The Frames were a staple on the Perth pub circuit in the 80's so as part of Clairsy & Lisa’s Perth Pub Crawl, the guys spoke to Mark Donohoe from the band who told them what it was like playing Wednesdays through to Sundays every week and some of his favourite venues to play at.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We would be singing a man at work song to
twelve hundred people, the men at work, and began the road.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't think did the people party in the venue,
but the bands. It was a way of like Cozy
and Lisa, it's to pub crawl.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yes, back on the crawl this morning. Nothing like an
eight am.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Pub crawl joining us from the frames it's marked on here.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, mate, welcome, good morning, How are you good news?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Thank you for being part of our reminisce about the
good old days. You wrote funny situation. Is there a
funny story we need to know behind that?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh, look, I don't think so. I was just just
just thinking, then it's a long time since. That's all.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And what was I thinking? I thought, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I think I think we were a lot better than
that in my mind. But anyway, it was. It was
a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was a good bit of pop. Mark was that
Ray Vine, the Perth sex guy on sexophone, the jazz player.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, that's right, we got it, we got him in.
I think was that single must have been about nine
and eighty one, nine eight two, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
There was never a healthier time than the eighties for
the Perth pub scene. You know you could go Friday
night through till the Sunday session, different band, different great venue.
Where are some of the places that you guys played,
Look all the big.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Ones and I think you know, we could go from
Wednesday through to Sunday, you know, like places like the
Generator and Morley, the Overflow, Raffles, Windsor Hotel, Charles Hotel
and also you know we used to head to the country.
All the bands used to head to the country normally
on a Wednesday night because they couldn't get the sort
(01:38):
of big bands up there on the weekend. So on
Wednesday night you'd go to Bumbley or Calgoolie or Geraldon.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, you guys come up once. That was bizarre, is
that right? In Meriton? Oh and Merriton we used to
get a few Ferth bands, but they would be during
the week because you guys were all busy on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
As you say, exactly, Yeah, so it was. It was
such a vibrant time and probably never be repeated. It
was just the crowds of people that come out to
see live bands in Perth was unbelieving him.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You guys were able to tour a bit and and
work full time as a musician because you got, you know,
much wanted sponsorship support.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
From an airline. Was it t A A or ancestor.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Really it was we were sponsored by t A and
we were flown around the country at one point, I
mean it was it was pretty muchy I think was
sponsored by Pepsi as well.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Wow, that's huge. It's a good marketing going on them.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of that. I mean
it was obviously their management at the time getting that happening,
and yeah, it was was crazy good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, hey, Mark, tell me mate, Clint Arnold the guitarist,
did he come from Vicaprio or did he joined Vicapri later?
And how did that go down? Some of.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It effected well, no, no, thes have broken up when
when Vika Prix grabbed him, so he was no, he
was EASi original frames, all all the frames of original
members and yeah he Vika pri sort of came along
and sort of blew us out of the water really
(03:18):
and and then eventually after Damien left, they took Clint
and he became a VIKA.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
President for you. Yeah, both got guitarist Damian Warden, Clint
Anol good stuff, that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and he was, I mean he was in two
big successful bands then.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, yeah, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I believe you auditioned for the frames after seeing an
ad in the Sunday Times.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We did that. That's how you got your kid did Yeah,
so the three other guys have been in a band
before besides being DNA mean answered an ad in the
Sunday Times and turned up and then plugged in and
got the job. It was, But in those days the
Sunday Times was full of sort of vocalist they wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, yeah, being honest, Mark. A few of the people
were spoken to had some groupies. What was it like
in heyday?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
The memories a bit blurry, I know. I think there
was some members of some bands that seemed to.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Have a lot of a lot of grouping, right, okay,
very good? Yeah, diplomatic.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Who were some of the bands that some of the
other bands on the scene at the time that you
always enjoyed seeing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Personally? I think Loaded Die Stayed Warner. I think of
Prints were amazing boys, I mean the boys and living
bands that were before us really and Perfect Strangers were amazing,
just so many, so many great bands. Innocent Bystanders were
(04:51):
crazy good and the time. Yeah, original sort of band
and just and the had a young Mark last there.
Yeah yeah, look, look they were fabulous and there was
just so many bands and very bands as well. There
was heavy metal type glam rock ones and the Ice
(05:15):
Lash Harry and yeah, a lot of a lot of
those different types of bands. But Purpose Strangers were amazing.
