What were you guys doing before you came here?? Seeing as it's been
pretty "dead" around here lately, it'll give us something to do
JKirk
Playing in bands, taking photos. Been doing film longer than I care
to remember but new to this digital lark.
Had an Aussie guitarist in one band, Brian from Melbourne. If you
get really bored I could always tell you the koala story.
Well don't keep us waiting ssab, how much can a Koala bear??
It's a longish story and I'll try to trim it as much as poss.
We used to take the micky out of Brian every so often with him
being an Aussie. Have to get them back for beating us all the time
at most sports.
There was an item on the local TV news about wallabies in
Derbyshire. Some small local zoo had gone bust and the owners had
just released them to fend for themselves. They had quite a
thriving colony going at one time.
Naturally I mentioned this to Brian and naturally he didn't believe
a word I said. His response was there is no way I'm falling for
THAT.
A few days later he saw an article about them in the local paper
and apologised for not believing me. So I said did you see the
thing about koalas in Hyde [ a small market town near me, prob
known to quite a few now due to fairly recent events ]. Told him I
hadn't mentioned it, as if he didn't believe me about the wallabies
there didn't seem much point in mentioning the koalas. Could see
him thinking " no way but then again the wallabies were true ".
Brian: It's too cold for them they would die.
Me: Hyde still has the old gas lamps, the ones with sticky out
posts next to the lamp. They sit huddled up to the lamp, 2 a side
sometimes. It looks really weird.
Brian: They only eat eucaliptus leaves, what are they living on?
Me: Eucaliptus leaves. You've seen the Halls methol=lyptus sweets [
a kind of cough type sweet ]. Well they had problems getting the
eucaliptus, it was getting too expensive to import it so they
starting growing their own in huge greenhouses. There's acres of
them, Hyde's famous for it.
This went on more and then the drummer Phil walked in and before I
had a chance Brian says " you known anything about koalas in Hyde
". Phil to his credit says yeah the place is overrun with the
little B* .
Anyway he decides to go down one Saturday to look for these koalas
but he also makes the mistake of taking his new girlfriend. He'd
only met her the week before at a gig. She dumped him after that,
can't think why but I got the blame for it.
