Now THIS was a vibrant city. Who could forget when David Measham would thrust us nurry deep into culture when The Western Australian Symphony Orchestra played “The Pops” and Perth Proms. Gag. One disk NOT Onkyo bound. 
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I like the evidence of what I assume was reclamation process in the foreground. Surely it was a fetid swap at the time. Now that is vibrancy.
So what are we looking at here? Some time between 1979 to 1983?
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Measham Prommed it up from 1974 to 1981
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Well St Martin’s Tower there in on the left was completed in 1978 I believe. Narrows it down a bit.
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Oh is that what that’s called. I’d always thought of it as ‘Orthanc’.
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Isn’t it Allendale Square ? and the Wanambah Arcade used to go underneath it.
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No. St Martins which has the revolving restaurant.
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Yep, formerly known as Highlight 33 if my memory serves me. Recently C Restaurant. Not sure what it is now?
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Still C Restaurant; both crap names….
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C got a delightful slagging off by Broadfield if I remember rightly.
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Me mum tore her dress on a nail protruding from a chair there, and got no reparation, and barely an apology. Cunts.
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If you want revolving worsts look no further than the restaurant at Kahuna wildlife park.
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You mean this one? Note is now spelt “Cohunu”. And I’m all squished up again.
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And of course the defunct one here, bafflingly on the ground floor.
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Every city has a revolving restaurant, and they are uniformly overpriced and shit.
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no, allendale square is further west, and has a different profile.
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Once they’d given up trying to fill in Perth Water with excavation waste and started erecting tall and tasteless monuments to human stupidity, the whole place started going to rack and roonie.
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And what’s that font? Softcock?
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Letraset Arsefont.
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Is the “s” in “West” meant to look like a clef?
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it’s the shorthand symbol for ‘copro ma non troppo’
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I believe the correct term for that particular font is: Finocchio
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=finocchio
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Cornuto bold
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Stronzo elaborato.
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I thought ‘Softcock Serif’ was right on the money
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Or 70s serif phat.
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It’s Western Australia, not West Australia. That really shits me.
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Charlie Court had a quaint habit of saying WA like that.
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Slight clarification: didn’t fully read the statement, Bento. Court The Elder did say Western Australia, but said it with a distinct hard separation of syllable, being the myopic parochialist he was.
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Now I can’t decide whether to post this here, or here.
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Yeah!
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FUCK YEAH!
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pretty cool huh?
I saw Antony and the Johnstons with WASO and it was shit
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Not the shit? I think I would actually prefer to see WASO with Antony than with Ben, but I’ll take your word for it Mez. Mind you, I wouldn’t pay to see either with WASO, or perhaps otherwise.
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WASO + popular “alternative” musician = 30 something wankathon. Tapanade, darling?
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I can feel a monologue coming on…
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Yet I refuse to write in a squishy box.
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Madison! Taylah! Sit still and be quiet! We’re watching the classical!
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A mate of mine, and a relative, play on that album. One of them pointed out to me how David, through his promming at that time, had significantly raised teh profile of teh WASO.
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Bum, that should be “I know a couple of people who play on that album, one a relative, the other an acquaintance”. Although more accurate it it is more pedantic, no ? [where’d I put the cask ?]
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Pedantically accurate Chicken? Nothing wrong with accuracy, nor pedantry. In my books, anywaaaays.
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By all reports, “Lou” was a truly charming man, whose many credits include working with Ornette Coleman, and on Neil Young’s Harvest. Respect.
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Hope he covered Coleman and Young songs on said album; that’s all I’m saying, apart from “Hooked on Classics“.
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A Pops version of Harvest?
Was he involved with Deep Purple with The London Symphony Orchestra, a record of which I saw last week?
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Nope, TLA, although he did work with them and Rick Wakeman.
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“Over here honey; don’t mind the people behind us – they’ll be able to see; hear, anyway. What if I put the blanket down here? Anchor that corner with the wine cooler. Mind pouring me one? The 98 Pinot, the one from the Merchant, not the Shiraz. Nice here, isn’t it? Kings Park. Perfect weather. I wonder when Ben is coming on. Pass the tapanade, would you? I love how someone like Ben fits so well with an orchestra. I mean, it’s a mark of his talent, that his songs translate so well, with violins and everything. Back sore? Baby kicking again? Here, have a chinotto. Any more of those stuffed baby capsicums? Look, he’s coming on now”.
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Shit a brick, someone must have eavesdropped on me at the Ben Folds/WASO gig! I can appreciate his smartarsed bitterness; he was married to a Crow Eater (and lived in Adelaide for a time), but has since split and returned to USA, though he does come to Oz, for the benefit of his kids, who in turn sometimes stay over with him.
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None of that excuses nothin’, Turnips. Any smartarsed bitterness apart from my own really gets up my arse. Tapanade, darling?
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Ben Folds minus Five
But with WASO; stick on your
So French So Chic disc
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No, just give me a pinot grigio douche, that’ll do.
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All that probably came out a little more vehemently than intended, Turnips.
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nuh, you did us proud there. But ‘capsicuns’.
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Should it have been “capsicunts” or perhaps “cacsipuns”?
One can never tell with you lot.
Never mind, though; the fickle finger of Andy has edited the same.
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That’s cool, NF#1: I know I can be a right insufferable wanker and I know it.
Hey, it could be worse, y’know. I could be really Rockin’ The Suburbs and be a NIKLBAK fan, trying to sing as if I’m constipated like Choad Grogan.
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TLA!
Naughty boy!
Put the Red Castle picture back where you found it: the blog addicts will get most upset when they look up the reference and find it missing.
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