June 12, 2025 • 30 mins
As we round out the Perth Pub Crawl, Clairsy & Lisa opened the phones to ask about your most memorable Pinocchio’s memory.
On The Shaw Report, a new Spaceballs movie is in the works, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana hits a record number of views on YouTube and The Rolling Stones are back in the studio.
Myf Warhurst phoned in to chat about Spicks and Specks, the show turns 20 this year, Myf recounted her favourite memories and possibly not being the producer’s first choice for the show.
Barra popped in for a chat, bleary eyed from a late night watching the cricket, he spoke with the guys about the busy weekend of AFL in Perth over the weekend and asked the guys what they thought of the new Perth Wildcats branding.
Clairsy & Lisa’s final Perth Pub Crawl went to air as the incredible Suze Demarchi phoned in for a chat to talk favourite venues, a dangerous Sunday sesh and touring in her 60s.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our buddy my Art radio app from ninety six AIRFM
to wherever you're listening today.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is Clearsy and Lisa's podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Coming up on the podcast today, we wrap up our
per pub crawl with sus de Marchi from Baby Animals.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
I had about party, We took your calls and got
your best memories of Pinocchio's.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Before Herst chats about Spicks and Specks, which is turning
twenty since the first time at aired.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Really the Stones can't sit and relax. There are alterned
eighty years ago, but another album is in the works, and.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Barra talks about the World Test Championship and discusses the
Wildcats changing their logo Got.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Your party pants ready? Yeah, big party Pinocchio's.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, It's going to be me.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
In talks, we are we are resurrecting Pinocchio's for one
night only. You know, nightclubs in the eighties were a
huge thing. They're not as big a thing anymore. And
I just read a story that said social commentators have
pointed the finger squarely at Tinder for killing off clubs,
claiming people no longer what to go out to pick
(01:00):
up because they could just pick up their phone it's
easier to hear because they were referring to the days
when you know, the dance floor was just a.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Mix of sweat to brute thirty three and from it.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And the handbags in the middle, quite often handbags.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
In the middle. We'll have to dance around a handbag tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well I did that too, I'll be your handbag. It
was pretty much the old meat market.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Hey, yeah, So maybe you met your beloved at Pinocchio's
and you're still together. Maybe we want to talk about
Pinocchio's because we need to talk about memories. Wrapping up
Perth pub Crawl with a party at Pinocchio's. What what's
your best Pinocchio's story?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And you could be great rewarded today with a couple
of tickets to the Red Hot Summer Tour, present a
crowded house in a great lineup on Saturday, December sixth
at Sandleford Wines. I'm thinking about Pocchio's. I think about
the almost almost anything Ghosher. I'm pretty sure that's almost
anything go Yeah was saying, I'm pretty sure it was
a yeah. Gary Shannon used to do radio blokes Shannon
and Kennedy. I think Jay Walking and Jason did later years. Yeah,
(02:07):
they do a lot of yeah, if it still had
the same name. But I'm pretty sure there was a
big Pinocchio's Night and the crowds were huge. But I'm
pretty sure they did like a Thursday Night. I stand
to be corrected, but they used to get massive crowds.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
On Thursday Night was considered the beginning of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah. Yeah, and they have there's been the wheel and
give people prizes, but have a lot of fun as well.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
On this day that we have Pinocchio's.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
One More Time Big Beast Tonight, Yeah, reimagined Pinocchio's Tonight
will be there for our party, and we're asking for
your Pinocchio story this morning, Duchy, and gods nors what
he got?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hey, Duchy, good morning, beautiful today. What do you go
for us?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Isn't it funny we can remember stuff from way back then,
but I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yes, yeah, yeah, but look.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
There was always I was there sort of eighty three,
eighty eighty five sort of around there, and there was
always this guy that was in there, sleezing up to
the women on the dance floor, and they would give
in the cold shoulder and all that sort of stuff.
And then one night he tripped and fell down the
stairs at the back and he broke his leg. Inspective,
broken leg. So when the people came in to take
(03:16):
him out of whatever, they wanted to cut his pants
to inspect his leg, and he keeps it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And it turns out he had a salami. Oh my god,
wondered why he danced so funny up to the women,
and that's the.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Reason, because he's done is good.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, I don't know whether his name was not so
small good.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
That's exactly that is.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
So that's a great story, thanks, mate.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's just funny, isn't It's.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Hilarious Dirk Diggler, Yes, that because that will throw your
balance out and you'll fall down.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
This, I would imagine, so not that I speak from
experience of having one stepped on it in the morning. Guys.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
You well, yeah, my story at Pinnacchio's, well, I still
have my kear ring, by the wayso hearing the story
was back in the day. I started guarding to Pinachios
when I was sixteen.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
There, anything goes show on Thursday nights with Gary Shannon.
The police used to raid that place all the time
for under age there one night victim of that. So
we sit in the boots they used to have all
the boots poachios. Police came in. I had my brother's
driver's license.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Yeah, and you know, they.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Said, I, what's your name? I told my name, what's
your day of birth on the day and they got
me to watch your star sign.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And you had done that research.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Oh my god, I got that wrong.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
And you are this new orbus lying and you lying.
