Another Australian classic single by this short lived Sydney band. Sadly they were involved in a car crash on the way to tour Melbourne and the lead singer died. They have released some posthumous records.
I guess they were driving the Deadly Hume as it used to be called. The road from Sydney to Melbourne was notorious for accidents. Even Jonestown, who were on my record label, managed to hit a kangaroo on the way back from their Sydney tour. Poz, who was their tour manager, was behind the wheel. The cost of fixing that wiped out any profits from the tour itself.
I can't remember where I first heard the single but it was at some club. Which was an odd place to first hear this song. I'm starting to guess that Ronny might have played it. This is where it would be handy to have a timeline. Or it could have been Jason. Jason and Ronny would find discs and play them mercilessly. So much that the singles would become part of them. In a sense that I could look in a record box and see a single and know who it belonged to. I still have a few in my box I can tell belonged to one of them.
The three of us worked together a lot in the eighties. Venetian Room, Rubber Soul, Beehive. Then after opening Revolver at the Union Ronny went back to Adelaide.
Anyway this is a double A-side. Both sides are ace.
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