Before they were INXS, they were the Farriss Brothers, a bunch of mates playing the Perth Pub Scene, Clairsy & Lisa spoke to Tim Farriss about those early days including a story about a trip across the Nullarbor, becoming INXS and taking on the world & the time Michael Hutchence rode a Harley Davidson into the ABC studios.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We would be seeing a man at work side to
twelve hundred people.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The men at work and began the roads. I don't
need did the people party in the venue, but the
bands it was away like Cozy and Lisa's to pub crawl.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, let's keep it going least the Perth pub Crawl
continues with a band of brothers. Three of the six
were about to take on the world and win. Let's speak,
of course of it excess. But when the Faris Brothers
were in Perth and their early manager and lead guitarist
was Tim Faris, morning.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Okay, guys, I'm not too bad. It's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Since I was to take on the world. As an understatement.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now, what's interesting is, at a time when so many
bands in Perth relocated from Perth to Sydney, you originally
relocated from Sydney to Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Talk us how through how that happened.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, I had this idea about forming the band in
the first place, but Johnny and Andrew were still in
school right and they and my mum and dad were
moving back to Perth and wanted us to be a
band and stay together. So I thought, well, one of
(01:04):
the best ways we could possibly do. This is to
all rely on music and the band for a living.
So I said to Kirk and Michael and Gary, look,
I've got this wild idea that the Pharises moving back
to Perth. Why don't I fly over as well. I
can stay with them and Dad, and I'll get us
(01:26):
a whole bunch of gigs and residencies there, and then
the whole band there and we just live there and
be a band and live off you know, the gigs
I get, which is a very bold and somehow Kurtle
was the last to agree, but we did. We all
(01:46):
left our girlfriends and jobs and whatnot and packed up
our bags and moved to Beverly. It was, but it was.
It was a real It really was a great experience.
And we all lived well, well, Andrew and John didn't,
(02:07):
but the rest of us all lived in this one
house in Subiaco and h and we rehearsed every day,
you know. And and then I was busy. I met
the slow called dead Joe's yes, was the agent ran
the agency there, and he got us a lot of gigs,
and he said, you know, he was very that we
(02:29):
we played covers, you know, yeah, not too many of
your own songs. Sure, whatever you say has come up
a few times, yeah, exactly, And it was brilliant place
to We just wanted to get away out of Sydney,
(02:49):
focus on being a band and improving our skills and whatnot,
and and that's what we did, and it was it
was a great deal of fun. And it was a
bit like remember that show from the Yadies School.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
The Young One ab Well, the houses kind of a
good law were you Neil Laura.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Hello, John Gott you that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was very it was very very funny actually, and
and then you know, everything just sort of progressed from
there and it was it was it was amazing really,
you know. The residencies had were really fun and they
are all good chance to build an audience, which is
what we did.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I've always thought tim that some of the best bands
through history based around you know, it starts with siblings.
I mean, I've just watched the Bloody Beach Boys movie.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeh, that's a great example.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But you you know, we've got the Farris brothers. Is
it is it just a convenience thing. You're all there together.
You'll get a musical mede for Christmas, so you all
play it together or or does it is it hereditary.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
That's a good question. I don't know about the hereditary thing,
except that you know, we all seem to understand each
other and in the musical sense, you know, we were
kind of in some ways. Well, when you're young, you know,
a couple of years apart is a lot more than
(04:24):
it is when you're older. Of course, yes, yes, so
you know, I think the boys looked up to me
being the older brother. Yeah, and that sort of thing
where they don't now, you know, no respect back then,
get more respect. But but we you know, we were
(04:47):
sort of felt a bond but which was sort of
catching with the other guy's kirt was my best mate. Yeah, uh,
you know, and we all just looked after each other,
and it was we were like one big family really,
the Strets, but it was like a rebonded that, shall
I say. Yeah, And we were sitting in Perth one
(05:07):
night after a show, and the guys that all complained
to me about Michael because we always to lug our
own gear in and out, and Michael never lugged any gear.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because you didn't have any singer.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Carry we have to carriage.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
His microphone, which is probably there already.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
To st Michael down one night and have a chat
with him and say listen, mate's let's pull your socks up.
Have to do something about this. And so he did.
