ICONIC Aussie rock band, the Choirboys, are set to put on a show named after their hit song ‘Run To Paradise’ at the Wangaratta Performing Arts and Conventions Centre on Friday, August 16.
As part of their tour across the East of Australia, ‘Run To Paradise’ is a sort of spilling the beans, tell all kind of show.
The show is all about the stories that sound all too familiar within the culture widely assumed of the music industry - sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll and they tell it all.
It's part story, part song that chronicles some of the wildest, most risqué, outrageous, and downright hilarious stories of Australian Rock.
Bass guitarist, Ian Hulme said the show is a story telling exposé on the Australian music industry and the Choirboys' experiences, decades later is just bizarrely funny.
Latest Stories
“At this point in our lives you reflect back, we have been very privileged and lucky, it’s been an amazing experience," he said.
“It was the golden age of pub rock, but we didn’t think it at the time.
“It was just one foot in front of the other, Australian pubs were having bands seven nights a week so we were gigging seven nights a week.
“On reflection you go 'wow' that was really the birth of Australian pub rock through that 70s and 80s period."
Ian recalled one of the bizarre and funny memories of gigging when back in the day pubs didn't always have facilities.
“We are waiting to go on stage and Mark said ‘I need to have a pee’ and there was no toilet available but there was a schooner glass there," Ian said.
“Mark uses the glass and puts it down just as Brad goes to grab a beer, he has a swig of it and goes ‘did I just drink what I think it was’, it's just one of those weird things of the time that wouldn’t happen today."
As young twenty-something-year-olds, Choirboys formed in 1978, growing up on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The wild, hedonistic lifestyle the band witnessed of the youth in the 70s is ultimately what gave birth to their seminal rock anthem, Run To Paradise.
Front-man, Mark Gable, said they didn’t call it Pub Rock in those days.
“We were there in the beginning and we’re still here now,” he said.
“Put it down to hearsay, it’s our opinion, it’s what we saw, it’s what people told us and most of it is extremely funny and incredibly interesting.
“Some of the stories are so funny and just plain stupid because back then, we could do things that nobody else could do because it wasn’t a normal job.
“There were no rules.”
Which movie star did the Divinyls bass player meet under a table at a nightclub, what were Chuck Berry’s weird work tactics, if Deep Purple was responsible for Mark walking with a limp, and what happened to a pair of Iggy Pop’s pants?
Come along and find out.
Visit https://www.wpacc.com.au/Whats-On/Choirboys-Run-To-Paradise for tickets and more information.
