A more traditional worst. Morley. Galleria carpark.
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The Worst of Perth 
Will you look at the integrity of that glass.
At least three impact points and it’s still largely intact.
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Your car?
Disgruntled fan?
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Oh! I say!
How smashing!
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This was a more traditional worst just for you Reece I mean Grrr.
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Treemendous shot.
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As my four year old would say – “It’s slivered to slamereens!”
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Is the Magic Tree made of corflute?…..
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I just heard that Lux Interior has died
I saw The Cramps in about ’92 at the Old Melbourne. Lux was magnificent in a red vinyl catsuit and slingbacks, not unlike this video
RIP mate
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-lux-interior5-2009feb05,0,5401736.story
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Skink, I thought the Old Melbourne closed in 1992.
I tried looking up the Cramps tour dates last night and it implied they toured in ’90 and June 1995 (I recall not going to that one in the Boans Warehouse when.
But then I found mention elsewhere that the played the Parrot or Canterbury Court in the ’80s… So my info might be wrong.
Thanks LA for the traditional Worst.
As member for Morley I’ll have that car towed ASAP.
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Reece I knew you were a nice bloke if a bit dim, but now I’m concerned… How long can you keep dressing ina suit, taking your briefcase and blackberry and saying to your wife every morning “Bye Darl I’m off to meet with some constituents”, and spending the day in Morley Hungry Jacks….
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you may be right – it may have been 1990.
it may not even have been the Melbourne, or the Cramps
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All the teen idols looked the same back then.
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Poor Lisa,
You are wrong – Reece is now Producer of Seven Nightly News and is running stories which involve some sort of payback to the State Opposition :-)
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Seven Nightly News does give the impression it’s run out of a Morley fast food joint. It’s going to get cramped when West Australian newspapers moves in.
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If there’s one good thing you can say about the team from Seven Nightly News it’s that they have had the same anchor team – Rick and Suze – since 1985.
And no one spoils an A Current Affair report like Today Tonight. But who would want to?
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And it shows – when a Breaking News Story is reported on something which occoured 2 hours previously – as a direct consequence of the police radio communications going digital and encrypted and the media relying on a delayed version of the CAD System :-) Mind you they’re not much better in reporting fires either.
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re my last statement, here is exhibit a) :-)
http://www.westtv.com.au/?vxSiteId=43c6a3c7-abf1-4c32-b98d-c27f8fa83360&vxChannel=News&vxClipId=1416_WAU2077&vxBitrate=300
Lead Story.
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When you have the awesome reporting powers of Alison “Perth Gold Swindle” Fan and Bazil Zempilas’ Inside AFL who needs breaking stories?
Anyway, it’s TV news. We know from The West advertising that TV news is the last to know, cribbing their stories from The West that morning.
And The West wouldn’t lie!
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Speaking of late-breaking news, Skink might be interested to know that the ABC Online posted the sad death of Lux at about 8am today, about 18 hours after the news broke.
Still, props to the ABC from marking his passing I suppose.
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Except that Ally almost quit because she hated the News Director’s guts and was only prevented from leaving by Chris Wharton offering a job as a reporter on Today Tonight – same with Mark Gibson.
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Just a note about the Cramps. It was Canterbury Court, and it was 1986. I remember one incident. Some moron in the crowd hurled a beer can at the band. The lead singer then addressed the anonymous shit saying something like “Don’t throw things at us. If you do, we will leave, and then the audience will kill you”.
I remember 1986 as being a year for lobbing beer cans at bands. I narrowly missed a full one while on stage at the Shents, and there was this diabolical thrash band called The Greenhouse Effect, whose followers seemed to think it was mandatory to chuck stuff at them while they were playing. Got a great bit of audio where the lead singer says “don’t chuck shit when we’re starting a song… if you’re gonna chuck shit, don’t chuck it at our heads!” I actually witnessed him copping a can in the forehead at the Wizbah, and he stormed off stage in a huff.
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As with Strippers World, the palms in the background make this.
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Ahh Morley Galleria! Clearly the new Balga (or perhaps a rival to Rockingham, is that too unkind?) if this is any indication!
Re the Cramps, the Cantebury Court gig was awesome! They just dont make ’em like the cramps anymore!!
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Well spotted DFOC!
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TLA’s labours are works of art. 300000 years from now, when explorers from Kobol are sifting through the archives of the State Library, they will be studying TWOP with an intensity not disimilar to how we examine a Johns or a Tintoretto. Or something like that.
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It was new headlines on Nine’s national nightly news tonight that people who didn’t pay any tax aren’t going to get any tax cuts. Oh the humanity!
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Louise Momber has a nice rack. That’s all.
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“I remember 1986 as being a year for lobbing beer cans at bands. I narrowly missed a full one while on stage at the Shents, and there was this diabolical thrash band called The Greenhouse Effect, whose followers seemed to think it was mandatory to chuck stuff at them while they were playing.”
