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#6 Winnie • Wednesday 21 June – Wednesday 5 July 2017

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Welcome to Winnie

This issue of Bundy Echo Hi again everyone, two weeks and place and we you to rant THE COVER
is dedicated to the memory just fly by . . . just seems like and rave and entertain us. Small Town Girl
of Winnie Campbell, the yesterday I was struggling Mandy Nolan 2009
mother of one of our favourite with the deadline for Wanda! ‘Winnie’ is full of great
contributors, the writer and articles and the talent that Mandy Nolan is a true
artist, John Campbell. We are getting great surrounds us never ceases renaissance woman.
A red-head who would wear feedback from our to amaze. John Rotar Comedian, Author,
any colour as long as it was distributors and feel quite comes straight to mind, a Journalist, Humour
green, Winnie was also a chuffed that they are asking brilliant composer and what Therapist & Comedy
talented artist, a fabulous cook for more more more. We will about Jake Thompson and Coach: Nolan is as at home
and an uncanny card player. definitely consider increasing his almost photographic on the stage as she is on
She doted on Henry Fonda and the print run. portraits!? Tony Cartledge is the page. Able to captivate
Lucille Ball, but loved neither a clever writer who gives us audiences from a diverse
of them nearly so much as she Bundy Echo would like an insight into his journey to socio economic, age and
loved her wayward son. She to remind readers that this enlightenment. gender demographic: from
had a heart of gold. publication is primarily a the rough and tumble of
vehicle to showcase our Along with our regular a late night comedy clubs
local talent in all its guises. brilliant contributors and our across the country to the
So please don’t hesitate to comprehensive listings of considered and measured
contact us so we can give what’s going on around the corporate performances for
your ‘thing’ our spin on it. We place we have also introduced VIEW Club, or Sydney’s
do feel you are being a little an ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’ section. Parliament House or Olivia
shy. Newton John’s Invitation
And next issue, Zelda, will Only Private Party. Look
We are interested in also be home to a mind, body, out Bundaberg Mandy
everything and everyone from soul, feel good page. and her equally mad
artists of every discipline, counterpart, Ellen Briggs
to collectors, to sporty folk, Hope you enjoy Winnie and are coming to a venue
hobbyists, enthusiasts of please please send near you soon, namely the
enthusiam and just downright feedback via our Brothers on July 22, one
weirdos. Here is your space FB or email ~ show only called
Mandy Thane x ‘Women Like Us’.
Deadline for Issue #7 Zelda The nice
Letters
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Wednesday 5 July – everyone for the fab support.
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through. Not “Polly want a Little Owl, not to mention his
cracker” but “Shhhhhiiiiiiit!” rabbit (YES I KNOW A RABBIT
IS NOT A BIRD) then you havent
Thank you to Jennifer lived !
Ackerman for her insights into
swearing parrots in her book , Next time, the Crested Pigeon.
“The Genius of Birds”. A.A. Vane

And if you havent seen

A.A. Vane

Weird Bird Person

Welcome back avian enthusiasts. they use their tongues while Check out Ms Vane’s art
Firstly I must thank the editor calling and can manipulate them www.instagram.com/annavaneart/
to make vowel sounds. This is
and the divine Albrecht Durer possibly why they can mimic
for my exquisite wings. You have human speech.
made me feel very special.
Cockatoos are so intelligent
Our feathered friend this week they can teach other cockies to
is the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. “talk”.
Yes, everyone knows this
extremely noisy bird but I bet The Australian Museum has
you didnt know it’s the females received calls from people in
that do all the screeching and the the outback who have heard
males just whistle. (No nagging wild cockatoos swearing. The
wife comments allowed). museum ornithologist speculated
that the wild birds had been
You also know that us humans taught by escaped domesticated
like to put them in cages and cockatoos that had joined the
“teach” them to “talk”. wild flock.

Parrots (cockatoos are a Teaching your feathered
type of parrot dear reader) are mates to say rude words. Thats
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Bcoumndpaobseerrg’s brilliant
‘The apple doesn’t fall far composition and, at only 22, he John composes initially on
from the tree,’ is an adage that already has an impressive CV says succinctly. ‘I can appreciate a piano before developing and
is particularly applicable to under his belt. wide range of musical styles, but I refining a piece on computer.
Bundaberg’s brilliant young suppose I have been most drawn Prolific and sought after, his
composer, John Rotar. A winner of the Wagner to the likes of Bach and Palestrina. music will be performed by the
Society Prize, John also had one Early music in general, really. Queensland Youth Symphony
A shining light in Australia’s of his compositions acknowledged I am fascinated by its structure when they tour China and Europe
contemporary music scene, John in the 2015 Artology Fanfare and form, by the way it has been later this year and, closer to home,
learnt to play the trombone at Competition, meaning that if you put together.’ And of the modern his work will be heard at the 5th
Shalom College, at which he was happen to be at the Sydney Opera classics? ‘Oh yes, in my downtime Brisbane Lower Brass Weekend
enrolled from 2008-2012, but House you might hear his music I find Stravinsky and Béla Bartók (commencing June 23rd).
the more profound and lasting played in the foyers to announce particularly stimulating … and I
influence on his career can be the commencement of the next like a lot of jazz, too.’ Not satisfied with just
traced back to his home and show. composing, John’s passion for
upbringing – as is so often the music has him playing trombone
case. A potential pitfall that young with the Southern Cross Soloists
artists across the board are prone as well as singing with the
John’s father Robert teaches to fall into results in them copying Australian Chamber Choir.
music at Saint Luke’s and his those they admire without clearly
mother, Bernadette Connolly, an expressing or giving oxygen to the ‘I think it’s important for
accomplished violinist and viola unique work that lies within their any musician these days to have
player, also has a long and valued own creative self. Homage can his finger in a lot of pies,’ John
background in teaching. too easily descend into mimicry, suggests, suddenly aware of his
but when talking to John it is awesome list of achievements
After secondary school, John immediately obvious that he is and activities. Bundaberg’s John
relocated from Bundy to Brisbane not the type to lose touch with the Rotar is a doer, and concert halls
in order to study at the University imagination that drives him. around Australia will be hearing
of Queensland, from where he his compositions for many years
graduated in 2016. Currently ‘I like to compose the sort of to come.
he is researching his PhD in music that I enjoy listening to,’ he

Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 5

Golfing with

JOHN CAMPBELL
Loves THE SMELL OF
BAKED POTATOES IN

the starsTHEMORNING

With apologies to Jane is one thing, but you can’t the helicopter music from who needs a smart arse when
Austen, it is a truth univer­ arrive at the links clad only ‘Apocalypse Now’. He knows you’re already way off par?
sally acknowledged that we in a scabby singlet and a pair Wagner whether he is aware
all love quotable quotes. of ragged Reg Grundies – not of it or not, because film We finally made it to the
even in Bundaberg. educates like osmosis, seep­ green, still followed by the
They are the gel that holds ing into your sub-conscious. crows. They had been with us
everything together when we It was then that a lesson for all 395 metres of the way
haven’t got a clue what to say from the idiot box kicked I would never have had (although, with our slices and
(which in my case is more in. Why it had lodged in my a clue about the riches of hooks, we’d probably walked
often than I care to admit). febrile brain is anybody’s classics if it weren’t for ‘The twice that distance). It was as
They are the easy, universal guess, but it shot like a star Lone Ranger’ introducing me though they could scent food
reference points that hit the from the detritus of pop to Rossini’s rambunctious in the air …
nail on the head – like Colonel culture that floats in tele- ‘William Tell Overture’ –
Kurtz’s ‘the horror’, or Darryl addiction’s wine-dark sea. to this day I can’t hear it Appreciating the gravity of
Kerrigan’s ‘tell him he’s It’s the perfect solution, I without seeing the masked the moment, Maxwell Smart’s
dreamin’. thought, as an episode of rider of the plains flogging cone of silence descended
‘Seinfeld’ came to mind. the bejesus out of Silver, his upon us.
Cinema and television white stallion. And as for his
have been a treasure-trove Kramer, a man of ingenious relationship with the Indian Darcy sunk his putt for a
of bon mots for me over the innovation, had taken to Tonto, in hindsight I reckon triple bogey while I took aim
years, but it’s not just their drying his Hawaiian shirts in that (as did Batman and hoping to save myself the
pithy one-liners that come in the oven. Why couldn’t I do Robin’s) it opened my eyes indignity of double figures.
handy. For practical solutions, that? to the possibility of a love
you just can’t watch too that dare not speak its name I hit it as sweet as a
much mindless TV to prepare I collected a sweater from – ‘not that there’s anything nut and had read the line
yourself for the desperate the line – the striped navy and wrong with that.’ perfectly. But the ball’s
hours that confront us when white number in which I fancy gorgeous arc left it an
we are least prepared. myself as a blokey Jean-Paul I hooked my drive into the agonising inch from the hole.
Belmondo (sadly, I am yet to taipan-infested rough. Darcy
I had not properly encounter a Jean Seberg who watched as I gingerly prodded ‘Missed by THAT much,’ I
appreciated what a priceless thinks the same – although the undergrowth searching groaned.
resource those repeated sit- there WAS that hornbag at for it.
coms and cowboy adventures yoga last week) and set the Darcy grinned the grinner’s
and police dramas are for oven to 200 degrees. The ‘Wherefore art thou, mate?’ grin.
me until yesterday, when label assured me that the Quoting Shakespeare can
my mate Darcy rang and garment was 100% cotton – be a minefield. Most people ‘Double or nothing at the
suggested I join him for nine you wouldn’t catch me dead in don’t know that ‘wherefore’ next hole?’ he goaded me.
holes of golf. polyester – so I was confident means ‘why’, and I was sorely
that the thing would not melt tempted to correct Darcy, but ‘Show me the money.’
It was the perfect arvo for over the grill. ‘ … But mate,’ he said
a couple of hackers to get out inquiringly, ‘how come you
and belt our dimpled Titleists The 501 Levis took a little smell so much like baked
everywhere except down longer to dry and the metal potatoes?’
the middle of the fairway fly buttons were scorching
(if there is a water hazard to the touch when I did
within range, it is a foregone them up, but my proverbials
conclusion that my ball will certainly enjoyed the cradle of
plonk into it). warmth in which they found
themselves nestled.
The only problem was that
I had just done my monthly Darcy was waiting for me
load of washing and nearly all when I got to the first tee.
of my clothes were hanging
on the line. Or, as Homer ‘Fancy a little wager, JC?’
Simpson might have said, ‘Go ahead, make my day,’
‘d’oh!’ I replied with unfounded
confidence.
With barely an hour before Overhead, a murder of
we were due to tee-off, I was crows hovered ominously.
in panic mode. Casual attire Darcy looked up and chanted

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Postcard from a spiritual swagman

TONY CARTLEDGE Even in Bundy I managed good, but ordinary life. This see clearly that which is right
Words ring to the shape to find a circle of kindred idea seeped through to my before our eyes.
of the resonating chamber minds at the local Buddhist very marrow, and I could not
Have you built a cathedral centre, a rivulet of that great find a foothold in any of the I have put down my swag
a temple, a mosque? Aussie Mahayana stream, the multitude of spiritualities of tricks and am now striving
Or do you sit in an open field Dewachen Tibetan Buddhist available to me. I was turning to be completely normal,
where sermons drift on the air study group. Our teacher into a spiritual hobo. And it which entails no striving
like the smell of sap was a wise and wonderful felt glorious. at all. It’s a great relief. I
and the hint of rain nun, the Venerable Namdag, All the old trails have gone have no interest in spiritual
and gleaned much from her cold groups or books, and I feel
When I was young and a full- company. But I still had not The journeyman stopped very much at home here in
blown cultural and spiritual found my true home. questing Bundaberg because it is a
snob, I swore I would and looked inside for the completely ordinary town
never – could never – live in Then one day I had a seeker, full of completely ordinary
Bundaberg. My family lived genuine epiphany. The found no-one and instantly people. I have no need for it
here but I was the south- answers I was looking for forgot to be anything other than it is.
of-the-border holdout. I were never going to be all his reasons for beginning I am spiritually homeless and
had lived in nice suburbs in answered to the complete There is no path through this right at home where I am.
Melbourne, swanky suburbs satisfaction of my hungry territory
in Sydney, and lofty spiritual mind, which seemed designed except where he walks now And after all this searching
centres in California. The dry, only to seek and never to Beginning with every breath and questioning the one thing
flat landscape of Bundy was rest. This ravenous sink-hole I know for sure is that I know
a barren desert, bereft of all of knowledge envisioned I have had recurring nothing for certain today,
that I considered essential spiritual fulfilment as health problems for most and if I’m lucky I’ll learn that
for my soul. There were something mind-blowing of my life and it seems that again tomorrow.
no esoteric book stores, and out of this world, a in my maturity I have finally
trendy coffee shops, exotic transformation that shakes discovered how to deal with I’m a refugee from seeking
restaurants or cutting-edge foundations and elevates them effectively. And this An evacuee from the
theatre. There were only RSL us beyond anything we can seems to be the golden key unrequited desire
clubs, one movie house and imagine. to happiness: dealing with the natural disaster of
a rum distillery. Deadsville, what we have right in front of spirituality
man. But the older and wiser us. Indeed, if we are always What’s left is love
I got, the less that seemed seeking spiritual experiences carrying a torch for clarity
Of course, as life to be true. In my searches I over the next horizon, we will
progressed and became encountered more and more not be able to Find Tony here:
way more ironic, and family the idea that enlightenment facebook.com/SeriousDoubt
became more important, is nothing special, it is just
I found myself moving to the elimination of all that is
Bundy and having to eat my unnecessary to live a
own words. I would one day
settle comfortably into this http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/vaughts-practical-character-reader-1902/
sugar town, but it would take
a while and the shedding of Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 7
lots of unnecessary baggage.