I'm telling the truth. And so I'd also been drinking
as well, and I was only sixty.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, that didn't help anyway.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
They sort of interrogating me. They said we're going to
take you down to the station, and I cracked. I said,
all right, yeah, that's my brother's drivers last I got
right now. But it's a great place to me.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
A lot of people have done with almost anything. I
didn't that. Lots of prizes and.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
It was it was Gary Shader was he was.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
He was character cracker.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Nelly went home in the back of a patty that night.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But very yeah, very if you've got your brother's license
or one that just says mc lovin, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I love that the.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Cops asked for your star sign that obviously just you know.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, yeah, the trick. Yeah. So if you've done that research,
you might have been all right man in Yeah exactly. Thanks, thanks, Yeah,
we'll do We'll see well one more time. Pinocchio.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, that's fantastic sign it.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
That is very very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Five Secret Harbor. Good morning, good well, here you go,
good mate. Us Pinocchio's story.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
They got a sort of funny when I'm about the
same age as Clothesy and I went there a lot
of times when I was younger, when Kylie Minoga just
come out with a locomotion being stand the perth and
she made a surprise appearance of pronocos. Oh cool, and
everyone was, you know, getting soft bits of paper sign
and stuff, and I couldn't find anything. So I took
off my shoe and it was when I finished over
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to it, she actually went oh, and I smelled it
and signed it, and I've still got it in my
landing to this day.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well done, You've got a side Carli Minogue.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Shoe shoe in your land.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Shoe was with me. It was a sneaker. It was
a sneaker.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
It's yelled, so you know back in there. Yeah, yeah, great,
you can still see, you can still see. It looks good.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Great, that's hilarious. Ex clo and on your clothes and
cloud never put it on e Bay to flog it
off on the marketplace.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Last call Paul in Avery. You're coming tonight, are you?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Paul I certainly? How are you going? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Good mate? Looking for catching up?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What's here?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
This was hemory best day of my life, and it
was also once or twice over the years, it's been
my worst.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Time of life.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Right, thirty five years ago, two weeks ago, I and
my wife they all got engaged on stage.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
But okay, oh wow, that sensational the crowd, Yeah, crowd
go wild.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah I did. Actually, it was quite an interesting night. Actually,
I was pretty suzzleed. I didn't realize I've done it
until the next morning.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
What am I?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
What am I done?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It was Do you remember the host who was up
there giving you the microphone? Paul? Was it the d
jail or one of the radio blows?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
It was of mine? Actually it was Sam Spade.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh right, very good Spade right now right, sounds like.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Secret agent Baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I had to know that it's all ended nicely though.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We'll see you tonight, Yes, tonight, Both.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
More Crazy Lisa More podcasts soon, there's sure report on
ninety six FM. Bill Pullman and Rick moranis are set
to reprise their respective roles as Lone Star and Dark
Helmet in a.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
New Spaceballs movie.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
The studio is keeping its cards very close to its
chest at this stage regarding plot details, but it's been
touted as a non prequel, non reboot sequel Part two,
but with reboot elements, franchise expansion film.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'm so confused?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Is Spaceball?
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Streamer Amazon Prime so much for now? Adds streamer Amazon
Prime Video is about double the number of commercials shown
per hour on its ads supported membership level. You know,
you get the option of having the ads or no one.
Evidently they're going from two to three minutes of ads
per hour to forty six minutes per hour. The music
video for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit has just surpassed
(09:17):
the two billion views mark on YouTube after being uploaded
in two thousand and nine. It hit one billion views
six years ago. There's a few videos in the billion
view club, but not many amassing two billion I know
Gangnam Style was the first to do it.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
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Speaker 3 (09:38):
And Guns N' Roses November. Rain is in the Club.
It has two point two billion views.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Pet Wilson's Bop Girl in There, No, it was not
quite in there.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And the Rolling Stones out back in the studio working
on a follow up to twenty twenty three's Hackney Diamonds.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They'll never rest so prolific they will. Apparently.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
They recorded thirteen tracks thirteen and are now discussing the
upcoming album's release dates.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Oh wow, let's just keep on rolling.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Rolling absolutely seven thirty Sunday on the ABC, Spicks and
Specs returns.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Myth Warhurst is joining us this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Hello, good morning, really good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I am excellent, lovely to talk.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
To you tube.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You look, it's been twenty years since some since Picks
and Specs started, twelve seasons across those twenty years, cancelations, different.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hosts, all the stuff. But can you believe it?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
It's I look, I f still feel the same age
as when I started. And although I don't look at
on the outside, that's mentally I'm still I'm still yeah
at that age physically, Yeah, typically things have dropped.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
In ways that I never expected.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
It's terrifying, but it's also it's also very normal and
MASI embrace it. But yeah, having having to having to
watch yet my younger self on the Tellighon.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's correct.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
They still put two thousand and five episodes up and
I'm like, oh my, I was weary.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I was wearing that.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I was wearing that jumper twenty years. How many could
you tell us how many quiz not invitations you've had
since since you first started off?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
When I first started, I had lots of quiz night
invitations because I used to love going to quiz nights.
It was fine, you know, like that was kind of
how I cut my teeth, and I was really proud
of everything I knew, and I was really good at
it because I was working in radio. And now I'm like,
oh no, no, because there's.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Too much pressure.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
People expected to be amazing. But the good thing about
Spick and Specs is because I'm so old, the people
who write the questions, we don't know the answers, but
they I feel comfortable because I know that they'll put
some things in there that I can answer. They know
they know what I'm good at so I don't feel
too left out because I'm you know, I'm not in
a finger on the pulses. I was back in two
(11:56):
thousand and five, when I obviously was working in radio
and going out every night of the week these days
when I filmed, when I filmed Six and Specs, that's
my social life, which is beautiful because I catch up
with everybody and and it's a fun time, like everyone
that comes on the show has a great time. So
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not too late, exactly exactly got it. I've got to
drive home there. We don't go out. It's just it's great.
It's such a it's the best job in the world,
to be honest, and I'm whispering, but I don't. I
don't want anyone else to know. All I have to
(12:38):
do is turn up.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I turn up.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
No research beforehand, because we can't I can't really know.
And then so just turn up, be fabulous, have have
some fun with my friends.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And you keep mentioning two thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
The thing about Specks and Specs is it was the
idea of the show was so one up your Do
you remember when you were when you first heard about it,
and did you think this is this is for me,
this is mine or was it where you approached and
it was given to you.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
I was approached and it was a weird thing. I
remember it because I was doing radio at the time.
I was working at Triple J, and I remember I
got a call in the video saying from someone un
known him Telly, who said, can you come and do
a like a screen tet or like an audition for
this niche ABP show. And they're like, they were like, oh,
it's tomorrow. You just have to go along. So I
(13:34):
went along, thinking, oh, you know, this is fun and
it was. It was actually fun, and I met Adam
Hills for the first time, so he obviously already had
the job.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
And then then I got a call a day later
and they said can you film on you know, two
days later.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
I didn't have a chance to think about it. For
me pick someone dropped out or didn't want the job,
and they put me in at the last minute. So
I was, I can pick it, that's fine, and I didn't.
