Ronggly sent this shot of the Indian Ocean Hotel in Scarborough so that historians will know the essence of Perth in the early years of the century. And in the several decades of the last. It’s just so Perth. A salmon brick hotel from the worst period of WA architecture, with palm trees, one burnt, one half burnt. But I like it. These are shots that would make me homesick if I were overseas. It just says Perth to me. Much better on the eye than Ray O’Connor’s Observation City.I just remembered photoshop has a vibrance filter. I applied it to the palms. What a difference. I’ve just checked their website which says that The Rolling Stones and Led Zepplin stayed there (1971 & 1973). On the down side, John Bono Butler has regularly played there too.
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From the same people who put those high rise blocks all over Maylands? Or was everything over two stories built to some unwritten standard?
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The notion that a hotel’s music history would be based on who’s stayed, rather than played there, is an intriguing one, TLA. And I note a familiar name performing there last Saturday, and this Sunday.
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Bugger. The links just revert to their homepage. Typical.
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Its allright. I can click twice.
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Even I’ve played at this place.
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Whoa! You’ve trodden the same boards as Bono Butler?
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Interestingly the website states that Led Zeppelin stayed there.
But the Australian tour commenced on Feb 16 1972.
From this I can only conclude that LZ arrived in 1971 and stayed at the hotel for over a year until their tour started.
This would explain the shabby appearance and they still haven’t cleaned up the place, probably keeping as a monument to rock n roll excess
I wonder if there any photos of Jimmy Page torching the palm trees?
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Nice photos there Ronggly. What I love about the Indi is the undulating carparks.
It’s strange, but I could find no mention of them on their website.
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The photos only capture a hint, I’m afraid. You need to
stand in that carpark and gaze around you to get the full experience. Then, dodge the broken stubbies, and head into the White Sands Public Bar for a middy and skimpies. It doesn’t get much better than that.
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have they redecorated since The Stones stayed there?
I suspect not
‘direct dial phones’ wow.
Do the TV’s have those new fangled remote control thingies?
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ooh, when you go to the IOH website there is the sound of the ocean and seagulls. All it needs is the roar of a V8 ute doing circle work and you’d think you were in Scarboro.
There is alos a strange creaking sound that may be someone hanging themselves in one of the rooms.
also from the website:
“Freo has something to offer for everyone… you can even just sit and watch the world go by whilst relaxing and enjoying a coffee on the infamous cappuccino strip”
infamous? that notoriously egregious cappucino strip?
“infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it infamy.”
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the website is magnificent:
“things to do… Kings Park:
Here you will see spectacular views or Perth”
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or “visiting the old Fremantle Goal”
Ahh, remember when Fremantle had a “Goal”? Now it just wanders aimlessly through life…
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he shoots he scores
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Maybe a reference the almost Docker glory days Jasper?
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*polite golf claps*
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No goal at all : that’s the Freo spirit. If any of you haven’t noticed DFOC’s editorials it’s the Perth Writers Festival this weekend. I’m going to the session ” Is Journalism passe : the role of the expert in the new media”.
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I thought about heading to the Irving Welsh session, but….
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Come on shazza!
I can set you up with a Dorothy Dixer and mayhem could ensue!
Afterwards we can take Irvine into Northbridge to see if it compares with Leith.
What do you say?
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Very tempting. If not for the fact I will be in Roleystone I would take you up on that. I can see it now. The night would be written into Perth folklore Shazza snorted Irving under the table.
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with DFOC getting quotes and pix.
I could make you a star but you want to head for the hills.
I am disappointed.
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I thought Jasper was talking about the good old days when Fremantle had a goat.
Now that would’ve been a popular animal.
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oops, just noted my mistake. Irvine. Apologies Mr Welsh.
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How many Fremantle Dockers does it take to change a light bulb?
We don’t know. We’re still waiting for them to find the top of the ladder.
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Maybe this season their light will shine brightly Gregoryno6?
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I wouldn’t know what a team whose light shines brightly looks like, shazza
I’ve been a Bulldogs supporter since the day I emerged from the womb at Footscray Hospital.
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Shit! Good luck with Bazza
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Not looking forward to Barry’s antics. King size disaster potential.
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4 goals by quarter time – not bad
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6 goals for the game. And no tanty. I admit it, I’m surprised.
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It won’t last. He’s in the honeymoon phase.
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R U rding m mnd?
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I’d say it’s a case of collective consciousness gregoryno6. We are all thinking it.
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he’s slowly working out the ramifications of his move on his old relationships. then we will see some action.
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Can anyone make out the sign at the tip of the building.
Open Book Here??
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top not tip, my freudian slip is showing.
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I think it should be…
“Open- Book Here.”
However it may be a reference to the conveniently located and primed Gideon in each room.
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Did the Stones have a wild night with the Hotel Roo’s? Anyone know?
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Sorry, now I get it. The Hotel Roos morphed into the Scarborough Sluts.
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I wonder why they stayed out at Scabs. I think Teh Stones played in a vanished worst venue around where the Parmelia is now. I think.
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I’ll check when I get a monemt, TLA, but I think it was the WACA.