For as long as I can
remember I had sought
earnestly for answers to life’s
big questions, and it even
took me to the other side of
the world as a member of an
international esoteric school.
I have read mountains of
books on discovering who we
are, have studied Gurdjieff,
Krishnamurti, Adyashanti,
Jean Klein, philosophy,
science, Zen, Advaita, Non-
duality and even written a
book myself on esoteric and
paranormal matters. I felt
very important but rarely
content.

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GAYTON SERVICES CLUB 6PM
■ BROTHERS SPORTS PETER O’BRIEN ■ EAST BUNDABERG
CLUB 6.30PM ■ BARGARA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 12PM
JUMPSTART HOTEL 4PM FREE BBQ ■ WAVES SPORTS CLUB RENNIE
+ BIKINI WAITRESS 8PM D’FINE
■ BURNETT BOWLS CLUB 5PM RAFFLES ■ BARGARA BEACH
7.30PM ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ■ BROTHERS SPORTS HOTEL 10-2PM FREE
CLASSES $3 ■ SANDHILLS SPORTS CLUB 8PM DARREN J POOL & JUKE BOX
CLUB 6PM LEAH RAY BAND
■ BARGARA BEACH BRIGGS ■ RICKS @ BARGARA
HOTEL 4PM FREE ■ EAST BUNDABERG 2:30PM SUNDAY SESH:
SAUSAGE SIZZLE ■ LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL, SPORTS CLUB 6PM VARIOUS YOUNG
4-7PM BIKINI BURNETT HEADS 6PM DEBBIE ROBERTSON LOCAL ARTISTS
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COMP ■ BARGARA BEACH
■ BLUE WATER SPORTS
Friday 30 June CLUB, BURNETT
HEADS 6PM JAM NIGHT
■ THE BREWHOUSE 6PM WITH ROADMASTER
GYPSY LANE
■ AT THE VENUE,
■ OLD BUNDY TAVERN ALLOWAY 6PM DANCE
6PM TODD KEIGHTLEY NIGHT

10 Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 ■ WOODGATE CLUB
7.30PM JANE & BRUCE

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■ BLUE WATER SPORTS Wednesday 5 July check everything and there is a lot . . .
CLUB, 6PM MICK on the FB page / bundyflavours/
BAZLEY ■ OLD BUNDY TAVERN
7PM TRIVIA NIGHT
■ WOODGATE CLUB
12PM BRUCE & JANE ■ QUEENSLANDER
HOTEL 9.30PM
Monday 3 July KARAOKE

NO LISTINGS - STAY ON ■ BUNDABERG
THE COUCH SERVICES CLUB 6PM
SHELLY WATERS
Tuesday 4 July
■ BUCCA HOTEL 7.30PM
■ JANDAS 6-7PM LATINO POOL NIGHT
NIGHT

■ BARGARA BEACH
HOTEL 7PM TRIVIA

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FRIDAY 1 JULY • 5PM

for listings and events occuring
Wednesday 5 July – Wednesday 19 July inclusive

Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 11

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and told her to come back in more appropriate attire the smoothies, whole-fruit
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Artstars Deadline for Issue #7 • ZELDA
FRIDAY 1 JULY • 5PM
@ THE MOVIES with the bundy
echo girls for listings and events occuring

we all wanted to see this but we only had one free Wednesday 5 July – Wednesday 19 July inclusive
ticket ( tight bastards). we tossed that coin again
and we were all chuffed when ‘winnie’ won. She Exhibitions CHARTS
really liked it, liked it like anything. until 9 July
CROSS GALLERY METAMORPHOSIS
twentieth century women until 26 June Bold colour and energetic
ANN GROCOTT playfulness come
Modest in presentation, overbearing, annoying woman Assemblages & together in this collection
gentle in tone but high- that she at first seems to be. Constructions 1990-2010 of works by Bundaberg
minded in its goal, this But you soon realise that, artist Gwyneth (Terri)
prosaically titled movie like the rest of us, she is MONCRIEFF Lewis.
from Mike Mills (‘Beginners’, floundering in an age that she ENTERTAINMENT
2010) is streets ahead of any cannot feel part of. She even CENTRE until July 1
other screen offering at the listens to Jamie’s Black Flag until 3 July FROM THE FOREST TO
moment. Set in 1979, it has punk album and, in one lovely TERRA E MARE THE OCEAN
Dorothea (Annette Bening) scene, tries to dance to the Bundaberg Pottery Group Patricia Sheppard
living in a rambling, run-down music with William. There is All exhibition pottery is With a passion for colour
mansion in Santa Barbara a lot of dancing in the movie, for sale. and the sea, NSW born
with her 15 year-old son but it’s not choreographed artist/photographer
Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumman), and syncopated – instead it’s BRAG Trish Sheppard has
two boarders, Abbie (Greta like what you or I might do until 2 July an expansive array of
Gerwig) and William (Billy when alone in the our room. THE VERY HUNGRY subject matter. Living on
Cruddup), who is constantly CATERPILLAR the beach, she is in touch
renovating, and a free-range Not a lot happens – Jamie Become entwined and with the sea constantly
teenager, Julie (Elle Fanning), gets drunk in LA, Julie has enchanted by the world and regularly snorkles.
who spends nearly all her sexual misadventures, Abbie renowned children’s She expresses her
time there. deals with a health scare – story The Very Hungry contemporary flair
but it doesn’t matter, for the Caterpillar, interpreted by in vibrant colours
The house is a work in story is driven by character Bundaberg textile artist in landscapes,
progress, like Dorothea’s and relationships rather than Karen Walden. The larger contemporary abstracts
unordered life. With her most action. It is a lament for the than life quilted pages and sea life in pastels,
productive years behind her, loss of caring and sharing allow children and adults charcoal, acrylics,
she turns her attention to that appears to be left in the to ‘walk through’ Eric watercolour, oils,
Jamie’s development and wake of progress (Jimmy Carle’s 1969 story of the coldwax, resin and
engages the girls to be his Carter’s ‘loss of confidence’ caterpillar’s life journey. encaustic works.
‘minders’, to help her make speech is used to profound
him the good man that she effect). Reflective voice-overs until 2 July GAYNDAH ART
desperately wants him to be. give a sense that the future 2016 JADA: JACARANDA GALLERY
Jamie, naturally, believes he is already written, for all of ACQUISITIVE DRAWING until July 8
has no need to be guided and us, and that the best we can AWARD NOTHING NEW AND
it is this depiction of chain- hope for is to understand our BRAG is proud to be a WORDS
smoking, politically correct place in the history that we part of the 2016 JADA Marlies Oakley
are making. Touring Exhibition. If you missed these
Dorothea as the interfering The 2016 Jacaranda two exhibitions from
mom that makes her the Acquisitive Drawing Bundaberg legend
Award (JADA) is the Marlies, they are now
IMAGE: imdb.com Grafton Regional Gallery’s on display in Gayndah.
biennial flagship art prize, “Nothing New?” is
14 Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 promoting innovation a selection of iconic
and excellence in portraits made entirely
contemporary Australian from used postage
drawing. stamps – “Words” is a
series of small collages
based around the
theme of Poems, Song
Lyrics and Dictionary
Definitions.

