Do Go On - 550 - NYE '79: Anarchy at the Sydney Opera House

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

The 1979 Sydney New Year's Eve concert at the Sydney Opera House forecourt featured the legendary Aussie rock band The Angels, with an estimated 100,000 attendees, the poorly planned event soon descended into chaos!This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:45 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).This episode was recorded live in BrisbaneFor all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/Jess Writes A Rom-Com: https://shows.acast.com/jess-writes-a-rom-comOur awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCiLWtUFLvQhttps://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/from-the-archives-1980-violence-arrests-at-new-year-s-eve-concert-20201218-p56opf.htmlhttps://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/books/the-night-sydneys-new-years-eve-party-became-a-horror-show-rock-stars-felled-by-storm-of-missiles-as-cameras-rolled/news-story/aea163e01772918570c74b03545d2efahttps://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/about-ushttps://web.archive.org/web/20040803080238/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=34https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_Ever_Gonna_See_Your_Face_Againhttps://themusic.com.au/features/50-not-out-50-things-you-should-know-about-the-angels/pJEatrm4u7o/28-06-24 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun.

Lastly, very exciting news. I'm going to do a live 200th episode special of Who Knewit with Matt Stewart in Melbourne at the basement comedy club on June the 27th in the afternoon, 4 p.m. Tickets for all this stuff. I believe are online. And I'm here too. Welcome to another episode of Do Go On. Brisbane, how are you? Thank you so much.

Welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dev Warnikey and as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart's here. Yeah. Man, you guys know, I fucking love Brisbane so much. It's so good to be up here. Thanks so much for having us. I know, and it's funny because I come up here three, four times a year.

My sister lives here I love the comedy room Good chat I love coming up here for comedy And I'll tell Brisbane people All the time how much I love Their city and they're like, why? They hate it

Locals do not like this place I don't know how good they got it Yeah Oh someone loves it I mean I don't know if I fully believed I love it I actually really love it But you don't

You hate it here right Melbourne's better Not my words Oh you're Well obviously you're a fan of coffee culture Yeah Obviously you love Laneways Honestly you guys should try coffee

It's a thing that we do down in Melbourne Yeah Consider it our gift to the world Yeah Little thing we came up with Oh and weather Yes Have you tried weather

That's ours That's one of ours Yeah Yeah and we're well I mean We have different kinds you've just got nice. Yeah, we like to mix it up by making our lives miserable for quite some time.

Oh, no, I know, obviously you do have that time of year where it all floods, but... So it's a bit of variety, I suppose. It's great to see the high water mark. One of your great landmarks up here. Anyway, he genuinely loves it. I love it up here. I do love it.

it. Fucking love it up here. And they love you. Well, I don't know. Sometimes you can just kind of ask for it. Yeah. But it was funny because when you ask for it for yourself, you've got nothing. No, because I don't deserve it?

Oh, but they love Jess up here, don't they? We got to do it for a job. That was noticeably high. That was the high watermark. Yeah. It's beautiful, isn't it? It's gorgeous. You've got to check it out.

Let's not do Dave because I can't handle if he wins. Anyway, Dave, how does this show? show work. Well, we can cheer for something else. We always ask by starting, we always start by asking our second show in a row. Give us a cheer if you've ever heard Do Go On before. Okay, hang on, do go on got more than me. Yeah.

Sorry. That's nice, isn't it? We're like worth holding some of our parts? No. The worst-guest scenario was be if this next bit gets an even bigger cheer. But give us a cheer. But don't be shy at the time time. If you've never heard the show before, first timers.

A few awesome. Great to have you in. Where can I, I didn't see who was... Front row. The denim jacket won't look at me. Yep. A sleep or just... Embarrassed, yeah.

Why are you embarrassed? I think you've... I reckon someone who's just said I'm embarrassed, I reckon keep engaging with them. Really make them regret agreeing to come to something they'd never heard of. I know, I read social cues really well. So, um... But what I'm thinking, you don't, like, all these, they're so sad because they've heard all the episodes.

You've got five and something great. Yeah. They are all so sad. You have so much to look forward to. And we won't talk to you again. And if he does, I'll hit him. But for you and anyone who hasn't heard the show before, what we do here every week is we take in terms to report on a topic, which is often, not always, but often suggested to us by one of the listeners.

we go away, do a bit of research, bring it back to the group. In the form of a report, it is Matt's turn to do the report, everyone. Which is fantastic. That means a lot. And Matt, we always start by asking a question to get us on the topic. That's right. And for something different, I'm going to ask the audience tonight, the question. And I don't know if you're all as old as me.

I'm not sure if you'll know this or not. I don't think anybody's as old as you. No one is. You're as old as the wind. Is the wind in terms? tonight? Get your head out of your ass, Matt. They don't have wind up here.

It's beautiful and still. My question is, am I ever going to see your face again? Correct. You know how like, there's so few things that make me feel really patriotic? And that's one of them. Yeah, that was fucking sick, guys.

Is there anyone not from Australia in? Fuck off. wait wait that is a fine line yeah you have to hear how that sounded if there is fuck off

no you didn't even hear if they like it or not we do irony up here yeah so that well that is correct so you both have a chance to get a point in the ongoing scoring

the question is who sang that song Saints Oh you were so close Angels Yes the angels well done Point for Jess Sorry I was just saying my favourite AFL club

Yeah which is great but Jess already answered correctly Like that doesn't change the fact It's less embarrassing for me now Yeah of course the angel didn't hear that The angels so Yeah the angel yeah I'm going to talk a bunch about them tonight, Aussie rock legends,

but mainly I'm talking about their infamous New Year show at the Sydney Opera House. This topic was suggested by Logan Husky from Brisbane. Are you in tonight, Logan? Hey, Logan. What the fuck, bro? Logan suggests topics all the time. Yeah.

Like, Logan's a frequent... What the fuck, Logan? I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Is it too late to change the topic? I guess we could just... I could riff something. Give me a topic, I'll tell you about something. Yeah, that'd be good.

Melbourne coffee culture. Okay, that's a fantastic question. I think where it really all began. DeGrave Street. Ligon Street is a real hub of Italian-Australian immigration. The biggest population of blah, blah, blah. So, 7-Eleven do a fantastic $1 coffee. Cannot be matched on price?

You guys don't have Starbucks up here, do you? But I can tell you all about it. They have sizes of varying degrees. Oh no, I might do the one I've prepared. So, yeah, so, Sydney, if you think New Year's Eve, the big one in Australia, the internationally famous one is the fireworks up in Sydney at the heart. harbour there. And this all began officially. The proper start of it was in

1976 as a part of the Sydney Festival which was conceived to attract Sydney Siders into the City Centre during the holiday month of January, kicking off with a quote Big Bang Affair. What? The Big Bang Affair

occurred on New Year's Eve. Signed me up. Yeah, it's got all the pieces for a joke. And I just can't quite much. Make one. Don't.

Don't waste time on it. I've got a story to tell. Sorry. It's actually really rude to interrupt. If you don't have a guaranteed laugh, I'd really don't want to hear it. In this show, over the time, I would have liked to have thought you've learned a thing or two for me, and that is discipline. Waiting for the right moment. And until then, zip it.

Yeah, we call you Matt guaranteed laughs. And Matt always waits for your sentence to end before his starts. Anyway. All right. So the event is broadcast live on TV and highlights are shown around the world. It's one of the first major cities to enter the new year, obviously. Brisbane happens at the same time. And if I was going to show one of them around the world, it would be...

