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.

Bullring rearing to go..

Welcome back to the Bullring blog faithful supporters....

Roy the Boy from Yalleroi has divested himself of all other interests (and he has many on both sea and land) and is working at a feverish pace to bring you ASAP the greatly anticipated and eagerly awaited CD and book to the  CD along with the 'making of' DVD and essential yet frivolous merchandise and paraphernalia.

Roy the Boy is currently liaising with some of the great artists from the central west and is compiling some terrific material to add to his staggering collection of memorabilia..

The artists are gathering, the recording studio is warming up, the presses will soon be running...stay tuned

People's day at the EKKA marks 25th anniversary

It is hard to believe Bullringers, but it was 25 years ago today that Roy the Boy from Yalleroi treated show-goers with his impromptu performances at the wood-chop bar at the Royal National Association Exhibition (the EKKA). Sporting a sombrero to protect from the chairlift artillery and a toy ukulele (both acquired after some deft duck shooting on side show alley courtesy of gully gang experience) Roy the Boy from Yalleroi was the real show stopper of 1975.

As soon as he started strumming that ukulele and singing his own impromptu compositions the passing crowds would pause, stunned as if hypnotised by Ronrico. And as Roy the Boy from Yalleroi launched into his numbers the crowd would swell and soon be shouting "More, more give us more Roy!"

The Bullringer, who officiated in the role of crowd and refreshment management had to often disperse the enthralled audience so that Roy the Boy from Yallerio could partake in a well earned libation. But soon he would be back into it and the crowd would gather again. Many of them said they had not seen nor heard anything like it and indeed they had not.

Roy the Boy must have sung hundreds, yes hundreds of songs that day and some may even appear in the CD and book to the CD which is forthcoming and eagerly awaited. There may even be a reenactment in the DVD to the CD.

One of the numbers, which Roy the Boy called "My Ekka" went something like this:

It's not for the crackers or the dagwood dogs
Its not for the clowns with the ping pong balls
It's not for the wood chop or the Japanese pearls
And it's not for the livestock or the pretty cow girls
It's not for the chips that are cooking all the while
And t's not for the walk down the sideshow mile.
No that's not the EKKA
No that's not the EKKA
No that's not the EKKA for me!


Cos the EKKA for me, what I come to see 
Is Roy the Boy strumming on his ukulele 
As he sings us his ditties, derived from the truth 
About The Bullring and the days of his youth
About Barcy and the Alice and the whole shebang
About his time as Leiutenant of the Gully Gang.
Yes that's the EKKA  
Yes that is the EKKA 
Yes that is the EKKA for me!

 Hope everyone enjoys the show day holiday. Please note the new email address to contact Roy the Boy from Yalleroi and the Bullringer is: gullyganghq@gmail.com