I didn't even really think about it. And then the
first show went to air like two weeks later, and
my mum said, did you get a copy of that
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on videotape at BHS because that's how old it was,
and because it was so bad, I think she thought
it was never going to go anywhere. So here we are,
seventy five years later, you go.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Steel around it.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I just didn't know. I wasn't prepared for what it was,
which is probably a good thing because I didn't think
about it too much.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, and I did it.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
And we were in a time and there was no
social media as well, so I know we're that old again,
and we were allowed to develop and get better as
we as we went along, and they kind of left.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Us that, Yeah, we've lost that, and it's all right
because the first choice was Jackie. Oh and she's done
nothing so good, too fine.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Looking, to be honest, and you're doing fine. But I'm sure,
I'm sure she's not too bothered. But yeah, it was.
I feel like it was kind of made for me
because I had so much unful knowledge in my head
and it was a way to it was a way
to use it. It came to something, you know, Yeah, your passion.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, Yeah, had any it would have been some of
your favorite memories over there the years.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Oh gosh, so many. Yeah, and I don't remember as
well as everybody else because it's been repeated so many times.
People the audience know it better than I do because.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
I don't watch myself.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Yeah, so I and it was twenty years ago, and
the memories a bit blank in a few spots, but yeah,
I think just moments like when Frank Woodley, like comedian
Frank Woodley, who's on the show, he would he imitated
Little Nell who was in the Rocky horror show Iriginali,
and she did this TV performance in the UK where
(15:53):
Abaye the top came down when she was doing that
swim dance and which is all very controversial at the time,
so he recreated that, And I think moments like that
that were the funniest things that I've ever seen, where
I laughed so hard I just lost my mind. And yeah,
but then also, you know, a few scollops popped out
(16:14):
during that that were you know, pictelated in hindsight, but
it was it was just so funny and so natural
and brilliant. And then you know, musically, sitting next to
someone like Chrissy Amphlet who's now no longer with that, Yeah,
and for someone like me who grew up in a
small country town and you know, Boys in Town was
(16:34):
written about her growing up in Geelong and having dreams
and wanting to get out and you know, meeting icons
like that is from my childhood. Was just it was
so wonderful and I was so lucky.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
If I can't remember there was Sydney on Melbourne. I
remember being in one of those cities in a cools
one day and I turned my wife. I said, there's
Alan from Spicks and Specs so and I like, there's
a TV star, you know, right there, and how do
you go? How have you gone? Have you had lots
of fanboys and girls over the years, let me say today,
over the years.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
But yeah, most viewers of Fix and Sects are really respectful,
you know. They they'll come up to me in a
chicken shop and just say it really quietly, you know, thanks,
thanks so much for what you do, and it's lovely.
Like I imagine other celebrities probably get beat out in
the car and you know that would coop. But everyone's
really nice because I think most people love the show.
(17:25):
And even if they turned out not very nice as adults,
they were kids watching it because it used to come
on and ABC two just after in the night garden
when the kids had to go to bed, so they
grew up with us as well. So it's yeah, it's
been a really lovely experience.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
And not all jobs are like this.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Like you know, people can be very critical of what
you do and have very strong opinions about what you do.
But I feel like we've been around it so long
and we're so much a part of the furniture. People
are really generous with us on this particular show. Look,
it's fifty and elsewhere and other things. But it's just
I'm very lucky. It's nice to work on something that
people like, and you know, in this day that doesn't
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really exist.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Anymore, only positive feedle.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Well, we look forward to singing back on the screen
seven point thirty on Sunday. I am particularly looking forward
to the new game will Aim.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Will be revealed on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Unreal It'll be down.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Okay, you're down the fact Okay, Well we'll walk every
app howy twenty years. If I spot you in a
call somewhere, I'll come up and say hello, really quietly, thanks.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
More Clezy or Lisa more podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Soon Real would be singing a man at Work song
to twelve hundred people and men at work and be
down the road.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I don't need to the people party in the venues,
but the bands was a wave. Loo Coley and lisays
person pub Crawl at Pinocchio's Magnet.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only Magnet House,
a meka.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Of and diversity right in the heart of the city.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wrapping up our per pub crawl series today, we saved
the best for Lasses and o'kay to say that So's
Demarchi from the Baby Animals is joining us.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Hallo, Hey guys, how are you very well?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
We've had such a wonderful time. This as our second
pub crawl actually so for you. It all started with
photo play and I read that you still clearly remember
your very first gig at the Cat and Fiddle in
Mount Lawley, because well, you never forget your first.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But also you left that night knowing, without a shadow
of a doubt that you'd found your calling.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I think I knew that that was what I was
going to do with my life.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
I mean, you know, you're so sort of dumb and
blind to everything at that age. You just got full
of opportunity and you kind of think everything's possible and
ed it is. But that was the moment where I
just thought, you know, I I love this, this is
kind of my thing. I'm going to you know, I'm
(20:06):
going to.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Have a go at this because you're seventeen, that is yeh.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I was seventeen in my first band when I was
with Photoplayed for two years, and I just kind of
it wasn't like a you know, I kind of just
always loved guitar and I always loved singing, and so
you know, that was sort of the beginning of it all.
That was the first time I realized I wasn't nervous
at all the first gig. It was the second gig,
that's ah.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yes, wasn't the applause was it applause in a public places?
It was part of that thing that it's all of it.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
It's all of it. Yeah, it's it's the idea of
the band thing for me because I've done solo, I've
done the band thing, and the band thing is just
always I just don't like the solo thing. I much
rather be in a group of people just hanging out.
Solo stuff is just this more pressure. It's boring. It's
just not into it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I like it's more fun in that number.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
It's funny number, yeah, and having a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Some of those people will have been there at the
Cat and Fiddle on that very first What what were
your favorite venues around town to play at other than
that one?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Wow, there was a lot.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
And that's so we were so lucky. There was a
lot of venues. We'd do the Shenton Park, Blazers. Gosh,
what was the other ones? I mean, we do the UNI.
They used to do Uni. Yes, I'm shown for the UNI.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They were great.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
I mean that was the thing. We do the UNI
show on a Friday lunchtime. We'd pack up. This is
in fi of pack up. Then we'd go and do
the Shenton Park and three sets, mind you, three or three.
Then we'd pack up and we'd go do Blazers.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I loved going to the Shenton Park. It's it's a
retirement home now. So I feel like I've come home.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Circle on Nicholson Road.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Last week, and I would live there later and later
I would go there. Yeah, I remember, actually I think
I remember I was there a few years ago over person. Yeah,
but you know the other gigs. There was Hernando's Highway,
there was there was the Ones Down and I got
electrocuded at the ob H on a Sunday Sunday session.
