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Live It Up The Mental As Anything Story

This afternoon I went to the Events Cinema Garden City where I saw the documentary about the legendary Australia band Mental As Anything and in it has interviews with members Martin Plaza, David Twohill, Reg Mombassa and Pete O'Doherty, archival interviews with Greedy Smith, Neil Finn, Greedy's brother Stewart Smith, Colin Hay(Men At Work), Jane Gazzo (Australian music writer), Dave Graney and others as well as talking about their formation in the 70's, playing around the Sydney music scene, began recording for Regular which achieve great success with hit singles including The Nips Are Getting Bigger, Come Around, If You Leave Me Can I Come Too, Bersek Warriors, Live It Up and many others as well as albums including Get Wet, Expresso Bongo, Cats and Dogs and Fundamental As Amnything, going to America as well as Europe, outside projects and many others. It is AWESOME, AMAZING, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with amazing stories and it is well worth seeing. It's been 6 and an bit y...
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4BK March 1974

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This is from the Telegraph March 7th 1974 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK having started in 1930 was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 70's which among their radio personalities was Phil Hunt who worked on 4NA in Nambour and 4CA in Cairns and also was with World Vision was on in the afternoons from 1pm until 4pm .
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Herman's Hermits Australian Tour 2026

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In July and August 2026 legendary British rock group Herman's Hermits will be touring Australia which they will be performing in NSW, Victoria, ACT, Queensland and Western Australia and the group with original member Barry Whitwam on drums, Jamie Thurston on bass guitar and vocals, John Summerton on guitar and vocals and Tony Young on Keyboards and vocals will perform the classic hits that they made famous in the 60's including I'm Into Something Good, Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter, I'm Henry The Eighth I Am, A Must To Avoid, No Milk Today, There's A Kind Of Hush, My Sentimental Friend and many others as well as other rock songs as well as Barry tells stories about the group's history. If you have not seen them Please Do Youselves an favour and SEE THEM which you will be impressed and amazed as well as being entertained by an iconic music group who have been around since the 60's which I'm sure it will be back memories for those who grew up...
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4KQ March 1968

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This is from the Redcliffe Herald March 6th 1968 and long before known as the Good Times and Great Classic Hits station as well as for a time in the 80's an country music station 4KQ was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which they were known as the Better Music station as they were playing Easy Listening music by acts like Herb Alpert at the time.
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4KQ March 1957

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This is from the Courier Mail March 5th 1957 and long before known as the Good Times and Great Classic Hits station as well as the country music station in the 80's 4KQ was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 50's which besides from being an music station it also use to talent quests as they would that for years and on this day it had the Talent Quest Zone Final which was held at the 4kq Auditorium on Elizabeth Street in the city at 8pm.
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4BH March 1961

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This is from the Courier Mail March 4th 1961 (65 Years ago today) and now the classic hits station in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys was Jim Sweeney who was on Saturday between 8am until 12.15pm presented Music For Moderns which the first show was Music For Moderns at 8am, Tonic Tunes was at 9am, Royaltie Show at 9.15am, Cadbury's Hit Parade at 9.30am, Coca Cola Bottlers Club with Allan Brandt at 10am, American Hit Parade at 10.30am, Parade For Swingersters at 11am and Music While You Drive at 11.30am.
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4BC March 1966

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This is from the Courier Mail March 3rd 1966(60 Years Ago today) and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's top music radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys were Geoff Atkinson, Tony MacArthur and Graeme Smith (Bob) who had just joined the station at the time due to Bob Wills leaving 4BC and going to 4BK which they were on daily from 4pm until midnight playing the latest records that was out at the time.
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