I’m having a “Nolans” moment earlier today. Last night it was a “Mamma Cass” moment and I’m morphing into having a “Kim Wilde” moment right now. It’s been a strange few days. I’ve been sick with a cold, had a day off work, had a day at work feeling like a zombie and now have [...]
Thank you YouTube…Gobbledok TV advert
I didn’t even think of Youtube when I took a photo of the Gobbledok ay my local IGA (Impossible to Get Anything you want). But this morning, I did have a look and found the original Gobbledok advert from 1987. Ah memories…like the corners of my mind….
Look who’s back!
it was a nice surprise to see him at my local supermarket this week. Surrounded by hundreds of packets of “chippies”. The famous Gobbledok seems to be making a return to Smiths Chips advertising. And about time. I love the Gobbledok. He likes chippie, chippie, chippies even more than I do! “The Gobbledok is a [...]
The Bird Dance/Chicken Dance
I dedicate this to my Dad who used to torture Yoda with this song on the car cassette player every time we had to pick up/drive him somewhere. It became a running joke, every time Yoda got in the car, Dad would have the song ready for him. Yoda hates this song with a vengeance!
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 [...]
It was the 80s…we all dressed like that.
Okay well maybe we didn’t ALL dress like that. Maybe it was only me who had inappropriately permed hair and clothes like a budget airline pilot. And there’s John as Frida from the A Group we don’t talk about anymore. He’d just done a show. I’d just been dancing. I have pimples. I have only [...]
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 [...]
