Comments on: Walls have eyes and phones have ears http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Damian http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278722 Damian Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:40:32 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278722 Oh, boy, rhose were the days, I would absolutely LOVe to get my hands on the video clip for this song, do you remember it? A bunch of barge - arsed coppers waddling down the then HQ Makerston St, shot from behind with a handycam... Funny as hell. Then just a coupl-a-years later, we had Victoria Brazil... (Not that anyone I knew would have HAD her per se, but a mate of mine ended up on TV when we stormed the UQ SU offices & he plunked himself down in her chair & declared himself the new Fuhrer. Ah, the good old days... DM Act etc notwithstanding a fun time to be alive.. Anyone else remember the song "Iwas being verballed, I was being Framed"? Oh, boy, rhose were the days, I would absolutely LOVe to get my hands on the video clip for this song, do you remember it? A bunch of barge – arsed coppers waddling down the then HQ Makerston St, shot from behind with a handycam… Funny as hell. Then just a coupl-a-years later, we had Victoria Brazil… (Not that anyone I knew would have HAD her per se, but a mate of mine ended up on TV when we stormed the UQ SU offices & he plunked himself down in her chair & declared himself the new Fuhrer. Ah, the good old days… DM Act etc notwithstanding a fun time to be alive.. Anyone else remember the song “Iwas being verballed, I was being Framed”?

]]> By: Lefty E http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278721 Lefty E Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:50:39 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278721 I definitely saw the Parameters play Boundary St festival in 1996; on some brief comeback gig. So, evidently they had one set of material, at least. I definitely saw the Parameters play Boundary St festival in 1996; on some brief comeback gig. So, evidently they had one set of material, at least.

]]> By: steve http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278720 steve Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:46:45 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278720 Oops sorry Nabakov,was too tired to be bothered going and having a look at a titled sketch of the Bellevue I have in the next room. Oops sorry Nabakov,was too tired to be bothered going and having a look at a titled sketch of the Bellevue I have in the next room.

]]> By: Andrew Bartlett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278719 Andrew Bartlett Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:26:37 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278719 I was at that concert Nabakov! I'll never be able to think of it the same way again. No wonder Joh got Cloudland demolished, with such debauchery afoot. I've got a copy of the single Mark - on some strange round black material with a big long groove in it. The b-side is titled Material Possessions. As far as I know that was their only recordings. It's also on the 'Behind the Banana Curtain' compilation CD put out by ZZZ in 2000. I was at that concert Nabakov! I’ll never be able to think of it the same way again. No wonder Joh got Cloudland demolished, with such debauchery afoot.

I’ve got a copy of the single Mark – on some strange round black material with a big long groove in it. The b-side is titled Material Possessions. As far as I know that was their only recordings.

It’s also on the ‘Behind the Banana Curtain’ compilation CD put out by ZZZ in 2000.

]]> By: Nabakov http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278718 Nabakov Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:16:44 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278718 "... the destruction of the Belview Hotel occurred." I assume you mean the Bellevue Hotel. Demolishing that wonderful old palace was very bad. And then they illegally ripped down Cloudland one night. That was really terrible. Generations were conceived there, grew up there, partied on there and then conceived other generations there. Not to mention I had one of the best fucks of my life in a dim corner of an second floor Cloudland balcony while Mental As Anything were belting out "Just Like Romeo And Juliet" downstairs. And the utter stupidity of this vandalism from Joh and co's POV is that a refurbished Bellevue Hotel and Cloudland would now be generating far more state tax revenue and jobs than the gimcrack developments that replaced them. “… the destruction of the Belview Hotel occurred.”

I assume you mean the Bellevue Hotel. Demolishing that wonderful old palace was very bad. And then they illegally ripped down Cloudland one night. That was really terrible. Generations were conceived there, grew up there, partied on there and then conceived other generations there. Not to mention I had one of the best fucks of my life in a dim corner of an second floor Cloudland balcony while Mental As Anything were belting out “Just Like Romeo And Juliet” downstairs.

And the utter stupidity of this vandalism from Joh and co’s POV is that a refurbished Bellevue Hotel and Cloudland would now be generating far more state tax revenue and jobs than the gimcrack developments that replaced them.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278717 Mark Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:43:45 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278717 I think the Parameters were a one song show, j_p_z. Angharad, yeah, I remember that, but I transcribed the lyrics from Andrew's book, and that's what was in there. Does anyone have a copy of the single? It'd be great to digitise it. I guess zzz probably would... I think the Parameters were a one song show, j_p_z.

