June 3, 2025 • 8 mins
Clairsy & Lisa's Perth Pub Crawl 2025 has kicked off with Peter Borg from legendary band Flash Harry, The guys talked about how the band came together and what some of his favourite venues were to play at. He also talked about Flash Harry opening for Meat Loaf at the old Entertainment Centre and also Jimmy Barnes in the early part of his solo career.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We will be singing a man at Work song to
twelve hundred people.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The men at work who began the road. I don't
need did the people party in the venue?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
But the bands was a wavelong.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Colesy and lisays Perth Pub Crawl at Pinocchio's Magnet House
is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in
the heart of the city.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Ah per Pub Crawl.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Special guests this morning is Peterborg from Flash Harry.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good morning, good morning, thanks very much for having me.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Thank you so much for coming in. Now, Flash Harry
tell us how the band got together?
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Was that two bands? Actually?
Speaker 6 (00:36):
So the three of us in one band and another
three in the other. The other band was a band
called the Reserves, and they happened to have the backdrops
and the bits and pieces. So we all got together
and had a manager who sent us up up.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
North to get our act together.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, yeah, do a bit of learning now, how about it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Could be taken it a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I love this theseus. He's put down your favorite venues.
Here's some great memories. The Generator Raffles, the windsor Floriad
Would you like Overflow?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You like the Overflow? Smile? It was my least. What
about you? Where were you the Worry Oh windsor the Windsor?
Of course?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, I'm sure I saw you at the Charles as
well Pinocchio's.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But did you have a favorite venue yourself?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Yeah, I think all of them were great. I did
love the Generator at Morley. That was a riper venue,
and the Overflow. The over Flow was such a huge venue,
and we enjoyed doing the occasional Monday nook and Busters.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We had a bloke ringing about the nook and Busters.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
And we it was about our only chance that we
could actually catch up with the other bands around because
everyone was working so hard, you know, five six nights
a week playing.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well those good guys the paper you would you would
sort of study that thing like my grandfather used to
study the form guide to work out where you were going.
But just almost yeah, for almost every night of the week.
So there was good camaraderie among the bands.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Then, yes, absolutely, still is.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah, and still is yes. Oh, that's awesome to know.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
You know, there's a lot of us that are still playing,
which is, which is great to see. And you know,
we we all share bands and promote each other, which
is great.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And you're living in mandra now and gigging once a month.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But I remember when used to do the coultures or covers,
and I'm pretty sure that was at the Charles. But
you know, Jimmy's here, you's here this weekend, the week
have you opened for him or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We we did.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
We used to have a regular gig and Sunday at
the Generator, And when Jimmy first started a solo career,
he came over and played the Generator. So rather than
us lose the gig, we had the PA system.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And what have you.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
And he came along and we opened for him, which
was awesome, very loud.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I can still hear it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There's no way your lead singer was tie, wasn't it
could getting because Jimmy is so special.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
He's got a trick throat basically, Jimmy, I don't know
the medical term, but that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's a technical term that we've come up with. But
you can't, you can't match it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
He screams, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Yeah, he's got a unique for us. But so did
ty I could do a Steve Perry.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Crit ah and having said that you were, people said
you did do the best cultures will covers.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yes, I'm not just saying that this is you know.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm the person who said that.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Did you tour overseas at all? Ever? Interstates?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Like the scene back then in Perth was was so busy. Yeah,
we were literally for about four or five years just
playing in Perth constantly.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And you've got a great story about meat Loaf't.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He come and stuck in the AFL Grand Final when
he lost the plot.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
This is a bit earlier, A bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He was really firing, he tell us about him.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I was back around eighty five.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I think he came over on a tour and we
were very fortunate to be asked to open for him
at the Entertainment Center. So yeah, I won and only
time at the Center, which was wonderful as a as
a musician, I'd been there many a times to see
many of the bands. I remember ninety six is first
first give there in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, Yeah, there was a door prize which was.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A door Is that Midnight all? Was that?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
The Midnight nine six shows.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think it was Chisel gave away a door.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, the door came.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Added Meetlafe gave the big fellow. Look.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
We'd heard that he'd actually broken his leg prior to
that by the swim pool over in Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He carried on, you.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Know, he carried on and no one knew he had. Yeah, unbelievable.
