IZZY FOREAL - PETER KNOX - A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION
IZZY FOREAL - A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION
CONTACT IZZY : for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125 or pbk918@mac.com
"I'm about music that laughs and humour that makes you dance." Izzy
An irreverent Australia Day at Jamiesons restaurant.
NEW YEAR'S EVE 2007
IZZY FOREAL IS CURRENTLY PLAYING WITH
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ZARSOFF BROS 2008
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125FEB 08 - Izzy has recently heard from The Zarsoff Brothers first drummer Terry Zarsoff, who is now an author and has started writing a novel based on the adventures of The Zarsoff Brothers in their early days, including before they actually became The Zarsoff Brothers. None of the drafts can be made public as there could be pending publication for the finished book, but what Izzy has seen is funny and so close to the truth it reads like a fantasy novel. More news as it comes to hand.
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During his summer sojourn through the backblocks of Queensland, Izzy accidently encountered the Zarsoffs' second drummer, Rocky Zarsoff (Warwick Kennington), playing in the Grand View Hotel at Emu Point. Not one to miss an opportunity to perform, Izzy sat in with Rocky's band 'The Swing Thing' for a couple of songs ('Wealth of Poverty' and 'Handyman' - which was the Zarsoffs' first single). Rocky and Izzy haven't played together since about 1980, and the series of events that got Izzy to the Grand View exactly as 'The Swing Thing' started to play would send paranormalists batty. It was a rare event indeed. Coming on the heels of a phone call out of the blue from Rory Zarsoff (the Zarsoffs' second lead guitarist) only a matter of days earlier, it was also a weirdly fortuitous event that may see some hybrid Zarsoff reunions in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned.
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Izzy's Summa Tour had some mighty strange twists. One Sunday in Mid January , Chick and Iz decided to return to Brisbane via the Southern end of Moreton Bay. They were pleased to find the Islands and the Barges and the Ferry wharves. THEY were not so well pleased to struggle to find vegetarian lunches but they are accustomed to it. So they visited Redland Bay and then Victoria Point. tried the 60s rock n roll takeaway restaurant - where the 'gruff' aged bodgie told us in one phrase - no vegie burgers left. Tried next door. The high tea rooms. very nice. I believe they were wearing aprons. Very pleasant and a gentle young lass as waitperson - but Iz was not lured. Shop to shop - we went and Iz refusing to be seduced till he found the Spot that hit the Spot. Went on to Cleveland. Turned out thats the place Chick was dimly recalling from ONE previous visit. The lighthouse was there and the attached restaurant. Still no go. So off they go in the Charade. Now the Charade is looking a little grubby after the Summer of the Flooding Rains. And Iz and the Chick are looking a little tattered but I still don't see that they lloked like FELONS. Nonetheless in a scene reminiscent of the 1970s hippy trail - and Hunter s thompsons rear view mirror encounter with the ECILOPS - a Patrol CAR pulled them over.
Which at the time seemed a sad mistake but perhaps had its role to play in what happened next. The young lads in uniform seemed to realise they had pulled over their teatotaller non drug using grandparents with tertiary educations and foreal jobs and let them go with advice to try the Wynnum lifesaving club for lunch and off went the Foreal Duo in the Charade - still slightly shaky from the deja vu experience of Queensland Police with musos and hippies - and before long there it was THE GRANDVIEW HOTEL. Pulled up out the front . Not bad - A few imbibers at front tables stared and pointed and the Duo slipped round the back.
Well - they settled in with food and drink and Iz went off to check on the Charade . Back he came a little bemused. The trio of musos in the Lounge -THE SWING THING - featured a Zarsoff - alive and living .
TODAY TONIGHT COMES TO BILAMBIL VALLEY TO SEE WHATS HAPPENED TO OUR PHONES
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125TODAY TONIGHT MEETS THE RESIDENTS OF BILAMBIL TO SPOTLIGHT THEIR PROBLEMS WITH TELSTRA
If you have Telstra Problems come along Saturday 1pm to meet with Today Tonight . Outside the Bilambil Hall. Lets see what can be done. A petition of more than 100 names has been lodged with Telstra, Justine Elliott MP, Stephen Conroy Minister of ‘TELEPHONES ETC’, Tweed Daily News and MORE. The responses have measured app ZERO as usual. So HERE WE GO ! Television comes to Bilambil !
