Breakfast With the Stars Tony Worsley and Roland Storm






On Friday Morning June 10th I went to the Greenmount Surf Club for the breakfast with the stars which had Tony Worsley and Roland Storm and it was my 5th time attending the Breakfast with the Stars which my first on Sunday June 12th 2006 @ the coolangatta Bowls CLub with Johnny Rebb,Alan Dale(Aussie rocker),vicki Forrest and Catfish purser (the dee jays) and 3 times in 2009 on june 4th,5th and 6th with Catfish Purser,Alan Dale,Little pattie and Lucky starr at the greenmount surf Club. this day (Friday) was the first one for the festival but the day before(thursday)there was an muck up as the breakfast was supposed to be on the day and those of us who went to the surf club showed the tickets to the people but they did'nt know about the prepaid tickets and we were supposed to pay $15.00 and even tony Worsley who was there did'nt know what was going on but we did chat with tony which i ask about the Go Show concerts and the Long Way to the top tour as well as telling us about reforming the blue jays next year as well as going to the USa in October to see Barry gibb(the Bee gees) and also gave us an free CD which he signed it. but on Friday the breakfast with Roland and Tony was FANTASTIC which i had an very nice hot breakfast which was bacon,sausage,baked beans,tomatoes and hash browns and spoke with both Roland which I asked about where people like the Flanagans, The Crescents, the taylor Sisters, Jay justin, Warren Williams, del juliana, and others and told me that there is tapes of his that he recorded for W&G label but is left unmarked as well as Chet Clark had got the tape of the episode of 6 O'Clock Rock with bryan Davies singing YOu Talk Too much and other things and asked TonY Worsley about who were singing back vocals on Missing You which where ROyce and Clarke(Royce Nicholls and Mal Clarke), touring with The Kinks,Manfred mann, The Honeycombs, The Dave Clark Five and the Seekers as well as getting Velvet Waters, working with Steve Neale of the Brisbane rock group the Planets and how important was Ivan Dayman to his career. bought 3 Cd's by Roland which he signed 2 of them and got an photo with Tony and Roland

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