Mandy Nolan's Image: toystory.disney.com.au/buzz-lightyear

S OAP

BOX

Mandy does mindfulness

Tell anyone you’re feeling a bit table? Do I have to make an I imagine suffocating him Shit if I lived with a man
overwhelmed and you get the altar? The book said I should. with my cushion. Now I hear who spoke like that I’d pass
same response: ‘you should I don’t have any of that faux his instructions coming in out.) He wants me to feel the
try mindfulness’. Shit, I was Buddhist crap from Bunnings muffled and faint under the brush of clothing against my
hoping they’d offer to do my so I improvise with a ceramic weight of my hands pushing skin. He doesn’t know my
washing, or cook me dinner. pear and a Buzz Lightyear doll my cushion over his face. wardrobe. He’s assuming
Was the mindfulness trend I found rolled under the TV He’s telling me to breathe, I wear floaty bamboo. I’m
initiated by Buddhists or by unit. And a dead cockroach. I when ironically he can’t. Am I in stitch Levis and they are
cushion sellers? feel like that is my homage to doing this right? too tight. Great, now I feel
impermanence. fat. A fat fuck on a cushion
Mindfulness requires a lot Mindfulness Man tells me in a room full of balloons. I
of cross-legged floor-sitting. I’m on the floor. I’m not to notice my breathing and want to relax but the prick
Seems a bit silly if you have comfortable. My cushion the still point between my won’t shut up. He tells me
a nice chair. Why can’t I be is too small or my arse is breath. Breathe in through to be aware of what I can
mindful on the couch? I spent too big, I haven’t decided the nose for the count of four smell. That’s not good for
all this time working hard to yet which. It’s hard to and out for the count of six. me. I smell everything. I’m
afford furniture and now I’m concentrate on my breath He’s telling me not to strain, an olfactory genius. I have to
sitting on the frigging floor? when I can’t stop focusing just to do my best, just to spend my life trying not to
on my crack. I’m only just say in the still place between smell stuff. Especially the cat
The cynic in me suspects starting and I’m already exhaling and inhaling. Fuck, vomit that I cleaned from this
mindfulness is just meditation focused on the wrong out he’s so controlling. I mean carpet a week ago.
with better marketing, but breath of air. Perhaps I should I’ve been dominated by men
that just could be the stain of trademark Arsefulness. before but they haven’t told Mindfulness Man tells me
my toxic unmindful thinking. I me how to breathe. I don’t to spend some moments
suspect ‘Mindfulness’ is just a I try to let the thought go like him. I don’t like his music simply being. He tells me this
trend kicked off by lazy people like the creepy dude on the either. It’s shit. is what it is to be mindful.
who cleverly reframed their audio meditation is telling You’re fucking kidding? Me
indolence into something me. He keeps telling me to He has just told me to with a cushion wedged up my
they called ‘mindful’ so they watch my thoughts. And I see my thoughts as coloured arse smelling cat vomit being
could not just do nothing, do, but I’m incredibly visual balloons and to let them go. suffocated by balloons full of
they could make people who and I’ve turned arsefulness Let them float away. He’s my toxic thoughts crippled by
actually do something feel like into something you’d see on clearly never held a children’s the pain of too tight pants?
shit because they’re too busy ‘South Park’. birthday party. He’s never That’s mindfulness?
doing something to fit nothing used that so called breath
in. I go back to my meditation. he talks about to blow up a I turn off the meditation
What’s with the voice? Why pack of 24 – then collapsed and crawl into the kitchen and
For some time now I’ve do people have to use that on the verge of emphysema crack a Cab Sav. Mindlessness
had this ‘meditation’ guilt. stupid strangely modulated and vertigo wondering if you’ll is so much more relaxing.
This sense that I am doing pseudo spiritual voice? Are ever be able to stand again.
too much, that I should be they taught that at meditation Balloons don’t float away you ONE SHOW
devoting less time to doing school? ‘It’s important when meditating nob head. ONLY
something and more time to taking people on an inner
actually doing nothing. So journey to find an evenly He should have included YOU HAVE A CHANCE
I’m on the floor. It took me modulated ove-spaced vocal ‘go to party supply shop, TO CATCH MANDY
half an hour to find a spot I tone to patronise the listener get a helium tank’ in the NOLAN LIVE IN HER
liked. You don’t want anyone into submission’. It’s so visualisation because all my insanely popular
walking in on you mid- inauthentic. He sounds like thoughts are in the balloons and HILARIOUS SHOW
meditate. That’s like being a dick. I’m oppositional. I he suggested but they’re on ‘WOMEN LIKE US’ AT THE
sprung masturbating. It’s don’t like being told what to the fucking floor. In the lounge BROTHERS CLUB ON JULY
awkward, gets you off task do, especially by men with room. Thanks to Dickhead, 22. TICKETS SELL FAST SO
and it’s hard to finish up. So patronising breathy voices now I’m meditating in a room DON’T WAIT TOo LONG
where can I find a bit of the and a messianic complex. being crushed by balloons TO BOOK. MORE DETAILS
house just for me? I settle on The Mindfulness Man’s voice full of my own disturbed ON PAGE 11.
the lounge room between the makes me feel violent. He’s thoughts.
bean bag and the couch. Can I telling me to observe my Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 15
be spiritual next to the coffee thoughts from a distance. He says to be conscious.
(Unlike most of his dates.

