June 11, 2025 • 8 mins
In the lead up to this Friday’s Perth Pub Crawl at Pinocchio’s Tom Jennis (Clutch Cargo) took us on a trip down memory lane. Lisa recalls seeing the band back in the day and asked after a toy that Tom used to take everywhere. No stone was left unturned as Tom discussed his David Bowie tribute show and the cruise ship lifestyle. Clairsy asked about the band’s appearance on Hey, Hey It’s Saturday and Tom revealed why it almost didn’t happen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We would be singing a man at Work song to
twelve hundred people, and men at Worked began the roads.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Not only did the people party in the venue, but the.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Bands was a wavelong Colezy lisays Perth Pub Crawl at Pinocchio's.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only Magnet House,
a mecca of dance and diversity right in the heart
of the city. Continuing our Perth pub crawl this morning,
it's Tom Jennis from Clutch Cargo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hello, Tom, Good morning guys. How are we good?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good Clutch Cargo?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Now did the name come from the old animated show
Clutch Cargo? It did?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
How did you manage to dig that up?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I didn't dig it up. I remember going to see you.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh right? No, I mean I mean the name because
people always ask people would always ask us, where the
hell did you get that name from? It?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, it was just on a whim, just for something,
so that's what we just called it. We ended up
doing a radio show up at six six n hour
I think it was Yeah Yeah in Badley and Yeah
while the band. While the band was going yeah yeah,
playing down at the Queens is where we started.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So now, just a fun fact, this is how I
knew where the name came from because when you were
playing Sunday Sessions at the Queens, I was working behind
the bar there.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And I remember I remember your little monkey.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Sorry, do you remember your monkey?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Didn't you have a.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Little little toy monkey? They used to go everywhere with
you with your equipment.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, that was Hugo. It was I don't know what
he was. He was a little I think it was
a little like a donkey type of thing, and I
just had a hugel stuck to it and I just
used to take it on planes and if there was
a stare seat next to me, I'd put a belt on.
It would come fast. Yeah, he would order drinks for me.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He was traveling the world right wherever Hugo and whatever
Hugo was, right, it was a monkey or a donkey. Hey, Tom, Yeah,
apart from the Queens, Mate, do you play many other venues?
How busy did it get for you guys? Because I
remember that game straight away from good Guys.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh the Boulevard Ale House, which because we only just
sort of started to do the Queens as something because
Red Square had called it up and we were just
sitting around and after a few phone calls, were just
decided that well, we'll just get for the hell of it,
band together because we enjoyed playing together. So that's when
the Queens things started. We only wanted to do like
(02:35):
one night a week. Yeah, that just sort of flared
out when I think you remember, we end up doing
two nights a week. There was like Sunday and a Thursday. Okay, yes,
the Sunday Sessions Sound of the Queens because that was
always that was heaving. I believe it still is heaving.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It totally, particularly when you'd roll out the recorder on
Wild Thing.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That was.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Amazing the moment of the night. The Red Square was
a Rolling Stones band, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, Red Square was was you know our Originals other band.
You know. Through through the eighties when when everyone did
have that opportunity because there was such a good time,
there was a bit of money floating around them, as
you know, the pub scene was excellent. Yes, everyone had
the opportunity to to you know, work maybe three four
(03:26):
nights a week. You could afford a single four way
things like that, and with the money that you that
you made you could go on your Planet Studios or
something like that, record your originals. We end up doing
like sixty forty you know covers original and things like that.
Because we enjoyed doing that. It just became more rockier
(03:46):
and it just sort of wolfed a bit really until
we ended up in Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right, okay, well tell us about Japante What happened?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
There was the nineteen eighty nine Yamaha World song Writing
Got Competition, okay, right, So we ended up entering entering
that in the Australian teaing we won the one that
we won the semi finals. We went off to the
Star Club in Saint Kilda, did the semifinals, won that,
(04:17):
went back again, won that and they had you know
judges like John Farnaman and Red Simon's and everyone there
was absolutely fantastic. But then we won that and then
our ballot was put in for the Australasian which we
didn't actually play for. Then we won that, so then
we were we were off to Japan to play at
(04:39):
the at the Border car for the World Finals.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're kidding. One experience for you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That was fantastic. We managed to get a coffee of
us playing and of course we did the song Catalina
that we used at the time and played that on
Hey Hay Saturday.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
All right, okay, because did you feel the pressure to
have to you know, leave Perth and go east during
this time?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yes, that was that was that was that was always there. Unfortunately,
when when we got back from Japan, but that took it.
