McRoy the Boy responds to disgruntled fans

OUCH!! Did you read the earlier post from the anonymous fan we called FARKIE? Click here.

McRoy the Boy from Yalleroi did and he is not happy. McRoy is currently on a mission to fine tune the music composition for bagpipe in the orchestral backing for the eagerly awaited and greatly anticipated Bullring Music CD.  He shot off the following email from the banks of Loch Lomond. Rather than summarise the contents I reproduce complete facsimile of McRoy's missive:

"Bullringer, I see from the blog our fans are getting restless, and who could blame them. However as you know excellence takes time, as the Beach Boys understood during the production of Smile. Please can you get an ad in that excellent newspaper, the Gidyea Post to let our many fans know the Bullring Music CD, book to the CD and expensive yet essential merchandise is forthcoming in the near future on a date which is soon approaching. We are so close I think we are now at a stage where we can be that specific about the release date. Let them know  more time can now be devoted to the project because the principals have more time on their hands. (Better clarify that correctional centres are not involved in any way with our sudden time richness.)

I am on the banks of Loch Lomond, where as you know I find my inspiration when writing  music for bagpipe, and have just completed the musical composition for the interlude in "No Mistakin' Barcy" for bagpipe, harp and that thing Lukeakoski plays. It will be in A minor with double quaver octet and precede the couplet in the following chorus extract: [Got no idea what McRoy is talking about - music is his forte. Bullringer]

‘Cause there’s no mistakin’ Barcy, the heart of the central west

And there’s no forsakin’ city life if you are not impressed

By the smell of the gidyea; an omen of some rain

Or quiet Sunday evenings strolling down to meet the train ……

By sprinklers placed on iron roofs, cooling wide verandahs

Or going to the footy to cheer the mighty Sand Goannas.

Anyway Bullringer make sure you get that ad in the Gidyea Post (better make it a half page) and do whatever else you can to appease our many fans, especially that anonymous one we called FARKIE.

PS Can we make the blog compatible for android phones?

PPS What is this I hear about the Rubber Band reforming?

Yours in excellence in music production

McRoy the Boy from Glenyalleroi

Bloggers stay tuned for further updates, including details on McRoy's PS and PPS questions

Bullring bloggers getting impatient

Roy the Boy from Yalleroi recently received lyrics entitled Bullring Music Blues (facsimile reproduced below) from someone who would appear to be a regular reader of the Bullring Blog, and, like so many of you, is waiting anxiously for the release of the greatly anticipated and eagerly awaited forthcoming CD and book to the CD and inexpensive but essential merchandising...

As best as Roy the Boy can tell, the missive was surreptitiously placed in Roy the Boy's jacket pocket though Roy is unclear on when or how this occurred. It was in his reefer jacket so could have been slipped into the pocket while on a humanitarian trip to the poorer countries in deep Africa, or just before boarding his yacht (when he was swarmed with fans) before sailing to victory (again) in the monthly Saturday Afternoon Gentlemen Sailing (SAGS) open invitational regatta.

Roy the Boy said no name was supplied with this missive but it was from a...and I am now quoting Roy the Boy from Yalleroi: "Fellow Artist Raising Kinda Impatient Expectations" regarding the release of the aforementioned products. So to abbreviate Roy's description of the author I will just use the acronym FARKIE.. What this FARKIE (gender unknown) does not realise nor appreciate nor fully understand is that good things take time, and Rome was not built in a day.

WARNING: FAITHFUL BULLRING BLOGGERS DO NOT PANIC...when you come to the part of FARKIE's compilation that talks about the demise of the CD project. THIS IS NOT TRUE AND BEFORE LONG YOU WILL BE ENJOYING ALL BULLRING MUSIC PRODUCTS... AS THEY ARE FORTHCOMING.