No, it would be the one behind it. It would be, you know, the story bridge, the brown snake. See, he's actually not capable of listening. And not to assume But it was women talking So he definitely didn't hear you Well I don't like to assume such things As gendered Jess

Very old school Jess And I don't think I will have a stern talk to again after the show But Brisbane and Sydney Same time zone Ah, we're At New Year's Eve And you're later

Oh well that's why then Now it makes sense So the world watches Sydney And then an hour later They go now the show begins So people apparently the Sydney one Still very popular People camp out

Yep it is They camp out the night before To get great vantage points To see the big fireworks display Even though you can just watch it on the TV It's crazy Without having to wear a nappy No that you're not even

You can do that too if you like. Can if you want. Yeah, if you really want to get comfortable on the couch, I recommend it. Either that or just don't sit on the good couch. It's good to have two. It was reported that residents of Sydney's affluent northern beaches at the most recent New Year's erected rows of gazeboes at a popular viewing spot. One included a note saying, quote, please feel free to use this space until 5.000. 5pm, happy new year.

But then, from then on, we're here. Yeah, we'll kick you out. Pretty audacious. And that pissed people off. Soon a listing appeared on Facebook Marketplace with images of the gazebo saying, free gazebos and camp chairs pick up East Esplanade Manly. Bit of fun.

Bit of fun. The music of this year's event included Mel C. of the Spice Girls, Matt Corby, the Cat Empire and Marsha Hines. coincidentally, Heinz played the year we're going to talk about the 1980 Sydney New Year's. That's all I'm going to mention of her, but that was a nice little link. I thought when I started writing this. You know, when you start writing one of these things, you go, I don't know how much I need a pad here.

And what I think some people would do, they'd loop back to the start and go, don't need to mention Marsha Heinz. But I'm not most people. So we're realising in real time together how much stuff I could have edited out. But anyway, the festival that year was sponsored by big energy company AGL. That seems important. And they have the slogan which was up on the stage and stuff. I'll give you 20 seconds to think of a better slogan. You're a big gas company, you're sponsoring the New Year's Eve event.

what would you call it? This is what they uses their slogan. It has to be a gas. And they would have had like a team. They also do electricity. Yeah. Just confusing. Yeah.

So Dave. Yeah, so it has to be a gas. Do you do electricity? Yeah, we do that as well. Yeah, of course. But it has to be a gas. It has to be a gas. What about just like light it up?

He's that good. Yeah. And then there's like a picture of Dave with his legs in the air and a lighter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It has to be a gas. The slogan for that

New Year's Eve event, they loved a slogan in the Sydney in the 80s. Can you just picture it? Cocaine flowing. Yeah. They had a second slogan for the New Year's night,

which was, Get into the 80s with a bang. Dave, you can prove on that? Light it up. Oh, yeah. Keep lighting it up. The Angels drummer at the time, a guy named

Graham Bidstrup, okay, Buzz, wrote about... Oh, and he's perfect. Buzz! So, there's a picture of Buzz. What? Electricity.

Sorry, guys. When you're a copywriter at my level, come on. I cannot believe... Everyone in the room was like, what are you talking about? I can believe that. It's electricity. It's also like, you know, Everyone's excited.

There's a buzz. There's a buzz. It worked on at least one and a half levels. It was too clever for all of us, yes. I forgot you're an hour behind. Okay. So, yeah. That was the closest that you would get to a regret face from Davis.

Yeah, yeah. And then he just gets on with his life, whereas you and I would go backstage and go, I can't believe I said that. What was that? What the fuck was that? So Buzz wrote about this event in his book, No Secrets, which I'll quote from a bit in a little while. As an aside, after leaving the Angels,

he was a founding member of the band Ganga Jang. You know them? Big hit song. Sounds of Australia. Sounds of, sounds Australia. Yeah, did you? It sounds like you are not sure. Yeah, what's the sound?

Sounds of. We all know it. The second, I love. Two, three, four. The second. What you have? This is crackover cane, fear's love and think that this is Australia. It's a bit of the song title in brackets. I think you meant to mumble it.

Isn't that what the brackets mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that's by the boy. I just thought it was a bit fun. I didn't know that. Had a different name when it came out. Sounds of... Sounds of now. Wow. You're an interesting guy. Wait, say that again? What?

What? Originally the band was called The Rip Tards and they changed it to Ganga Jane. I think it was a good choice. Sorry, are you all experts on this thing? We've got like two music historians sitting next to each other. That's fucking awesome. What is going on?

Both in sick shirts? What the fuck is up? What's in the water up here? This is awesome. You're nothing to add. Fair enough. We'll stop looking at you. Sorry about that.

So, no, let's talk about the Angels. The band was a big part of defining the classic Aussie rock sound and some argue they're part of the big four of Aussie pub rock. You reckon your name the other three? Yes. Cold chisel? Yes.

Yes, correct. Cold chisel, ACDC, Midnight Oil and the Angels. Before they were the Angels, I didn't know this until this week. They evolved from a very different band called the Moonshine Jug and String Band.

The guitarist originally played it. 100%. They originally... The guitarist originally played the washboard on his chest. That's how good his abs were. So yeah, they were a band with like banjo's harps violin. It was an acoustic band, very different vibe.

That's amazing. And then in 1974, they went electric, began playing rock and roll, naming themselves the Keystone Angels. Their first gig was supporting Cheech and Chong. Wow. Yep. Apparently the crowd who were there to see Cheech and Chong when an unknown rock band opened for them,

the crowd was like, what fuck is this? And according to Jeff Jenkins writing for the music, the audience threw minties at them. Minties. But they had a really quick sort of and fast, what do you call when you go upwards? Upward trajectory.

Not just a trajectory, but he got there. And I was wrong, and I'm so sorry. They then performed at the iconic summary. Please forgive me. I know not what I do. Please forgive me. I can't stop loving you. Don't deny me.

Pain I'm going through. Please forgive me. Can't stop loving you. What is that? Brian Adams. I have no idea what that is. I thought I was like, another classic Aussie song we're singing here. It's Ganga Jang.

It's this song that we all know. Brian Adams. I've no idea what's happening, but it's flowing out. My younger brother had the greatest hits of Brian Adams, which was very ambitiously called So Far So, Oh, The Best So Far, or something like that. It's like, this is late in the career briser. Anyway, looking forward to the second volume. Any day now?

CDs for The Youngsters in. All right. It's a music disc. It doesn't matter. A disc is a round, whatever. So I played Sumbry in 1975, very iconic music festival in Australia. They also toured as Chuck Berry's backing band. I did a report on Chuck Berry a few years ago.

He was a real tight-ass, apparently, so he'd tour and he'd just hire a cheap band in the country who was into to follow him around. That's how they sort of began. They supported ACDC. They play with Ike and Tina Turner. This is all in the first couple of years. and then the guys from Aka-Dacca loved them. Bond Scott and Malcolm Young recommended them to their record label, Alberts,

and they got signed up. And according to Jenkins, ACDC famously hated most of their contemporaries, but they loved the angels. Angus Young? Yeah. It sounded more like Brian Adams. The other Brian. Imagine Brian Adams fronting Akadaka.

So I'm going to think about. I was about to say, okay, a little something like this, but no, we don't have time for that shit. According to rock historian Ian McFarlane by 1976, the band had toughened its sound from, you know, the washboards. And the jug, hoo, who, who, who, who, who. So good. And now they had, like, a beefy hard rock sound.

