Rob Hurst

Well, that's right.

We quickly weeded out the slow songs and had to put in some covers because people didn't want all our own material, you know, or any of it really, but they got inflicted with it.

You could argue that that period we were lucky enough to come up between 78 and the early 80s where we were playing up to 180 gigs a year.

you know, night after night in huge pubs, not pubs with 200 people, but with 2,000 people in it, you know, very male, very stripped of the waist, very drunk.

You know, it was a really good testing band for a band that wanted to, you know, make some waves.

We came up in the wake of ACDC and bands we really admired and actually saw support of them once, you know, and saw what it really took to make a band and it was...

Quickly got out of our satins and flares and got into jeans with, you know, holes ripped in them.

Oh, it was incredible, Sarah.

We played the Ride Youth Dance.

And we turned up in all our kind of, I mean, literally satin.

I mean, what kind of band?

You know, it was like, it looked like Air Supply or something, you know.

Yeah, stripped to the waist, amazing body, you know, white satin flares.

I kid you not.

Anyway, so we saw Akadaka and they came out, you know, just in ripped black and jeans and they were amazing.

They blew the roof off.

I mean, when Bond brought out the bagpipes for Long Way to the Top, it was firstly the loudest thing I'd actually ever heard on earth and secondly the most exciting.

And we kind of, you know, this band from the northern beaches looked at each other and go, hmmm.

We didn't need to.

Well, there's a couple, actually.