Meanwhile - I am in several minds about what to do next re phone for myself. The line is working perfectly but my pre-paid has lapsed and I just don’t know whether to buy another $30 car or not lest the problems of the last year re-emerge. QUANDARY.
TODAY TONIGHT man wanted to film us in a CUL-DE-SAC but we explained to him that we are short of cul-de-sacs. David at the PO suggested that they put their camera on the roof of the POST OFFICE and film from there. “Its been done before” said David. So we all gather across the road at the Hall.
Meanwhile - I am in several minds about what to do next re phone for myself. The line is working perfectly but my pre-paid has lapsed and I just don't know whether to buy another $30 car or not lest the problems of the last year re-emerge. QUANDARY.
TODAY TONIGHT man wanted to film us in a CUL-DE-SAC but we explained to him that we are short of cul-de-sacs. David at the PO suggested that they put their camera on the roof of the POST OFFICE and film from there. "Its been done before" said David. So we all gather across the road at the Hall.
THIS IS THE PETITION WE PUT IN THE BILAMBIL VILLAGE POST OFFICE STORE.
SIGN THIS PETITION
TELSTRA : GIVE US BACK OUR PHONES.
WE,The undersigned, as residents and telephone subscribers in the Bilambil Valley, hereby state what we are completely dissatisfied with the quality of our landline telephone access and associated services. We also wish it to be known that the responses and interim alternatives we've been offered to this point by Telstra are unsatisfactory. We want our lines fixed.
So this is what we put in the shop and lo and behold within a week or three we had more than 100 names in this small community. Was this enough to receive responses from Telstra or anyone else ? NO !!!!!!!
Here are some of the Comments people have made. Keep in mind that None of these were solicited. No coercion was used. The forms were simply put on the shop counter and in came the complaints which people had been struggling with in isolation for months. Each time I have made contact - Telstra has smooth talked and told me it was AN ISOLATED CASE.
Here are SOME of the other isolated cases of people dealing with TELSTRA landlines in Bilambi Valley.
THINGS PEOPLE SAY ABOUT ZARSOFFS
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125| FROM LAS VEGAS WEEKLY FEB 9 2008 |
Your ass is mine!” Okay, so now you’re gonna end up with two asses and throw yourself wide open to obvious asshole insults. You gotta think about this stuff, people! Of course you can save someone’s ass: where and for what is a tad more problematic. You can kill their ass if you’re a true fiend -- but will the rest of them die along with the ass? And, of course, you can drag your ass out of bed in the morning which, given the aforementioned observation about food portions in this country, could actually be translated almost literally.
In Australia, the land of my birth and criminal record, the ass has not been bestowed such iconic status. Sure, we’ll throw it into our bastardized English, already overblown with slang and cuss words, (e.g. You may well get told that you’re “uglier than a hatful of arseholes”), but its utilitarian value is way lower Down Under. For example, for insults we go straight to genital references. Every time. And we would never, ever say we’re going to kick someone’s arse. And I’m talking about a country where fighting is a national pastime. We spend about a third of our waking hours in “stoushes.” (Another third drinking, and the final third thinking about stoushes and drinking.) More likely we’ll pull out the old “Liverpool kiss,” which is far more effective and involves significantly less embarrassing street ballet. About the highest status the gluteous maximus has received in the Great Southern Land came from a band we had in the 70s and 80s that went by the name The Fabulous Zarsoff Brothers. There was Bluey (a common Aussie nickname), Bernie, Shaggy, and so forth. Are you following this? But that’s as far as the arse ever got. And never is it likely to achieve the cultural heights of its trans-Pacific cousin. So it goes. |
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THE AGE
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Off ya treeTHEY'RE a sprawling clan, the Zarzoffs, and their cousins, the Zarsoffs. Ever since Diary's mention of Rudi Zarzoff, we've had to add more branches to the family tree. Age music guru Michael Dwyer tells us the Fabulous Zarsoff Brothers were a blues-rock-comedy act in the 1980s featuring, at various times, Bluey Zarsoff, Bernie Zarsoff, Terry Zarsoff, Rory Zarsoff, Lefty Zarsoff, Rocky Zarsoff, Cranky Zarsoff and Smoky Zarsoff. Their first EP was the cheeky Bumsweat. From entertainment to sport, reader Dick Green says the annual Goldfield Ashes at Charters Towers in January features the Zarsoff XI: Bluey, Bernie, Rocky, Terry, Rudy, Rupi, Sledgy, Spewy, Robbie, Poppy and Swilly. The tea lady is Ophelia Dickie. If Rudi, Bluey, Bernie and Co. get together, it would be one explosive reunion. |
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ah the power of the musical memory.