And in 1976, architects of the Aussie pub rock sound, Vander and Young, produced the band's first single. Am I ever going to see your face again? No way, get fucked, fuck off. And Vander and Young, if you don't know, Harry Vander and George Young, two of the key members of the Easy Beats, who went on to be a legendary record producers. George Young, no coincidence, Malcolm and Angus's older brother from ACDC. And it was George Young who suggested they dropped the keystone from the band's name to become just the angels,

just like Justin Timberlake convinced Mark Zookaboard. to drop the the from the Facebook. Yeah. People really found that. Yeah, another iconic bit of advice. This is kind of wiki. It's a website, I assume, is all about getting fucked and fucking off.

Am I ever going to see your face again? It was their first single. And it was initially recorded as a ballad, but subsequently re-released as a rock song. Live single was released in January of 9th. 1988 as lead single from their live album, Live Line, and the live version features the expletive-laden audience response. I don't know if you guys remember it.

No way. But can you imagine... Diminishing returns on that. It's a ballad and there's still that call and response? No way. But they're still yelling it at you. So this chant has been described by the Guardian's Darrell Mason as one of the most famous in Australian rock history.

I don't know if I could name another. Yeah, I just figured that time. Oh, you know, all those famous chants we have. It might be the one. In January of 20. Oh, what about? A, AAP, AAPT, smart chat. Thank you so much for coming with me on that.

That other rock and roll chant. I mean, this is fun. I'll see what's the color of a 10th, Peace. Copper. I think they're a bit too young for that. We used to chant for fun. While we waited for trains to arrive.

In January of 2018, as part of Triple M's Oz, that's Triple M. The most... They had a countdown of the most Australian songs of all time, and it was ranked number 11. Most Australian. Most Australian. In 2025, the song was voted 12th in the Triple J,

hottest 100 of Australian songs. It's an iconic song, and their first single just went out with a bang there. Just like they went into the 80s with one. Neeson said, this sort of recontextualized the whole chant. Get fuck off. Neeson said, Neeson, the songwriter, Doc Neeson. Have I mentioned that? Doesn't matter.

I was thinking about Liam Neeson. Me too! Yeah. But I'm nearly always thinking about Liam Neeson, to be fair. What a guy, what a range Yeah What's he up to do? I had a like, I was doing it to myself

But I really got close to a good Liam Mason recently It's not here with me today Frank Frank Dreuben police squad Something out of someone Anyway If this was one of our reports You'd spend the next 45 minutes on that

But because it's yours you're like There's no time There is no time Guys I've got a very important story to tell So, Neeson, Liam... Liam Mason. No way, get fucked, fuck off. That was pretty good.

That was pretty good. So, Doc Neeson, the songwriter, said the song was originally written as an acoustic ballad about grief and loss. The girlfriend of Neeson's friend was killed in a motorcycle collision. And the two friends were discussing life after death and the conversation inspired Neeson to write.

write the lyrics. Am I ever going to see your face again? No way, get fucked, fuck off. It's all like, if you think about it, that chant coming from the other side. Yeah. On one hand, kind of being like, oh, there is, you know, an afterlife. That's good news, but I'm not getting there. Yeah.

And they're saying that pretty in strong terms. Yeah, yeah. I don't think there's even a chance. After British band's status quo discovered numerous similarities. between the song and one of their own, one called Lonely Night, the two bands reached an agreement in lieu of a lawsuit

that saw Status Quo receive royalties from the song. So it was, they're like, oh, this is pretty similar. The status quo bassist Alan Lancaster, Lancaster, was friends with members of the Angels of the time of the incident, lived next door to the guitarist John Brewster. So there's, like, oh,

possibly they heard it through the wall or something. In 2015, Brewster recounted, having asked Nieson, whether the song could have been based on Lonely Night, and recalls a non-committal response from Doc Neeson saying, I might have heard it at a disco. What's that over there? Change the lyrics.

The classic late 70s, early 80s version of the band featured, as well as Buzz, who we've talked about, and Doc Neeson. There were the guitarist brothers, Rick and John Brewster, and bass player Chris Bailey. And the band have a lot of fans in the music biz. I didn't realize how popular they were around the world. Cheap tricks, guitarist, Rick Nielsen has said, quote, they're like an ACDC with strange lyrics.

Their music is a bit more theatrical with more ups and downs, more emotion. Not emotion, but strangeness. Don't get much higher praise on that. Do you think the same could be said of us? Yeah. No emotion, but strangeness. If his band Guns and Roses, Axel Rose has said, quote, one of the main reasons this band got together was the Angel's song called Take a Long Line.

Like he's saying guns and roses exist because of an angel song which I had no idea of. A 13-year-old Dave Grohl saw him in 1982, one of the first live shows he ever saw. Metallica covered him in concert in 2025. Jimmy Barnes, another previous topic, believes they are the band that, quote, changed Australian music forever,

and I think implied there is for the better. Fellow rock icon, Ross Wilson, of Daddy Cool and monot. rock and whatnot said, I'll never forget the first time I heard their second album face to face. That was a breakthrough album in the evolution of Australian music. And record producer Mark Opetts agrees saying, the revolution was here. Pub rock would now sound good. On record.

Oh, I see. Just as Nirvana would kill the hair rock bands, face-to-face spelled the demise of glam pop in Australia. Rocket arrived and the angels were the new kings. In 1978, they were selected by David Bowie to be his support acting Australia. That tour included a show at the MCG, which was the biggest crowd Bowie had ever performed tour at that stage of his career. I don't know if the Angels had performed a bigger and I didn't say. It's probably just another bloody day of the week for the angels.

They're like, oh yeah, back to the office. According to Jenkins, Doc Neeson was offered the lead role in Mad Max, but had to decline due to touring commitments and the role went to little-known actor Mel Gibson. You're welcome. American man, American man, Mel Gibson. He lived here for a bit, but he's not ours. Record sales in the late 70s led to them being dubbed Australia's number one rock band in 1979. So all of this is really just to set up and get across the point.

They were a big deal when the 80s were dawning. Right. I didn't know that they were so huge. Yeah, I didn't realize international. I knew they were huge and important in the Australian rock scene, I didn't realize they were like influential to Seattle Grunge sound. Totally, yeah. The Pearl Jam members also talk about how they were really influential to them. Interesting.

Cool. Sometimes. Interesting and entertain. Yeah, sometimes we just genuinely find things interesting, I guess. Buzz Bidstrup writes in his book, To top off the year, this is going back to 1979, to top off the year, we were invited to bring in the new decade with a free concert for an estimated 100,000 revelers

on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House. which is sort of like their version of, I don't know, the valley. Rick Sparr. Does that make sense to you? Yeah. The event usually began early in the evening and ended at midnight with a massive cheselade of pyrotechnics sliding up the sky. I'm reading, these aren't my words.

This is the beautiful wordsmithery of buzz. And he's explaining New Year's Eve. Yes. So it often, it's a big party and it ends at midnight. Oh, in some ways it's really just beginning at that point. In 1979, the Festival of Sydney, in their infinite wisdom, decided to give the city a special treat. This is him talking about his own band, by presenting the angels directly after the midnight fireworks. The television broadcast kicked off mid-afternoon with a vast program of singers, dancers, acrobats and musicians, including Marsha Heinz.