Artstars OurPoets

@ T HE MOVIES with the bundy AGAIN
echo girls
In the morning her arising conscious
Winnie wanted no part of this. the rest of the girls mind gently floated between the
were still dealing with the consequences of a three worlds of sleep and wakefulness.
day party. a conconction of ‘erbs and giraffe Her body felt so lovely and languid,
Tranquilisers – (one of the sons lives in Africa and after the miracle of their ecstasis
can get them stuff) – hangover cure surprisingly had last night, every sensation was
little effect on getting them vertical TO GO WATCH heightened. She smiled, inside and
THIS MOVIE. IN THE END IT WAS DAISY, DEAR OLD DAISY WHO out, remembering . . .
PUT HER HAND UP TO REVIEW THIS (THINKING, THESE PEOPLE
DON’T HAVE A CLUE WHAT A REAL ROUGH NIGHT IS). It had been like gently flowing up
the Sacred mountain, flowing, her
ROUGH NIGHT to play the part – Americans Are you a poet and know it? Here’s your space! Contact [email protected] breath caught, so wet, both of them,
just can’t do our accent). They flowing definitely, glistening gliders,
There is a hell of a lot of hire a stripper and when Alice mandy effortlessly soaring ever higher on
squealing in this, and almost lunges at him he falls back, the thermals of desire. Their bodies
as much alcohol consumption cracks his skull and carks had become one, complete erogenous
and cocaine snorting … but it. The usual idiocy follows, being, every cell hot wired to the
with none of the women with a lot of pratfalls and centre of pleasure.
involved showing any sign swearing, and a threesome
of being affected by the sex scene on the beach Each seismic orgasm a plateau
substances. Basically, the which might not conform higher, how, she marvelled, how
movie is just a copy of ‘The to everybody’s idea of good could I come, through the lightest
Hangover’, only with girls taste. Meanwhile, Peter and flutter of his breath, wafting over
acting the goat – meaning his mates are sitting at home my nipple? Fuck she’d felt his
that it is rude and crude doing a wine tasting. These wings, just as he’d stroked hers,
and sometimes funny, if in sequences with the guys and how could that be, how could
a try-hard way. It also has a are the most original in the you feel his touching you, when his
complex but coherent plot movie, with the idea of role hands were two breaths from your
that bends over backwards reversals taken to its camp back?
to make everything okay and clever extreme. Issues
in the end. Jess (Scarlett of friendship are explored And then again, as she gently slipped
Johansson), campaigning for when the girls, so tight to down onto him, never had she known
a Senate seat, takes time out begin with, start to fray at the such craving, felt so wholly free, her
for a hens’ night before her edges as the crisis worsens whole being, body, mind and Spirit
wedding to Peter (Paul W. and the question of race yearning . . . reaching . . .arriving
Downs). She travels to Miami raises its head briefly when
and is reunited with her best Blair’s colour is alluded to in Again, again, again,again until
friends from college – Alice a way that she finds offensive. amazingly there were no longer gaps
(Jillian Bell), possibly the My laugh out loud moment between.
most irritating character you (I had one only) came when
will see on screen this year, Peter, after scaling the And all was ecstatic union,
Blair (Zoë Kravitz), the black engine of a Big Mack was
chick, Frankie (Ilana Glazer), then propositioned by the unending orgasm, Big Bang.
the lesbian activist and Pippa truckdriver. Otherwise it’s
(Kate McKinnon), the Aussie just another cream pie fight. Lynne I’Are
wild girl (it’s a pity they could
not have found an Australian

16 Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017

Performance Music Event

WHITE RABBIT, RED VIVALDI MOZART
RABBIT PAGANINI
Creative Regions HOLY ROSARY
67 Perry Street

Friday 30 June & CHURCH, 66

Saturday 1 July Woongarra Street
6.30-8pm. $25 Sunday 25 June
With no rehearsal, no 7.30pm
director, a different Don’t miss this rare
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Last days : Ann Grocott, don’t miss this wonderful exhibition. ■ CHILDERS Cirque Africa is a one of a kind
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PIANO RECITAL artists from 6 African countries
JULY 26 7.30PM including acrobats, dancers,
CHRIST CHURCH percussionist, musicians and
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CHURCH 100 minute awe-inspiring show.
Highlighted with stunning colourful
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Saturday 8 July
7.30 • Ticketed Event

Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 17

Ray Davi esBundy Echo’s new ‘Leslie Conway “Lester” Bangs’ * Jack French pays homage to Ray Davies.
Like the Poms neighbourhood where I grew up – and if I
Images:/commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinks_Ray_Davies winning the Ashes could have put a gap between my two front
and the grotesque teeth I would have done that too.
man-baby being
President of the US, His music was raunchy and pulsating, the
some things just don’t sort of thing a teenage boy had to turn up as
seem right. loud as he could – ‘girl, I want, to be with you!’
That thought crossed
my mind earlier this Then, unexpectedly, he toned it down and
year when I saw that morphed into social commentator with the
Harry Vanda, the tall bitterly ironic ‘Sunny Afternoon’ (‘the taxman’s
blonde guitarist from the taken all my dough, and left me in my stately
Easybeats, had turned 71. home … ’) and the exquisitely melancholy
No way, was my immediate ‘Waterloo Sunset’, a song I never tire of
reaction, but then I did the math. hearing – ‘every day I look at the world from
And to my horror, I realised it was my window.’ By a strange quirk of fate, when I
true. first arrived in London, the train that brought
Today, June 21st, marks another me from the docks at Southampton to the
sobering milestone, for it was on great city terminated at Waterloo Station. It
this day in 1944 that the great Ray was a cold, grey, drizzling March afternoon
Davies was born. Meaning that the but I felt at home, safe … I felt that I knew
man who gave us ‘Lola’ (‘girls will where I was and that I belonged.
be boys and boys will be girls’) and
who composed so much of the After a golden period in which Davies
soundtrack of my life, is, gulp, 73. churned out hit after hit for the Kinks (by all
‘Iconic’ is one of those words accounts, his brother Dave on lead guitar
that has become virtually hated his guts, and vice versa), the band fell
meaningless through over-use, from favour as the more psychedelic new kids
but if ever there is an iconic on the block (Jimi, the Zeps etc) stole the
singer/songwriter from the limelight. But Davies was still able to conjure
swinging sixties, it’s Davies. up an overlooked masterpiece with the
I was besotted by him ‘Misfits’ album – ‘you set out to outrage, but
and his band, the Kinks, from you can’t get arrested.’
the minute that I heard the
power chords of ‘You Really Sir Raymond Douglas Davies (I don’t
Got Me’ and ‘All Day and All think Keef need hold his breath waiting for a
of the Night’ – songs that knighthood – it would be hilarious, wouldn’t
threatened to bust the guts it?) is still performing, but probably with not
of my little transistor radio. quite so many pelvic thrusts.
When I saw them on TV I
was determined to BE Ray As a grateful fan, I want to wish him happy
Davies. I grew my hair birthday and go on record thanking him for his
long and parted it down
the middle like him, and beautiful, timeless music. Onya, Ray.
I searched high and low
for the frilly shirts that
he wore – which was
not such a great