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Topic: The Lounge / What is your top 5 pick, of classic Aussie Bands!! if your going to argue about the finn brothers, you could raise a similar argument for Doc Neeson, Jimmy Barnes, Bon Scott, etc. If they played the pubs here, then they count for mine. Radiators Oh how i long for the 70’s and the great pub bands |
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| FROM IZZY FOREAL AND FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK | Allan McClintock wrote
at 10:36pm on March 13th, 2008 is this the same Izzy from the zarsoff brothers with bluey zarsoff terry zarsoff etc
if so it brings back many memories of you guys playing at the sylvania hotel south of sydney. I even still have an EP with nose picking boogie and othe songs on it it is one of the few records i couldn't part with! |
IZZY FOREAL LIVE
21st Century Skiffle Music
TANTALISING FORETASTES OF THE FOREAL SKIFFLE
IZZY STILL SEEKING EMPLOYMENT DOWN SOUTH
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125Izzy has been widening his skill base ready for the adventures of 2008. Take a look at his Curriculum Vitae in images.
IS THIS THE MAN FOR THE JOB ?
Say YES to Izzy !
EMPLOYMENT FOR IZZY
IZZY'S SKERRICKS
COMING TO YOU BY FOREAL-MAIL
IZZY’S SKERRICKS Izzy has reluctantly given permission for his personal e-mails to be added to the site. Well - Chick is pretty sure he will give permission - after all he is a LITERARY gentleman and songwriter. They would be published post-mortem anyways so best do it now says I.
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I like to call what i do - 21st CENTURY SKIFFLE MUSIC
THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION.
23/1/08
Doing a PhD is like treading on stepping stones weaving through a raging torrent of disapproval.
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22/1/08
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22/1/08I can't help thinking the time is right to connect more strongly with the musical side of my life and maybe shore up some potential in 08. Having tomorrow off will mean we'll be fully resident in l' villa deShoogle, so a lot of pressing stuff will be behind us.
20 January 2008
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THURSDAY 17/1/08
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IZZY UPFRONT
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125IZZY FOREAL ON STAGE
IZZY EATS OUT
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125| LOCATION | RESTAURANT | TYPE | COST | COMMENTS |
| BILAMBIL | BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB | KENS SNAG BBQ FOR BOB DYLAN SONGBOOK BAND | FREE | FIRST SUNDAY EACH MONTH- GIVE IT A TRY |
| CAROOL | ILNAM WINERY | LUNCHES | $10-$20 | YEP |
| CLEVELAND | GRANDVIEW HOTEL | MODERN AUSSIE PUB | $10 PLUS | YEP |
| MURWILLUMBAH | GREENHILLS JAZZ CLUB | JAZZ CLUB | $10 - $20 | OKAY- ish |
| OYSTER POINT - NORTHERN MORETON BAY | OYSTER POINT COFFEE SHOP | COFFE SHOP A LA 60-70s | UNDER $10 | YEP - SWEET AS |
| TOOWONG | BLUE FROG | HAUTE | $$$$ LOT OF | NOPE |
| TWEED HEADS WEST | JAMIESONS | THE LOT | $10 PLUS | ITS HOME |
| FIRST sunday arvo of each month Kenny does his beer battered sausages for the Bob Dylan Song Book Band. No use to Iz and Chick but a really nice atmosphere on a Sunday. | ||
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ILNAM WINERY in Carool. Just up the road from Bilambil. Views are splendid - all the way to the Coast. The Quinns are great hosts and lunch was very good indeed !