He helped for a little while. Off to the girl.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
It was Michael. Yeah, we did mention. Yeah exactly. It
was pretty good at it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Like we mentioned in the manager maybe un named manager
of the bandit So it was happening. But this is
long time before you met and started working with Chris Murphy.
But did you have to pull rank with your boys
quite a bit?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh? Yes, to know, they sort of looked at me
as one responsible for everything.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
It was more just a sense of responsibility that if
I didn't pull through, what would we do. So I
was very busy ring venues and whatnot, and you know,
I was just remembering to this morning how we did
this show. I think it was one of the shows
we did at the Herdsman from memory, and there was
(06:35):
this big fella came up and so they said to
us afterwards, you know, who's in charge of the band,
And I said I am, you know, and he said, well, well,
I'm the entertainment officer or whatever for the mining company
up and shay Gap and Goldsworthy and we'd like to
you guys to Colia. So he said, you know, we'll
(06:58):
pay for your airfairs and your gear and to get
up there and the whole bit. You'll stay there for
the Christmas New Year period. And we still thought, oh,
there's a bit of money in this, and and so
I put it to him that he give us the
money for the air fares and we'll drive up. So
(07:21):
we hide this. We hide these two vans and packed
them full of our gear and off we set. And
we thought we'd be smart. And there was two ways.
There was we could see on a map. There was
this kind of short way but it was all off road,
and then there was the tarred road that went like
(07:42):
it was a lot longer. So we took we took
the off and of course we did and it was,
I'm still to this day amazing we ever got there,
you know, And at.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
One point recovery.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It was really was hilarious. And at one point because
there was three of us in each van up in
the front, and I remember there was John Kirk and
I were in one van, and Michael, Andrew and Gary
were in another. And this particular day because we had
to pull over and just slip it rough on the
(08:21):
side of the road one night because we were about
to run out of fuel and we had no there
was no idea of knowing where the next garage was
or whatever, so we just pulled over and slept on
the side of the road and woke up in the
morning next to road killed, you know. But anyway, we
set off on our way and John pointed out that
(08:42):
the back door on the and the van in front
was starting to open. We were all in our gear
in it and yeah, and we couldn't and it was
so much dust and stuff. We couldn't catch up to Michael,
Gary and you know, Andrew, and the door was opening
further down. Finally it was opened all the way and
they were just driving along merrily. He was a microphone
(09:05):
standard fall out, Oh my god, you know, and we
were like, oh no, we couldn't. There's nothing we could
do with honking and waving and they waved back.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It was we thought we were going to get there
with only half our year, but it was a happy ending.
We got there. We got there and the fellow gave
us gave us a bag hot beer each five times
and it was, and we used that money to fund
(09:37):
a lot of our existence over there, and then then
we did it again and that funded our whole trip
back to Sydney where we became an excess.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Cast your mind back to that rental in Subiaco and
you're playing the Perth pub scene there. Did you do
the Shanton Park Hotel because you could have staggered to
that one?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yes, absolutely, Yeah, we did. The one that I have
the most memory of though, was the Broadway Tavern. Yeah,
and that was that we had a real sort of
solid following there. Yeah, and it was it was just great.
And I remember the very last night before we came
(10:23):
back to Sydney, we had a goodbye show and we
caught ourselves the vegetables for the night and yeah, and
I kind of wrote the song we Are the Vegetable.
We set it up as the B side on Silent
and it was fancy dress and and and ever forget.