look to adopt
in the rough

*‘Leslie Conway “Lester” Bangs’ (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, critic, author, and musician. He wrote for Creem and
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Kenneth Desmond ‘Sonny’ Winter < 1951 ~ 1988 >

LOCAL hystorian M. ANTHONY NELSON SHARES ANOTHER forgotten BUNDABERG story

Strictly speaking, Sonny His relationship with In Melbourne for the 1987 researching the viability
Winter was not a native of McLaren soured at this Melbourne Cup, Mitsy insisted of tours to Nepal when a
Bundaberg, for he was born time (Sonny called him ‘a that the entire group back hail storm hit the Dasarath
in Brisbane and arrived in the manipulative little shit’) Kensei, ‘for obvious reasons, Rangasala Stadium in
town as a ten year-old when and, uncomfortable with the darling man’, and it duly won Kathmandu. At least 80
his father, a policeman, was wave of punk that took over the great race at 12/1. Sonny people were killed in the
transferred to the area. the streets, he invested his was now a legend. stampede that followed, Mitsy
remaining assets in ‘Sunny and Sonny among them.
An only child, Sonny Sports Travel’, specialising in Ever adventurous, in
lost his mother to a car tour groups wishing to attend 1988 he and Mitsy were Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 19
accident when he was major sporting events in the
fifteen and witnessed his UK (Wimbledon, Royal Ascot, Thinking
heartbroken father descend FA Cups etc). At the Lord’s test
into alcoholism. After leaving match of that year, delighted of promoting
school, Sonny drifted from at seeing the England captain, your business,
one labouring job to the Tony Greig, dismissed for service or
next until, in 1971, he was 96, Sonny shouted the bar. yourself?
conscripted into the army The young lady pulling beers You can
and, after basic training, sent dressed in a red and white own this
to fight in Vietnam. gingham dirndl was a familiar space.
sight. ‘Sonny! It’s you!’ Mitsy
As often happens, Sonny cried, tears welling in her eyes. Contact:
‘found himself’ as a soldier bundyecho@
and in all likelihood would They were married the gmail.com or
have pursued a career in following day. 0417 659 635
the armed forces but for
the intervention of fate’s Sunny Sports Travel
fickle finger. He survived expanded over the next
numerous skirmishes with decade and, outfitted in
the Viet Cong, only to find stylish linen and cotton
himself involved in a brawl shirts and blazers, with Mitsy
with American sailors in a increasingly involved as
striptease club in Saigon (Ho hostess, the company set a
Chi Minh City) that ended with trend that others hastened to
his left eye floating in a bottle copy.
of Budweiser beer.

Discharged from the ranks
with a handsome stipend, he
travelled to London in search
of Mitsy Stuve, the young
dancer whose honour he was
defending in the Saigon bar.

A chance meeting with the
designer Vivienne Westwood
and Malcolm McLaren in
‘Sex’, their iconic Kings Road
boutique, sent Sonny on an
unexpected path. Smitten by
his rugged good looks and eye
patch (‘she called me Long
John Silver’, Sonny wrote
later), Westwood encouraged
Sonny’s nascent flair for
fashion and suggested he
open his own boutique, ‘but
with an outdoors Aussie look.’
Sonny established ‘The Nice
Shirt Company’ in 1974, but
the oil crisis and subsequent
recession saw the business go
bust in 1975 (‘I was stiff,’ he
commented laconically).

Bali: Beyond Kuta

Cynthia Hoogstraten HAS A SPECIAL CONNECTION WITH BALI

Indonesia is our closest ing experience. Cynthia within the compounded walls Friendship Force
neighbour with around 4 ½ Hoogstraten was born in of the village. of Bundaberg
million tourists visiting Bali Indonesia and her parents seeking new
each year with Kuta being were a strong influence in her It is here where you can members
its most popular destination. calling this island her second observe the process of the
There are many reasons home. most expensive textile in The Friendship Force of
why people holiday in Bali, Bali which is made on a Bundaberg Inc is seeking
including, the friendly people, After three holidays in double ikat action, where new members to join its
value for money, the surf, the Bali, Cynthia felt she wanted the warp (vertical) and weft travel and home hosting
culture, delicious food, warm to share the ‘real’ Bali with (horizontal) threads are resist club. Membership is open to
weather, endless beaches, likeminded people. People dyed before weaving. It is all ages, singles (both male
temples and scenery. who were interested in labour intensive and can take and female) and couples are
the culture and who were over 12 months to make. It is welcome. Annual Club fees
You can book a flight and keen to respect the lifestyle said to protect a person from are less than a taxi ride to the
accommodation package and and environment with an evil and is known as Gringsing airport.
spend your holiday being eagerness to learn along the cloth. It is easy to spend
overwhelmed by the traffic, way. In 2011, Cynthia offered over five hours exploring this Our Club was founded in
the hawkers and not really T.A.A.C.A.T., Textiles, Art and village, especially when you Bundaberg 25 years ago.
have a true insight into Cultural Appreciation Tour in are invited as a guest into the
this beautiful island and its Bali as a way of returning to homes, away from the groups Each year the Club travels
people. her roots and the opportunity of tourists who only seem to to new destinations such
to continue her journey and touch on the significance of as Taipei Taiwan, Fukuoka
If you desire a more make a difference in the lives this historical site. Japan, USA, Mexico, Canada.
intimate understanding of of others. This has proven Optional pre and post tours
the island and its culture, to be true as participants This is only an appreciation are also available.
finding someone who has a have made obvious lifestyle tour as there is so much to
real connection with Bali and changes upon their return. On see and be involved in but, We also welcome members
is willing to host a specialised her first tour, one participant the ten days immersion from other Friendship Force
tour can lead to a life chang­ returned to Australia and sold in the culture of Bali will clubs to our City and the Club
up her farm so she could start have you desiring to return. plays hosts to Napa/Sonoma
a lifetime of travelling and There is plenty of time for USA, Tauranga/Western Bay
exploring rather than being magical massages, shopping of Plenty, Central Coast NSW,
bound to the obligations of and relaxation but most and Southern Sydney.
day to day life on a farm. importantly the stress of
organising a worthwhile This year, our club will host
A visit to the village of experience is taken care of Murray Bridge, SA, Manawatu
Tenganan is an eye-opener for and you are left to soak up NZ and North Bay Canada.
Westerners as it is the home the time of your life. We are also travelling for
of the Bali-Aga people who an exchange in Kempsey
are the descendants of the Cynthia has not announced NSW, Cape of Good Hope,
original Balinese people. It dates for the next tour but South Africa and Hannover
is like stepping back in time if you are interested in Germany. As part of the pre
and is best explored with a finding out more contact: exchange several members
professional guide who is not cynthiahighstreet@hotmail. are participating in an
only very informative but lives com optional Safari tour.

