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- Underground Melbourne 1980, Far side of crazy. Footage inside the Crystal Ballroom St Kilda and Festival Hall during performances of the B 52’s, The Cure, La Femme and The Models. Excerpt from Punkline sourced from the special features of the Dogs in Space dvd. Fitting song added cause I like it.😚
Underground Melbourne 1980, Far side of crazy. Footage inside the Crystal Ballroom St Kilda and Festival Hall during performances of the B 52’s, The Cure, La Femme and The Models. Excerpt from Punkline sourced from the special features of the Dogs in Space dvd. Fitting song added cause I like it.😚
Awesome video good song 🎵
Good times, la femme now there's a blast from the past, I regularly have dinner with Brett the guitarist, Time flys.... Thanks gezz...🇦🇨🇦🇨🪝
@@philhudson...5017 cheers, say g’day 🤗👍
@@Gezza1967 👍👍
Dogs In Space is still one of my favourite films. It really evokes what it was like to live in a run down inner city house and the associated lifestyle.
As a 23 year old from Melbourne who has experienced a lot of its current nightlife, this is a treat to see.
No social hierarchies, no clean cut elitism masquerading as social justice, not a care in the world.
Just absorbed in the music and having a good time as a unit.
Lachlan, I apologize on behalf of my generation for stripping you of your right to live your life freely in 20/21. I've been against lockdowns, curfews and the police state from day one, but many of that once free 80s generation have supported it.
@@johnnyoranges Same here!
Create a scene a big fat warehouse bands studios streaming community food kitchen, I'm 60 I drank there a lot, I went to Elwood High, the whole school "hip crowd" all Punks Ex sharpies streetfighters stoners musos would just gate crash, all of it Venue Bojangles Mickeys this joint. Do a Warhol in an empty Warehouse.
@@harrisfrankou2368 What about The Linden Tree? All night bar, crazy nights
@@ShaneUFO65 Hahaha Old School...peanut farmers would drink there the night before a game...
In 1980 I was 24 and used to go the The Underground. Watching this I realize we were much cooler than youth today.
nah you were always just hippies
Turn it up man, old school is gone
That dancing is so not cool
Cool? Did you watch those epileptics on the floor? wtf Was that
Ok children ;)
I absolutely hate what we’ve become in the world we live in right now
Liberalism has failed.
Neo-Liberalism (ie Fascism) will fail as well..
Like fashion, cyclical.
@@NormanFinkelstein9863 You dont understand those terms.
Never thought I'd get to see inside the Crystal/Seaview Ballroom again! This was where I saw my first pub gig, The Church in 1984 supported by The Venetians and Field of Knives.
just refresh my memory please....was the seaview ballroom above the old St Moritz ice skating rink?
I bet The Church would have been loud in there? They were always loud, but it would have been extra-loud in there!
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 No that was The Venue. Seaview Ballroom was what is now known again as the George Ballroom, corner Grey and Fitzroy Sts.
@@LambMadras I saw The Style Council & Hoodoo Gurus at The Venue, that's just what I remember as I type this, I seem to remember The Cult played there too?
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 No - The Seaview was up the road on the corner of Grey St. - St Moritz was The Venue for a while. The Novotel Hotel is there now
Everyone now in their late 50s, early 60s. Me included.
These people look 18-23 in this footage. Add 41 years and yes , 59-64
Man I feel so old...............LOL
@@glenndavis479 Age is a state of music. If you're not into Gilbert and Sullivan, you're not old.
The year I was born. But remember being driven through Sydney late on a weekend night as a 6yo looking at all the club's and pubs busy with people. Different times back then.
@@Meandgenevieve I don't literally feel old even though I'm in my 60's but by the 80's I'd been around Australia twice and was heading back out for the third time. man I don't even think my parents were into Gilbert & Sullivan LOL .
Aahh the good old days!! I was 20 and having the best time, feel sorry for young people today 😊
Great footage.With no smoking bans and no drinking bans.Just people enjoying themselves
without being told how to live their lives.What a time to be alive.
It was
Smoking bans are the best thing that ever happened to anybody anywhere lol. I smoked and was sick every weekend from all the extra smoke. If you didn't shower the minute you got home, no matter how drunk you were, you reeked of cigs. Plus I had a mouth like a Bangkok alley.
The last free generation!
Would go back to those daze in a heartbeat 💓
Same here just so I can remember what I did. Must have been good years if I don't remember much of it.
Days*
@@Joshua-jj4xn Days become a daze.
When Melbourne was AMAZING, that died in the 90s. RIP Melbourne
The 1980s the best eta if you weren’t the then you missed the
Best times ever,today there isn’t anything the youth of today have missed out,I miss the past so much I wish we could go back
Takes me way back..... what memories, a great music venue!
Brilliant! Great footage / memories. I love how most of the chicks have that Debbie Harry signature look and swagger
Drinks in glasses, cigarettes, no stupid 1.5m Covid restrictions and no mobile phones.... Must have been the 80's!