(22:18):
I got a kicked back from the mic because I
went on stage with no shoes. There was a bit
of a dodgy connection. As soon as my lips hit
the mic, I got thrown back into the drum kit.
Oh wow, and had a big burn. There was a
burnmark around the mic. Yeah, oh yeah, it's all happened.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
It was part of the Borough Show.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah, we were the original.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Off. I love it.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
But would there have been many times you played a
gig or multiple gigs with photo playing. The next morning
you're trying to count those annoying orange twenty dollar notes
at the air and I bank did that happen a bit?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Well, I swiftly left the bank. I only left school
because my sister was working in the bank. My disease
is working in the bank. And then Mum and dad said, yeah,
you can leave if you want, but you have to
go work. So I got this job and I lasted
a year. I think I quit before they were going
to buy me and I don't. I was terrible. I
(23:25):
was terrible at that.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
But yeah, Denise, she's also a musician, still performing around
town plenty. Was there ever much rivalry between the two
of you.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
There was a little bit. It was funny. It was
like we were always so supportive. Yeah, but then we
were I mean, I do take account a little bit
of accountability because I dragged her into it a little
bit when we were doing We did the kinds this
cup of band for attle while and that kind of
started her in the band stuff. And then she came
(23:58):
over to Sydney and everything, all her other stuff. But
that wasn't rivalry. It was more like a one upmanship.
It's like, oh, yeah, you did that. Oh you know,
I know I did that to you. Yeah. It's a
healthy kind of sisterly.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You know, we love that.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
You know, we get to, i mean do stuff together
that we started sort of a little bit together and
we all, you know, we're back in the Kevin Pete,
Trevor Spence the days. Denise did a lot of work
with those guys. She's really talented and I you know,
I love her voice and I love singing with her,
and yeah, it's great, it's great. We have a lot
of stories.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You went from Perth a pub scene, to London, moving
to London in the mid eighties to pursue a solo career.
On a scale of one to ten, how scary was that?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I mean, so that's the thing. I didn't really know
what I was in for until I sort of did it. Yeah,
I was just no, no, I wasn't scary. I was excited.
I was like coat, bring it on.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
I was.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
I was a bit scared once I got there. Yeah,
but that sort of didn't last. I had actually a
great I've fell into Peter Lister Todd giving me guidance,
so he was the guy that was always there. It's
actually still in my life. We still see each other,
stay in touch. Peter Lister Todd was was my manager
at the time, and he was always a real guide
(25:21):
and kept me sort of in line because I went
crazy in London. I just went off like I was
twenty one. I think I put it was the mid eighties,
eighties living it. I had a record deal with m
I ridiculous. It was mental. Yeah, I kind of even
(25:43):
needed to take a whole show. I can't. It was
so great. It was so much fun and I put
three singles out in four years, like what is that
was a big record label? Nothing, but I had a
lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
It's not proifict but the time and then of course
it was it was home, but it was Baby Animals. Yes,
as we talked about saying, not that famous, but I
guess you didn't have enough time at home to be
hassled on the street that much.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So she ran not much.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
We do, we don't we you know occasionally but yeah,
you know, yeah, it's always like in a good way.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You know, it's not like a crazy yeah yeah, yeah,
but Baby Animals Baby on that debut album just it
did blow up. I didn't know. There's so many great
great songs.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
It blew up. Yeah, it was mental. I couldn't I
couldn't fathom that. You just kind of got to go
along with it all.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
As was the way though, of course, the way we
were situated with us scene back then in the in
the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You had to kind of had to move to Sydney.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Yeah, there was no labels in perm No, and you
know what was really I was very lucky because I
got I kind of got involved with Kevin Peek and
Trevors Spencer, you know all that story. Yep. They were
Australians who lived in England for twenty years before that,
and Kevin Peak was in Guy Right wonderful. He's no
(27:03):
longer with us, but they started a Woma Records, so
I had a sort of a little taste of a
labeling sort of thing. They saw a video that I
had done in Photoplay and then we got talking and
I did a little small deal with them, and that's
how I got the deal with the m I in
London because they're all of their connections with there. But
(27:23):
I did a lot of recording with them. Kevin had
a studio up in rolling Stone, unreal beautiful property and
a gorgeous little studio.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Location for it.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Yeah, gorgeous location, and you know, and I did a
lot of studio work there. So they were really helpful
in so learning just how to record, Like I didn't
know how to you know, get how to get up
to the mic and not to move too far back
and all that kind of technique, you know, not to
get not to get let it and actually no, but
(27:53):
Photoplay taught me everything I needed to know about being
in a band, you know, as well in those first
two years.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yeah, so I used to steal my sister's foreigner Pink
Floyd and Joe Wolsh records. Which ones are your brothers
did you steal?
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Do you remember Budgy Hawk Quinns. It was ten years
after late yeah, yeah, later all of the English seventies
kind of rock and ever.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, everyone ever had a little guilty you know.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
That.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Click and and you know I used to I used
to practice Echo Beach and it was one of the
first songs I learned on guitar.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, I was in my final year of school in
eighty four.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
That song was yah that together.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yes, yes, we would do We were definitely doing.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
My job was very boring. I'm an office clerk.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
The Baby Animals, yeah on the first girl person, we
should do that. Yeah. Baby Animals has continued to tour
up until this day, and you know it's one of
WA's Australia's most successful exports. Did you ever think back
at the start that you would still be touring and
performing and loving it as much as you still do.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
For plus years on?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I hoped I would. I don't think I really thought.
I hoped I would, but I don't think I thought
that at the time. I thought of probably burn out
or whatever. But I just every time I walk on
a stage, I'm still really grateful. I never thought that.