Bullring Music Blues

Alone in his lounge-room Roy was still strumming

Cohort the Bullringer was writing songs, quietly humming

But Roy was restless, he yearned for yesterday

Of a thousand adoring fans, some making a play

Now Roy hatched a plan, to the Bullringer he told

An ambitious project, and oh so clever and bold

The reply from the Bullringer, he never hesitated

“Let’s make” a long awaited and eagerly anticipated – CD

“Extra, Extra” read all about it

The Longreach Leader was the first to shout it

The Central West muso’s once so admired

Were now far and wide and long since retired

When Roy tracked them down, and “yes” they all said

Well, not quite all, Butch shook his head

And so the foundations were now laid and created

For the long awaited and eagerly anticipated – CD

“Bullring Music’s on the net” Roy and Bullringer declared

For fans worldwide we are now there to be shared

So let’s all go down memory lane once more

With competitions, and quizzes and prizes galore

Enter your thoughts and have the time of your life

An excited first prizewinner was Colonel Bogey’s wife

It seems the whole world has now become so elated

About the long awaited and eagerly anticipated – CD

The launch with great fanfare and with much aplomb

To rattle the spirits of Budgie, Rosie and Tom

T’was to be up on the Radio Theatre stage

No doubt a video clip to be filmed for Rage

Oh! One more cuddle in the old canvas seat

Chuck jaffas, clap hands, scream and tap our feet

The guitars and drums echoing from tin walls corrugated

“It’s live” the long awaited and eagerly anticipated – CD

Geschie’s shop was to sell the cd’s as retail

And for those buying online, get delivery by mail

Excitement was high, it will become yesteryear

As Central West fans dig out their retro-gear

Forget Sherbert, TMG and the rest

Oh once again we can listen to Central West’s best

The following quickly grew, it went unabated

For the long awaited and eagerly anticipated – CD

As years went by, the fans began to show their emotion

After all this time, they did again show their devotion

But now all the fans are being reduced to tears

As they seem to accept all their worst fears

The return to glory of Roy and the Bullringer

Was sure to be this century’s greatest humdinger

With hearts broken, disillusion grew and interest stagnated

“there’s no” long awaited and eagerly anticipated – CD – R.I.P.

SPOTLIGHT ON BLACKALLY

Think Jackie Howe, the black stump, Tatts hotel, Central cafe, the Barcoo, Douglas ponds, aquatic centre, Paw Paw Douglas and other great sportsmen and women and of course...The Impacts...and what fantastic place do you arrive at....

BLACKALL

Roy the Boy from Yalleroi has always had a soft spot for the terrific central west town of Blackall, famous for many things  and a gold mine of stories from the days when Russ Head and the Impacts played to rave reviews at dances throughout the central west and beyond. (No doubt many Gold Coastians will know The Impacts from the many years they played at the iconic El Rancho at Surfers Paradise...)


Roy the Boy is compiling many of these stories for the greatly anticipated and eagerly awaited book to the CD. Roy reckons it would be great to have some representation from The Impacts in the backing group to the, you know, greatly anticipated...CD.


In fact whether you are lucky enough to live in Blackall or just passing through and can't wait for the Bullring Music CD and book to be released (and we know you can't), why not pop in to the Universal Garden Centre and Gallery and get some great stories first hand from Barrie and Jenny. You may recognise the keyboard player from the famous Impacts.. 

BULLRING MUSIC SPECIAL FEATURE FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP AND SENIORS' REUNION 

BARCALDINE, MAY WEEK 2011.

Roy the Boy from Yalleroi and the Bullringer, while flat out organising great artists and putting the final touches to the music and lyrics leading up to the release of the greatly anticipated and eagerly awaited CD, the "making of" DVD, the book to the CD and essential but useless merchandise and paraphernalia, still found time among their schedule to dig up some memories for the visiting reunionists.

What better place than the pages of the famous, respected and much loved Longreach Leader? (LL was kind enough to give Bullring Music a plug). So if your name is Beaumont or Mathers or Walsh or McGrath or Pellow or Innocend or Searles or Whyte or Penney or Young etc etc then you may find your name in print below.


TIP: Just in case the eyes aren't as good as they were: clicking on a page will allow you to enlarge it.  

The year is 1963...and the first clipping is about the great educator himself - Maxie Young. Not many years later Max had to deal with another snake - this one of the trouser kind and not in the wood heap but brazenly uncoiling in the classroom. Fortunately for the owner of this python the only rebuke he received was the comment "You got more hide than Jessie James ***s*!" which most considered very lenient indeed by Maxie's usual high standard in punishment administration. 


Of course Maxie features in the hilarious ballad "Radio Theatre" on the forthcoming and highly rated Bullring Music CD, when Poj Sutton gets a tap on the shoulder at interval...

Sporting Endeavours 

 The girls won the shield and although not stated outright, the boys were clearly a big disappointment. Now where are my glasses? 

And how was the golf?

Barcy cleans up, a pub changes hands, the shire clerk decides to stay..it was all happening..

Roy the Boy from Yalleroi is always very modest about the 100 points he was awarded in the Trinity College music examination, however such natural musical genius came in handy in the greatly anticipated and eagerly awaited Bullring Music CD. It allowed Roy the Boy to create the new musical genre "Western Marlafonte" as used as in the haunting, tragic but ultimately uplifting number Oh! Tambo.

It also allowed him to create "Western Rock", as used in the real life drama beautifully captured in Barcy Hospital Blues.


While not up to Roy's standard, you all did very well:

Speaking of Roy the Boy from Yalleroi, he still speaks of the day he inspired his team to a four run victory over Barcy. Is there any other connection to Roy the Boy on this page?

Lawbreakers beware:

Bees escape from the school hives and the fire brigade excels.. 

Bits and pieces...

The Bullringer and Roy the Boy from Yalleroi hope you enjoyed the clippings. If you want electronic copies (which can be enlarged even more and printed) please email Bullring Music.