No, I did mention her again. Oh. There you go. And the actor who played Uncle Jack, I don't know if he was in character or not, but that's another thing I read, and now you know too. But as than the rest of the band watched along on the TV at his nearby apartment, unfortunately the event wasn't thought through particularly well. Firstly, there weren't any food options,

apart from expensive restaurants that were all booked out well in advance. So the 100,000 people are there, can't get food. Okay I can't imagine that that would be an issue on like a really long day where they'd be drinking I can't imagine that would be a problem Yeah Yeah they'll be fill up on drink

Yeah That'd be fine So knowing this though The organisers I encourage people to bring their own They're like B.W you can bring Eskies, bring your own People did bring their own Only there might have been some miscommunication Because their own was more liquid

than solid. Like meal replacement shakes. Yes, I guess so. To make things worse, it was a warm day, which probably shouldn't have been surprising because it was the middle of summer. Buzz writes, the temperature reached 32 degrees Celsius in the shade,

but there wasn't any to be... And you're like, is that all? But there wasn't... And we're like, inform the hospitals. They're going to have an influx of the elderly. We're losing a generation. tonight. We're all about to get a house.

But yeah, so it's 32 degrees in the shade, but there was no shade. Yeah. You know, they're in that big open space. Yeah. Buzz rides just about everyone was sitting in the hot sun waiting to see the angels. For American listeners or any other countries that use Fahrenheit, 32 is about 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Pretty hot.

And that's in the shade though, so in reality a lot hotter on the concrete. Like, they would have been baking. So you've got tens of thousands of revelers. Baking in the hot sun with no shade available, no food available, but they do have heaps of their own booze. Well, that's something. Now, what's an important thing to remember at a large event, especially when everyone's drinking a lot of liquid?

Toilets? Sorry, so sorry, sorry. I want to, you're right. Piss. Sorry. The correct answer is piss. It's really important. Yeah.

What should we remember? Piss. No, you were right. Tollets. Paulets. We don't have enough toots. Not enough to. Well, Buzz writes, unfortunately, whoever planned the event forgot that as the hours stretched on,

tens of thousands of people might need to go once or twice. Going on to say, the few portaloos that had been provided filled up. Talk about being in the show. shit. That's Buzz. That's Buzz. Oh, Buzz. That's good writing.

You guys are got to get this book. He, man, I could read him all day. Buzz Billstrop. Just got to, and he's the drummer. I tell you, God was given out with both hands

when he went up for the talent portion. Apparently, even on the tele buzz dock and the rest of the band could tell things were a mess. Bless you. You? No.

Someone just... Feeling emotional. Oh. Yeah, no, it is emotional to hear that torts were not available. Torts. But make it like that no-it-but-fart sounds, it'd be funny. Oh. Yeah, like a bugle, but it's a fart.

That's inappropriate, Jess. I'm so sorry about that. So, things. things are looking bad and you can tell on the tell buzz could tell the band could tell they're watching it live right buzz rights at our flat

laughing and joking and watching the TV broadcast we were blissfully unaware that we were about to be thrown into a different kind of shit storm he did it again wow that is good stuff fantastic

other acts on the undercard were getting no respect increasingly so and the crowd became more a sun and booze soaked They would just yell like they could hardly get through it, especially the emcees and the, like the bands at least could drown it out, but there's comedians up there chatting. Go ahead, guys.

What else? What else? Oh, were they throwing Minties again? Yeah, not again. There's no bigger act of disrespect. Even Sydney's mayor copped it. Can you believe that? What? As Buzz writes, right from the start, there seemed to be a bit of unrest in the audience. Watching the telecast, I thought it was a bit off when the Lord Mayor of Sydney,

Nelson Mears was greeted with cat calls of fuck off. That's coming through the TV. The Lord Mayor, fuck off. Added to these insults and taunts were the occasional chance of angels, angels, angels, from our fans who are waiting less than patiently to see us. And now I thought maybe we could quickly act this out with Dave playing the part of the mayor.

I do have part of his speech. I do have big mayor energy. So yeah You mean if you want to You play the part of a like a really drunk Bulligerent audience Oh Yes great

You got Angela And some of the other ones can yell Fuck off Wait whoa hey whoa Whoa keep your powder dry Wait until Wait until the mayor's talking Don't do it to me

I've got very low self-esteem That will hurt This will be water off Dave's back Dave, you just read this paragraph while they yell abuse at you. All right, let me introduce the Lord Mayor of Sydney, the Honourable Nelson Mears. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tonight is the invitation upon a new era with the 1980s. We passed from the troubled 1970s into a new period. May it be a great...

period for all Australians. I wish you a very happy New Year. Thank you so much. That was very nice to watch. Yeah, it felt like a few of you though, did not share that. Yeah, you were like, well, finally. A few of you needed to get that off your chest. Yeah, that was, that's, you, I think, nailed that. So, I'm like, I'm just starting to, like, really explore the space with these live shows, you know. One of the New Zealand ones, I got these two to recite the Waiting for a Mate video. Anyway, someone to look forward to.

It was actually really fun. It was. It was. Buzz continues. As the afternoon wore on, there was a definite shift in the mood of the crowd. So that was the afternoon. Yes. And they're on after midnight.

Oh my God. A few empty tinnies began to clatter onto the stage as other hours. went through their paces. About an hour before sunset, Nelson Mears, the mayor, came back to, on to introduce Rolf Harris. Too soon. Two soon. Too soon.

Too soon. Now, this is, I'm going back to the words of buzz, and I tell you what, I love his writing. This is what he writes. Now, at the time, before he took on his later role as a convicted pedophile, Buzz wrote that. Buzz! That's buzz. That is incredible.

That's great stuff. He said, before that role, Harris was a national icon. But both he and the Lord Mayor were forced to duck and weave as an increasing number of heavier projectiles

were lobbed at them. It's pretty fun. The footage is there. Rolf Copse won right on the... And he's like trying to... He tries to keep going, like, timing kangaroo down sport or something. He's got a...

He's scheduled to play a set of multiple songs. And yeah, there's a news clip on YouTube you can watch. And they show the hit and then they show it in super slow-mo. And over the footage, a news reporter says, Rolf Harris was among the first to receive treatment from the 100,000 crowd, which he later admitted shocked him. Although the main hurt may have been to his pride, professionalism kept the singer on his feet for only one number

before fleeing the stage for his own safety. Flea. Yeah. And the empty cans were now full cans. A much more dangerous proposition. And more than that, Buzz was like, full cans. He said, a punter has to get pretty pissed off to throw a full can of beer.

It would have to be chucked quite a distance, too. The stage was at least four metres high. The ever-present cry for the angels to appear was getting louder and louder, but there were hours to go till midnight. The feeling in the Angels camp was that the audience will be fine when they play because most people have come to sales.

They're not going to do that to us. Yeah. They're probably going to level out nicely. Become a really respectable crowd. Nice buzz. Just after midnight, perfect. Yeah, great. The security and police weren't kicking out

any of the culprits apparently. They could see them, but they were just like, oh, we don't get involved. Handing the cans back to them. They're like... Sorry, who's was... Was this, that was yours, there you go. Nice shot, you got Rolf in the face.

There's still a bit left in that, though, if you want to. As Buzz and the band arrived at the festival, so he lived just on the other side of the harbour, so they ferried across. As they arrived, they could tell that even since they left and were watching the TV that had got even crazier, Buzz continues. In the time it took for us to make the short walk to our dressing rooms,

the overall atmosphere of the event took a major turn for the worse. The clock struck midnight and spectacular fireworks, broke out overhead. Then the five-minute call came over the dressing room into com. Time for a nervous piss. Then head outside with... There you go, piss. Time for a nervous piss.

