History

The BRIAN CADD Band LIVE at the Sundowner, Geelong 1982 recording is the 32nd release of the Australian Road Crew Association’s (ARCA) Desk Tape Series.

“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.”

It was comedy that started with a few bogus telephone calls and built to some of the most absurd stunts that delighted Sydney and later Adelaide audiences for a mammoth 18-year reign of breakfast radio mayhem.

“What do I call him? I can’t just call him Porkchops.”
“That’s what everybody calls him,” I was told.

Midnight Oil are the 29th act to throw support behind Support Act’s Roadies Fund through the Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA)’s awesome Desk Tape Series

Dave, like many other roadies, were the glue that kept the Aussie live music industry together at the very start.

And whilst the office drinking culture was in decline, if not taboo by the end of the 20th century, journalists were exempt.

“Looking back maybe we should have tried a bit harder. But we were having too much fun!”

“It’s amazing what they can do these days isn’t it?” Paul McCartney marvelling at the rhythm box 1975.