I love them, and a load of Dice and Fingerprints
were was sort of trailed Blazers and yeah, I really
enjoyed them.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You mentioned, I mean Die was just a kid with
who was in neednocent bystanders. But that Brett Keyser, he
was writing songs. He was like, he's like a chisel
type songwriter. He was incredible. Some of the rock he
was writing unreal, it was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And he was using local he was writing about Farborough
and that's what set him apart. But also just a
great singer and a great front man and a great idea.
But yeah, I love that the fact that he was
singing about local things that we could relate to. He
wasn't singing about Alabama, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah. It worked with Paul Kelly and his days in
Adelaide and then Melbourne of course, you know Greg, Greg
mccains from Skyworks. So those guy hooks ye singing about
their particular towns love it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, absolutely, And look, I think when the frames first
started as well, even the Perth bands weren't really playing
much Australian stuff, so we kind of felt like we
were one of the first ones that were playing, you know,
playing Skyhooks and the sports and you know, moving pictures
(06:33):
and things like that. So yeah, it did start to
change a bit then and people started realizing, hey, we're Australian.
Brett Casa in the s Bystanders was certainly a standout
in Perth.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Good work, We thank you for your service on that that.
There was of course a lot of great original stuff
coming out. But did you feel any pressure to do
the covers as well? Did you get that, you know,
people sort of wanted to hear what they knew?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh, look absolutely, I mean that was a hard thing.
I mean we never set out to be a big
cover band in Perth, and we set out the sort
of take on the world and we build up the
money and we'd head off over over East and tour
and play to not big crowds at all, and then
and we'd come back and we'd be playing our new
original songs and the crowd we'd just be looking at
(07:21):
looking at us and go, you know, play the swingers.
That's right. Yeah, so it was tough in that respect.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, we're testing the memory this morning, mate, to have
a think about excuse me, in your prime playing those
gigs to big crowds. Was it mostly girls up the
front of the stage. We talked about this with Capri
and were they big dancing kind of crowds at your gigs?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Look, the first the first ten rows would sort of
dance and sort of sort of walk towards the band
a bit. And there was more girls at the front
than been guys. But but had more girls, I.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Think, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think the frames were kind of, you know, good
looking enough to get a few girls, but ugly enough
for the guys to kind of ore. Okay as well.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
We were there dancing around our handbags, that's the whole
hand bag.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, and put them on the stage next to the fall.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, but that was fun for you.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
God, the frames wrapped up in nineteen eighty six. But
you've had a long history with producing new young acts
and so on in wa and.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Tell us about working with Kevin Bloody Wilson.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I still work with keV, you do, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Look he's a he's a wonderful talent and a very
smart guy. And it's been Yeah, it's been a good
run with keV and we've we've done lots of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah. And that wonderful singer of yours, Dean Denton with
his musical family mate, with Holly being so famous these days,
must do your pretty proud because you're all good mates. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, well she's my god daughter you so there you
and and we are still more good mates.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And she's a wonderful girl. You know, work water dynamo.
You sit with there for five minutes ago, I need
a break only.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I just remember seeing on the stage for we were
Rocky and I and how good is this girl? Unreal?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
She's so good and she always has been. And yeah,
just such such a great energy and she works so hard.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Do you ever?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Do you ever still get together.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And have a bit of a play.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, the Frames have done reunions. In fact, we only
did one a year ago at the Charles Hotel.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So stay out, sticky carpet.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's still still look at the carpet is exactly. It
feels like.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Home, you know, it feels like you're walking on the moon.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Quick, you're quick, sad.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I think I took my kids there last time and
they came back and go, oh my god, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The crowds go. When you guys get back together, that's great.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But they still do and they bring their kids. Yeah,
you know who were between twenty and thirty, you know, yeah,
and they say this is where mom and dad met,
you know, so, and this is what we used to experience.
So that's pretty amazing to look out of the crowd
and see half of them young, and then you realize
who they are. They're the children.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, it's amazing. Well, it's been amazing to reminisce with
you this morning, Mark. Yeah, I appreciate it so much
for coming on our pub for all with us.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hearing me out. It's like a treat for us, mate,
thank you Mark, to talk about right then bye bye frame. Yeah,
this is fun.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
If you go to the Charles you will see where
you spiled a drink in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, if you have memories to share with us, feel
free to text us on our text numbers zero four,
seventy six, ninety six, ninety six, ninety six. And if
you have any images, any photos from the time that
you want to share with a send us a Facebook
message or email us at breakfast at ninety six FM
dot com dot au.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We would love to see your pictures.