It was actually in charge of Yamaha Australia and he
was like our Brian. He looked at us and he thought, well,
if you guys got more material, I love it, I
love it, I love it. Sand it over. We did
that and all that sort of thing, and then the
(05:24):
next thing we found out he just disappeared. Whether he
was fired or or or something but.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Money away.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, we don't know. But unfortunately it just it just
didn't carry on from from that point. But that was
that was an experience.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
All right, you've been you've been non stop since.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Tell us about Major Tom, Australia's longest running David Bowie
tribute show.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, that's we we couple that up with our Queen's
show with our organization called All Star show Stoppers. We
do that. We do that as well as Blues Brothers Stones.
At the moment we've been using we're doing the cruise liners.
We've been doing CRUISEHP for about ten years.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Has become a real thing.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah yeah, well it's so much more accessible now because
there's that man that many ships out there. But we've
been fortunate enough and now we're about in our tenth year.
We've only just got off the last one. We've done
seventeen ships this season alone, so now we've just finished
that and then we go we do a few. You know,
(06:37):
Turk Gigs will be doing the Regal pretty soon with
a show called The Show Must Go On and the
Beatles Show, and of course the Bowie thing is fantastic.
I love doing that.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
But I can't believe you've got to go on Hi
had Saturday do Catalina and not get gone by red signs.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well done. No, no, it was.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Very good, and we nearly didn't get started because the
girl was she had this trouble with a black plastic
bag and we were running over time and they're looking
at us, going or we go come on.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, get us on.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Because we're all I mean, we were mining at anyway.
Imagine you could imagine you're just sweating in yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Absolutely almost all of us were watching.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
We all not almost all of us were. Yeah, well
it was.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was an institution. We would go to someone's place
watching sat Day and then.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Go out getting ready, show yea countdown the phone the
Sunday night. Yeah right toom has been lovely to reminisce
about the Perth pub crawl pub scene this morning. I
have such great memories of you and Hugo and wild
thing on the recorder from the Queens.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You're junking that I thought was a monkey.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I got to dig him out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, give me my love, thanks, thanks, tell me bye.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, so many, so many great memories.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You go with a monkey whatever, silly
We would be singing a man at Work song to
twelve hundred people, and men at Worked began the roads.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Not only did the people party in the venue, but the.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Bands was a wavelong Colezy lisays Perth Pub Crawl at Pinocchio's.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Magnet House is resurrecting Pinocchio's for one night only Magnet House,
a mecca of dance and diversity right in the heart
of the city. Continuing our Perth pub crawl this morning,
it's Tom Jennis from Clutch Cargo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hello, Tom, Good morning guys. How are we good?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good Clutch Cargo?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Now did the name come from the old animated show
Clutch Cargo? It did?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
How did you manage to dig that up?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I didn't dig it up. I remember going to see you.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh right? No, I mean I mean the name because
people always ask people would always ask us, where the
hell did you get that name from? It?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, it was just on a whim, just for something,
so that's what we just called it. We ended up
doing a radio show up at six six n hour
I think it was Yeah Yeah in Badley and Yeah
while the band. While the band was going yeah yeah,
playing down at the Queens is where we started.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So now, just a fun fact, this is how I
knew where the name came from because when you were
playing Sunday Sessions at the Queens, I was working behind
the bar there.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And I remember I remember your little monkey.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Sorry, do you remember your monkey?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Didn't you have a.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Little little toy monkey? They used to go everywhere with
you with your equipment.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, that was Hugo. It was I don't know what
he was. He was a little I think it was
a little like a donkey type of thing, and I
just had a hugel stuck to it and I just
used to take it on planes and if there was
a stare seat next to me, I'd put a belt on.
It would come fast. Yeah, he would order drinks for me.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He was traveling the world right wherever Hugo and whatever
Hugo was, right, it was a monkey or a donkey. Hey, Tom, Yeah,
apart from the Queens, Mate, do you play many other venues?