Obviously, they still had their own VIP, Port-a-Loo. Then to head outside with John, Rick and Chris for the traditional pre-gig joint. Shared just before we walked on stage. The front man... Jess, I'm actually trying to tell a story here. I don't care. Apparently the frontman Doc never took part took in the doob

He liked to go on stage sober much like me I respect the audience too much Back with buzz big crowds can be great to play to he writes There's nothing better on a sunny summer's day than looking out from behind the drum kit over a sea of smiling faces And watching the bodies jump up and down in exactly the same rhythm you're providing band and audience as one, totally in sync. The same scenario at night can be totally different, and especially challenging for a drummer.

First, the barrage of bright lights aimed directly at the plays makes it impossible to see any further than the first one or two rows of people. Secondly, because the drummer is usually on an elevated riser, it can be hard to see the other musicians on stage. During their second track, Night Comes Early, the missiles started flying. As Buzz recounts, I caught sight of something in the... the light. So he sees him at the last second, because he's got lights in his eyes.

He writes, I'd instinctively ducked as it hit the drum riser. Glass shattered all over my kit. They're now chucking champagne bottles. Again, impressive to throw him that far. Because that'd be pretty heavy. He said, I flashed a look at Chris,

the bass player, who was on my left. Farky mouthed with a look of horror. As another smash behind me. I was astonished to see the broken neck of a glass flagon sticking into the wooden shell of my monitor speaker, only a foot from my head. Shit. We kept playing, but I quickly readjusted my symbols and kept a low profile.

Behind them as we sped through take a long line and then no secrets, which was a future hit, hadn't been released at that point. It would have been one of the first times heard publicly. A few people from the audience had begun climbing on. to the stage, I saw security guards simply pushed them straight back down again, four meters down, onto the crowd below. Buzz says, this inflame the situation. This will calm them down, foink.

So they're getting more, like people are landing on it. They're like, oh, you thought we were pissed off before? We were throwing those bottles for fun. Now we're throwing them for anger. Now they're going to start throwing people. So the barrage of, of men, more bottles and cans came, another fast version of coming down followed, he writes.

Nothing could have been more descriptive. Now pieces of the sponsors AGL's outsized Masonite advertising sign on the front of the stage were being broken off and flung frisbee-like towards the stage. It's got to be gas. Presumably at the security guards, he thinks. But he said, I couldn't see any of the missiles

heading my way until they arrived. And I couldn't really avoid them unless I stopped playing altogether. We ploughed on. Which was not an option. That's awesome. This is one of the few times I'd say, maybe do what Rolf did.

We ploughed on tape. We ploughed on keeping a sharp eye on incoming. We were into Marseille, I think that's how to pronounce that, when our manager John Woodruff and tour manager Mark Pope but the side of the stage made hand across the neck gestures to stop the show. We're done, calling it.

Chris returned to my rise of the bass player, motioning with a head toss that we'd be leaving the stage at the end of this, our ninth song. They were due to play many more. They didn't even get to play. I won't even say in case you guys say something rude. He said, it couldn't be soon enough for me. But just as we got to the quiet passage featuring Chris's bass solo,

he turned back towards the crowd and a champagne bottle hit him on the forehead right between the eyes knocking him to the ground. Shit. The bass made a loud, rumbling sound as it hit the stage and began to feed back. I looked at Doc just as a piece of Masonite sliced into the back of his head,

knocking him to his knees. You can see this footage online. It's the most... It looks like it's been staged dramatically. He falls to his knees and then falls on his face. He's like knocked out with a huge gash in the back of his head. He clutched his head. collapsing, bleeding.

And Buzz describes it truly like a war zone, you know, when they fling advertising boards in war. What a champagne in war. And the Port-a-Lu situation is nearly non-existent. But the band fled the stage, all apart from lead guitarist Rick Brewster. So if you know the band, he's the guy who just plants his feet and just sort of chugs on,

do-d-d-d-d-d-do. He was still doing that. He's in the zone. But now he's a target. Yeah, and this is what Buzz writes, because he does not move, Buzz's like, he was a sitting duck. But incredibly, he was spared any damage.

He wasn't hit, whereas Doc Nason, who really roams at the stage, he copped one bad. Buzz was scared, but he was also annoyed writing, I couldn't help feeling really pissed off that our big night, everyone's big night, had been ruined, and my band had been attacked

when all we wanted to do was give the crowd our all. I grabbed my snobbed, their microphone and screamed, well done, fuckwits, happy fucking New Year. I know what's going to diffuse this. The band went via ambulances to the hospital to get treatment for Doc and Chris Bailey, the bass player. And according to Buzz, the doctors and Ambo's there said they'd been a record number of casualties that day.

Bad planning, plus allowing BYO alcohol, glasses and bottles had resulted in the entire area being strewn with shards of broken glass. Numerous cuts, this is the crookest bit somehow of all, numerous cuts and wounds were cross-infected by the filth of discarded undies, soiled where the owners stood, having no chance to escape the crush

and find a place to relieve themselves. Fucking out. That is getting a little war zoney, isn't it? You shouldn't get dissentry at a gig. Yeah. Yeah, so crook. So an absolute disaster, and don't worry, there was a lot of outcry to follow, obviously. I don't know who you'd expect to cop, but probably the organisers and whatnot.

Not quite. The anger was directed at the band and rock and roll in general. This is rock and roll's fault. Buzz rights, there was such an outcry from politicians that this rock band had caused such a catastrophic outcome. No one really talked about the shocking ineptitude and irresponsibility of the people who put it together. I was particularly disappointed that our management didn't sue for damages. Chris suffered for the rest of his life with complications from a detached retina. Oh, yeah.

Fuck. Him, yeah, he's since passed away. So it's Doc, and he was even like, Doc suffered from depression. He's like, we didn't know, but maybe the head trauma, who knows? Yeah. Like, it was really bad stuff. Jenkins writes The front page headline

In the next day's paper was Night of Terror Rock gigs at the Opera House were banned A band that remained for 17 years Until Crowded House's Famous Farewell to the World Concert in 1996 And the title track of the Angels I'm going Crowded House rock

Yeah Yeah that night was wild Have you seen the footage Yeah Hey now Hey now Don't hear me so Oh my God so rock and roll

The title track of the Angels' fifth album, Night Attack, was inspired by the riot. The band still continues today, amazingly, though the only classic line-up members who remain are the Brewster Brothers. About the chant, which is what I'll talk about to finish up, Jenkins describes it as being, quote, as Aussie as Vegemite and Meat Pies. Yeah, true blue, copper. Riggie did, I'll tell you what. Yeah, fair dinkum. Just remembering that a lot of the majority of people hearing this will be not from Australia.

Okay. I thought maybe we could refresh their memory of the chant before I talk about it a little bit. Am I ever going to see your face again? Yes, that's it. Apparently the band encountered the chant for the first time at a gig in Mount Isa in 1983. It's a Queensland chant. Doc Nisa later told the music

quote, I genuinely thought they were telling us to get fucked. Like they didn't come up with it, they just came out of nowhere and the crowd saying it in unison. And they're like, oh... To find out, apparently Nieson leapt into the crowd to quiz an audience member about what was going on. What's happening?

