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They're playing a couple of reunion shows in support of a CD compilation of their old stuff. I saw them a few times back in 89-90. Never got as excited about them as I did about other bands on the Sydney scene at the time, although I remember them as always being at least good fun, and reading the band bio on their website made me more nostalgic than I expected it to.

Whadday reckon?

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

they used to play "the body is dirt" on rage alla time back in the 80s/90s, good song that one. i've heard good things about 'knock me your lobes' but never managed to hear the record itself.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

hmmm - I've got 'knock me your lobes' but don't think it's been off the shelf for about a decade. I'd forgot about "the body is dirt".

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

'When a Whisky Buys a Whisky' - a great song, recorded with lots of atmpsphere and a nice sound, capturing something of the times - that record was obviously recorded blind drunk, and even has a bottle smashing in it. I once saw them live, and the singer said, 'Excuse our drummer, she's tripping'. They were sort of an irritatingly inner city Newtown pretentious studenty thingy at the time. I reckon I'd like them much more now.

― moley (moley), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

'When a Whiskey Buys a Whisky' was the Craven Fops. Although both bands had a female drummer and a tall lead singer. That comment wouldn't have sounded out of place at either band's gigs.

I was one of those pretentious students...

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

that said, OTM re Whisky's drunken splendour.

'Production by Victoria Bitter'

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

i foolishly sold both my craven fops records :(

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

I foolishly refused to buy a copy of "Spin the Bottle" because I didn't like the production on that purple 10" EP. Talk about a stupid reason not to buy a Fops record. 'Tis better to have loved and lost etc.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

'When a Whiskey Buys a Whisky' was the Craven Fops. Although both bands had a female drummer and a tall lead singer. That comment wouldn't have sounded out of place at either band's gigs.
I was one of those pretentious students...

-- scriblerus

Oh yeah, sorry. I wonder how those 2 bands merged in my mind.

― moley (moley), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

never thought i'd see a thread about the Plug Uglies in my life, let aloine one with more than a single reply. I will now have to re-listen to whatever I have of theirs.

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

jimmy glass: what was the video to 'the body is dirt' like? I don't remember ever seeing it.

I just had a vivid memory of an Uglies gig at the Lansdowne: this ferocious-looking woman, who looked a lot like a bulldog, albeit an angry, drunken bulldog with tatts, spent fifteen minutes screeching at the band to "play Santana".

Eventually, some kind of alcoholic threshhold having been reached, she seemed to start enjoying the music - she took her top off and started dancing around like a maniac.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

god it's been years since i've seen it, i can't remember what it was like at all..

i recall some comic strip in eddie or some equivalent magazine that was about a heckler at a pluglies gig..

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

Were this band named after the band who appeared in Judge Dredd, or vice versa?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 1 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

The Aussie band named themselves after the 19th-century New York street gang, according to this page.

Maybe the Judge Dredd band were named after the same thugs.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

God i remember seeing them for the first time at Harold Park Hotel in Glebe....Roger was always pacing the stage like some kinda caged animal. They were always shambolic/wonderful live. That Drunk/Monk/SPunk album is pretty special too, often give that one a spin.

― ivegotdimensions, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

I saw the reunion gig at the Annandale on Saturday, and it was good fun. I was surprised by how many of the songs I remembered, and how good Roger's voice still sounds.

He still does the pacing and epileptic trembling. The band were much tighter than I remembered them, not to say better dressed, and there was a proper lightshow and everything.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

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