You know, I'm sixty one now. I didn't think I'd
still be doing it. But I you know, I look
(29:31):
at people like Suzi Quatro and yeah, I love her
because she's She's always been an inspiration to me. And
I get to play with her now.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, and we call a leather Tuscadero.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I went into her at it. I went into I
stayed at her house in England. She took me up
to her ego room.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
She caught it.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
I had a cheer in my eye. I went up
and I was like touching the leather and oh, her
old leather jumpsuits. It's the the room in the attic.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, we whiche in the seventies now and weird viewed
her last year and she told us about Elvis had
a crush on her.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
And tell us all, yeah, she's got such a great story. Yeah,
such a great woman.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She's a great storyteller. Well, Susan Marchie, you keep telling
your story as well. And I want to hear that
that duo with Denise of Echo Beach.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's for sure.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, we've got a new album coming out this year,
so that's what you're finishing the album all right, Okay,
our prolific Baby Animals, quality quality.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thanks for our Perth pub Crawls Marchie.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Thanks mate, Oh guys, thank you so much. It's been
a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Six m clezie and Lisa
Our buddy my Art radio app from ninety six AIRFM
to wherever you're listening today.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is Clearsy and Lisa's podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Coming up on the podcast today, we wrap up our
per pub crawl with sus de Marchi from Baby Animals.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
I had about party, We took your calls and got
your best memories of Pinocchio's.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Before Herst chats about Spicks and Specks, which is turning
twenty since the first time at aired.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Really the Stones can't sit and relax. There are alterned
eighty years ago, but another album is in the works, and.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Barra talks about the World Test Championship and discusses the
Wildcats changing their logo Got.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Your party pants ready? Yeah, big party Pinocchio's.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, It's going to be me.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
In talks, we are we are resurrecting Pinocchio's for one
night only. You know, nightclubs in the eighties were a
huge thing. They're not as big a thing anymore. And
I just read a story that said social commentators have
pointed the finger squarely at Tinder for killing off clubs,
claiming people no longer what to go out to pick
(01:00):
up because they could just pick up their phone it's
easier to hear because they were referring to the days
when you know, the dance floor was just a.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Mix of sweat to brute thirty three and from it.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
And the handbags in the middle, quite often handbags.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
In the middle. We'll have to dance around a handbag tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well I did that too, I'll be your handbag. It
was pretty much the old meat market.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Hey, yeah, So maybe you met your beloved at Pinocchio's
and you're still together. Maybe we want to talk about
Pinocchio's because we need to talk about memories. Wrapping up
Perth pub Crawl with a party at Pinocchio's. What what's
your best Pinocchio's story?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And you could be great rewarded today with a couple
of tickets to the Red Hot Summer Tour, present a
crowded house in a great lineup on Saturday, December sixth
at Sandleford Wines. I'm thinking about Pocchio's. I think about
the almost almost anything Ghosher. I'm pretty sure that's almost
anything go Yeah was saying, I'm pretty sure it was
a yeah. Gary Shannon used to do radio blokes Shannon
and Kennedy. I think Jay Walking and Jason did later years. Yeah,
(02:07):
they do a lot of yeah, if it still had
the same name. But I'm pretty sure there was a
big Pinocchio's Night and the crowds were huge. But I'm
pretty sure they did like a Thursday Night. I stand
to be corrected, but they used to get massive crowds.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
On Thursday Night was considered the beginning of the weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah. Yeah, and they have there's been the wheel and
give people prizes, but have a lot of fun as well.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
On this day that we have Pinocchio's.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
One More Time Big Beast Tonight, Yeah, reimagined Pinocchio's Tonight
will be there for our party, and we're asking for
your Pinocchio story this morning, Duchy, and gods nors what
he got?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hey, Duchy, good morning, beautiful today. What do you go
for us?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Isn't it funny we can remember stuff from way back then,
but I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yes, yeah, yeah, but look.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
There was always I was there sort of eighty three,
eighty eighty five sort of around there, and there was
always this guy that was in there, sleezing up to
the women on the dance floor, and they would give
in the cold shoulder and all that sort of stuff.
And then one night he tripped and fell down the
stairs at the back and he broke his leg. Inspective,
broken leg. So when the people came in to take
(03:16):
him out of whatever, they wanted to cut his pants
to inspect his leg, and he keeps it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And it turns out he had a salami. Oh my god,
wondered why he danced so funny up to the women,
and that's the.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Reason, because he's done is good.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, I don't know whether his name was not so
small good.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
That's exactly that is.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
So that's a great story, thanks, mate.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's just funny, isn't It's.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Hilarious Dirk Diggler, Yes, that because that will throw your
balance out and you'll fall down.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
This, I would imagine, so not that I speak from
experience of having one stepped on it in the morning. Guys.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
You well, yeah, my story at Pinnacchio's, well, I still
have my kear ring, by the wayso hearing the story
was back in the day. I started guarding to Pinachios
when I was sixteen.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
There, anything goes show on Thursday nights with Gary Shannon.
The police used to raid that place all the time
for under age there one night victim of that. So
we sit in the boots they used to have all
the boots poachios. Police came in. I had my brother's
driver's license.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Yeah, and you know, they.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Said, I, what's your name? I told my name, what's
your day of birth on the day and they got
me to watch your star sign.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And you had done that research.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Oh my god, I got that wrong.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
And you are this new orbus lying and you lying.
I'm telling the truth. And so I'd also been drinking
as well, and I was only sixty.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, that didn't help anyway.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
They sort of interrogating me. They said we're going to
take you down to the station, and I cracked. I said,
all right, yeah, that's my brother's drivers last I got
right now. But it's a great place to me.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
A lot of people have done with almost anything. I
didn't that. Lots of prizes and.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
It was it was Gary Shader was he was.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
He was character cracker.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Nelly went home in the back of a patty that night.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But very yeah, very if you've got your brother's license
or one that just says mc lovin, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I love that the.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Cops asked for your star sign that obviously just you know.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, yeah, the trick. Yeah. So if you've done that research,
you might have been all right man in Yeah exactly. Thanks, thanks, Yeah,
we'll do We'll see well one more time. Pinocchio.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, that's fantastic sign it.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
That is very very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Five Secret Harbor. Good morning, good well, here you go,
good mate. Us Pinocchio's story.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
They got a sort of funny when I'm about the
same age as Clothesy and I went there a lot
of times when I was younger, when Kylie Minoga just
come out with a locomotion being stand the perth and
she made a surprise appearance of pronocos. Oh cool, and
everyone was, you know, getting soft bits of paper sign
and stuff, and I couldn't find anything. So I took
off my shoe and it was when I finished over
(06:44):
to it, she actually went oh, and I smelled it
and signed it, and I've still got it in my
landing to this day.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well done, You've got a side Carli Minogue.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Shoe shoe in your land.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Shoe was with me. It was a sneaker. It was
a sneaker.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
It's yelled, so you know back in there. Yeah, yeah, great,
you can still see, you can still see. It looks good.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Great, that's hilarious. Ex clo and on your clothes and
cloud never put it on e Bay to flog it
off on the marketplace.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Last call Paul in Avery. You're coming tonight, are you?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Paul I certainly? How are you going? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Good mate? Looking for catching up?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What's here?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
This was hemory best day of my life, and it
was also once or twice over the years, it's been
my worst.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Time of life.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Right, thirty five years ago, two weeks ago, I and
my wife they all got engaged on stage.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
But okay, oh wow, that sensational the crowd, Yeah, crowd
go wild.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah I did. Actually, it was quite an interesting night. Actually,
I was pretty suzzleed. I didn't realize I've done it
until the next morning.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
What am I?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
What am I done?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It was Do you remember the host who was up
there giving you the microphone? Paul? Was it the d
jail or one of the radio blows?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
It was of mine? Actually it was Sam Spade.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh right, very good Spade right now right, sounds like.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Secret agent Baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I had to know that it's all ended nicely though.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We'll see you tonight, Yes, tonight, Both.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
More Crazy Lisa More podcasts soon, there's sure report on
ninety six FM. Bill Pullman and Rick moranis are set
to reprise their respective roles as Lone Star and Dark
Helmet in a.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
New Spaceballs movie.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
The studio is keeping its cards very close to its
chest at this stage regarding plot details, but it's been
touted as a non prequel, non reboot sequel Part two,
but with reboot elements, franchise expansion film.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I'm so confused?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Is Spaceball?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Streamer Amazon Prime so much for now? Adds streamer Amazon
Prime Video is about double the number of commercials shown
per hour on its ads supported membership level. You know,
you get the option of having the ads or no one.