What the fuck does that mean? What does that mean? I love you. Music. Apparently, this is Doc Nason, apparently he'd been at a blue light disco in Sydney where the DJ, so again for international listeners, blue light disco was underage, alcohol-free events put on by the cops.

So yeah, apparently at these blue-light discos, it just sort of spread around where the DJ would stop and the track and the crowd would start chanting it back. And Nason continues, people took it all around Australia and it became an integral part of the song. It's also gone overseas. If Australians want to know, if other Australians are in the room,

they put on, am I ever going to see your face again? Yeah, it's the new Aussie-Oz-Ozzie. Big Tom. Yeah. I think it's, I'm more proud of this one. 100%. Just finish off. This is from Wikipedia, which is sort of an online resource about getting fucked and fucking off.

I think. Although it is famous audience chant in Australian rock history, the exact origins of her loss. I like to think it started in Mount Isa. In May of 2014, Rick Brewster opined, quote, I don't think it will ever be solved because too many people put their hand up and say, I started it.

And we don't believe any of it. We just think it's funny. It's the Bush Telegraph, really. The whole country was doing it, and then we found when we went overseas, the people in America were doing it too. Nason noted that, quote, it's become the audience's song.

It doesn't belong to the band anymore. The song and its response have become an iconic... It belongs to status quo, doesn't it? So the song and its response have become an iconic part of Australian culture, such that the song may be played anywhere in the world with the chant sung by whatever crowds are present. So let's finish off the episode.

Dave, do you want to lead them in it? One last show, one last chant to close out the episode. It'll be my honour. Am I ever going to see your face again? That's the story of Sydney News Eve, 1980 and the Angels. Good everybody. There was a story of Doc Neeson was over, like, entertaining the troops in Timor in the late 90s,

and Peter Cosgrove was like the, or Cosgrove, whatever, was the head of the army or whatever and it was there like entertaining a couple of dignitaries including some sort of bishop and Doc Mason plays a song they're sitting there watching all the army yells back get fuck fuck off

and apparently the bishop lent over to Cosgrove and said sorry what were they saying and apparently Cosgrove said I couldn't make it out I don't know I've never that one for Something, yeah.

Something about the grace of God or something. Yeah. I don't know. That's great. What a story. That sounds like an absolute nightmare. I'd never heard of it before. No.

But yeah, it's the people just taking off their jocks. Yeah. And then people with bloody feet stepping in their jocks. Yeah, we don't have to relive it again. It was really bad the first time. Why did I go back to that? Yeah, because it stayed in your brain. Yeah.

And it'll say in all of ours for a while. But not as long as the infection started in those people's feet. Dave, boot this baby home, I reckon. Wow. We've had some fun here today. No, thank you so, so much for coming out. Wow. Like we said, I mean, we did a show just before this,

but if you went here for that, we hadn't been in prison in ages, and it was so nice to come out here and do not one, but two shows back to back. In this beautiful theatre, the first time they're doing comedy here, could you give it up for Ad Astra? And the Quick Chat Comedy Club who helped put on this gig

we appreciate you so much. Thank you for looking after us. And Dave, finish the show and then just after the show, Jake, it's going to play the song we can all. Okay, beautiful. Absolutely love that. For those who don't know it,

but obviously copyright on the recording. We don't want to have to pay status quo. We don't have status quo money. As you head out of here, we'll be hanging out in the courtyard if you want to come and say hello or buy some of our merchandise. Or you might want to say goodbye. Yeah, go goodbye.

Or get fucked, fuck off. I'll take it as a compliment. I know what I'm signing on people's posters. Yeah. We've got the last show of our Australian New Zealand tour. We're believing it. First time we've done everyone everything together. So thanks so much for coming out, ending with a bang.

We've got some tour posters. Designed by the great, Murray, who's here. Thank you so much. Mari. You're legend. We've got some stickers, some of which also designed by the Great Murray. Yes, that's true. That's true.

We've got magnets and we've got tote bags and you can buy one of each for a discounted price for the do-go-on-show bag. But no pressure, even you just want to say hello. Or go and have a fantastic Saturday night. Thanks again for coming out. Brisbane, we love you. Goodbye. Later. Bye.

Thank you. Whoa, Brisbane. How fun was that, Dave? So much fun. We came up to Brisbane for the first time in many a year. You came to the party. That was the first of two sold-out shows we did back-to-back, and my goodness, we had a lot of fun that day. Oh, we had a lot of fun.

I think it might have even been the second one. I think it might have been, actually. What was the first one? I did one. I did one. I didn't come out yet. Yeah, no, we haven't put it out. We've got a few live ones up our sleeve that would be coming out over the rest of the year.

Because of our, we did the Oz New Zealand tour. We did quite a few double shows in Perth and in a couple of the, couple of the, both places in New Zealand. We did a double and then Brisbane. The Australasian 10-year birthday party. sort of thing tour. That's right. Pretty snappy name.

Yeah. Put that on the poster. No, thank you so much to everyone who came out to there. It was so fun. And after the show, we've got to say a big thank you to the guys who run

Good Chat Comedy Club who were running, this is the first comedy show they've done in this new venue at Astra and afterwards, not only did they make a reservation for us an Italian restaurant that doesn't accept reservation.

They also... As in, we could have just walked up there. Yeah, but it's still very nice of them to call ahead and try. Yeah. And we said, do you know any Italian places? And they said, you've got to go here. And then they took our suitcases back to the hotel like we were, some sort of celebrity. So we appreciate that, that hospitality. Cale, Jake. That's right. Nate. I don't know if Nat was there. Night of the day. Which is maybe why I've called him Nate.

I forgot. I forgot about it. Yeah, no, very well looked off there. Loved it. A bit of old-fashioned Queensland hospitality. So, yeah, but now that that's done, Dave and I, we're going to get into the Patreon section of the show where we thank our great Patreon supporters for keeping the show going. And, yeah, if you want to be involved, go to patreon.com slash you've gone pod.

A bunch of different levels over a certain level. You get a shout-out over another level. You also get the bonus episodes and the video feed of the episodes that are recorded and all sorts of different things. Facebook group, the Patreon exclusive group, which is the Nossus corner of the internet, you're the first to hear about tours. If you wanted to be at that Brisbane show, you would have got a pre-sale with a discount code

if you're on the Patreon. But this first part of the shout-out section, we talk about people in the Sydney-Shaunberg level or above who can be involved in the fat quota question section. I actually think it has a jingle, go something like this. fact, quote, or question. D-Dee. He always remembers the ding. And he always remembers the sing.

And the way this section works is, if you're on the Sydney-Shaarberg level or above, you get to give us a fact, a quote, or a question, or a brag, or a suggestion, or really, whatever you like. And then I read them out on the show. It's as simple as that. You also get to give yourself a title. First one this week comes from Snake Man. Wait, Snake 4A-1, maybe.

And that's not the nickname. Which is funny. I don't know why I saw Snake Man there. But anyway, Snake 4A1. I've seen that before and I always read it as Snake Man. You'll always be Snake Man to me. Now, Snake M4A1 is given themselves to the title of the Lord God of Anime Watchers. And here is their quote, fuck it. Let's do it and see what happens.

That's a great quote. Do we have a source? No source. No source. Maybe that's come from the... Might be self-sourcing. From the anime god themselves. It could be.

Thank you so much, Snake. It's fuck it, let's see what happens. Fuck it. Let's do it and see what happens. Yeah. I really like that. Sometimes you just got to go with that, then you? I think that's fantastic.