I mean at the end of the gig, the poor
fellow was carried off, but he did the gig and
no one knew.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You thought only did that in Grandfather.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So does the band still perform together, Peter that? I
know you did a reunion tour at the Charles just
got your feet unstuck from the covert Charles.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
We got back together again in twenty sixteen, just for
a one off gig. But no, we all do our
own thing these days, you know, Ties over in the
Central Coast.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
He after he left the band in the eighties, joined
a band called the Bombers. I don't even remember the Bombers.
It was Alan Lancaster and Johnny Coglin from Status Quo
and John Brewster from The Angels.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, some big names.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I wanted to ask you, actually, Peter Borg so that
if you could collaborate with any Aussie musician, living or dead,
whose top of your list?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Who are the guys that you idolize or the women?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Pretty bright?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I used to enjoy Matt Moffatt from from Matt Finish.
I mean he passed away in a little while ago.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What a voice, So Jimmy, he'll be filthy.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That has Jimmy.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I mean that's that one, that's that box is ticked.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What about this?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
If you're a DJ okay and you had to do
some songs dedicated to your influences, would there be a
couple of songs there on your playlist?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Give us give us a song that you know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It'd have to be an Adrian Barri.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He's working it out as we go along.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Did you have on this theme?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Did you have a favorite band from the pub scene
you know at that time yourself?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Yeah, I love Midnight Oil, Okay, Love Chisel, love Barnsy.
Obviously there was so many bands back then, you know,
Mental is anything, Radiators, Church, there's so many aussy.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Bes, Miss Greedy. What I mean?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I noticed you didn't mention Australian crawl. You're not a
fat mate. I loved James Rain. We are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lisa?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Used to have stonewashed jeans, acid wash, all sorts.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Of shopping at Renois shopping at What was that? What
was that brand?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You like?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Stewart member.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Peter Book.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I'm sorry that Barrow has been able to come out
of his shell exactly when we asked him to go
host this morning. But thank you so much for joining
us and let us know when the next reunion show
what the Charles is?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I'll wear my Anstickiers shoes
We will be singing a man at Work song to
twelve hundred people.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The men at work who began the road. I don't
need did the people party in the venue?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
But the bands was a wavelong.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Colesy and lisays Perth Pub Crawl at Pinocchio's Magnet House
is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Magnet House, a mecca of dance and diversity right in
the heart of the city.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Ah per Pub Crawl.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Special guests this morning is Peterborg from Flash Harry.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good morning, good morning, thanks very much for having me.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Thank you so much for coming in. Now, Flash Harry
tell us how the band got together?
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Was that two bands? Actually?
Speaker 6 (00:36):
So the three of us in one band and another
three in the other. The other band was a band
called the Reserves, and they happened to have the backdrops
and the bits and pieces. So we all got together
and had a manager who sent us up up.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
North to get our act together.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, yeah, do a bit of learning now, how about it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Could be taken it a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I love this theseus. He's put down your favorite venues.
Here's some great memories. The Generator Raffles, the windsor Floriad
Would you like Overflow?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You like the Overflow? Smile? It was my least. What
about you? Where were you the Worry Oh windsor the Windsor?
Of course?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, I'm sure I saw you at the Charles as
well Pinocchio's.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
But did you have a favorite venue yourself?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Yeah, I think all of them were great. I did
love the Generator at Morley. That was a riper venue,
and the Overflow. The over Flow was such a huge venue,
and we enjoyed doing the occasional Monday nook and Busters.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We had a bloke ringing about the nook and Busters.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
And we it was about our only chance that we
could actually catch up with the other bands around because
everyone was working so hard, you know, five six nights
a week playing.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well those good guys the paper you would you would
sort of study that thing like my grandfather used to
study the form guide to work out where you were going.
But just almost yeah, for almost every night of the week.