– You got to admit, Tod Johnston and V Capri deserved it.
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Speaking of Tod, his covewrage of the Victorian Bushfries on 6PR is really cringeworthy – all jingoistic and really shallow and crass, as opposed to the ABC Local Radio coverage from Melbourne which was relayed last night and early this morning on Newsradio.
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Shame on you Frank – A new low point for you –
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Todd? Is that you?
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RIP Lux.
Cramps definately played Old Melbourne in about 86. Towards the end of the night, Lux did a stage dive off the top of the speaker stack wearing only a leopard skin print g-string while singing “Fever”. You don’t forget something like that. Vague memory is that they played Canterbury Court the night before the Old Melbourne. That’s how they did things in the olden days.
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I missed the BBC on newsradio Frank. They could have used the local stations. Did we care that Crapialloc road was on fire and closed? Would they have shut down Melbourne radio of Morley was on fire?
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And Cookster, re: Louise Momber has a nice rack. That’s all.
I was born a Mignon henny man, and I’ll die…
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[I missed the BBC on newsradio Frank. They could have used the local stations. Did we care that Crapialloc road was on fire and closed? Would they have shut down Melbourne radio of Morley was on fire?]
Actually last year when there were some large fires here in WA ABC Overnights did interview FESA and gave out the Fire Alerts every 15 minutes, firstly interrupted by a local ABC person, and then by the Melbourne Presenter – former Parkerville native Tervor Chappell.
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Fire alert every once in a while fine, but really enough already. All night coverage to WA about some shithole in Victoria on fire?
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But when it involves death on the scale this fire is, that is a total different story, a small bushfire in Cullacabardee isn’t national news – the current Melbourne Fires are.
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News yes, but wall to wall coverage no? The news radio coverage was mostly about what roads were closed. A bulletin every hour would have been plenty. There is zero chance there would have given over news radio wall to wall if wa had been on fire, no matter how many carked. Road closures is what the local stations are for.
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Two excerpts from the search results today. “Should there be an apostrophe in hens for hens night?” and “Independent test for corflute.”
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People ask rhetorical questions in search now, TLA ? The world is, as they used to say on SBS, an amazing place.
Fine Weekend Worstoff as usual, by the way.
Avagoodweegend.
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And Steve Gordon did an excellent tribute just after the 7pm News and played their Verswion of Mule Skinner Blues (one of the only radio friendly songs he could play)
I’ll bet if Bob played that the Philistines would be baying for his blood :-)
BTW TWOP Poster Bett Treasiure will be on his show sometime this evening talking about his Families property in Gin Gin.
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Steve Gordon is a deadset national treasure. Here’s the Steve I remember, and he apparently just keeps delivering the goods. Inspirational.
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… and I’ve just discovered that although I can’t get a podcast, I can listen to Steve live online from 6pm to 11:59 weekends.
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I’ll have to look for his contact email. He will have to be awarded the coveted not worst medallion.
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[I’ll have to look for his contact email. He will have to be awarded the coveted not worst medallion.]
it’s flash@6pr.com.au oh and Brett Treasure is on about now :-) After the ad break
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I’ll have to dig up my end-of-transmission video recording of “Love You Perth”.
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which is an adaption of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJOqD0EbGG8
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Oh and this has the only video of V Capri on Youtube as well :-)
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Hahaha… I love V Capri.
With these bush fires, is it really that wrong that I can’t get the song ‘Disco Inferno’ out of my head?
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who is this woman Victoria Burns that keeps making the headlines?
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[With these bush fires, is it really that wrong that I can’t get the song ‘Disco Inferno’ out of my head?]
Even though Steve Gordon apologised in advance regarding songs with suss lyrics, one of the tracks he played last night was “Cincinnati Fireball”, by Victorian singer Mev Benton :-)
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How was Mr Free beer?
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Very good indeed, and Steve gave a great interview as well, lots of history behind the family property which they bought etc.
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“I’ll have to dig up my end-of-transmission video recording of “Love You Perth”.
which is an adaption of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJOqD0EbGG8”
Uh, “Love You Perth” is an adaption of “Love You Perth”?
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[Uh, “Love You Perth” is an adaption of “Love You Perth”?
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The closer has I believe different footage to the version I posted, ie including the ch 7 lights being turned off etc.
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“The closer has I believe different footage to the version I posted, ie including the ch 7 lights being turned off etc.”
(how do I quote properly?)
Oh I see. Yes, I believe I have the closer version somewhere on Beta tape. Peter Dean was always the announcer for Channel 7’s closing segments, and it got to the point that friends of mine and I (are you listening Bedford Crackpot?) were convinced that he lived in the building, and we pictured him doing the voice-over in his pyjamas each night, and wandering around the corridors switching all the lights off, carrying a candle on a dish, wearing a floppy night cap.
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Indeed!! fluffy slippers, warm milk, cookies, potty!!! :) I do recall!!
Now I’m sure Frank will have additional input here…. over to you Frank.
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