Neither Chick nor Iz is a wine drinker but the other guests were truly enjoying the service so I would recommend a look see. |
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GRANDVIEW HOTEL AT EMU POINT ( CLEVELAND) |
JUST PRIor to encountering Rocky Zarsoff with THE SWING THING in the Lounge. Bread roll and water provided on ordering. Strange food but atmosphere was SO GOOD ! anything would have tasted sublime. with excellent service, views and music. As well as a dessert and coffee booth. Not to be missed. | |
| MURWILLUMBAH \ HILLBILLIES AT GREENHILLS MURWILLUMBAH |
Ate there cause the Guys were doing the Jazz Club for Xmas. Lovely setting. On the River looking out to Mt Warning. Ok fo me. Kind of but Izzy couldnt get a meal he could eat. Bloke enjoyed his meal. |
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Well well - we loved it. Flashback value to summer holidays and simple time.s Coffe and bahlava we had. The smiling gentleman brought water and accessories without any nudging and a young school age couple on pushbikes were a courtin at nearby tables. good one. | |
TOOWONGMEAL AT BLUE FROGMAIN COURSE |
Yep thats it ! Thats the ENTIRE main course at $14 per head. Haute Cuisine ? | |
| TWEED HEADS WEST JAMIESONS ON SCENIC DRIVE Dec 8, 2007IZZY WITH SUSAN AND PHIL FROM HOPE ISLAND |
Outdoor dining. 7 days a week - breakfast lunch dinner . Entertainment fri - sat nights. This is our homeplace. We recommend it ! |
IZZY'Z SUMMA TOUR AND MORE
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125
IZZY FOREAL SUMMER TOUR OF 2008
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125IZZY FOREAL - THE SUMMER TOUR OF 2008
In Armidale he was awarded the new stage name of BASGETTI HEAD and was invited to drink high tea in a pink plastic tea set. An offer he could not refuse !
He flew kites and blew bubbles and was told of but did not personally witness a GREEN POO.
He played a part in reducing one young lady to a state of near collapse and hysterical tears. ALL TOO MUCH is not an uncommon condition around Izzy.
With his long history of the Fart - he widened his Fart etiquette by encountering an even younger lady who informed the world nearby that she DEFINITELY ACTUALLY HAD TO FART NOW.
Then for the sake of the emotional dimension of his music required in his new world of BLUES with the HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS - Iz did some severe suffering with a desolated woman on the long Tenterfield Road on a Public Holiday. Over the Mountains in tear dripping silence - eating a desperate and very old kebab on the deserted streets of Lismore and along the back roads of Nimbin and Murwillumbah. Listen closely for the Bluefulness of his 2008 Bandits Blues.
Back in Bilambil Valley - the floods came and Izzy entered the world of TRENCH digging. Clad in shorts and clasping a shovel he worked through the night - saving the Cottage from the downpouring water and mud and the proceeded to renovate the kitchen the very next day.
Musically he was busy right through the Summer and theres more to come. check the front page and the Hillbilly Blues Guide. Bob Dylan Song Book Band first Sunday of each month and Jamiesons restaurant every Saturday Night. Australia Day special on 26 January.
Dave Cavanagh recorded a new song at Geodrie Leaches Padded Cell studio during January and Izzy and the Bloke backed him. Watch for the video clip on U Tube.
Water swept through the Thursday night venue at Bilambil Sports Club. Water and other indescribable substances . Took massive carpet cleaners to suck it all out and dry it out. Izzy and the Dylan lads played the Sunday on damp floors with a strange lingering aroma but the crowds loved it and showed up in force. Goodly percentage of his Summer gigs were spent in Climatic Splendour and Tension. New Years at Jamiesons had its own special WATER FEATURE. Water featured over the whole 8 weeks or so. The Star Wagon spent 8 days in mud at the Cottage and Iz and Chick were driven to Charade Life .
Lets see - its been a short cold wet summer and Chick is malfunctioning somewhat with only one swim in her - let her sort out her memories here - Hmmm ! Iz and the lads did Nerang Blues n Roosters Festival with Phil Emmanuel winding it up.
Digger Revel has been popping in to the Song Book Band Arvos for a number or two.
And of course - He is still playing his love songs to the Chick on the front porch of the Cottage.
Pete Lawson is now available after winding up his LEAPING LIZARDS commitments and PASPALUM are out and about. The mixing was looking good but not sure what effect the Airlie Beach Floods have had on Dazzas place. Wish him well. Last we heard there was mud all through the house.
Paid a visit to Sarah and Phil down in Stokers Siding. Didnt have much time to network with FRIENDS during 2007 with Izzys daytime gig in Brisbane so wew spent some time with FRIENDS . Sarah and Phil had floods through their place too. Right down on the creek. The house is built up but the Merc was washed through and the caravan is at an entirely new location. Tea and bikkies on their wonderful verandahs and came away with the two new Eizenberg CDs.
