TAGG – ISSUE 28 flipbook
Flick through the TAGG issue 28 flipbook including Melbourne’s live music gig guide for 1st – 14th August, 1980!
TAGG TIME CAPSULE
TAGG – ISSUE 28.
In this TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide time capsule series, you can revisit the Melbourne live music scene from 1979-1981.
Each issue featured the all important issue gig guide, reviews, venue locations, interviews and stories. Australia’s original street press was the perfect printed back pocket friend filled with everything a live music lover needed to know each fortnight.
We’re working our way through digitising TAGG’s back catalogue so you can relive (for those who were there) revisit (for those who weren’t and those who don’t recall) the original issues of the magazine on the TAGG website. cool hey!
TAGG – ISSUE 28 – Table of contents:
Includes the all important gig guide for 1st – 14th August, 1980
4. TAGG magg
9. TAGG file
12. Concert dates
15. Consumer guide
17. Restaurant guide
22. Restaurant outlets
23. Letters to TAGG
25. Theatre – Silk in Oz
28. Film review – The Fog
29. Classical record review
33. Gig listings (yellow)
38. Gigs of our lives (cartoon)
40. TAGG minifold – Men at Work
49. Disco gig listings
52. Gig review – Frank Traynor at Babes
54. Disco top ten
56. Josh White Jr.
57. Jazz & acoustic gigs
60. Cobbers at large
63. Geelong folk club
64. Acoustic notes
66. Who’s recording where
72. Playlists
74. Bushwhacked
76. Recommended outlets
78. Classifieds
We hope you enjoy flipping through TAGG – issue 28!
TAGG – ISSUE 28 excerpt…
Gig review by Ashley Crawford – Frank Traynors Jazz Preachers at Babes
Babes disco in St. Kilda Road usually pulses with computerised rhythm and flashing multi-coloured bulbs. Not so on Tuesday nights from now on. Last Tuesday I witnessed what could be the birth of a return to live music by Frank Traynor and his Jazz Preachers.
Traynor opened the show by apologising for their lateness. ‘Babes have been a disco for so long they forgotten all about live music’ he said to explain the chaotic preparations.
Sundry cheers and the band broke into ‘The Jazz Bands Ball’.
The traditional jazz master Traynor bluw wildly as his trombone as the six-piece preachers went through their paces.
Babes as a traditional jazz venue however, leaves a great to be desired – the brightly litten perspex stomp floor and flashing silver backdrop of the staged cause nothing but confusion when watching the jazzman.
Traynor went through all the tracks – featuring strong solos by each of the band members – Traynor on trombone Keith Hounflow on cornette, Mike Longhurst on clarinette and sax, Roger Hudson on piano, Joe McConechy on bass and the mighty Charlie Blott on skins.
All went well for them until the show was stolen by an elderly balding gentleman who leapt onto the stage and danced like some lively hybrid of Valentino and the devil himself – and making all the smooth disco dancers stare with absolute wonder, (who is this guy?)
And it was just a bit of a giggle watching those same brightly clothes disco cats stumbling will trying to figure out the complexities of the Charleston – but they all enjoyed themselves and the sometimes wild and sometimes gentle jazz from the stage…
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