Comments on: Contributors Wanted

By: Graeme Hicks

Graeme Hicks — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:14:00 +0000

I too worked at Narara 1 and 2.
The fondest memory is that which happened during the storm, Eric Robinson had the hide to turn up back stage with dry and clean clothes on, just as we(Harry P and myself) were enptying a 20foot square tarp that was full of water.
Bad timing Eric!!

By: Jeff White

Jeff White — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:42:43 +0000

The site also needs a section devoted to my number one Aussie band, V Spy V Spy or simply Spys. Undoubtedly the greatest live act from the 80′s in my opinion. Craig Bloxom is such a great guy and his voice so distinct. I am sure there’s heaps of people with stories they could tell from these guys??

By: The Dark One

The Dark One — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:06:54 +0000

I remember Saturday night (vaguely) The night was huge with each band performing exceptionally well. There was only one stage from memory so there was a delay between bands as each one had to be st up after the previous. Rodney Rude was awesome as MC and did a great job entertaining us during each break and did a great job keepng the whole thing moving towards it’s climactic end. Rodny did his thing after an awesome performance by Chisel and as he did there was a second yet very interesting show going on behind him. I’m not talking about a band – i’m talking about the roadies as the set up for the grand finale – Rose Tattoo. The roadies took every speaker they could find from each band and built a wall of speakers across the entire back of the stage. Picture this – one big wall of speakers that streched between the two stacks at each side of the stage!!!!! Making one hughmungus wall of speakers.
By the time the band came out Rodney had whipped the crowd into a frenzy and the band members (please feel free to correct me with details) were all really tall and skinny and dressed in brand spanking new orange overalls. The lead guitar hit the first note and the whole place shook like it had been hit by anearthquake. And then as the the intro of the song was about to change into the first verse Angry Anderson came out and stood centre stage in contrasting white overalls. He was tiny in comparison to the other guys standing eather side but the crowd went ballistic at his appearance and as the roar of the crowd combined with the music Angry sang the first word and then everyone freaked even more. Then it just kept getting better.

By: The Dark One

The Dark One — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:46:20 +0000

I went to Narara in ’83 and ’84. Had an awesome time at both. I remember Rodney Rude entertaining the crowd between bands. He was stirring everyone up and as usual picking on minority groups. He was particularly funny on the saturday night because he was picking on all the bikies. There numbers had started to grow in the crowd as the night went on and they were getting ready for Rose Tattoo to come on. Rodney started paying out on the bikies saying they had real ugly (and huge) girlfriends. Rodney said he saw one girl so big she had to roll her own tampons. The crowd roared with laughter and said in unison – how big ?- To which Rodaney replied – she has a honda on her bracelet. And again the crowd said – HOW BIG – and Rodney said – she was so big she had to kick start her vibrator….. just then the bikies were so pissed off a can or something came flying out of the crowd and Rodney had to escape off stage just in time for the mighty Tatts.