There’s a new Gay Flash Mob video out that happened at Sydney Harbour this weekend. It’s okay but it reminded me of the absolute classic Bondi Beach Flash Mob video with Joyce Mange. Now that was a classic and a total shock for the other beach goers last year! And the one from this weekend [...]
Maggie Burns & Co – Patchs, Sydney – 1985
These are the last two songs from Maggie Burns & Company’s “Games” which was performed at Patchs, Oxford Street, Sydney for several months in 1985. Generally at 2am! And I should know – I was there for quite a few of those performances. Home video cameras were new and expensive and a then friend of [...]
27 years later…..
I first saw this song performed by a drag queen in a (now long defunct) pub in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was 1982. It stuck with me for years and years and I’ve previously never been able to find it anywhere. Couldn’t find who the artist was or anything about the song. People thought I [...]
THEM in Carnival Knowledge
After working from home on Friday, I wasn’t about to put my glad-rags on and venture out into the night. I had another look at some of the video tapes I’d uncovered recently, particularly those that had the 80s drag shows on them that I was such a huge fan of back then. While I’ve [...]
Sydney drag in the 80s: Maggie Burns & Co. / THEM
I’ve been experimenting with transferring some VHS video taken of fabulous drag shows I went to in the 80s to my PC and then ultimately to Youtube. This is a regular and normal thing for many people but for someone like JudgeG who has little patience and tends to punch the screen a lot, it [...]
When We Were Young…and John was Frida
Being a truly ‘free day’ today, I decided to do something I’d been meaning to do for ages. I went through some old VHS video tapes taken at various conventions and discos that I’d organised in the 80s. I was specifically looking for some performances by my good friend John McKechnie as “Frida”. However I [...]
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