Evidently they're going from two to three minutes of ads
per hour to forty six minutes per hour. The music
video for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit has just surpassed
(09:17):
the two billion views mark on YouTube after being uploaded
in two thousand and nine. It hit one billion views
six years ago. There's a few videos in the billion
view club, but not many amassing two billion I know
Gangnam Style was the first to do it.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Gudm Star, Gundam Star.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And Guns N' Roses November. Rain is in the Club.
It has two point two billion views.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Pet Wilson's Bop Girl in There, No, it was not
quite in there.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And the Rolling Stones out back in the studio working
on a follow up to twenty twenty three's Hackney Diamonds.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They'll never rest so prolific they will. Apparently.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
They recorded thirteen tracks thirteen and are now discussing the
upcoming album's release dates.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Oh wow, let's just keep on rolling.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Rolling absolutely seven thirty Sunday on the ABC, Spicks and
Specs returns.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Myth Warhurst is joining us this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Hello, good morning, really good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I am excellent, lovely to talk.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
To you tube.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You look, it's been twenty years since some since Picks
and Specs started, twelve seasons across those twenty years, cancelations, different.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hosts, all the stuff. But can you believe it?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
It's I look, I f still feel the same age
as when I started. And although I don't look at
on the outside, that's mentally I'm still I'm still yeah
at that age physically, Yeah, typically things have dropped.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
In ways that I never expected.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
It's terrifying, but it's also it's also very normal and
MASI embrace it. But yeah, having having to having to
watch yet my younger self on the Tellighon.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That's correct.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
They still put two thousand and five episodes up and
I'm like, oh my, I was weary.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I was wearing that.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I was wearing that jumper twenty years. How many could
you tell us how many quiz not invitations you've had
since since you first started off?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
When I first started, I had lots of quiz night
invitations because I used to love going to quiz nights.
It was fine, you know, like that was kind of
how I cut my teeth, and I was really proud
of everything I knew, and I was really good at
it because I was working in radio. And now I'm like,
oh no, no, because there's.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Too much pressure.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
People expected to be amazing. But the good thing about
Spick and Specs is because I'm so old, the people
who write the questions, we don't know the answers, but
they I feel comfortable because I know that they'll put
some things in there that I can answer. They know
they know what I'm good at so I don't feel
too left out because I'm you know, I'm not in
a finger on the pulses. I was back in two
(11:56):
thousand and five, when I obviously was working in radio
and going out every night of the week these days
when I filmed, when I filmed Six and Specs, that's
my social life, which is beautiful because I catch up
with everybody and and it's a fun time, like everyone
that comes on the show has a great time. So
(12:17):
not too late, exactly exactly got it. I've got to
drive home there. We don't go out. It's just it's great.
It's such a it's the best job in the world,
to be honest, and I'm whispering, but I don't. I
don't want anyone else to know. All I have to
(12:38):
do is turn up.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
I turn up.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
No research beforehand, because we can't I can't really know.
And then so just turn up, be fabulous, have have
some fun with my friends.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
And you keep mentioning two thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
The thing about Specks and Specs is it was the
idea of the show was so one up your Do
you remember when you were when you first heard about it,
and did you think this is this is for me,
this is mine or was it where you approached and
it was given to you.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
I was approached and it was a weird thing. I
remember it because I was doing radio at the time.
I was working at Triple J, and I remember I
got a call in the video saying from someone un
known him Telly, who said, can you come and do
a like a screen tet or like an audition for
this niche ABP show. And they're like, they were like, oh,
it's tomorrow. You just have to go along. So I
(13:34):
went along, thinking, oh, you know, this is fun and
it was. It was actually fun, and I met Adam
Hills for the first time, so he obviously already had
the job.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
And then then I got a call a day later
and they said can you film on you know, two
days later.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
I didn't have a chance to think about it. For
me pick someone dropped out or didn't want the job,
and they put me in at the last minute. So
I was, I can pick it, that's fine, and I didn't.
I didn't even really think about it. And then the
first show went to air like two weeks later, and
my mum said, did you get a copy of that
(14:13):
on videotape at BHS because that's how old it was,
and because it was so bad, I think she thought
it was never going to go anywhere. So here we are,
seventy five years later, you go.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Steel around it.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
I just didn't know. I wasn't prepared for what it was,
which is probably a good thing because I didn't think
about it too much.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, and I did it.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
And we were in a time and there was no
social media as well, so I know we're that old again,
and we were allowed to develop and get better as
we as we went along, and they kind of left.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Us that, Yeah, we've lost that, and it's all right
because the first choice was Jackie. Oh and she's done
nothing so good, too fine.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Looking, to be honest, and you're doing fine. But I'm sure,
I'm sure she's not too bothered. But yeah, it was.
