climate I’ve decided to try and ease off with the political talk for a bit. People don’t like it, well…. a lot of people don’t like and I’m not a fan of political conversations much, particularly when they’re one way. These ‘conversations’ here are mostly one way. I started writing this journal in 2019 during the fake pandemic to stop myself from going crazy, but that’s all over now. I’m gonna try and stay neutral for a couple of days at least, and just talk about things that I’m doing. This is bound to be very interesting to everyone I’m sure.
An Australian artist Mark…(it’ll come to me), painted my portrait a while ago. I look a bit mean I think.
Today I am still working on the Armchairs tape, and I watched the whole thing through from start to finish last night. It’s a shambles in as much as it’s a shambolic performance. I did find it amusing a lot of the time, mostly because everyone is acting so stupidly, myself included. It’s definately not your big rock and roll show, more of a side excursion into an event where nobody really knows what they’re doing and are making it up on the spot.
As I recall there were only a handful of people in the audience, after all this was the room where the snacks and drink were served. The main acts were performing upstairs. Laurie Richards, the promoter gave us this venue out of sympathy I think.
This journal will be as wholesome as a bowl of blueberries and rolled oats
The tape consists of two sets where some of the songs of the first set are repeated in the second set. By the second set I think there were more people in the audience and there is a little bit of applause, which was mostly absent in the first part. There are songs I had forgotten I had written and they sound pretty good too. I might even consider resurrecting at least one or two in the future. Even the guitarist Jerry, sang one of his songs and people liked it the most by the sound of it. Where is he now? Where is Andrew Snow? I know where Fred Cass is because he gave me a shout out on Instagram last week/year.
Political talk is now banned from this page. It’s gonna be niceness from now on.
Fred has changed his name to Raphael now I think. He was Lee before that. As I was doing an internet search for some of these people I came across a blog that talked about this very performance. It spoke of things that I didn’t know about. I didn’t know, or had fogotten that this was one the Armchairs very first appearances.
The Armchairs started out as an idea that Johnny Topper and I had, to form a kind of satirical group. We shared a similar sense of humor so it didn’t take much to get some songs together and convince some people to play them. A lot of how this took place is lost in the mists of time, but some of it is coming back. I remember Topper and I did a Sydney tour and slept on someone’s living room floor the first night.
The next night I think I met up with some chick at the gig and slept in her bed, which was a big improvement on the floor. She was an interesting girl who had shaved part of her hair off at the temples which was quite radical at the time. Later on in the tour somebody I knew, Vera Plevnik the Aussie actress (who died in a car crash in 1982), and some of her acting friends came along to see us, so things got slowly better over time.
Kinkade land, where everything is beyond good
Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, I’m going to talk more about me than politics for a while. I’ll try at least. For now I’m Switzerland without the Disco Inferno.
Good Day