(10:46):
Andrew dressed up as a chicken and he got up
on stage and started long train running the song. By
the due them said that chickens sat down stad playing
long term money. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That one house you mentioned about the Young Ones, was
it a bit like animal house. It must have been
a mess.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely a house as well.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Yeah, inside the house at one stay.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah. Well, yes, Michael always loved his bike, but not
so much, not so much then because we didn't he
couldn't afford it. But he would write write his Harley
Davidson into rehearsals back here in Sydney and yeah, which
is makes a bit sad thing that actually, but I
(11:40):
remember after one of our last rehearsals with Michael, he
had ridden the Harley Davidson into the ABC studio where
we were rehearsing, and and he said, see fellows, who
did this big Willy and let us speak black Mark
floor And then not not that well, you know, within
(12:02):
the year or whatever it was when we were rehearsing
Terence Trent Derby there, when Charents sang with us, we
were in the same sue the big black Mark was
still around.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Hitting wow as a moment you boys, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There was there were so many venues to perform in
and you'd get you'd get whatever it was, the daily
news or whatever. The gig guide came in and you
could go every single night. And of course we were
talking before about how The Sunday Session at that time
was such an institution. Do you remember any of those
Sunday Session shows?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh, very very well. I mean the Sunday Sessions were
they were like that didn't happen anywhere else. No, No,
it was a Perth thing and it was really great,
you know. I mean it was just a relaxing thing
to do on a Sunday afternoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well
I remember one particularly, I think that was at the
Great Ocean Hotel and Cottage. Yes, yeah, And it's just
(13:01):
such a magic place to play, you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Know, the ABH Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's the one.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
You've got to play those gigs in Perth as the
Farrest Brothers. I know that.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You know, the in excess thing was to come when
you head back to Sydney. But you've got to hone
your craft and yeah, maybe make some mistakes and all
that stuff. And that paid off for the Wembley's and
they're touring the States in Europe later on, didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It Absolutely did. Yeah, I mean that was the thing.
We didn't have anything else to do, so we literally
put mattresses up against the wall and turned one room
in the house into a rehearsal space, and that's where
we really really practiced and rehearsed. I remember Michael going
(13:45):
to Fiorucci and buying his red pants. Then warred just
about every gig for the next year.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Everyone we've spoken to Tim talks about the great camaraderie
of everyone that was sort of on the scene at
the time.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Did you did other bands and so on?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Did you get the feeling from them that they just
knew with you guys, there was something in the future
for you guys, it was just even extra special.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, I think so, because we didn't get that feeling.
We could see the camaraderie between other bands.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But yeah, a little bit us really.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
We never never really understood why I retrospect now I do.
But and also we weren't really from Perth. Yeah, as
far as they were concerned, you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Know, the infiltrated oh exactly from Sydney. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I was born here.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, I tell everyone in excess as a Perth band,
and we thought we were.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Hey, Timmy, if someone had told you back then, you know,
you're a few years away from that second album. But
if someone had told you in the late seventies in
Perth that you guys would moved to city and then
be working with the great Richard Clapton on an album
as producer for Underneath the Kelis.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Have you believe it?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yeah? No, probably not. You know, I mean a little
oone what we do after that, But but you know, Richard,
Richard was a lovely fellow and were opened for him
for quite a while and that sort of was a
very organic sort of things happened that we'd end up
using him as a producer. You know, he was a
(15:28):
big fan more than anything, so you know, it was
musa but it was there were all great times and
all part of the learning curve.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, it's a big year this year, big birthday, big anniversary,
the swing for the Big four Hyeah.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
We spoke to Andrew in the year about it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yes? I can? Well yeah exactly. Well it's the big
five zero for the band.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Coming up right, yes, yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
That's a very big one.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, because and the Angels are going through that right
now without fifty so just behind the boys, but Grady
era of Bussie pub.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Rock, Yeah that's right. And then I mean when we
did come back to Sydney, the pubs thing here was
just as big, but there was like ten times as
many people in pubs the same size, you know, which
is kind of ludicrous and there's no way you can
do it today. Yeah, it's just too illegal.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
And what was to go back to Sydney?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Was there a date that you said we're going back
then or did you just feel it was right at
the right time.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah, there was a date because Ronnie said would be
in Percy years, so I spoked to that and we
just sort of felt like we played everywhere, there was
nothing left to do. We needed to go back to
Sydney to get signed to a record company, and as well,
we got sick of playing so many covers, you know,
(16:54):
and Joseph was pretty pretty adamant that we weren't playing
enough covers. We started playing so many of our own
songs and we were like, well, well that's aware of
that for us, you know, we want to play our
own music. The moment was right, we will run out
of town.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Well, without giving anything away, with the Big five oh
coming up and everything, can we expect some kind of
celebration Maybe.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It would be some kind of celebration. Also, I can't
really give.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Away, no, just enough to know that there will.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Be Yeah, it's going to be epic.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A big party in the works.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, it includes playing you get a good cowboy head
off your your brother.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Just for a little while, because.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I don't know where I put that thing.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We spoke to him about the Swing celebrations a few
weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, Tim Farriss, we are glad that you didn't listen
to the insistence that you already played covers and it's
been fantastic to reminisce with you today on our HUBCRAL
and we look forward to hearing what the big party
is going to be all about.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Thanks for your time, any any excuse to come to
the person.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, I would love to see you.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Love it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Thanks brother Jim, Thank you guys.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Spe
We would be seeing a man at work side to
twelve hundred people.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The men at work and began the roads. I don't
need did the people party in the venue, but the
bands it was away like Cozy and Lisa's to pub crawl.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, let's keep it going least the Perth pub Crawl
continues with a band of brothers. Three of the six
were about to take on the world and win. Let's speak,
of course of it excess. But when the Faris Brothers
were in Perth and their early manager and lead guitarist
was Tim Faris, morning.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Okay, guys, I'm not too bad. It's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Since I was to take on the world. As an understatement.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now, what's interesting is, at a time when so many
bands in Perth relocated from Perth to Sydney, you originally
relocated from Sydney to Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Talk us how through how that happened.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, I had this idea about forming the band in
the first place, but Johnny and Andrew were still in
school right and they and my mum and dad were
moving back to Perth and wanted us to be a
band and stay together. So I thought, well, one of
(01:04):
the best ways we could possibly do. This is to
all rely on music and the band for a living.