Thank you, Snake. Great last words, too, got to say. Oh. You get to pick your last words. Yeah, you turn it at ignition on a new machine you've just made and explodes. Yeah. Next one comes from Noah Cartwright, aka sovereign ruler of the Procournurban Prastination.

Hey, I'm one of your little subjects. Now, Noah's giving us a Choose Your Own Adventure writing. Okay, I love it. Howdy y'all? This is my first fact-quoted question. I've had this idea for over a year, but I'm just now sending it in, a fact which tells you all you need to know about me. For your reading pleasure, the Choose Your Own Adventure fact quote or question. The game has three rounds, one fact, one quote, one question.

and enjoy. Deep in the annals of space, the Do-Go-on gang drifts along helplessly. He had just finished your first intergalactic pod when someone took a turn at the wrong star. After hours of wandering lost, you see a rundown space station on a comet. When you land, you see the station seems to be abandoned. Do you get out? Yes or no, Dave. Well, I think we're stuck there. Yeah, we've got to explore. Yes. Yes, all right.

C, A. Okay, A says, outside, it's eerie quiet. The door to the station is unlocked, but something on the other side is blocking it from opening all the way. Do you force it open or go around back? I'm not very good at jimmying or jamming, so I'm going to go around back. All right. Am I, okay, if I keep answering, do you want to have input? No, no, no, please. Okay, yeah, have to go around back, I reckon. Okay, go to C. Around back, you find a door with a voice-conve-conve-conve-old. control lock. The password is written beside it on the wall. Benile anal canal. Or banal anal canal. I'm sure Matt fails to pass. Yes. The lock flashes red. You hear a voice from the speaker. It's me, Noah.

Quote, here's a fact for you. I've hit the 1200 character limit. Good luck getting home, y'all. We're stuck? Well, that's the adventure we chose. That's great. I really enjoyed that. Thank you so much to Noah. And the last one this week comes from Stephen Anderson. It's got the title, Astrobeligicus.

Astrobeligius. Astrobeligius. And Stephen, okay, astrelobelicus. And Stephen, okay, astrelobelgicus, has a question writing hello there as a never nude but podcasts are cutoffs and my thoughts are my junk now that i can afford the sydney schaumburg i want to thank you for the sanity use guys a primary source of quiet brain and out loud laugh please indulge a few of my free associations before my raggedly question there is an opening action scene in captain america winter soldier where

Captain front kicks a fellow right off a boat to his presumed crushed chest watery death. Every time Jess's leg strength is mentioned, this is what my brain visualizes her doing, kicking someone to their death. About 20 years ago, in an interview, Nicholas Cage mentioned he went for a run and saw a rattlesnake and thus decided he wanted to be as thin as a snake. That's insane He gets back And he's like Bebub I'm nervous

He's already like Soaring off his limbs That is so funny Have you heard? I've known No I've done It didn't come up

But he's so about shit, I'm not surprised. Stephen says, I see this and I'm playing out, except with Dave giving thumbs up to Cage when cobra is evoked. Cobra. Why do I say Cobra? And you always say Cobra.

I think... Cobra is, it's another way of saying it. Maybe is that an Aussie way of saying Cobra snake? Cobra is the Aussie way? No, I think Cobra is. Cobra, yeah. What do they say Cobra Car? Cobra Car.

And that's Cobra Cobra Cia. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it is interesting because it... Like, naturally, I'll just say Cobra. and then you'll say cobra. I'm like, no, that also sounds right. King cobra. King cobra.

You're talking about previous topic, Greg Norman's. That's right. We did do a bonus episode. I wonder if this next one will be related to me. Steve says, and after jet laggedly arriving from Belgium and briefly meeting Matt who knew it with Matt Stewart in Brisbane, I had a dream that Hank Scorpio had him on retainer to run bits by him and Matt was mostly pitching French accent gags in brackets, which Scorpio loves.

I love that feedback from Hank. That's great. All right, here's the brackedly question. I studied and worked in uni's for around 13 or so years before getting out. But far and away, my proudest achievement was an A-plus in ice skating for an elective ice skating class during a chemical engineering exchange in Illinois. Wow, A-plus. That's...

That is so unrelated to engineering. That is such a baffling, yeah. I love it. That's awesome. And so the question is, what are you disproportionately proud of? Thank you, love you by Stephen. Ooh.

Disproportionately proud. Hmm. Great question. Okay. I think I mentioned this couple of here recently hit 1,000 days on duolingo. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Even though, like, I'm literally doing... I'm doing the bare minimum on that. You just have to have completed one task a day, and it's usually three minutes. So I'm not really learning very much at all But it's keeping the street going I'm proud of Even though like

I think there is But it doesn't meant anything You know what I mean So like that feels It feels disproportionate But I feel some satisfaction from it I think you should too That just made me think that

I'm on the waffle game My current streak Which is also my best streak It's 253 And a waffle game Is that a New York Times Sort of style quiz or something? It's more of an indie version

of it, I guess. It's like a word puzzle. Oh, yeah, cool. Oh, 250 days in a rose amazing. Yeah, and they, like, give you different, I can't remember what I'm up to now, but it's something like, they call you like, Waffle legend, waffle icon.

And I'm like, oh, just keep thinking. Now that's obviously as high as it goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Waffle deity. There's maybe something in my future. So maybe that, I don't know. Question without notice is always hard, of those sort of things.

Being like a 30, I think I'm a 35 year Saints member. Oh yeah, yeah, that's good. Which is, again, it's just like a streak. But it is a, I was on Charlie Cawson's footy podcast filling in for Will Anderson recently. I was talking about how I think it's the inverse footy supporters, how impressive. how impressive it is is the inverse of how good the team is. I think it's way more impressive to be a loyal fan

to a struggling team than the other way around. It's like it's so easy. Oh, yeah, I go for a team that wins all the time. Yeah, years of winning. Yeah. Feels good. Oh, well done. Oh, you sat and watched a team do something good.

Yeah, try sucking. Yeah. It's hard. It's not fun. Yeah. No, good question. though and man if that

I mean if it's true or not that Nicholas Cage snake thing is so funny that's unbelievably funny thank you so much to Stephen Noah and Snake I forgot the first one came from Snake maybe that's Cage under a

seeing a snake and going I want to be as soon as snake yes Nick now the next thing we do is shout out to some recent members on the shoutout level Jess normally comes up with the game do you want to do it today Dave

something of, so it was a New Year's Eve. What about like something you could chant instead of no way, get, fuck, fuck off. Something that fits that rhythm. All right. So what I'll do, Dave, you go on your blank mind. I'm going to say where they're from. I'm going to say their name and I'm going to say, am I ever going to see your face again? Oh, good.

And you just, okay, okay. All right. So a big thank you to these nine people for their support. Okay. At patreon.com slash 2gonpod. First up from Oshawa in Canada. Thank you so much to Billy Arundel. Am I ever going to see your face again?

Here's a big Mac and fries on me. On your Billy. Is that something? That is something. That's more than something. From Regina in Saskatchewan, I think, in Canada. A couple of Canadian. Oh, we're getting to the point.

This would be Canadian pre-sale time. That's right. People signed up and they got those first team. We're remembered in September. We are coming to Vancouver. We're coming to Montreal, Calgary and Toronto. And there are some tickets left for each show, I think. And if you sign up, you still do get that.

