59. Friday on My Mind by The Easybeats 1966

I arrived in Australia in 1965. My family four brothers and one sister lived in a 3 room Nissan Hut at the Nunawading Hostel. A Nissan Hut looks like half a tin can and was shared by two families. There were lots of kids there so it was a great time. We’d play roof tiggy at night and made samurai stars by day. Dress up like super heroes and look for snakes and lizards in the bushland. The walk from the hostel to school was through the bush.

I don’t know if I even heard this song there but I can’t hear an Easybeats song without being taken back to those days. The long summers and mixed lollies. What was a milk bar or a kiosk.? Every meal with hundreds of other families in a huge canteen. FJ Holdens and more. The Easybeats encapsulate Australia in the sixties.

Little Murders tried to cover this song in the 80’s but we couldn’t do it any justice so we played I’ll Make You Happy instead.