1977. I'm living at my brother Tony's house in Blackburn since my Mum as gone back to live in England. This is where we started getting The Fiction together before rob wellington joined. Tony let us set up all our equipment in the master bedroom which was kid of him and his wife Carol. I think it was because they liked Vic so much. One Xmas they gave him a present but not me. Anyway punk rock was just a noise to them. Pretty vacant was the first punk rock record they liked. Probably because of the amazing start to the record and then those drums. Totally brilliant. And it was a catchy pop single really. Just wrapped up in punk rock clothing.
I stayed at Tony's for about six months or more until I finished my Teaching diploma at Burwood teachers college. Subway played their last gig in the living room. I had completely forgotten this until I started writing today. Our audience was Tony's family. After that I moved into a share house in Oakleigh.
One night Tony smashed his car into a bridge and had the remains towed back to his driveway. This made a great background for our first punk rock photos. He had a great Dane that hanged itself. well it jumped over a fence while still on a leash and that was that. They went away on holiday and Vic and I lived there for the summer. She left a casserole on the stovetop but we didn't touch it for weeks. In the end we threw it over the back fence into a horse paddock. I think it made the horse seriously ill.
Looking at the pretty vacant single now it still irks me it was Wizard records in Australia. The label looks so colourful and hippy like. But what a song!
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