And no TH-cam to view this type of footage
@@dopioDidn’t need to. You could go there in person.
To think all these people are now probably grandparents! Much more hip than today’s generations!
I used to live a few doors up in Grey st . It was the most diverse suburb in Melbourne IMO. A great experience.
Did you ever go to the Fish *Chips shop on the corner Stkilda Rd and Alma Rd?between a Car Action and laundry Shop?
Great fun times 😁
Melbourne in the 80's,sic👍
I'm in there somewhere watching The Cure.
Gone.
All gone now……Finished.
I thought nightlife would keep getting better.
I guess I’m lucky I was where I was then and live with the fantastic memories today.
Thank you for posting.
😂 are you serious this looks so shit. Melbournes night life did get better before COVID. This look like a country pub
Great footage I remember seeing The Birthday Party at The Seaview about '81/2. It was a choice of that or La Femme at Bojangles I think. There was Macy's in Toorak. Remember seeing INXS at the Sentimental Bloke Hotel. My punk band played the Duke of York in Prahran 1981 supporting FBI Inc...we were underage lol. Used to go to Warehouse Rock at the Prospect Hill Hotel. Bombay Rock, Tote, Espy, Palace, Venue, Jump Club Richmond so many venues in Melb...see The Prospect Hill Warehouse Rock Facebook Page.
Thanks for this snippet Gezza1967.
It brought back a flood of pleasant memories, and like so many commenters I too enjoyed this snippet of what we remember as great (better?) days.
I wonder if today's version of us will remember 40 years ago as fondly as we remember ours.
I hope so.
Cheers Mac👍
I stole my first Pint glass from there in 1980
Grand time's ✨
So good. I maintain that the first half of the 80s were the peak of Aussie music. I was there, i turned 20 in 1980. In Sydney though, but there were good bands in every capital city in the country (including Wild Pumpkins at Midnight, Hobart, and Alice Springs! Coloured Stone!) Oh, except Darwin, unless anyone knows better. And many were touring the country.
I actually used to go to the Crystal Ballroom as a teen at this very time, geez this brings back some fond memories, we actually smashed the place up once.
A by top criminals go there? What year were you there?
Great song, far side of crazy.
Gezza!!!, Where did you get the footage from?, I loved it, and the wall of voodoo's song!!!, I saw that sort of thing with my cousins going to night clubs and pub's, great memories all round I reckon.
This footage is an excerpt from Punkline documentary that’s on the special features of the Dogs in Space dvd, I done a quick edit and added the classic tune Tracie👍
I went and visited the Melbourne scene in the early 80s and stayed in St Kilda... I saw Hunters, the only time I saw them. Looking at this, it seems to me that the Melbourne scene was far more well behaved than the Sydney scene. It was completely and utterly insane in Sydney and I do not mean that in a good way.
Wow, another Venue i went to in Melb as a young man ,also starting as a Light Guy for Mushroom Records i got around a fair bit around 1980 to1983.also Many Sydney Venues
Friday night beers ride the big dipper go home get totally wrecked then about 10 o'clock to the ballroom. Don't remember much but it was great
Yessss my people my music...only back then Sydney version...now Melbourne lockdown+curfew nightly car radio version driving to beach for fresh air and freedom beyond 9pm.
The film is from 1980 but the song is from 1985. Wow they played songs from five years into their future. Amazing club.
RIP Graeme Richmond and thanks for all the good times there you provided.
"C'mon, you've all got homes to go to"
You’ve excelled yourself Gezza! Love this stuff.
Cheers John👍
Awesome song 🎶
I love far side of crazy by wall of voodoo. Your videos rock gazza😁
I used to listen to that on my Mexican radio.
Cheers Tony👍
They’re all about sixty years old now. Doesn’t time fly.
66 today
@@petertrezise4545 happy birthday to you.
Yep
@@petertrezise4545 happy birthday Peter for last week.
Gold, Priceless! Thanks for Posting, got any more?
I was 17 and just going crazy🤪
The old seaveiw ballroom fun times had drinking apple cider large bottles 80c. I felt sorry for the old deers that lived upstairs how did they ever get to sleep.
Before making this video edit 3 weeks ago, I haven’t heard the brilliant’Far side of crazy’ song played on radio or tv in 3 decades, my Mrs was watching the Block on channel 9 last night and the song came on! Coincidence?
As random as this sounds, 3BA in Ballarat still play that track occasionally!
Great song choice
I’m in the video , great memories
That was the great time to australia
Love the song
Where have all the 'sharpies' gone? Ahhhh 'Grousebourne' And I bet just about all of them drove home that night with no RBT! How free were those days
Some died from heroin . Others became punks n skins.
Now look at the country...
❤️❤️❤️👍
The old SeaView...good old times..😁👍
I saw Hoodoo Gurus at the Venue. Prob about '87 .
Was that the one that burnt down ?
Venue was demolished in the 80's,90s. Palace on lower Esplanade burnt down.