Angharad, yeah, I remember that, but I transcribed the lyrics from Andrew’s book, and that’s what was in there. Does anyone have a copy of the single? It’d be great to digitise it. I guess zzz probably would…

]]> By: steve http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278716 steve Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:31:26 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278716 On a slightly more modern note, there is a great interview between journalists and the Police on the Cybernana Riot Day CD put out by 4ZZZ from the era when the Nationals beat Goss and it didn't take the police union long to begin their dirty tricks campaign. By the time the Cybernana 4ZZZ Market Day arrived on October 19 1996 with riot police, horses and the army all involved in creating mayhem, journalists were in no mood to cop the rubbish that the Police and National Party served up and the Press conference the following Monday morning with all the stupidities of the Queensland Police Union in full flight is preserved forever. The way the Nationals vote is dissolving now means that I will, in all likelihood never see another National Party dominated government in Queensland as long as I live despite Flegg promising me last week that I would. He really needs to get a grip on himself, where was he and what was he doing when all this Queensland history was being created by the Nationals and the Police Union? The Nationals and the Police Union have had too many chances but always prove themselves incapable of civilised behaviour. On a slightly more modern note, there is a great interview between journalists and the Police on the Cybernana Riot Day CD put out by 4ZZZ from the era when the Nationals beat Goss and it didn’t take the police union long to begin their dirty tricks campaign.

By the time the Cybernana 4ZZZ Market Day arrived on October 19 1996 with riot police, horses and the army all involved in creating mayhem, journalists were in no mood to cop the rubbish that the Police and National Party served up and the Press conference the following Monday morning with all the stupidities of the Queensland Police Union in full flight is preserved forever.

The way the Nationals vote is dissolving now means that I will, in all likelihood never see another National Party dominated government in Queensland as long as I live despite Flegg promising me last week that I would.

He really needs to get a grip on himself, where was he and what was he doing when all this Queensland history was being created by the Nationals and the Police Union? The Nationals and the Police Union have had too many chances but always prove themselves incapable of civilised behaviour.

]]> By: Angharad http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278715 Angharad Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:13:16 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278715 j_p_z - I'm pretty sure they didn't do covers of anything. :) And Mark, you've forgotten all the "Pig City" bits that from memory are peppered throughout the verses! The bits that everyone could sing along to (in a manner of speaking probably more like scream). Mind you that would probably make it scan even worse. j_p_z – I’m pretty sure they didn’t do covers of anything. :)

And Mark, you’ve forgotten all the “Pig City” bits that from memory are peppered throughout the verses! The bits that everyone could sing along to (in a manner of speaking probably more like scream). Mind you that would probably make it scan even worse.

]]> By: j_p_z http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278714 j_p_z Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:06:21 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278714 As an aside, "The Parameters" is a *great* name for a band (did they ever do Meters covers?), and "The phones have ears" is a beautifully tight bit of satiric-songwriting craftsmanship. (I actually think the phrase is even stronger without the parallel of "the walls have eyes," but that's just me...) As an aside, “The Parameters” is a *great* name for a band (did they ever do Meters covers?), and “The phones have ears” is a beautifully tight bit of satiric-songwriting craftsmanship. (I actually think the phrase is even stronger without the parallel of “the walls have eyes,” but that’s just me…)

]]> By: Darryl Rosin http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278713 Darryl Rosin Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:56:30 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/02/05/walls-have-eyes-and-phones-have-ears/#comment-278713 "Once he’d lost Nationals support, he first tried to stitch up a desperate deal with the ALP, who laughed in the corrupt old coot’s face." God, I remember watching Peter Beattie, the then State Secretary of the ALP, acting in a dramatisation of the negotiations on State Affair (or Today Tonight?) back in the day. I'm not entirely sure they didn't reach some sort of deal. I remember Joh wanting Parliamentary support in the event of a confindence vote ("You can have anything except an election") and Beattie saying Joh's leadership was an electoral asset to the ALP. It never came to that in the end, but they were mad, crazy times. If I had time on my hands I'd find a copy and put it on YouTube. Hmm thinking of those days turns my mind turn to the big 'what if' of modern Qld politics: 'How different would things have been if Denis Murphy hadn't died?' (and related to that, is unexpected death a particularly Qld Labor curse? Murphy, Ryan and Milliner come to mind. That seem more that our fair share.) d “Once he’d lost Nationals support, he first tried to stitch up a desperate deal with the ALP, who laughed in the corrupt old coot’s face.”

God, I remember watching Peter Beattie, the then State Secretary of the ALP, acting in a dramatisation of the negotiations on State Affair (or Today Tonight?) back in the day. I’m not entirely sure they didn’t reach some sort of deal. I remember Joh wanting Parliamentary support in the event of a confindence vote (“You can have anything except an election”) and Beattie saying Joh’s leadership was an electoral asset to the ALP. It never came to that in the end, but they were mad, crazy times.

If I had time on my hands I’d find a copy and put it on YouTube.

Hmm thinking of those days turns my mind turn to the big ‘what if’ of modern Qld politics: ‘How different would things have been if Denis Murphy hadn’t died?’ (and related to that, is unexpected death a particularly Qld Labor curse? Murphy, Ryan and Milliner come to mind. That seem more that our fair share.)

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