WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.165 --> 00:00:01.220 (Upbeat music) 2 00:00:01.220 --> 00:00:05.380 I was very fortunate in the early '70s 3 00:00:05.380 --> 00:00:09.570 line:15% to be living in a house with a bunch of actors and musicians 4 00:00:09.570 --> 00:00:12.021 in fact, it was an extraordinary house 5 00:00:12.021 --> 00:00:17.021 where all sorts of tricks and theatre antics 6 00:00:17.930 --> 00:00:19.620 were played out every single day. 7 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:22.810 And there was one room that was a music room, 8 00:00:22.810 --> 00:00:26.250 and basically I just started sitting on the drum kit 9 00:00:26.250 --> 00:00:27.363 and started playing. 10 00:00:28.890 --> 00:00:32.000 line:15% There was a drummer there who lived in that house as well, 11 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:33.370 line:15% a guy called Lindsay Arnold. 12 00:00:33.370 --> 00:00:36.070 line:15% And he kind of taught me quite a bit 13 00:00:36.070 --> 00:00:38.670 and had a big influence on me, but it was really the house, 14 00:00:38.670 --> 00:00:41.370 it was one of those classic share houses, 15 00:00:41.370 --> 00:00:45.960 we were very bohemian, it really had an influence on me 16 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.643 to become a creative person. 17 00:00:50.740 --> 00:00:52.700 I went overseas for a couple of years 18 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:55.294 before returning to Brisbane, 19 00:00:55.294 --> 00:00:59.030 when I did a couple more years of acting. 20 00:00:59.030 --> 00:01:01.740 And I did that for a couple of years before really settling 21 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:05.220 into drums, and probably settling into drums 22 00:01:05.220 --> 00:01:09.880 because of the political movements in Brisbane at the time 23 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:12.820 due to the oppression of the Bjelke-Petersen government 24 00:01:12.820 --> 00:01:14.890 and punk music. 25 00:01:14.890 --> 00:01:18.890 Being such a significant artistic movement, 26 00:01:18.890 --> 00:01:21.730 it really affected me, And I just went, oh my God, 27 00:01:21.730 --> 00:01:24.133 I wanna do something that's significant. 28 00:01:26.510 --> 00:01:30.450 Jenny was working in those little squares, 29 00:01:30.450 --> 00:01:33.260 she was working and you can see it in the portraits. 30 00:01:33.260 --> 00:01:38.260 So she, in fact the seating was to take polaroid photos. 31 00:01:38.470 --> 00:01:43.253 That's how she did it, so she just sat me down, 32 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:49.840 and took quite a few polaroid photos, and then she worked at 33 00:01:49.990 --> 00:01:54.163 a grid system around the photo to paint that. 34 00:01:55.950 --> 00:01:57.970 All three portraits were incredible, 35 00:01:57.970 --> 00:02:02.970 and we used the portraits on our first album cover, 36 00:02:04.167 --> 00:02:05.647 "send me a lullaby". 37 00:02:07.870 --> 00:02:12.700 It was just incredible luck that we got, 38 00:02:12.700 --> 00:02:14.050 well, it wasn't so much luck 39 00:02:14.050 --> 00:02:17.200 because Jenny and John lived in the same apartment block 40 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:19.570 in Spring Hill that Grant McLennan lived in. 41 00:02:19.570 --> 00:02:21.750 So, and they were just around the corner 42 00:02:21.750 --> 00:02:23.500 from where Robin and I lived in Spring Hill. 43 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:28.070 So it wasn't such a big shock, or unusual, 44 00:02:28.070 --> 00:02:31.747 but we're so lucky because those portraits 45 00:02:31.747 --> 00:02:33.313 are just so brilliant. 46 00:02:36.056 --> 00:02:39.970 You know, those portraits, she was selling those portraits. 47 00:02:39.970 --> 00:02:44.760 This is just extraordinary story, for 50 bucks. 48 00:02:44.760 --> 00:02:47.440 And, you know, we were so poor. 49 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:49.543 I can't tell you we had no money, 50 00:02:50.555 --> 00:02:53.760 and I really wanted to buy that portrait, 51 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:55.650 and I mentioned it to my family, 52 00:02:55.650 --> 00:02:58.194 but they had no conception at all, 53 00:02:58.194 --> 00:03:01.660 but in the end, the person she's a partner with, 54 00:03:01.660 --> 00:03:05.482 who's an architect, he bought the portraits. 55 00:03:05.482 --> 00:03:08.065 (upbeat music) 56 00:03:08.927 --> 00:03:11.365 But I'd always been tracking them, 57 00:03:11.365 --> 00:03:15.154 I wanted to know where they where I was, you know, 58 00:03:15.154 --> 00:03:17.870 and also they would have been split up, 59 00:03:17.870 --> 00:03:20.420 which would have been another kind of weird thing 60 00:03:20.420 --> 00:03:22.140 if Andrew hadn't bought them. 61 00:03:22.140 --> 00:03:23.700 I think I've got that story, right? 62 00:03:23.700 --> 00:03:25.380 I mean, I've never checked that story, 63 00:03:25.380 --> 00:03:27.330 but I'm pretty sure that story's right. 64 00:03:30.990 --> 00:03:32.820 The colours are really great, you know, 65 00:03:32.820 --> 00:03:34.770 I mean, I can't wait to see it again today. 66 00:03:34.770 --> 00:03:37.630 It's been a long time since I've seen them 67 00:03:37.630 --> 00:03:40.570 and I look so serious and so punk, 68 00:03:40.570 --> 00:03:42.956 and I was, I was like that. 69 00:03:42.956 --> 00:03:45.539 (Upbeat music) 70 00:03:51.697 --> 00:03:52.530 Oh, wow. 71 00:03:54.910 --> 00:03:55.743 Oh, wow. 72 00:03:57.930 --> 00:03:59.020 Gee whiz. 73 00:04:02.238 --> 00:04:03.949 Yeah, look at that. 74 00:04:03.949 --> 00:04:05.890 Gee, they're in good nick. 75 00:04:05.890 --> 00:04:09.057 God they're really weather proof shit.