Being alternative in Australia in the 89 was brave as the mainstream was quite ambivalent to the arts and the individual. Wasn't uncommon for bogans to abuse and best up anybody that was mildly unconformist.
Being anything different you mean & that's humans forever.
Knew it was the Ballroom instantly, partied upstairs as well back then.
Alot of people went missing aswell from these places
I’m sorry about Will Smith Chris.
He’s a dog
It would of been funny seeing Chopper or the The Black Prince in the background haha 😆.
I'm 22 grew up in country Victoria. Guess its the closest thing to this. But in the past few years something has changed for the absolute worst and yes I mean before this stupid "covid death face 5000"
Something within the pyschie of the people.
The fun, the chase, the life. Its all gone unfortunately.
I was 12 in 1980 I'm 52 now
Where was the underground in melbourne? I landed in melb from perth in 82 and went out to all diff clubs from st kilda to ferntree gully 😅 love to find footage from ‘the chevron’ st kilda or ‘the middle’ in ferntree gully!
Underground Melbourne back then was the Wild West
Anyone recognise themselves on here ? The fella lifting his hat is a cutie. Probz in his 60's now
Nice work Gezza also follow your work on fb I’m curious to know if you’ve got any footage of Mister Bo Jangles nightclub that used to be in St Kildar pier precinct ??? Cheers
Cheers Vivian, only the exterior unfortunately.
I never saw the B5's or the Cure but I did see La Femme and The Models. I think I saw the Stranglers at the Seaview Ballroom. But I'm not really sure. I did go there to see You am I and we couldn't get in but had a chat with the band on the roof.
MelbuRn memories....
What about Bombay rock that was a good party time!
As in bombay rock on sydney rd brunswick??
gold coast queensland mate. place was legendary. i could be wrong. i snuck in underage. memory is pretty hazy. i could be right.
Brunswick
@@jillsommerville7828 sydney rd brunswick.. the one and only bombay rock with ugly as head bouncer or owner..
Saw the Knack there.
I bet Nick Cave was in there somewhere LOL!
30 cents for a pot (10 oz) 22 cents a glass (7 oz) sounds about right for those fun years
Pills would of been mint back then
Back when Analog cool was all you had and all you need 🤖
😀 80s
Great footage but except for the cigs, music, haircuts, clothing & average BMI......what makes this underground (what do you mean by underground?) for you?
Sigh, remember individualism? Something from the past. The golden era of 1978 to 1985. It's all gone to THE SHIT. Melbourne has been a disgusting place for decades now, it doesn't even resemble the AMAZING place it ONCE was!
People seem to better looking in those days.
Thank god for Sydney pub rock scene 1980
Modern nightlife is a joke compared to this
I believe Sydney's equivalent would have to be the Trade Union Club
I remember seeing Public Image Ltd at the Ballroom In 84. They played some Pistols which fit in quite well.
The crowd invaded the stage during 'Anarchy', but the music kept playing. Johnny and Co. had been miming. Not his best night.
@@johnnyoranges The stage invasion was at The Palais, not the Ballroom. There was no miming either.
@@andrewmacdonald3667 I admit I was off my face (hardly unusual), but I was not far from the front of the stage when, not far into 'Anarchy', some 'punk' stereotypes jumped up on stage from my right as I faced the stage. Johnny was soon nowhere near the microphone, yet the song carried on, a note perfect rendition just as on the original recording.
@@andrewmacdonald3667 A group of us hid in the seats at the Venue from the afternoon, hoping to get in for free, but security found us and threw us out. We normally were fairly noisy.
Not the Venue, the Palais. Whatever. Nobody who was really there cared anyway.
We arent as boozy anymore like this. Not Cool in 2021 but was then.
The DON pub in Doncaster the angels played my night there in the lounge it went nuts take a long line was there finishing song you had to be there
Giggys were good for you back then
now i know why i left melbourne!
Cheers 🍻 gezza
Not sure why people are nostalgic for smoking indoors. Always thought it was a filthy habbit.
Lordy. Didn't we think we were pretty cool?
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Everyone looks like sid and Nancy 😂
Nothing has changed
Espy
Francis and Sally coming up the stairs 0:08. Jackie 0:26. Anyone else remember the pizzas?
Think I saw my mum hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I gave her a good pounding that night son!
Not Australians they are all British English stock in Australia look at the culture and behaviours and they look very English to me these are ones who left the UK with thier parents.
whats the song ?
Wall of Voodoo..
Far side of Crazy..
You probably found it by now!
This looks innocent and almost wholesome until I point out everyone is probably on coke
Probably heroin actually...but till big pangs of nostalgia seeing this footage..so many great bands....so many ciders....
Asid, LSD,speed, coke,rock and roll and sex era
No rotten bouncers back then either.
It must have terrible being stuck in culturally devoid Australia where nothing happens while everything was happing in London, fashion, the best music & films and so much history and museums as proper seasons.
Secret underground no one knows there there they don't even know
shame to what has happened to australia, this is no more