So I said to Kirk and Michael and Gary, look,
I've got this wild idea that the Pharises moving back
to Perth. Why don't I fly over as well. I
can stay with them and Dad, and I'll get us
(01:26):
a whole bunch of gigs and residencies there, and then
the whole band there and we just live there and
be a band and live off you know, the gigs
I get, which is a very bold and somehow Kurtle
was the last to agree, but we did. We all
(01:46):
left our girlfriends and jobs and whatnot and packed up
our bags and moved to Beverly. It was, but it was.
It was a real It really was a great experience.
And we all lived well, well, Andrew and John didn't,
(02:07):
but the rest of us all lived in this one
house in Subiaco and h and we rehearsed every day,
you know. And and then I was busy. I met
the slow called dead Joe's yes, was the agent ran
the agency there, and he got us a lot of gigs,
and he said, you know, he was very that we
(02:29):
we played covers, you know, yeah, not too many of
your own songs. Sure, whatever you say has come up
a few times, yeah, exactly, And it was brilliant place
to We just wanted to get away out of Sydney,
(02:49):
focus on being a band and improving our skills and whatnot,
and and that's what we did, and it was it
was a great deal of fun. And it was a
bit like remember that show from the Yadies School.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
The Young One ab Well, the houses kind of a
good law were you Neil Laura.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Hello, John Gott you that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was very it was very very funny actually, and
and then you know, everything just sort of progressed from
there and it was it was it was amazing really,
you know. The residencies had were really fun and they
are all good chance to build an audience, which is
what we did.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I've always thought tim that some of the best bands
through history based around you know, it starts with siblings.
I mean, I've just watched the Bloody Beach Boys movie.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeh, that's a great example.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But you you know, we've got the Farris brothers. Is
it is it just a convenience thing. You're all there together.
You'll get a musical mede for Christmas, so you all
play it together or or does it is it hereditary.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
That's a good question. I don't know about the hereditary thing,
except that you know, we all seem to understand each
other and in the musical sense, you know, we were
kind of in some ways. Well, when you're young, you know,
a couple of years apart is a lot more than
(04:24):
it is when you're older. Of course, yes, yes, so
you know, I think the boys looked up to me
being the older brother. Yeah, and that sort of thing
where they don't now, you know, no respect back then,
get more respect. But but we you know, we were
(04:47):
sort of felt a bond but which was sort of
catching with the other guy's kirt was my best mate. Yeah, uh,
you know, and we all just looked after each other,
and it was we were like one big family really,
the Strets, but it was like a rebonded that, shall
I say. Yeah, And we were sitting in Perth one
(05:07):
night after a show, and the guys that all complained
to me about Michael because we always to lug our
own gear in and out, and Michael never lugged any gear.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because you didn't have any singer.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Carry we have to carriage.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
His microphone, which is probably there already.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
To st Michael down one night and have a chat
with him and say listen, mate's let's pull your socks up.
Have to do something about this. And so he did.
He helped for a little while. Off to the girl.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
It was Michael. Yeah, we did mention. Yeah exactly. It
was pretty good at it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Like we mentioned in the manager maybe un named manager
of the bandit So it was happening. But this is
long time before you met and started working with Chris Murphy.