Izzy's girl Soz Knox made it to a Jamoze night with the beautiful Holly from Rosebank and her son Arlo. That was one good night ! Locally made cookies on the porch of the Cottage. Cups of tea and over way too soon.
HOLLY LYNNE IZZY AND SOZ
Check the images on the slideshow. He ran through puddles in his baseball boots at Brighton. Strummed guitar in a backyard in Armidale. Saw Rainbows end on the floor of the Valley. Its been a short cool wet summer !
IZZY WITH HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS JAN-MAY 2007
CURRENT AT 18 JANUARY 2008
HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS GIG GUIDE JANUARY- MAY 2008HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS BLUES. BOOGIE, ROCK-A-BILLY,ROCK 'N' ROLL,CONCERTS AND SHOWS.PETER ( SCRUBBY) HURCOMBEBand Manager,02 6677 93710437 086 784DENNIS GALE02 6679 35250417 790 986Hillbilly Blues Bandits (Current at 10/01/08) January 2008 Thurs 10th Bilambil Blues – Sports Club Sat 12th Blues N Roosters – R footy club Nerang, Scrub, Izzy & Lily -Day time Sat 12th Bangalow Hotel – Scrub ‘n’ Lily White 8.00-11.00pm Thurs 24th Bilambil Blues – Sports Club February Frid 1st Nimmitabel Hotel Blues Fest- Nimmitabel Hotel Sat 2nd Nimmitabel Hotel Blues Fest- Nimmitabel Show Thurs 7th Bilambil Blues - Sports Club Frid 8th Condong Bowls Club – Izzy, Scrub & Kel – 6.30- 10.00 Thurs 21st Bilambil Blues - Sports Club Frid 29th Bangalow Hotel – Hillbillies - 8.00 March Thurs 6th Bilambil Blues - Sports Club Sun 16th Billinudgel Hotel – 2.00-6.00pm Thurs 20th Bilambil Blues – Sports Club April Thurs 3rd Bilambil Blues - Sports Club Frid 4th Brunswick Heads Hotel - Hillbillies 7.30pm Thurs 17th Bilambil Blues - Sports Club May Thurs 1st Bilambil Blues - Sports Club Frid 9th Nimbin Hotel – 7.30pm Thurs 15th Bilambil Blues – Sports Club Thurs 29th Bilambil Blues – Sports Club |
I AM ABOUT MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH AND HUMOUR THAT MAKES YOU DANCE
ITS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION - AND AN AUDITORY ILLUSION AND A SPIRITUAL ILLUSION - ITS A - ITS -
ITS A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION
You all know how to do the OPTICAL ILLUSION trick. Squint your eyes up hold at arms length and look through the half-closed eyes.
Better still for these two figments - close your eyes completely and try not to think about them at all.
IZZY FOREAL - THE LIFE STORY
I started out in this realm as Peter Knox. I grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, in a place called Old Guildford (well, it was called that at the top of my street, and Yennora at the bottom end. My house was right in the middle, so we could choose our address at random). We had a huge area of ‘bush’ (that’s western-suburban for forest) behind our back fence, where we used to go to make forts, tree-houses and play rudies. I liked making forts best, but rudies came in a close second. I learned all about secret places, be they made of old bits of wood or flesh. I was a skinny weakling sort of growing up person, and I extracted great pleasure and mirth from making stupid noises and cracking ridiculous jokes that only I seemed to get – so much so that my old man genuinely believed me to be insane (though he would more than likely have used ‘underprivileged’ to describe my alienness). My ears were too big for my head and my legs were (and still are to this day) the wrong size for the rest of me, as if some DNA carpenter had mixed up the bits from two different kit bodies. It all made for a rough, torture-ridden, ‘come here you skinny bastard I want to beat you up just because I know I can do so without too much opposition, aren’t I a expletive deleted brave mongrel’ childhood, but hey, didn’t it make me into some weird-arsed genius of a funny bastard later on? (Just kidding about the ‘bastard’ bit).
