Comments on: Moving Pictures

By: This month in Australian music – April

This month in Australian music – April — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:13:20 +0000

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By: Richard Bishop

Richard Bishop — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:36:09 +0000

Managed to get hold of a live Cold Chisel album and inc this and others on i pod. Just great.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:24:37 +0000

I grew up across the road from Mark Meyer and his family I can always remember hearing Mark (before he joined Moving Pictures) and the guys playing in his parents back yard it gave me my love of aussie music and music in general which I still have to this day.Mark’s Dad & Mum were great neighbours and the boys never distured anybody in the neighbourhood with there playing and I can remember his his dad being so proud of him and how he loved to tell me how Mark was doing when he joined Moving Pictures. Ahh great memories

By: nad

nad — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:14:38 +0000

I was at that gig at the Hordern – there were 2 on the one day I think and I went to both. I still have the ticket stub. It was a weird line-up: Moving Pictures, The Church and Matt Finish…

By: Rick Scutts

Rick Scutts — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:54:16 +0000

Moving Pictures were not the best of the best…they didn’t even come close to the performances of Cold Chisel or the Angels which were universally regarded as the best Australian rock acts of that period…Alex was a cocky little shit, and I dont know a lot of people that knew him that liked him.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:27:34 +0000

I was the resident DJ at the Ambassoador Night Club in Newcastle NSW when Alex and the”Moving Picture Show” were braining it. Many the nights spent downing bourbons and talking …. with the boys after their concerts at the ‘Bass’. The band were influenced by Bruce Springsteen, Hall and Oates and harmonies by The Supremes and would ask me to play songs from these artists to vibe them before performing. I have worked with Chisel, The Oils, Misex etc and have to say, Moving Pictures were the best of the best. Miss them on stage but their music remains.. Rock On.

By: Narara Music Festival 1983

Narara Music Festival 1983 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:20:23 +0000

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By: Richard Bishop

Richard Bishop — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:20:09 +0000

Heard this on BBC radio 2 17 Feb 2009(yesterday)and brought back so many memories of the eighties. Living in the Uk we were 1st intro to Australian Rock with Men at Work in early 80s but the BBC did a documentary which I thought was entitled Australia Now in 82/83/84 and I videoed it, watched it a thousand times etc. This vid formed part of that doc.which also featured Spilt Endz of course, Australian Crawl, Midnight Oil and Mental as Anything as well as several others – I managed to get a Australian Crawl LP and Midnight Oil CDs but these guys I couldn’t. I lost the video when the betamax machine gave up if only I could get another copy!?!?! Or a complimantion album, Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for posting this.

By: Pam Josue

Pam Josue — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:03:40 +0000

Hi Bob – just to clarify your memory – the drummer at the Hordern Pavillion concert was actually Paul Freeland. The drummer in the pic in the article is Mark Meyer. Given this is the “Australian Music History’ site, it’s a bit odd they used that pic as Paul was founding drummer and with the band longest.

By: bob beresford

bob beresford — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:00:15 +0000

Hi Roger

Yes, they were one of the best ever Aussie groups -saw them many times, incl that concert at Hordern Pav ( with its bad accoustics ). Think they had Mark Meyer with them by that stage – a really top drummer, from Leon Berger’s band.

They were brilliant live but was much regret that the energy wasn’t captured on their first album -D.O.I. – overproduced for the American market. And did they ever record Pay the Piper in the studio ?

That song – largely written by Garry Frost ( genius songwriter and top guitarist ) is actually a rock classic. They opened at the Hordern Pav with it – but unfortunately Alex talked in the intro too much. Anyway…could you please put that one on You-tube ??!! Would be really glad. Email me about it if you like bob@bobberesford.com

Pay the Piper was so powerful that sometimes an audience would be stunned by it…why they stopped closing with it – because people would get too overwhelmed to clap.

( One of their best songs was Alex’s ‘Chinese Nightlife’ never recorded. )