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Correctamundo Snuff:
“In February 1973 the Rolling Stones played a daytime concert at the WACA as part of their Pacific Tour.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACA_Ground
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A person I used to work with said she saw them at some ballroom place in centre of town.
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Can’t find anything official TLA. Might have been an unadvertised gig?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_Pacific_Tour_1973
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The Embassy ballroom?
A great venue. Saw AC/DC and Skyhooks there. Also lost my virginity in a planter box in the carpark. Ah, the romance.
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The magnificent Embassy was the only ballroom in the CBD, as far as I know, TLA. As I may have previously mentioned, I was fortunate enough to have attended the last 2 gigs ever played there; Simple Minds and Stray Cats, but I’ve never heard so much as a rumour of an unofficial Stones gig there. Steve Gordon or Marshall Martin are probably the only people whom might have heard otherwise, but I can only presume your workmate may have accessed the Stones’ rider. IIRC, Chain played the support gig.
As for why Scabs, were I visiting Perth in February, I’d want to be near the beach too, not to mention the other obvious attractions.
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A bit off topic.
Snuff, do you remember a venue call ‘Canterbury Court’? I saw some gigs there, but for the life of me I can’t remember where it was.
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Oh, and here’s a link to a photo of the Embassy ballroom. Embassy Ballroom
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CC has been discussed before. It’s now underneath merry’s furniture where Patti Chong reigns.
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Indeed it has been, phreestyle, (mostly in the Dead Parrot thread), and as I recall, it was on the corner of James and Stirling Streets. The Cramps, (amongst others, there) were great, but my favourite was an under-18’s Hoodoo Gurus gig.
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I think she was probably referring to the 3 gigs they played at the Capitol Theatre in ’65, TLA. Now long gone, they replaced it with this.
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And the Capitol was also the scene where a young Normie Rowe was demonstrating his football skills with a punter’s head, as reported here:
http://watvhistory.com/2009/11/8-years-with-7-in-the-60s-by-brian-harrison-lever/
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Cue Dr Peter Harries C.U.N.T. PhD
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I saw that gig – well heard it anyway.
My mate’s dad was the Sgt in charge of the lockup at the causeway police station. They had a house on the roof of the cop shop and he invited me over to see the gig.
I was more impressed by the house on the roof than the Stones. What a callow youth I was.
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Off the track –
“Johnny Young is looking forward to the long weekend… despite the Perth heatwave!”
How long have you guys had Johnny Young living in Perth?
And doesn’t he look like Ricky Gervais in that photo?
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FB wants a login before I can see the photo. But Johnny Young has been here a long time.
I saw him waiting in line for an ice cream at the original Valhalla Cinema way back when. Talk about being out of context.
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Thor, Odin, Loki, Johnny Young. That’s yer standard crew for when you reach Valhalla. Sometimes Frig too. Johhny’s just started his afterlife a little early.
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He’s no Sattler passed out on a couch, but this link might work, gregoryno6.
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That’s him, all right. Still laughing at having foisted Jamie Redfern on an unsuspecting public.
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The first time …
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The ‘Jamie Redfern for Host’ Group. Facebook is truly the work of Satan.
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Meanwhile Mark Genge of RTR Imfamy is now Dennis Walter’sand Derryn Hinch’s Panel Operator.
Yes, on-topic as Dennis got his start on YTT.
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And I should add that he is the second RTR Allumni to work for Fairfax Radio in a pannelling capicity – the other being one Rob Fletcher.
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Insert long maniacal laugh here.
Genge working for Hinch. Isn’t that what they used to call selling out to The Man?
Another young rebel quietly disappears into the bourgeois crowd…
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its a job, let the bloke get on and earn a living.
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I thought that was Liberace. Remember you can take the boy out of Liberace, but you can’t take… (sorry I’ll get my coat).
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Not just Hotel Roos but Holiday Un and Direct Dial Pho! It’s got it all
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Fucking A, Pfort. And if you happen to be looking for an Open Book, it’s definitely the place to go!
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re Media140:
Gareth Parker of Teh West was on ABC drive last night with his summary of the event
his conclusion was that nobody really knew how social media could best be harnessed to business and his advice to any business considering a social media strategy was to wait to see if it is all just a flash in the pan
he confirmed that Teh West has no policy in regard to social media
sounds even more pointless than the Landcorp thing
at least they all got to doodle monorails on their napkins.
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Have you seen the photos of Gareth on stage with his head wired up like he’s about to lip synch at a Britney gig?
No wonder he wasn’t making sense post-Media140. ‘Flash in the pan?’ Really?
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“he confirmed that Teh West has no policy in regard to social media.”
That comes as no surprise, as it took them 10 years to sort their website out. And it’s still shit.
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I’d like to suggest a new WOP meme to replace the cocus palms.. the ‘bogan burial mound’. I have two near me, what was once a pile of sand, which has been left to the ages and overgrown with grass and wild oats.. There’s one on Coode Street which almost completely blocks out the house behind it, the view from the living room must be amazing!
Will try and get shots of both over the weekend..
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i’m with you, bogbarrows are worst as fuck
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Whats this spose to be about a plain old hotel.
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Hi, Led Zeppelin definitely did not stay here, they stayed up the road at the Contacio on West Coast Highway. Stones definitely did stay here. cheers
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