Meetings are held on the
second Thursday of each
month at the East End Hotel,
East Bundaberg. Social
from 10am and meeting
commences at 10.30am then
several members stay on for
lunch.

For more information
contact Moya Vanags-Lang,
President on 4159 3104.

20 Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017

ABOARD THE FLOATING
CUBE
In our search for the rare and unusual around Bundaberg, we stumbled upon an exclusive gentleman’s
Horatio Bitemark club in Mon Repos. We coaxed, with daring promises, one of the Club’s fabulously wealthy roués, Horatio
It is almost unheard of for Bitemark, to record for us the weekly epicurean adventures of the idle rich. Now and then a spot of leather
members to meet outside the and whips creeps in:
Mon Repos clubhouse, but
the chance to try out Randy collage: mandy thane
Mandrill’s Floating Emporium
proved too tempting. Mandrill ‘My pleasure, chaps,’ who had recently been to immobile with martial arts
had anchored the emporium replied Mandrill, ‘and I’m sure some teenagers’ film about manoeuvres taught only
just off Mon Repos, to the you’ll enjoy this.’ the Caribbean, was affected to the inner circle at Wat
chagrin of a few ancient by the gentle rocking of the Aruhn. The unfortunate
malibu riders who were easily He clapped his hands, emporium and persuaded woman, whose $300
dispersed with a round of and a phalanx of Thai temple himself he was a pirate and Joh Bailey hairdo was
grapeshot. dancers in red bellboy the heartily shopping matrons entirely mussed, had to be
costumes gracefully entered outside the door a band of compensated by an evening
The emporium was four bearing silver phials of Iboga the undead. Equipped with with Mandrill’s handsome
storeys high, painted white, root bark. Once we had a silver spoon he launched manservant Chalmers, who
and looked all the world ingested the ibogaine, we himself upon one of the had sodomised for Melbourne
like a floating sugar cube. proceeded to the roast feral famished women, whose head Grammar.
Mandrill had picked it up in an pig stuffed with blue wrens indeed displayed ‘the skull
estate sale by the Hang Seng in a lemon myrtle sauce to beneath the skin’, as Tosser The rest of the afternoon
Bank of Hong Kong, which counter the side effects, S Eliot once had it, and proved delightfully languid
had cleaned up the failings accompanied by a Sharon attempted to render her into and the other advantage was
of yet another Australian Gorge Verdelho 1998, which bite-size chunks. that Camberwell remained
entrepreneur, and given it spoke to us of spring rains rigid for a week. We took him
to his Polish mistress, who and sweaty paranoia. The elite temple dancers back to the club and used
felt that a Lamborghini was were summoned and him as a standard lamp, and
more appropriate reward Unfortunately the highly rendered Camberwell occasionally for quoits.
for her services. Undeterred, suggestible Camberwell,
Mandrill had converted
most of the emporium to
a private apartment and
kept on the Armani and
Versace franchises to cover
overheads.

We fought our way through
a scrum of anorexic and
sun-wizened Double Bay
matrons who were hissing
over an expensive scrap of
monogrammed gauze and
fell into the dining room,
tastefully decorated in the
beachside theme with a few
Brett Whiteley bums. Mandrill
had laid on the best of silver
plate, won in a bet with Eddie
Fitzalan-Howard, the Duke
of Norfolk, and decorated
the table with glorious red
waratahs acquired under
suspicious circumstances
from the Royal Botanic
Gardens.

‘Splendid, Mandrill,’
said Camberwell, who was
sporting an absurd boater
from his days at boarding
school.

Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 21

communitystuff

■ BUNDABERG POETS Check their schedule on receive bravery awards. programs, facilities and
SOCIETY page 3 or go to their FB Contact: Leone Wilson services for the benefit
This group meets every page. OAM 4159 4134 of the local community.
second Saturday to ■ BUNDY BELLE RELAY ■ 2017 MAYORAL The club will ensure
share verse and curse. FOR LIFE SCHOOL CHAPLAINCY that fundraising money
They visit aged care Saturday 24 June SUPPORT BREAKFAST will continue to support
facilities and other 4.45pm-7.45pm BYO Friday 23 June 6.30am its teams, coaches
soapbox sites. Check drinks & warm clothes, @ Bundaberg Civic volunteers.
their FB page, they are ice and nibbles provided. Centre. $35. Special
fab. $40. Contact Amy guest speaker: Shane ■ UNITY DRUMMERS
Saywell 4196 0933t Webcke, rugby league HUMP DAY DRUMMING
■ ALLOWAY ■ FLOURISH FAMILY legend. Contact: Kim @ RIVER CRUZ CAFE
OBSERVATORY FUN DAY Ovens 4130 4264 Wednesdays 7-8am
Our nerdy mates who Thursday 29 June ■ FUNDRAISER HIGH Bring a chair and a
are all volunteers invite 9-12pm @ Boreham TEA Sunday 25 June drum, or try out one of
all who love to stare into Park, Avenell Heights. 10am @ Penny Lane our spares. Hang around
space, on clear Friday Entertainment, Gardens, Branyan. and have a coffee
nights, to their well information stalls and $30. Enjoy a delectable afterwards. Everyone
equipped observatory. activities for all the morning tea while welcome.
Cheap as chips family. Ph. 1300 883 699 watching the fashion
membership deals. ■ HEADSPACE BUNDY parade presented by ■ BAREFOOT BOWLS
GRAND OPENING Taking Shape. All profits DAY
■ SHALOM MARKETS Friday 30 June 10am to Chloe O’Neill, our Sunday 2 July 2pm
Every Sunday 7 – 12pm for music, activities, selected ballerina to go @ Waves Sports Club.
drumming and to London Ballet School Finger food provided
■ PCYC MARKETS competitions. There will for the summer program. and bar available. All
Sunday 11 June 8am be food and drinks and Contact: Laura O’Neill proceeds to support
prizes. All welcome. 0424 155 322 BUSHkids. Contact:
■ THE PINK HOUSE, Contact Cristel ■ BROTHERS ASTON Judy Peters 0417 778
MOORE PARK Every Simmonds 4152 3931 VILLA FOOTBALL 091
Monday - Women’s ■ SENSORY MOVIE CLUB GALA DINNER &
Activity Group: $2 SCREENING: 50 YEAR REUNION ■ CENT SALE & HOY
includes tea or coffee ‘DESPICABLE ME 3’ Saturday 1 July 6pm Bargara’s over 50s
Every Tuesday - Friday 3 July 10am @ @ Brothers Sports Club. Club, Saturday 8 July
Quilting: All levels from Moncrieff $45. We would love to 12.30pm @ Bargara
beginner to expert ■ GIN GIN COLOUR ME see everyone who is Cultural Centre. All
welcome $2 includes tea HAPPY: COLOUR RUN or has been involved welcome. Contact:
of coffee Monday 26 June with the club.. Contact: Sandy 0414 397 267.
9.30am Michelle Zielke 0429 008
■ GIN GIN WILD Latest info available on 129t We can’t promote your
SCOTCHMAN 1300 883 699 ■ ALLOWAY FOOTBALL ‘thing’ if you don’t tell
MARKETS ■ SALUTE TO CLUB TRIVIA DAY us about your ‘thing’.
Every Saturday SERVICEWOMEN Sunday 2 July 12pm
7 – 12pm @ Historical EXHIBITION @ Melbourne Hotel. bundyecho
Society Saturday 8-9 July 10- The main focus of this @gmail.com
3.30pm @ Hangar 161 fundraising event is to
■ CANE COUNTRY Bundaberg Regional ensure that the Alloway
SQUARES TUESDAY Airport. Exhibition Football Club Inc.
Friday Nights honouring women who continues to provide
6.30pm FIRST NIGHT have voluntarily served opportunities for local
FREE, Modern music, in the Australian Defence people of the wider
fun and friendship @ Force, Commonwealth Bundaberg region to
Rum City Band Hall or Allied Forces for over participate in football
(Targo Street). Contact 100 years and marking (soccer) in a safe and
Matthew: 0418 479 814 the centenary of the first inclusive environment.
Australian women to The club fosters the
■ TAKE THE PLUNGE sport and provides
CAFE
@ Electra Street.
Loads of courses and
workshops held at this
cafe most week days.

22 Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017

Origin: Beginning of the end

BY FREDDY HARDMAN, Origin comes down to who task, but three changes in the be remembered as the Man
wants it the most and who forwards goes against the Who Lost the Midas Touch,
NSW will do anything to get it. The Toads’ long history of sticking whereas Laurie Daley, with
As Gomer Pyle might have Blues wanted it big time in and picking. Coen Hess – with a settled side and a huge
said, ‘surprise, surprise, Game One and, sensing their a name that sounds like he majority of the 80,000 crowd
surprise!’ (not). Who didn’t opponents’ vulnerability, they might have been a guard at at the Olympic Stadium
think that the brains trust hammered hard from the the PoW camp that Charles behind his boys, will be
(surely it’s an oxymoron?) outset and Queensland, dazed Bronson dug a tunnel out remembering his perfect
that is the Queensland and confused in front of their of – has already pleaded that sunny childhood days in
selection panel would recall silenced two-head mob in the he’s not ready for it. Jarrod Junee as New South Wales
Billy Slater to the side for outer, had no answer. Wallace has been okay for the put Queensland to the sword
Origin 2 in Sydney tonight? Broncos – but Tim Glasby? again.
Cameron Smith – a Who the hell is he anyway?
Billy the Kid has been a potential Mafia consigliere in I’ll miss Slammin’ Sammy
pain in the arse for all rugby the style of ‘The Godfather’s’ Coach Kevin Walters won’t Thaiday, but who gives a
league tragics south of the Robert Duvall – will do his have had a minute’s sleep, rat’s?
Tweed ever since he made his best to convince the new knowing in his Canetoad
debut for the Maroons back blokes that they are up to the heart that he is destined to Bore it up ‘em Blues!
in 2004. I for one get all edgy
and clammy every time the
ball goes anywhere near him,
regretting the day that he
gave up his ambition to be a
jockey to pull on a footy jersey
instead of the racing silks.

Johnathan Thurston is back
too, although that was a given
if his shoulder had mended –
but has it? The absence of JT,
possibly the greatest player
of his generation, in Origin I
is regarded by a lot of pundits
as the crucial factor that led
to the Canetoads’ flogging
(and it is time to admit it, you
were FLOGGED). Maybe those
pundits are right, but for mine
it was the might and power
of the Blues’ forwards as
they steamrolled a less than
intimidating Queensland pack
that won the day for NSW. As
good as he is, Thurston will
be up that notorious smelly
creek without a paddle if the
blokes in the middle again fail
to hold their ground.

For all of the exquisite
skills on display at this level,
and the cleverness in planning
and subtleties of execution,

Mandy can write and
design: find me here
[email protected]

Bundy Echo June 21 – July 5, 2017 23

HTahrraisnoen

(occasional Bundy dweller)
Based in Kenya for
the past few years,
Harrison has headed
up many projects,
working closely with

various non-government
organisations. His
current venture is
making a film in the
Kakuma Refugee

Camp, home to over
160,000 people. His
multiple roles include
producer/director/chief
cameraman and editor
– as well as educator
as he took on the local
population as his crew.
Just look at that
sewing machine &
fabric.in the costume

department.
© Harrison Thane 2017

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