I feel like it was kind of made for me
because I had so much unful knowledge in my head
and it was a way to it was a way
to use it. It came to something, you know, Yeah, your passion.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, Yeah, had any it would have been some of
your favorite memories over there the years.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Oh gosh, so many. Yeah, and I don't remember as
well as everybody else because it's been repeated so many times.
People the audience know it better than I do because.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
I don't watch myself.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Yeah, so I and it was twenty years ago, and
the memories a bit blank in a few spots, but yeah,
I think just moments like when Frank Woodley, like comedian
Frank Woodley, who's on the show, he would he imitated
Little Nell who was in the Rocky horror show Iriginali,
and she did this TV performance in the UK where
(15:53):
Abaye the top came down when she was doing that
swim dance and which is all very controversial at the time,
so he recreated that, And I think moments like that
that were the funniest things that I've ever seen, where
I laughed so hard I just lost my mind. And yeah,
but then also, you know, a few scollops popped out
(16:14):
during that that were you know, pictelated in hindsight, but
it was it was just so funny and so natural
and brilliant. And then you know, musically, sitting next to
someone like Chrissy Amphlet who's now no longer with that, Yeah,
and for someone like me who grew up in a
small country town and you know, Boys in Town was
(16:34):
written about her growing up in Geelong and having dreams
and wanting to get out and you know, meeting icons
like that is from my childhood. Was just it was
so wonderful and I was so lucky.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
If I can't remember there was Sydney on Melbourne. I
remember being in one of those cities in a cools
one day and I turned my wife. I said, there's
Alan from Spicks and Specs so and I like, there's
a TV star, you know, right there, and how do
you go? How have you gone? Have you had lots
of fanboys and girls over the years, let me say today,
over the years.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
But yeah, most viewers of Fix and Sects are really respectful,
you know. They they'll come up to me in a
chicken shop and just say it really quietly, you know, thanks,
thanks so much for what you do, and it's lovely.
Like I imagine other celebrities probably get beat out in
the car and you know that would coop. But everyone's
really nice because I think most people love the show.
(17:25):
And even if they turned out not very nice as adults,
they were kids watching it because it used to come
on and ABC two just after in the night garden
when the kids had to go to bed, so they
grew up with us as well. So it's yeah, it's
been a really lovely experience.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
And not all jobs are like this.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Like you know, people can be very critical of what
you do and have very strong opinions about what you do.
But I feel like we've been around it so long
and we're so much a part of the furniture. People
are really generous with us on this particular show. Look,
it's fifty and elsewhere and other things. But it's just
I'm very lucky. It's nice to work on something that
people like, and you know, in this day that doesn't
(18:05):
really exist.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Anymore, only positive feedle.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Well, we look forward to singing back on the screen
seven point thirty on Sunday. I am particularly looking forward
to the new game will Aim.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Will be revealed on Sunday.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Unreal It'll be down.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Okay, you're down the fact Okay, Well we'll walk every
app howy twenty years. If I spot you in a
call somewhere, I'll come up and say hello, really quietly, thanks.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
More Clezy or Lisa more podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Soon Real would be singing a man at Work song
to twelve hundred people and men at work and be
down the road.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I don't need to the people party in the venues,
but the bands was a wave. Loo Coley and lisays
person pub Crawl at Pinocchio's Magnet.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only Magnet House,
a meka.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Of and diversity right in the heart of the city.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wrapping up our per pub crawl series today, we saved
the best for Lasses and o'kay to say that So's
Demarchi from the Baby Animals is joining us.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Hallo, Hey guys, how are you very well?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
We've had such a wonderful time. This as our second
pub crawl actually so for you. It all started with
photo play and I read that you still clearly remember
your very first gig at the Cat and Fiddle in
Mount Lawley, because well, you never forget your first.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But also you left that night knowing, without a shadow
of a doubt that you'd found your calling.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
I think I knew that that was what I was
going to do with my life.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
I mean, you know, you're so sort of dumb and
blind to everything at that age. You just got full
of opportunity and you kind of think everything's possible and
ed it is. But that was the moment where I
just thought, you know, I I love this, this is
kind of my thing. I'm going to you know, I'm
(20:06):
going to.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Have a go at this because you're seventeen, that is yeh.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I was seventeen in my first band when I was
with Photoplayed for two years, and I just kind of
it wasn't like a you know, I kind of just
always loved guitar and I always loved singing, and so
you know, that was sort of the beginning of it all.
That was the first time I realized I wasn't nervous
at all the first gig. It was the second gig,
that's ah.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yes, wasn't the applause was it applause in a public places?
It was part of that thing that it's all of it.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
It's all of it. Yeah, it's it's the idea of
the band thing for me because I've done solo, I've
done the band thing, and the band thing is just
always I just don't like the solo thing. I much
rather be in a group of people just hanging out.
Solo stuff is just this more pressure. It's boring. It's
just not into it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I like it's more fun in that number.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
It's funny number, yeah, and having a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Some of those people will have been there at the
Cat and Fiddle on that very first What what were
your favorite venues around town to play at other than
that one?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Wow, there was a lot.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
And that's so we were so lucky. There was a
lot of venues. We'd do the Shenton Park, Blazers. Gosh,
what was the other ones? I mean, we do the UNI.
They used to do Uni. Yes, I'm shown for the UNI.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They were great.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
I mean that was the thing. We do the UNI
show on a Friday lunchtime. We'd pack up. This is
in fi of pack up. Then we'd go and do
the Shenton Park and three sets, mind you, three or three.
Then we'd pack up and we'd go do Blazers.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I loved going to the Shenton Park. It's it's a
retirement home now. So I feel like I've come home.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Circle on Nicholson Road.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Last week, and I would live there later and later
I would go there. Yeah, I remember, actually I think
I remember I was there a few years ago over person. Yeah,
but you know the other gigs. There was Hernando's Highway,
there was there was the Ones Down and I got
electrocuded at the ob H on a Sunday Sunday session.
(22:18):
I got a kicked back from the mic because I
went on stage with no shoes. There was a bit
of a dodgy connection. As soon as my lips hit
the mic, I got thrown back into the drum kit.