But did you have to pull rank with your boys
quite a bit?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Oh? Yes, to know, they sort of looked at me
as one responsible for everything.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
It was more just a sense of responsibility that if
I didn't pull through, what would we do. So I
was very busy ring venues and whatnot, and you know,
I was just remembering to this morning how we did
this show. I think it was one of the shows
we did at the Herdsman from memory, and there was
(06:35):
this big fella came up and so they said to
us afterwards, you know, who's in charge of the band,
And I said I am, you know, and he said, well, well,
I'm the entertainment officer or whatever for the mining company
up and shay Gap and Goldsworthy and we'd like to
you guys to Colia. So he said, you know, we'll
(06:58):
pay for your airfairs and your gear and to get
up there and the whole bit. You'll stay there for
the Christmas New Year period. And we still thought, oh,
there's a bit of money in this, and and so
I put it to him that he give us the
money for the air fares and we'll drive up. So
(07:21):
we hide this. We hide these two vans and packed
them full of our gear and off we set. And
we thought we'd be smart. And there was two ways.
There was we could see on a map. There was
this kind of short way but it was all off road,
and then there was the tarred road that went like
(07:42):
it was a lot longer. So we took we took
the off and of course we did and it was,
I'm still to this day amazing we ever got there,
you know, And at.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
One point recovery.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It was really was hilarious. And at one point because
there was three of us in each van up in
the front, and I remember there was John Kirk and
I were in one van, and Michael, Andrew and Gary
were in another. And this particular day because we had
to pull over and just slip it rough on the
(08:21):
side of the road one night because we were about
to run out of fuel and we had no there
was no idea of knowing where the next garage was
or whatever, so we just pulled over and slept on
the side of the road and woke up in the
morning next to road killed, you know. But anyway, we
set off on our way and John pointed out that
(08:42):
the back door on the and the van in front
was starting to open. We were all in our gear
in it and yeah, and we couldn't and it was
so much dust and stuff. We couldn't catch up to Michael,
Gary and you know, Andrew, and the door was opening
further down. Finally it was opened all the way and
they were just driving along merrily. He was a microphone
(09:05):
standard fall out, Oh my god, you know, and we
were like, oh no, we couldn't. There's nothing we could
do with honking and waving and they waved back.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It was we thought we were going to get there
with only half our year, but it was a happy ending.
We got there. We got there and the fellow gave
us gave us a bag hot beer each five times
and it was, and we used that money to fund
(09:37):
a lot of our existence over there, and then then
we did it again and that funded our whole trip
back to Sydney where we became an excess.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Cast your mind back to that rental in Subiaco and
you're playing the Perth pub scene there. Did you do
the Shanton Park Hotel because you could have staggered to
that one?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yes, absolutely, Yeah, we did. The one that I have
the most memory of though, was the Broadway Tavern. Yeah,
and that was that we had a real sort of
solid following there. Yeah, and it was it was just great.
And I remember the very last night before we came
(10:23):
back to Sydney, we had a goodbye show and we
caught ourselves the vegetables for the night and yeah, and
I kind of wrote the song we Are the Vegetable.
We set it up as the B side on Silent
and it was fancy dress and and and ever forget.
(10:46):
Andrew dressed up as a chicken and he got up
on stage and started long train running the song. By
the due them said that chickens sat down stad playing
long term money. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
That one house you mentioned about the Young Ones, was
it a bit like animal house. It must have been
a mess.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely a house as well.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Yeah, inside the house at one stay.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah. Well, yes, Michael always loved his bike, but not
so much, not so much then because we didn't he
couldn't afford it. But he would write write his Harley
Davidson into rehearsals back here in Sydney and yeah, which
is makes a bit sad thing that actually, but I
(11:40):
remember after one of our last rehearsals with Michael, he
had ridden the Harley Davidson into the ABC studio where
we were rehearsing, and and he said, see fellows, who
did this big Willy and let us speak black Mark
floor And then not not that well, you know, within
(12:02):
the year or whatever it was when we were rehearsing
Terence Trent Derby there, when Charents sang with us, we
were in the same sue the big black Mark was
still around.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Hitting wow as a moment you boys, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There was there were so many venues to perform in
and you'd get you'd get whatever it was, the daily
news or whatever. The gig guide came in and you
could go every single night. And of course we were
talking before about how The Sunday Session at that time
was such an institution. Do you remember any of those
Sunday Session shows?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh, very very well. I mean the Sunday Sessions were
they were like that didn't happen anywhere else. No, No,
it was a Perth thing and it was really great,
you know. I mean it was just a relaxing thing
to do on a Sunday afternoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well
I remember one particularly, I think that was at the
Great Ocean Hotel and Cottage. Yes, yeah, And it's just
(13:01):
such a magic place to play, you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Know, the ABH Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's the one.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
You've got to play those gigs in Perth as the
Farrest Brothers. I know that.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You know, the in excess thing was to come when
you head back to Sydney. But you've got to hone
your craft and yeah, maybe make some mistakes and all
that stuff. And that paid off for the Wembley's and
they're touring the States in Europe later on, didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It Absolutely did. Yeah, I mean that was the thing.