How busy did it get for you guys? Because I
remember that game straight away from good Guys.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh the Boulevard Ale House, which because we only just
sort of started to do the Queens as something because
Red Square had called it up and we were just
sitting around and after a few phone calls, were just
decided that well, we'll just get for the hell of it,
band together because we enjoyed playing together. So that's when
the Queens things started. We only wanted to do like
(02:35):
one night a week. Yeah, that just sort of flared
out when I think you remember, we end up doing
two nights a week. There was like Sunday and a Thursday. Okay, yes,
the Sunday Sessions Sound of the Queens because that was
always that was heaving. I believe it still is heaving.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It totally, particularly when you'd roll out the recorder on
Wild Thing.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That was.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Amazing the moment of the night. The Red Square was
a Rolling Stones band, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, Red Square was was you know our Originals other band.
You know. Through through the eighties when when everyone did
have that opportunity because there was such a good time,
there was a bit of money floating around them, as
you know, the pub scene was excellent. Yes, everyone had
the opportunity to to you know, work maybe three four
(03:26):
nights a week. You could afford a single four way
things like that, and with the money that you that
you made you could go on your Planet Studios or
something like that, record your originals. We end up doing
like sixty forty you know covers original and things like that.
Because we enjoyed doing that. It just became more rockier
(03:46):
and it just sort of wolfed a bit really until
we ended up in Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right, okay, well tell us about Japante What happened?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
There was the nineteen eighty nine Yamaha World song Writing
Got Competition, okay, right, So we ended up entering entering
that in the Australian teaing we won the one that
we won the semi finals. We went off to the
Star Club in Saint Kilda, did the semifinals, won that,
(04:17):
went back again, won that and they had you know
judges like John Farnaman and Red Simon's and everyone there
was absolutely fantastic. But then we won that and then
our ballot was put in for the Australasian which we
didn't actually play for. Then we won that, so then
we were we were off to Japan to play at
(04:39):
the at the Border car for the World Finals.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're kidding. One experience for you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That was fantastic. We managed to get a coffee of
us playing and of course we did the song Catalina
that we used at the time and played that on
Hey Hay Saturday.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
All right, okay, because did you feel the pressure to
have to you know, leave Perth and go east during
this time?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yes, that was that was that was that was always there. Unfortunately,
when when we got back from Japan, but that took it.
It was actually in charge of Yamaha Australia and he
was like our Brian. He looked at us and he thought, well,
if you guys got more material, I love it, I
love it, I love it. Sand it over. We did
that and all that sort of thing, and then the
(05:24):
next thing we found out he just disappeared. Whether he
was fired or or or something but.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Money away.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, we don't know. But unfortunately it just it just
didn't carry on from from that point. But that was
that was an experience.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
All right, you've been you've been non stop since.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Tell us about Major Tom, Australia's longest running David Bowie
tribute show.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, that's we we couple that up with our Queen's
show with our organization called All Star show Stoppers. We
do that. We do that as well as Blues Brothers Stones.
At the moment we've been using we're doing the cruise liners.
We've been doing CRUISEHP for about ten years.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Has become a real thing.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah yeah, well it's so much more accessible now because
there's that man that many ships out there. But we've
been fortunate enough and now we're about in our tenth year.
We've only just got off the last one. We've done
seventeen ships this season alone, so now we've just finished
that and then we go we do a few. You know,
(06:37):
Turk Gigs will be doing the Regal pretty soon with
a show called The Show Must Go On and the
Beatles Show, and of course the Bowie thing is fantastic.
I love doing that.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
But I can't believe you've got to go on Hi
had Saturday do Catalina and not get gone by red signs.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well done. No, no, it was.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Very good, and we nearly didn't get started because the
girl was she had this trouble with a black plastic
bag and we were running over time and they're looking
at us, going or we go come on.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, get us on.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Because we're all I mean, we were mining at anyway.
Imagine you could imagine you're just sweating in yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Absolutely almost all of us were watching.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
We all not almost all of us were. Yeah, well
it was.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was an institution. We would go to someone's place
watching sat Day and then.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Go out getting ready, show yea countdown the phone the
Sunday night. Yeah right toom has been lovely to reminisce
about the Perth pub crawl pub scene this morning. I
have such great memories of you and Hugo and wild
thing on the recorder from the Queens.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You're junking that I thought was a monkey.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I got to dig him out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, give me my love, thanks, thanks, tell me bye.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, so many, so many great memories.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You go with a monkey whatever, silly
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