It wasn’t until I was about thirteen years old that I got my hands on a real musical instrument – well, that’s a loose description of a ‘Hawaiian’ acoustic-electric slide guitar my old man bought with wild dreams of becoming talented. He left the thing on top of his wardrobe for so long without touching it, it could have been heritage listed by the time I discovered its whereabouts. By sheer luck and the mysteries of chronology, I discovered The Beatles on the old radiogram in my bedroom at the same time I came upon the guitar. The radiogram, like a ‘loaded gun’ prop in some B-grade soap opera, was (kidnapped) and reinvented as an amplifier – I somehow worked out (by some osmotic process) that the bared cables from the end of the guitar lead could be joined to the cables where the record player needle plugged in – Tada! Presto! Electric guitaro! Trouble was, I didn’t know how to tune the expletive deleted, but my school mate Bob Daisley (who has gone on to become somebody world-famous, or at least a rock music celebrity) soon taught me how. Not content with crude but effective lessons from a famous-in-the-future bass player, I sent away for the twenty Melody School of Music guitar lessons advertised on the back of the New Idea magazine. I got to pay the program off at one dollar a week, which allowed me access to one lesson each payment. I had to play the guitar behind my closed bedroom door, because it was unwritten household knowledge (and secret suburban business) that the old man would have gone ballistic if he’d discovered the family nut case soiling one of his possessions. When I’d learnt my first four chords, I wrote my first song (He Don’t Look Like Me). I never got as good as Bob Daisley (well, not as rich anyway) but I nearly electrocuted myself a couple of times by connecting the wires from the guitar to the radiogram back the front (or something) and I left home at sixteen because people in my house kept trying to cut my hair off – none of which Bob Daisley got to do. I doubt that he regrets those early omissions, any more than I don’t regret having his incredible luck (yeah, right).
Whatever I just said, it all boils down to the fact that I moved into a flat in Burwood with a school friend, Glynn Williams, who had emigrated from the Isle of Man a couple of years earlier and spoke just like The Beatles. Glynn and I started growing our hair as fast and as long as human anatomy would allow, and my big brother Ray had to keep an eye on me because the Law said I was too young to move out of home without some sort of mature supervision. I’d made it clear to my parents that I didn’t want them anywhere near my shared flat in Burwood, so my brother ended up as the compromise situation. Mature supervision my arse! He nearly got us chucked out of the flat when the landlord caught him in the shared kitchen bonking his girlfriend on the table! No wonder I’m such an expletive deleted human being!
So, besides being free to go into Sydney Town on the weekends to long-hair hangouts like Beatle Village and Rhubarbs, where live bands played music that seemed to hang halfway down their backs, we formed a duo called The Twain (clever, or what?) and wrote songs and dreamt about doing gigs and stuff. We played at a party in a hall at (D?), with me playing guitar (not the old man’s, not over his dead body!) and Glynn singing like a cross between Stevie Wright from the Easybeats and Mick Jagger (perhaps nothing to brag about these days, but then it was spiffy indeed!).
Glynn went on to be lead singer with that unforgettable sixties band The Soul Survivors, playing the big gigs like The Oxford Hotel in Taylor Square, which in those days allowed heterosexual social engagement. I went on to play with Waldo Hayes in that equally unforgettable Dylanesque outfit from Kings Cross, Sylvester Quincy Barker’s Music Box, who got to play lots of times at the Wayside Chapel, and, eventually, also The Oxford Hotel in Taylor Square! The sixties sure was a small world! Glynn gave up music some time later, by which time I’d bounced around the Sydney wine bar scene in numerous iconic and legendary outfits with names like Fluke (a pisstake of Flake, who were the pop flavour of the moment). Eventually (and here the order of things gets a bit tangled in the loose ends of memory) I became the resident bass-player at a little coffee lounge in Brougham Lane, Kings Cross, called The Ball Pants (truth-I couldn’t make shit like this up if I tried). I got to sit on one of my Overeem (I think that was the brand) quad boxes and play bass with whoever could bring a guitar in and whack out a tune or two. Hey, I got to perform He Don’t Look Like Me in public and everything!
LINKS TO FRIENDS OF IZZY FOREAL
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125
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That's a nice Mongrel Kay bass you see Izzy alternating with his fender.
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BLACKBEARDS IN DECEMBER
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125
The Black Beard isn't a native of this earthly realm and that could well explain what have been interpreted as alien behaviours.
NO ! NO ! Don't do It. This is no way to improve the reputation.
Here a BB is being trained in courtesy and earthly greetings. A beginning perhaps. Maybe next year there will be children sitting on his lap.
Taking down lists is an important feature of the St Nick personality . Izzy is a great one for LISTS and small children do not find him at all intimidating.
Peace and Goodwill to all of you !
