IZZY FOREAL - PETER KNOX - A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION

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.      

Off ya tree

Self Inflicted Tinnitus Tim said...

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!

Sun Dec 02, 07:11:00 PM

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
Chisel
Mondo rock
Angels
Zarsoff brothers ( for pure entertainment rather than music)

Oh how i long for the 70’s and the great pub bands        

Zarsoff Bros Album

The latest Zarsoff Bros studio album is MIXED BUSINESS.zarsoffbros@netscape.net To get hold of a copy, drop into your nearest music shop and order one (tell them it’s distributed by MGM), or you can order direct from us at twenty bucks including postage: For mailing details, send us an email.

If you are a music store operator, you can order copies of the album from MGM Distribution (Mark Bolton - 02 92838250)

A new site by that classic Australian band,

The Zarsoff Brothers.

The Zarsoffs are particularly hard to categorise or even describe so I’ll let front man Izzy Foreal tell you about the band. “What we are about,” says Izzy, “is being the catalyst for a good time, with an irreverent approach to the whole idea of rock & roll as an industry. To the punters, we are just a bunch of looneys who happen to be able to play music, and who would be just as comfortable beside them at the bar. We have no intention of deconstructing that image, not even for [name removed because of possibility of legal action].”

Izzy admits the band’s onstage skullduggery may be part of the problem with bookers such as [name removed because of possibility of legal action] , though “They need to see that we’ve grown up a bit. Sure, we’ll never be Top 30 pinups, and we’ll always be mainly an adults-only product - but we still pull heads at rock venues, and the days of the infamous ‘Dance of the Flaming Arsehole” are in the past.”

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