Picture from Victoria Police website
Just witnessed the Victoria Police Showband doing a rather nice performance of “What’s Going On”, which was made famous by the late Marvin Gaye. Thought this event was rather amusing, but also wondered whether the choice of song might confirm to some of Christine Nixon’s opponents that coppers these days are a bunch of flaccid appendages:
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what’s going on
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Ah, what’s going on
Of course, Nixon’s opponents are mostly individuals whose willies get bigger when a burly uniformed bloke hits an offender on the noggin with a telephone book. Ahhh, for the good old days of policing when there was no women, gays, disables, accountability and models of policing that depend on the brain rather than brawn.
As much as I think the notion of a Cop Band is naff I have to say these guys are good. Especially the lead singer.
Might I add something about being business partners with Carl Williams and weapons n’ drug stashes in the locker room etc. That’s how it done. Forget about this seperation of powers. Let’s go back to the West
ministerofToowoomba system. Don’t you worry about that – http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/22/joh_bjelke_peterson_wideweb__430×426.jpgTHat’s nothing
Here in WA or Commish fronts his own Rock Band called The Filth, plus does stints on Community Radio playing Classic Rock from the Early 70’s.
http://www.intersector.wa.gov.au/article_view.php?article_id=760&article_main=45&select_image=3&type=
http://www.curtinfm.com.au/karl-ocallaghan.html
So that’s why those WA coppers persist in pleading the Filth Amendment.
It’s sad but true – these guys are really good. I saw them at Vic markets in January and their material was up to date in a Top-40 kind of way, and it was a really crowd-pleasing performance.
Plus, the visual humour of seeing a beanpole male copper next to a very short dumpy female copper, both in uniform, both singing I don’t feel like dancing by the Scissor Sisters is beyond surreal.
[It’s sad but true - these guys are really good. I saw them at Vic markets in January and their material was up to date in a Top-40 kind of way, and it was a really crowd-pleasing performance.
Plus, the visual humour of seeing a beanpole male copper next to a very short dumpy female copper, both in uniform, both singing I don’t feel like dancing by the Scissor Sisters is beyond surreal.]
At least they’re better than the WA Police Pipe Band and their Calyso flavoured verion of Amazing Grace
[At least they’re better than the WA Police Pipe Band and their Calyso flavoured verion of Amazing Grace ]
That should be Calypso.
and an Audio Sample of same is here.
http://www.wapol.com.au/cd_page1.html
A sight to behold. If I was feeling extraordinarily cheeky I’d ew-mail this post to the local copshop. They already think I’m a strange little man not to be taken too seriously.
If the cops think you are a strange little man you’re probably doing something right.
They were good this band, but the choice of song was just weird in a way.
I saw these guys performing at a Chinese New Year street party in Melbourne a few years ago. There are few experiences in life as surreal as a spunky young copper singing Shania Twain’s “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” – reading the chorus in phonetic Cantonese off her palm!
Sorry I missed that one, Guise. I think that beats a spunky young copper singing Marvin Gaye hands down.