IZZY AT ROUND HOUSE TAVERN AND THEREABOUTS
This week Iz is off to Roundhouse in Murwillumbah for what Chick calls the REAL THING. True Aussie venue. They once had titty girls there so the sign said. For many years they took care of the travellers from the station over the way untill they TOOK OUR CHOO CHOO TRAIN AWAY. Anyways they're playing there this week.
Them Jamiesons on Saturday night. jamoze is looking good with the warmer weather and holiday spirit. New Menu which Chick isn't as yet impressed by but the buffet is looking good.
Chick would like to see Iz and Co down at Bello's Federal Pub where she did most of her drinking in days long gone. Its been re-vamped so the website says. And Kate and Imm are heading back down that way.
IZZY FOREAL'S UPCOMING GIGS
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROSfor direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125 IZZY'S UPCOMING GIGS
IZZY AT BLUES CLUB
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| OKAY SO HERE IS IZZYS SUMMERTIME FOR YOU - AS IT LOOKS TODAY! Friday, December 7th - possible gig with Scrubby from Hillbilly Blues Bandits, at The Roundhouse in Murwillumbah. (This may become a regular Friday night gig, so stay tuned ...) Saturday, December 8th - my regular night at Jamieson's Restaurant (West Tweed) with 'The Bloke' from Bullamakanka. Sunday, December 9th - with 'Hillbilly Blues Bandits' at Channon Markets. Thursday, December 13th - with 'Paspalum' at the Bilambil Blues Club. Friday, December 14th - at Tweed Valley Jazz Club with 'Hillbilly Blues Bandits'. Saturday, December 15th - at Jamieson's again with 'The Bloke' from Bullamakanka (& 'The Boss' on percussive bits). Saturday, December 22nd - as above (other musicians not yet confirmed). Thursday, December 27th - Bilambil Blues Club with 'Paspalum'. Saturday, December 29th - at Jamieson's again (with at least one of my regular guest musicians). Monday, December 31st - at Jamieson's - probably with an array of the guest musicians who've shared this gig with me throughout 2007. (I'm booked for my usual times of 6:30 to 9:30, but if enough punters want to kick on later, I'll be kicking on as well - it might mean scraping the bottom of the barrel for old Zarsoffs songs to get through the hours, but I'm up for it). Saturday, January 5th (2008) - at Jamieson's (etc). Sunday, January 6th - at the Bilambil Sports Club with 'The Bob Dylan Song Book Band'. As long as I don't get too crude and send punters away, or unless somebody cheaper and more talented comes along, or 'Paspalum' start to go out and promote the forthcoming CD, I'll be at Jamieson's Restaurant in West Tweed every Saturday night through January (at least). The Bilambil Blues Club gig with 'Paspalum' happens every second Thursday, so you can calculate the dates through January. |
IZZY IN DECEMBER
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125 - currently appearing with HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS.
Last week Scrub called him in for a duo at Rainbow Bay Surf Club. Filling in with the Hillbilly Blues Bandits has kept him pretty well filled up.
Meantime Paspalum Sticky Grass is in Dazza hands for mixing up at Airlie Beach. Bizzy Times !
Xmas is taken with visit to Chicks family in Armidale - meeting mad O'Brian and family for the first time. The lad is a keen guitar man , harp player , keyboards and mandolin. So it could be interesting. Lad has a workshop as well so there might be a chance to do some more un-repairing of Izzys fender bass which the Guitar repairers screwed up.
Going to do some travelling about Dorrigo - in memory of Uncle Joe from THE BOMB HIT IT. And Bellingen and Urunga which is Chick's territory. Taking a look also at Melinda Kendall country round Grafton - where Basil ? died.
IZZY SEEKING EMPLOYMENT
IZZY FOREAL OF PASPALUM AND THE FABULOUS ZARSOFF BROS for direct band contact call Foreal Enterprises: 0414627125
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Aah... Caesar's Palace with the mirrors and Cairn's first perspex dance floor with disco lighting, Nighthawks, Early Johno's on Sheridan St, Cabaret Dances at the Yacht Club and the Balaclava Hotel. The Barbary Coast Pubs and the brilliant live music in the beer garden of the Oceanic Hotel overlooked by some of the oldest architecture in Cairns as well as the original Rusty's pub (not to mention the folk Club nights there, - now all gone. All these things before Byrnes (or even Tim Bottoms) even knew where Cairns was!
Oh and also the Tudor room with the visiting Zarsoff brothers... now you've got me started!