Oh wow, and had a big burn. There was a
burnmark around the mic. Yeah, oh yeah, it's all happened.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
It was part of the Borough Show.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah, we were the original.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Off. I love it.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
But would there have been many times you played a
gig or multiple gigs with photo playing. The next morning
you're trying to count those annoying orange twenty dollar notes
at the air and I bank did that happen a bit?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Well, I swiftly left the bank. I only left school
because my sister was working in the bank. My disease
is working in the bank. And then Mum and dad said, yeah,
you can leave if you want, but you have to
go work. So I got this job and I lasted
a year. I think I quit before they were going
to buy me and I don't. I was terrible. I
(23:25):
was terrible at that.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
But yeah, Denise, she's also a musician, still performing around
town plenty. Was there ever much rivalry between the two
of you.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
There was a little bit. It was funny. It was
like we were always so supportive. Yeah, but then we
were I mean, I do take account a little bit
of accountability because I dragged her into it a little
bit when we were doing We did the kinds this
cup of band for attle while and that kind of
started her in the band stuff. And then she came
(23:58):
over to Sydney and everything, all her other stuff. But
that wasn't rivalry. It was more like a one upmanship.
It's like, oh, yeah, you did that. Oh you know,
I know I did that to you. Yeah. It's a
healthy kind of sisterly.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You know, we love that.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
You know, we get to, i mean do stuff together
that we started sort of a little bit together and
we all, you know, we're back in the Kevin Pete,
Trevor Spence the days. Denise did a lot of work
with those guys. She's really talented and I you know,
I love her voice and I love singing with her,
and yeah, it's great, it's great. We have a lot
of stories.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You went from Perth a pub scene, to London, moving
to London in the mid eighties to pursue a solo career.
On a scale of one to ten, how scary was that?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I mean, so that's the thing. I didn't really know
what I was in for until I sort of did it. Yeah,
I was just no, no, I wasn't scary. I was excited.
I was like coat, bring it on.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
I was.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
I was a bit scared once I got there. Yeah,
but that sort of didn't last. I had actually a
great I've fell into Peter Lister Todd giving me guidance,
so he was the guy that was always there. It's
actually still in my life. We still see each other,
stay in touch. Peter Lister Todd was was my manager
at the time, and he was always a real guide
(25:21):
and kept me sort of in line because I went
crazy in London. I just went off like I was
twenty one. I think I put it was the mid eighties,
eighties living it. I had a record deal with m
I ridiculous. It was mental. Yeah, I kind of even
(25:43):
needed to take a whole show. I can't. It was
so great. It was so much fun and I put
three singles out in four years, like what is that
was a big record label? Nothing, but I had a
lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
It's not proifict but the time and then of course
it was it was home, but it was Baby Animals. Yes,
as we talked about saying, not that famous, but I
guess you didn't have enough time at home to be
hassled on the street that much.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So she ran not much.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
We do, we don't we you know occasionally but yeah,
you know, yeah, it's always like in a good way.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You know, it's not like a crazy yeah yeah, yeah,
but Baby Animals Baby on that debut album just it
did blow up. I didn't know. There's so many great
great songs.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
It blew up. Yeah, it was mental. I couldn't I
couldn't fathom that. You just kind of got to go
along with it all.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
As was the way though, of course, the way we
were situated with us scene back then in the in
the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You had to kind of had to move to Sydney.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Yeah, there was no labels in perm No, and you
know what was really I was very lucky because I
got I kind of got involved with Kevin Peek and
Trevors Spencer, you know all that story. Yep. They were
Australians who lived in England for twenty years before that,
and Kevin Peak was in Guy Right wonderful. He's no
(27:03):
longer with us, but they started a Woma Records, so
I had a sort of a little taste of a
labeling sort of thing. They saw a video that I
had done in Photoplay and then we got talking and
I did a little small deal with them, and that's
how I got the deal with the m I in
London because they're all of their connections with there. But
(27:23):
I did a lot of recording with them. Kevin had
a studio up in rolling Stone, unreal beautiful property and
a gorgeous little studio.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Location for it.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Yeah, gorgeous location, and you know, and I did a
lot of studio work there. So they were really helpful
in so learning just how to record, Like I didn't
know how to you know, get how to get up
to the mic and not to move too far back
and all that kind of technique, you know, not to
get not to get let it and actually no, but
(27:53):
Photoplay taught me everything I needed to know about being
in a band, you know, as well in those first
two years.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yeah, so I used to steal my sister's foreigner Pink
Floyd and Joe Wolsh records. Which ones are your brothers
did you steal?
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Do you remember Budgy Hawk Quinns. It was ten years
after late yeah, yeah, later all of the English seventies
kind of rock and ever.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, everyone ever had a little guilty you know.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
That.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Click and and you know I used to I used
to practice Echo Beach and it was one of the
first songs I learned on guitar.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, I was in my final year of school in
eighty four.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
That song was yah that together.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yes, yes, we would do We were definitely doing.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
My job was very boring. I'm an office clerk.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
The Baby Animals, yeah on the first girl person, we
should do that. Yeah. Baby Animals has continued to tour
up until this day, and you know it's one of
WA's Australia's most successful exports. Did you ever think back
at the start that you would still be touring and
performing and loving it as much as you still do.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
For plus years on?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
I hoped I would. I don't think I really thought.
I hoped I would, but I don't think I thought
that at the time. I thought of probably burn out
or whatever. But I just every time I walk on
a stage, I'm still really grateful. I never thought that.
You know, I'm sixty one now. I didn't think I'd
still be doing it. But I you know, I look
(29:31):
at people like Suzi Quatro and yeah, I love her
because she's She's always been an inspiration to me. And
I get to play with her now.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, and we call a leather Tuscadero.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
I went into her at it. I went into I
stayed at her house in England. She took me up
to her ego room.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
She caught it.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
I had a cheer in my eye. I went up
and I was like touching the leather and oh, her
old leather jumpsuits. It's the the room in the attic.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, we whiche in the seventies now and weird viewed
her last year and she told us about Elvis had
a crush on her.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
And tell us all, yeah, she's got such a great story. Yeah,
such a great woman.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She's a great storyteller. Well, Susan Marchie, you keep telling
your story as well. And I want to hear that
that duo with Denise of Echo Beach.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's for sure.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, we've got a new album coming out this year,
so that's what you're finishing the album all right, Okay,
our prolific Baby Animals, quality quality.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thanks for our Perth pub Crawls Marchie.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Thanks mate, Oh guys, thank you so much. It's been
a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Six m clezie and Lisa
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