We didn't have anything else to do, so we literally
put mattresses up against the wall and turned one room
in the house into a rehearsal space, and that's where
we really really practiced and rehearsed. I remember Michael going
(13:45):
to Fiorucci and buying his red pants. Then warred just
about every gig for the next year.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Everyone we've spoken to Tim talks about the great camaraderie
of everyone that was sort of on the scene at
the time.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Did you did other bands and so on?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Did you get the feeling from them that they just
knew with you guys, there was something in the future
for you guys, it was just even extra special.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, I think so, because we didn't get that feeling.
We could see the camaraderie between other bands.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But yeah, a little bit us really.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
We never never really understood why I retrospect now I do.
But and also we weren't really from Perth. Yeah, as
far as they were concerned, you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Know, the infiltrated oh exactly from Sydney. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I was born here.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, I tell everyone in excess as a Perth band,
and we thought we were.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Hey, Timmy, if someone had told you back then, you know,
you're a few years away from that second album. But
if someone had told you in the late seventies in
Perth that you guys would moved to city and then
be working with the great Richard Clapton on an album
as producer for Underneath the Kelis.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Have you believe it?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yeah? No, probably not. You know, I mean a little
oone what we do after that, But but you know, Richard,
Richard was a lovely fellow and were opened for him
for quite a while and that sort of was a
very organic sort of things happened that we'd end up
using him as a producer. You know, he was a
(15:28):
big fan more than anything, so you know, it was
musa but it was there were all great times and
all part of the learning curve.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, it's a big year this year, big birthday, big anniversary,
the swing for the Big four Hyeah.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
We spoke to Andrew in the year about it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yes? I can? Well yeah exactly. Well it's the big
five zero for the band.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Coming up right, yes, yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
That's a very big one.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, because and the Angels are going through that right
now without fifty so just behind the boys, but Grady
era of Bussie pub.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Rock, Yeah that's right. And then I mean when we
did come back to Sydney, the pubs thing here was
just as big, but there was like ten times as
many people in pubs the same size, you know, which
is kind of ludicrous and there's no way you can
do it today. Yeah, it's just too illegal.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
And what was to go back to Sydney?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Was there a date that you said we're going back
then or did you just feel it was right at
the right time.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah, there was a date because Ronnie said would be
in Percy years, so I spoked to that and we
just sort of felt like we played everywhere, there was
nothing left to do. We needed to go back to
Sydney to get signed to a record company, and as well,
we got sick of playing so many covers, you know,
(16:54):
and Joseph was pretty pretty adamant that we weren't playing
enough covers. We started playing so many of our own
songs and we were like, well, well that's aware of
that for us, you know, we want to play our
own music. The moment was right, we will run out
of town.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Well, without giving anything away, with the Big five oh
coming up and everything, can we expect some kind of
celebration Maybe.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It would be some kind of celebration. Also, I can't
really give.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Away, no, just enough to know that there will.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Be Yeah, it's going to be epic.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A big party in the works.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, it includes playing you get a good cowboy head
off your your brother.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Just for a little while, because.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I don't know where I put that thing.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We spoke to him about the Swing celebrations a few
weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, Tim Farriss, we are glad that you didn't listen
to the insistence that you already played covers and it's
been fantastic to reminisce with you today on our HUBCRAL
and we look forward to hearing what the big party
is going to be all about.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Thanks for your time, any any excuse to come to
the person.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, I would love to see you.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Love it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Thanks brother Jim, Thank you guys.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
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