We would be singing a man at work song to
twelve hundred people, the men at work, and began the road.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't think did the people party in the venue,
but the bands. It was a way of like Cozy
and Lisa, it's to pub crawl.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yes, back on the crawl this morning. Nothing like an
eight am.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Pub crawl joining us from the frames it's marked on here.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, mate, welcome, good morning, How are you good news?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Thank you for being part of our reminisce about the
good old days. You wrote funny situation. Is there a
funny story we need to know behind that?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh, look, I don't think so. I was just just
just thinking, then it's a long time since. That's all.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And what was I thinking? I thought, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I think I think we were a lot better than
that in my mind. But anyway, it was. It was
a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It was a good bit of pop. Mark was that
Ray Vine, the Perth sex guy on sexophone, the jazz player.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, that's right, we got it, we got him in.
I think was that single must have been about nine
and eighty one, nine eight two, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
There was never a healthier time than the eighties for
the Perth pub scene. You know you could go Friday
night through till the Sunday session, different band, different great venue.
Where are some of the places that you guys played,
Look all the big.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Ones and I think you know, we could go from
Wednesday through to Sunday, you know, like places like the
Generator and Morley, the Overflow, Raffles, Windsor Hotel, Charles Hotel
and also you know we used to head to the country.
All the bands used to head to the country normally
on a Wednesday night because they couldn't get the sort
(01:38):
of big bands up there on the weekend. So on
Wednesday night you'd go to Bumbley or Calgoolie or Geraldon.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, you guys come up once. That was bizarre, is
that right? In Meriton? Oh and Merriton we used to
get a few Ferth bands, but they would be during
the week because you guys were all busy on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
As you say, exactly, Yeah, so it was. It was
such a vibrant time and probably never be repeated. It
was just the crowds of people that come out to
see live bands in Perth was unbelieving him.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You guys were able to tour a bit and and
work full time as a musician because you got, you know,
much wanted sponsorship support.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
From an airline. Was it t A A or ancestor.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Really it was we were sponsored by t A and
we were flown around the country at one point, I
mean it was it was pretty muchy I think was
sponsored by Pepsi as well.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Wow, that's huge. It's a good marketing going on them.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of that. I mean
it was obviously their management at the time getting that happening,
and yeah, it was was crazy good stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, hey, Mark, tell me mate, Clint Arnold the guitarist,
did he come from Vicaprio or did he joined Vicapri later?
And how did that go down? Some of.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It effected well, no, no, thes have broken up when
when Vika Prix grabbed him, so he was no, he
was EASi original frames, all all the frames of original
members and yeah he Vika pri sort of came along
and sort of blew us out of the water really
(03:18):
and and then eventually after Damien left, they took Clint
and he became a VIKA.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
President for you. Yeah, both got guitarist Damian Warden, Clint
Anol good stuff, that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, and he was, I mean he was in two
big successful bands then.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, yeah, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I believe you auditioned for the frames after seeing an
ad in the Sunday Times.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We did that. That's how you got your kid did Yeah,
so the three other guys have been in a band
before besides being DNA mean answered an ad in the
Sunday Times and turned up and then plugged in and
got the job. It was, But in those days the
Sunday Times was full of sort of vocalist they wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, yeah, being honest, Mark. A few of the people
were spoken to had some groupies. What was it like
in heyday?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
The memories a bit blurry, I know. I think there
was some members of some bands that seemed to.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Have a lot of a lot of grouping, right, okay,
very good? Yeah, diplomatic.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Who were some of the bands that some of the
other bands on the scene at the time that you
always enjoyed seeing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Personally? I think Loaded Die Stayed Warner. I think of
Prints were amazing boys, I mean the boys and living
bands that were before us really and Perfect Strangers were amazing,
just so many, so many great bands. Innocent Bystanders were
(04:51):
crazy good and the time. Yeah, original sort of band
and just and the had a young Mark last there.
Yeah yeah, look, look they were fabulous and there was
just so many bands and very bands as well. There
was heavy metal type glam rock ones and the Ice
(05:15):
Lash Harry and yeah, a lot of a lot of
those different types of bands. But Purpose Strangers were amazing.
