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Minions and Monsters

This afternoon I went to the Events Cinema Carindale to see the movie Minions and Monsters and Olivia(Allison Janney) who is a tourist guide in the Film history museum leading a team and she tells the story about the Minions history including James and Henry who had been with a group of Minions who served different masters including an wicked warlock and both James and Henry also developed an friendship with Ed (all voiced by Pierre Coffin) which they stumbled across a train robbery as it turned out to be an staged performance for a movie and the Minions are hired to do movies by directed Max(Christoph Waltz) and it gets interesting. It is excellent, very funny and very entertaining with excellent acting by Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Allison Janney, Pierre Coffin who directed it and wrote it with Brian Lynch, Christoph Waltz and Trey Parker and it was produced by Chris Meledandri and Bill Ryan. It's a feel good family movie and it is worth seeing for the family with the school...
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Alan Fletcher at the Junk Bar

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This afternoon I went to the Junk Bar in New Farm which was my first time going there to see Alan Fletcher who played Dr Karl Kennedy on the iconic Australian soap Neighbours from 1994-2025 which it was my 1st time seeing him live and it was my 4th time seeing an actor from Neighbours live. The show started with Alan, his wife Jennifer Hansen who was an Melbourne newsreader on keyboards and Riley Catherall on guitar and he did 2 sets which were mainly original songs that he wrote as well as one he wrote with Jackie Woodburne who played his wife Susan on Neighbours as well as Jennifer sang lead in the 1st set doing Party Girl as well as an duet with Alan as well as Alan telling some stories including mentioning Neighbours and finished off the 1st set with the Slim Dusty song The Biggest Disappointment and there was a interval where I had a Coke with No Sugar. In the Second Set Alan performed more of the original songs including Ain't Done Yet as well as Jennifer sang one song as...
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4BH July 1968

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This is from the Telegraph July 1st 1968 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane in 2026 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which among their disc jockeys were Geoff Bradley who did Breakfast on Monday to Saturday, Grahame Roberts who was on Monday to Friday from 2pm-6pm and on Sunday Mornings and John Kerr on Monday to Fridays from 6pm until 9pm and was on Saturday and Sunday afternoons playing also the Big Hits from the top 40, Big Hits from yesteryear and Big Hits from Modern Music Albums.
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Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band at QPAC

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Last night I went to QPAC Concert Hall to see Al Jardine who is one of the founding members of the iconic American band the Beach Boys with his own band The Pet Sounds Band which includes his son Matt who sang with the Beach Boys in the 90's and the others musicians in the band played with Brian Wilson for many years and it was my first time to see Al live as I did not see him perform with the Beach Boys in the 90's as well as in 2012 when the surviving members got back together for the album That's Why God Made The Radio and tour including Brisbane but at least I got the opportunity to QPAC which was originally intended for October last year but was rescheduled. I caught the bus to South Bank, went to the Plough Inn where I had Sirloin Pork Chops, chips and Salad for dinner, drank Pepsi Max, went to NZ Natural Ice Cream, ate movie bowl Sundae and walk to QPAC. Put bag in cloak room, bought bag and CD, drank Coke with No Sugar, bought photo, went inside and waited. The sho...
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4BC June 1962

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This is from the Bribie Star June 29th 1962 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys was Johnny James who had been with the station since the 50's and would be there until the early 70's did the Top 40 Breakfast Show daily.
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4BH June 1958

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This is from the Telegraph June 27th 1958 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane in 2026 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1950's which among their shows that was on at the time were Tops In Time at 5.30pm, TAA Hit Parade at 6pm and These Were the Hits at 6.30pm which they were on Sunday night and also with the TAA Hit Parade the listener would win 180 pounds Jackpot.
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4IP June 1970

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These are from the Telegraph June 26th 1970 and until 1992 when it became 4TAB which it is now Radio TAB 4IP was one of Brisbane's top music radio stations at the time in the early 70's which besides from being an music radio station it promoted events which they promoted 2 events that weekend in June 1970 as the first was the Grand Final of the Queensland Pop Festival that had Brisbane groups The Light, Burke and Wills(including Jamie Dunn), Cherry Tree, Gentle Art, Trinity House, The Movement and Michael Turner In Session with special Guest stars Ross D Wyllie and the Sect won the Grand Final in 1969 with backing by the Brisbane group The Flamingoes and the 2nd event was the Sunday Funday at Carina Oval that had the 4IP Good Guys, the Queensland Pop Festival winners, Military and Pipe bands as well as appearances by Lord Mayor Clem Jones and Bruce Small.
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