Do you still get the Canadian? Yeah, you get the discount. That's right. It's pinned on Patreon. It's the top post right now. So as soon as you sign up, you'll see a little code for your city and a link to to buy the ticket. And I think it's 10% off, which is about the first month of a lot of the tiers.

Yes, if you're thinking of signing up anyway, it's basically a free month. from, oh, sorry, from Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Thank you so much and welcome Brianna Belletsky. Am I ever going to see your face again? Let's play video games tonight. Thank you so much, Priyana. From Calgary in Alberta, which we will be coming to in Canada. Thank you so much to M.

Am I ever going to see M's face again? Turn up the heating cause it's cold. You're adding a couple of syllables, I think. Am I? No way it. Get the, fuck off. Turn off the heating. Oh, yeah.

It's cold. Maybe. No way, get, but. It's only six. Okay, okay, okay. From, I liked it, though. I think it's a value ad. From Monroe in Washington in the United States.

Thank you so much to Cat 5, tomato. Am I ever going to see Cat's face again? I'll have X. cheese, please. You're getting hungry. It's so true, I am. I am. Oh my gosh, from address I known

can only shroom from deep within the fortress of the malls. And if this person and anyone else in the fortress of the malls, if you want to get your Christmas card, you've got to fix it up so we've got your address. Otherwise, obviously we can't send it to.

Anyway, from the Fortress of the Moles, thank you so much for your support. Candice E. Larson. Am I ever going to see Candace's face again? Right. bike because it's free. Yeah, a little grain message there.

I guess it's more of a back pocket. Save a little scratch. The finger thing means the taxes. From Montreal and Quebec, cannot believe we're going to be doing a show in Montreal, Dave, in Canada.

Thank you so much for your support. Elspeth Wright. Am I ever going to see Elspeth's face again? Is your dad's name, Kevin? Could be. Kevin Wright? Kevin Wright. Is that anyone?

No. The first two-syllable name that came down. I'm blanking the mind here. Oh, you're doing fantastic. I'm loving it. I meant more to me that that isn't someone. From Long Beach, California. Welcome and thank you, Gazelle Scharf.

Giselle or Giselle? Giselle Scarf. Giselle Scarf. Giselle Scharf. Am I ever going to see? their face again. Can I wear your scarf please? From Winnipeg in Canada. Thank you so much to Sarah Will and Sarah Will I ever see your face again. Please change the channel Sarah.

And finally again from address on I'm assuming from deep within the fortress of the malls. Thank you so much to Emilio Abusei. Am I ever going to see Emilio's face again. Pizza pie on My plate. Can you imagine y'allel? Am I ever going to see your face again? Pizza pie on my plate. If you are from overseas or somehow you've missed the song, do yourself a favor.

After this episode, you've got to listen to it in full. I did a lot of listening to The Angels after we recorded this episode. Yeah. They're real good. They're real good. They're real good. They're really good. Thanks really good.

To a million. Sarah, Giselle or Gazelle, Elspeth, Candice, Kat, M, Brianna and Billy. And the final thing we need to do this week, Dave, is welcome some members into the Triptych Club. And if you're new to the show, I can explain that to you a little. It's the section of the show where people on the shout-out level or above get into this special section, three years straight. Did I say that?

In the shout-up level or above, you get to be inducted into the show-out. Triptage Club. And it's a bit of Theatre of the Mind, but it's a beautiful space where you get a lifetime and even everlasting lifetime because I believe

you can't leave even after you die, but why would you want to? Because it is. Paradise. I think that's canon. And yeah, it's really, it's got whatever you want in there.

We got everything. Pool table. Pinball. Pinball. Connect four. There's a bar, just behind the bar. She's, don't worry about Jess.

I mean, pray for Bob for sure, but she is fine. She's just keeping quite quiet today. Yeah, we will see her face again. And she's behind the bar. She's shaking up all sorts of cocktails. Dave's booked a ban for the after party. Oh, my gosh, you're never going to believe this one. You'll never believe I'm about to reveal.

Welcome to the stage. After we induct these people, it's the bloody angels. Whoa. It's the angels. They have said so far, It's on the am I, maybe on if they're going to play, am I going to see the face again? But I reckon that if we do a bit of this, one more song,

one more song, and the lights are still on and the amps are still on, I reckon they'll probably come back and play. Is it the line-up with Doc? Yeah, it's the line-up that wrote and recorded that song. So you'd think that they'd probably remember it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exciting. So, Doc's, this is the beautiful thing about the Triptage Club,

is we bring musicians back from the dead, you know, semi-regulally. But obviously, they have come back from the dead. So a bit of respect, please don't throw bottles and stuff at them. They've suffered a lot. Yes, they've gone through enough. So I'm on the door. I'm going to read out their name. Dave's on the stage.

He's the MCs, hyping up the crowd to really make you feel welcome in there. I'm so excited to invite these four people in to join us in the Triptage Club. Dave, are you ready to hype up some new members? I'm so excited. for these people. New listeners might not know this, but Dave, he hips you up in his own unique way, which is a bit of weak wordplay based on either the place they're from or their name. Yes.

It's intentional. Whatever he does is exactly how he means it to be. Exactly. If you like it, it's good. If you hate it, I'm doing it on purpose. He's rage baiting. First up, oh my gosh, I'm going to have to look up. Do you know what C-Y is?

Cypress. Oh, my God. First up from what I'm trying to pronounce is limousole in Cyprus. Welcome into the club, Andrew Beer. I'd love a pint of Andrew. Come on, come on. Come on, he's named Andrew beer. I love a pint of Andrew.

I'm thirsty. Hype us from Cyprus. No, no, you did it better. This is why you do it. From Greenville in, maybe South Carolina in the United States. Welcome into the club, Garrett Danelli. You know, they're certainly not Garrett D. Dulley. It's Garrett Dernally.

Big time. Great conversationalist. He'll hype you up. Oh my gosh. He'll hype us from wherever he is. From Appleton in W.I. Maybe Wisconsin. Maybe not in the United States.

Welcome in this powerful couple, Harrison and Rebecca Ellis. Hey, let me, I'd love them to tell us where they're from. It's Rebecca and Harrison. And finally, from Richmond here in Melbourne. and under the shade of the MCG, which is exactly one MCG is big. Please welcome into the club. Surname, I reckon, starts with end based on the email address,

but he's just a mononym. That's right. Welcome in to the club. It's Paul from Richmond. They've got call. It's Paul. Thanks so much for being in Declare with us. Paul, Harrison, Rebecca, Garrett and Andrew.

and let's all have a few Andrew beers together and party on him to the night with the Angels. Woo! I was so sure you're going to do a fake out and say the Saints were playing. No. I bet you considered it. It does say that the angels are on tour coming up.

So, um... Do you remember the Doobie brothers? We got one of them. I mean, let's go see them out at Rest Point Casino in July. Down in Tazzy? Yeah. I'm down. I'm looking at, yeah, a lot of it.

Yeah, a lot of it Adelaide, they're going to Frio, Sydney. I can't really see much. It does, I think. It's not exactly, but it does start to feel a bit more like a cover band when the singer changes this late in a career, but for the second time as well. Dave Gleason, for 15 years or something, the Screaming Jets guy, and now there's another guy.

I'm not sure, but I'd be keen. I mean, it's the same. The brothers are still there, right? Yeah, let's go. I'm keen. He's got a Frio. Let's do it. Preo is trickier, but I'd be keen. Anything we need to tell people before we go, Dave?

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