

"I choose my friends only far too well....."

 

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… I’m up on the pavement, they’re all down in the cellar …

Perfect Skin.

 

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Most Honourable Mention for GREATEST SCENE IN THE EIGHTIES (Southern Hemisphere Division) must go to bands who were said to be proponents of the ‘Dunedin Sound’.

Especially thinking here of The Chills, who are still going strong and still the primary musical vehicle for Martin Phillipps.

Here’s a few of theirs:

 

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1984 Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
England. 1st Album Release Oct 1983 Capital Records.
Lloyd Cole made white jeans a thing in the day.


Forest Fire 3rd and final single released from the album.

 

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1984 Rattlesnakes
1st Single Perfect skin.

 

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I saw Lloyd Cole a few weeks ago doing an acoustic set at the Melbourne Recital Centre. He was fantastic. There was a lot of love in the room for him.

 

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Typical 1983 Redux Zeitgeist art school / recreational cool thing reading.

 

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1982 1999 Prince and The Revolution
USA Released Oct 1982 on Warner Brothers



1999 was the first album recorded with his band and his first successful commercial album.
The Ist single 1999 peaked on the charts at only No.12
The song is a protest against nuclear proliferation. Who knew.
1983 Feb. the 2nd Single Little Red Corvette did better peaking at No.6

 

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1984 Rattlesnakes Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
England. 1st Album Release Oct 1983 Capital Records.
Lloyd Cole made white jeans a thing in the day.

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Forest Fire 3rd and final single released from the album.

“She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance.”

What’s not to like about lyrics like that?


“I get it, but she should read La Nausée?”