Stuart Coop

Of course you're going to read these books.

And I was at probably at the time Australia's most radical university, which was Flinders.

in Adelaide in South Australia.

So we were studying this, you know, Richard Brautigan I'm thinking of now and Allen Ginsberg, all of these people as part of our curriculum.

Yes.

But at the time that I started writing, no, I was a punk rocker, thanks.

Yeah, I was Clash, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, The Dab, Hello.

It was an alternative culture.

I mean, we were, you know, flailing against these, you know, horrible dinosaurs from the, in lots of cases we were flailing.

Well, these bands were directly up against these big superstars that had emerged in the 60s and the early, early 70s.

Go Set in Australia was it.

It's like saying, was Countdown important as a music television show?

You know, Go Set was the Bible.

I'm trying to remember whether it came... I mean...

It was a little bit early for me because, you know, it started in the mid-60s, so I was like 10.

But I still have go sets at home, you know, with covers like, you know, Thorpey Goes to England.

They don't, no.

They don't mean Ian.

And I've got one, you know, when Joe Cocker was busted in Australia.

You and I will talk afterwards.