So there was good camaraderie among the bands.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Then, yes, absolutely, still is.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah, and still is yes. Oh, that's awesome to know.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
You know, there's a lot of us that are still playing,
which is, which is great to see. And you know,
we we all share bands and promote each other, which
is great.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And you're living in mandra now and gigging once a month.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But I remember when used to do the coultures or covers,
and I'm pretty sure that was at the Charles. But
you know, Jimmy's here, you's here this weekend, the week
have you opened for him or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We we did.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
We used to have a regular gig and Sunday at
the Generator, And when Jimmy first started a solo career,
he came over and played the Generator. So rather than
us lose the gig, we had the PA system.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And what have you.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
And he came along and we opened for him, which
was awesome, very loud.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I can still hear it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
There's no way your lead singer was tie, wasn't it
could getting because Jimmy is so special.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
He's got a trick throat basically, Jimmy, I don't know
the medical term, but that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's a technical term that we've come up with. But
you can't, you can't match it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
He screams, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Yeah, he's got a unique for us. But so did
ty I could do a Steve Perry.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Crit ah and having said that you were, people said
you did do the best cultures will covers.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yes, I'm not just saying that this is you know.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm the person who said that.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Did you tour overseas at all? Ever? Interstates?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Like the scene back then in Perth was was so busy. Yeah,
we were literally for about four or five years just
playing in Perth constantly.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And you've got a great story about meat Loaf't.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He come and stuck in the AFL Grand Final when
he lost the plot.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
This is a bit earlier, A bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He was really firing, he tell us about him.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I was back around eighty five.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I think he came over on a tour and we
were very fortunate to be asked to open for him
at the Entertainment Center. So yeah, I won and only
time at the Center, which was wonderful as a as
a musician, I'd been there many a times to see
many of the bands. I remember ninety six is first
first give there in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yes, Yeah, there was a door prize which was.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A door Is that Midnight all? Was that?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
The Midnight nine six shows.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think it was Chisel gave away a door.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, the door came.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Added Meetlafe gave the big fellow. Look.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
We'd heard that he'd actually broken his leg prior to
that by the swim pool over in Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
He carried on, you.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Know, he carried on and no one knew he had. Yeah, unbelievable.
I mean at the end of the gig, the poor
fellow was carried off, but he did the gig and
no one knew.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You thought only did that in Grandfather.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So does the band still perform together, Peter that? I
know you did a reunion tour at the Charles just
got your feet unstuck from the covert Charles.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
We got back together again in twenty sixteen, just for
a one off gig. But no, we all do our
own thing these days, you know, Ties over in the
Central Coast.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
He after he left the band in the eighties, joined
a band called the Bombers. I don't even remember the Bombers.
It was Alan Lancaster and Johnny Coglin from Status Quo
and John Brewster from The Angels.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, some big names.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I wanted to ask you, actually, Peter Borg so that
if you could collaborate with any Aussie musician, living or dead,
whose top of your list?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Who are the guys that you idolize or the women?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Pretty bright?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I used to enjoy Matt Moffatt from from Matt Finish.
I mean he passed away in a little while ago.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What a voice, So Jimmy, he'll be filthy.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That has Jimmy.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I mean that's that one, that's that box is ticked.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What about this?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
If you're a DJ okay and you had to do
some songs dedicated to your influences, would there be a
couple of songs there on your playlist?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Give us give us a song that you know.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It'd have to be an Adrian Barri.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He's working it out as we go along.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Did you have on this theme?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Did you have a favorite band from the pub scene
you know at that time yourself?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Yeah, I love Midnight Oil, Okay, Love Chisel, love Barnsy.
Obviously there was so many bands back then, you know,
Mental is anything, Radiators, Church, there's so many aussy.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Bes, Miss Greedy. What I mean?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I noticed you didn't mention Australian crawl. You're not a
fat mate. I loved James Rain. We are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Lisa?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Used to have stonewashed jeans, acid wash, all sorts.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Of shopping at Renois shopping at What was that? What
was that brand?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You like?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Stewart member.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Peter Book.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I'm sorry that Barrow has been able to come out
of his shell exactly when we asked him to go
host this morning. But thank you so much for joining
us and let us know when the next reunion show
what the Charles is?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I'll wear my Anstickiers shoes
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