Two more pieces of history from from my film negative vault. Firstly this is the one time site of one of those ultra crappy 80s Perth nightclubs on fire. I can’t remember what it was called originally. Eagle Bum? Penisocchios? (Puke) Musos Club? Knob Gobblers? Not sure of the date of this. End of last century sometime. And earlier still, (1987?) I found another shot of the Firm crowd, where some dude actually does have a beret on. And if you want to see some not worst, here’s a shot I took in St Mark’s Square Venice 1997. Hadn’t even proofed it before. I staggered out of Harry’s Bar around midnight, apparently and implausibly clutching a ridiculous 1960s twin lens medium format camera. My first words on seeing the scan were, “Shit, that’s pretty fucken good!”
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And has one guy got some kind of a bush hat complete withstring? In a nightclub? Why?
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possibly combined with a sister of mercy shirt?
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Well spotted, I believe that is a Sisters shirt.
Next to him is a guy in a King Pig t-shirt.
And those winkle-pickers in front are to die for.
I’m not sure about the beer selection. VB I can get down with, but is that a Foster’s can in the far right.
(No glassings here: co-incidence? I think not).
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What about the spotted tights. Or possibly pyjamas on the left.
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I can’t get over the enormous jeans, third from the left, middle row, perm.
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That’s definitely a footlong fly.
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Would that house that appears to be burning down be was was DV8 (the backside of DV8) aka Reactor aka …. no idea? It’s the only club I can recall burning down.
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I think Blazes did, but can’t place this one. More information please, Mr Newman.
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I think Murray st. Close to Milligan.
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And this burning was maybe 1999, later than it’s original status as a shithole. May have had a name change.
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Beethoven’s? I can’t remember its 90’s name, I think it started with R.
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Yes think that’s it.
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Called Rumours during the early 90’s, so many hangovers
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Oh. I had quite forgotten that place existed.
I used to walk on by to The Firm/Fast Eddies.
I can’t even recall what kind of music they played there, but I seem to recall hearing M-People and Technotronic bleeding out of the doorway.
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Is the VB being consumed ironically?
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Might even be Melbourne Bitter.
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It looks like VB to me. Sadly, I think I have long lost any photographic evidence, but I used to have a scattering of images that suggests that the only beers available in the pre-metrosexual era were Swan, Emu and VB.
Mate.
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MB was inexplicably popular at the Old Melbourne, mate.
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Yeah I think it’s MB, which is also horrible.
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MB is entirely drinkable.
But then I think that VB is too.
I’m cheap like that.
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Probably because it was possible to purchase it cheap at wholesale !
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XXXX
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Was XXXX even available this far West back then?
I say: no.
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Yes, I remember buying a carton at The Charles 1983.
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My mistake. Perhaps it went away and came back, as for many years I was sure XXXX was a beer that existed only on the Paul Hogan show.
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this was the eighties, before Matilda Bay, and a time where it was difficult to find imported beer. It was expensive and drinking it was considered blasphemy, and possibly fey.
drinking VB rather than Swan was considered sophisticated. Drinking anything other than Swan was considered sophisticated. Or just sensible. Ironic beer drinking was very much a nineties thing
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In my Gobbles/Rumours/Pinnochios/Shaftos days I was drinking Heineken. Yes even before I was legal drinking age I was ahead of the game.
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That’s classed as ahead of the game?
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Ahead of VB, absolutely.
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Smacks of barefeetism to me.
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Good Day to you Sir.
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Q: Why do hipsters always have burnt mouths?
A: They eat their food before it is cool.
Hey, I never said I was the comedian here.
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precocious and pretentious
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Never knew beer drinking could be ironic.
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This has to be the Fur Version’s playing at The Loft. The giveaway is the tamborine. This would have have been about 1990 and that looks like Ian Chatter on drums.
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If The Firm is the same as The loft, then yes. And yes.
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After my time so I can’t say for sure, but I think the Loft was another club.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been to the loft.
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The Loft was previously F.Scotts, down on Hay St, past the Carlton Hotel
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I was at The Loft, and I was at The Firm before that, and I can confirm this is on no way The Loft.
I can’t confirm that it is The Firm (no floors bouncing), but it may be The Beat Room downstairs.
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Since I took the pic, I can confirm it Firmwise.Upstairs.
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Surely excesses of cheap VB/MB were involved?
Can you be that sure? Upstairs, downstairs…
And, which band?
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Yes. Band already identified above. The Fur Version.
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I can just recall Fur Versions if I try. I may have even seen them once. (Boy, the window gets damned small, doesn’t it?)
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Some dude? That’s the famous Jasper Silver from Psychodrama!
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Oh Hesus. He’s so young.
And that’s John in the King Pig shirt, right?
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Support for a beret wearer but nothing for my magnificent drunk Venice photo. Only in Australia.
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Looks like Mandurah.
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Although Mandurah Council chamber not weekly under half a meter of salt water. They want Ooshta in crab town, they need to have seawater surging back through the toilets every few days.
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I was in Venice one wet and windy November, wearing fly-fishing waders to stay dry (-ish).
I still couldn’t get across some of the piazzas, but I went through the motions.
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Out of curiosity, Rolly, what was the clubbing scene like in “your day”? Was it actual man with club, dragging long haired woman back to … well, baravan?
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Baravan with stone wheels.
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Thanks, TLA. Possibly also with holes in the floor for the feet to go through…?
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Ahh that’s the chemical toilet.
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gold x 4
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I was more visualising with and without passengers
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That’s taking the piss !
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Well played, RR.
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Shucks thanks. As the said beret wearer I can say that your dating is a bit off, more likely to be around 89 or 90 (unless there was a beret awarded who predates me…)
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I bow to your beret warmed memory.
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Girl on the ground is Leila. Right, TLA?
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I would also hazard a guess that The Firm didn’t open until 1988?
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Long before.
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Correct The Firm opened in 1988
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it is indeed…
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Club Rumours – but it had been abandoned and vacant for a long time before the fire. The building was close to 100 years old – all jarrah beams and floors. Well seasoned. All the fire brigade could do was to stop it spreading to neighbouring buildings.
We watched until the walls fell in.
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Nice bit of goth arse there. I bet she’d suck my cock.
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you’d be a fine candidate for auto-fellatio
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Must admit I scrolled down to the, ahem, bottom half of the photo more than once.
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Why are all the Nightclubs in Perth located in Northbridge?
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Geraldton has a couple too.
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I see that there were 69 comments before this one… fnnarr fnnarr. I bet the guy in the beret would suck my cock. After all, isn’t that what berets are meant to signify?
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CAN ANYONE REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE CLUB ON THE CORNER OF BARRACK ST AND THE ESPLANADE
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Surely you don’t mean the Weld club?
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Yes Lazy Aussie, that’s only ever been the one club at that locstat but I think he probably means the one across the other side of the esplanade and down a bit. Can’t remember its name right now but hey it’s now part of HRH Quay! Check out the girl on the left in the pic with the 750mt can of (I am sure) Fosters. Used to drink those at the uni tav in the mid eighties!
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anabella’s was the night club opposite the weld club. DJ Spinner and DJ Birdie’s first gig. Later it became a drop in centre and before Barnett got hold of it , it was an Asian restraunt. Go the cintronics mixer twin technics SL1200’s and light up dance floor. lol
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Well hello:
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/remember-when-pinocchios-and-rumours-dominated-perths-nightclub-scene-20160525-gp3jkm.html
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More people to claim it was them in the shot.
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Only 60s club I remember burning down was Firecracker which was in the west end of Murray street.
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