I love them, and a load of Dice and Fingerprints
were was sort of trailed Blazers and yeah, I really
enjoyed them.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You mentioned, I mean Die was just a kid with
who was in neednocent bystanders. But that Brett Keyser, he
was writing songs. He was like, he's like a chisel
type songwriter. He was incredible. Some of the rock he
was writing unreal, it was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And he was using local he was writing about Farborough
and that's what set him apart. But also just a
great singer and a great front man and a great idea.
But yeah, I love that the fact that he was
singing about local things that we could relate to. He
wasn't singing about Alabama, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah. It worked with Paul Kelly and his days in
Adelaide and then Melbourne of course, you know Greg, Greg
mccains from Skyworks. So those guy hooks ye singing about
their particular towns love it.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, absolutely, And look, I think when the frames first
started as well, even the Perth bands weren't really playing
much Australian stuff, so we kind of felt like we
were one of the first ones that were playing, you know,
playing Skyhooks and the sports and you know, moving pictures
(06:33):
and things like that. So yeah, it did start to
change a bit then and people started realizing, hey, we're Australian.
Brett Casa in the s Bystanders was certainly a standout
in Perth.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Good work, We thank you for your service on that that.
There was of course a lot of great original stuff
coming out. But did you feel any pressure to do
the covers as well? Did you get that, you know,
people sort of wanted to hear what they knew?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh, look absolutely, I mean that was a hard thing.
I mean we never set out to be a big
cover band in Perth, and we set out the sort
of take on the world and we build up the
money and we'd head off over over East and tour
and play to not big crowds at all, and then
and we'd come back and we'd be playing our new
original songs and the crowd we'd just be looking at
(07:21):
looking at us and go, you know, play the swingers.
That's right. Yeah, so it was tough in that respect.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, we're testing the memory this morning, mate, to have
a think about excuse me, in your prime playing those
gigs to big crowds. Was it mostly girls up the
front of the stage. We talked about this with Capri
and were they big dancing kind of crowds at your gigs?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Look, the first the first ten rows would sort of
dance and sort of sort of walk towards the band
a bit. And there was more girls at the front
than been guys. But but had more girls, I.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Think, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think the frames were kind of, you know, good
looking enough to get a few girls, but ugly enough
for the guys to kind of ore. Okay as well.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
We were there dancing around our handbags, that's the whole
hand bag.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, and put them on the stage next to the fall.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, but that was fun for you.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
God, the frames wrapped up in nineteen eighty six. But
you've had a long history with producing new young acts
and so on in wa and.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Tell us about working with Kevin Bloody Wilson.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I still work with keV, you do, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Look he's a he's a wonderful talent and a very
smart guy. And it's been Yeah, it's been a good
run with keV and we've we've done lots of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah. And that wonderful singer of yours, Dean Denton with
his musical family mate, with Holly being so famous these days,
must do your pretty proud because you're all good mates. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, well she's my god daughter you so there you
and and we are still more good mates.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And she's a wonderful girl. You know, work water dynamo.
You sit with there for five minutes ago, I need
a break only.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I just remember seeing on the stage for we were
Rocky and I and how good is this girl? Unreal?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
She's so good and she always has been. And yeah,
just such such a great energy and she works so hard.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Do you ever?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Do you ever still get together.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And have a bit of a play.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, the Frames have done reunions. In fact, we only
did one a year ago at the Charles Hotel.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So stay out, sticky carpet.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's still still look at the carpet is exactly. It
feels like.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Home, you know, it feels like you're walking on the moon.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Quick, you're quick, sad.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I think I took my kids there last time and
they came back and go, oh my god, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The crowds go. When you guys get back together, that's great.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But they still do and they bring their kids. Yeah,
you know who were between twenty and thirty, you know, yeah,
and they say this is where mom and dad met,
you know, so, and this is what we used to experience.
So that's pretty amazing to look out of the crowd
and see half of them young, and then you realize
who they are. They're the children.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, it's amazing. Well, it's been amazing to reminisce with
you this morning, Mark. Yeah, I appreciate it so much
for coming on our pub for all with us.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hearing me out. It's like a treat for us, mate,
thank you Mark, to talk about right then bye bye frame. Yeah,
this is fun.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
If you go to the Charles you will see where
you spiled a drink in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, if you have memories to share with us, feel
free to text us on our text numbers zero four,
seventy six, ninety six, ninety six, ninety six. And if
you have any images, any photos from the time that
you want to share with a send us a Facebook
message or email us at breakfast at ninety six FM
dot com dot au.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We would love to see your pictures.
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