And Now for Some Answers...

Early this morning a courier woke me up with a delivery of 2 sealed A4 envelopes from Roy the Boy from Yalleroi. Just as well too, as I have a few messages to do up the street, not to mention buying some lammies and jam at the QCWA stall outside Burns' newsagency and getting a copy of the new publication The Barcaldine Bugle.

Anyway the envelopes contain the results of the last 2 competitions: The Cabaret Photo Contest and the Tuesday Night Photo Challenge.

Bullring would like to give a big thankyou to those who entered with such interesting and accurate responses, particularly JL, MM, Jo and Sandlewood (now there's an interesting name).

Roy the Boy from Yalleroi has been sifting through the comments to all the posts and has even been asking some challenging follow-up questions. Nothing gets past RtBfY so make sure you keep an eye on your comments!!

Might I add there has been some VERY NICE comment posting by Vicki.

So without further ado, let me grab the first envelope which is headed:

Confidential: Do NOT open till Saturday 24 February 2007.
ANSWERS TO CABARET PHOTO COMPETITION

(a) What venue is this? ANSWER: This venue is the Aramac Shire Hall Supper Room. CONGRATULATIONS JL for correctly identifying the venue. MM also receives a Bullring commendation for including this venue with his/her options.

(b) Can you name the band? ANSWER: The band is December Sunn, which was based in Barcaldine but played at various venues in the Central West and Capricornia. December Sunn was comprised of the following members:

Jeffrey Faulkner - aka Doonga - Bass Guitar
Gary Alexander - aka Lick; aka Lickbird - Percussion
Tony Mansfield - aka Gasper; aka Gapper - Rythym Guitar/Vocals
Peter Fischer - aka Bones; aka Grasshopper - Keyboards
Bill Fraser - aka Norm; aka The Big Bump Head - Rythym/Lead Guitar

The December Sunn beat some very good bands to become the central and northwest divisional winners in the Hoadley's National Battle of the Sounds* in 1969. Other bands competing included Russ Head and the Impacts from Blackall, The Innocence and The T-U-Wanas from Longreach. Many other bands from Muttaburra and the Northwest could not compete with the Bullringesque quality of the music of December Sunn. (More about the bands in the C-Farm Interview coming to Bullring Blog SOON!!)

* It was during the Battle of the Sounds in Rockhampton that the vocalist for December Sunn, Tony (Gasper) Mansfield; inspired by John and Yoko's love-in for peace at a hotel in Toronto, staged his famous filth-in for peace at the Leichardt Hotel, refusing to bathe until world peace had been attained. More to this story coming SOON in the C-Farm Interview.

(c) What year was it taken? ANSWER: Circa 1969.

The Winners: How good was MM?; Boy what a memory. MM even identified band members and a number of bands including December Sunn. Also JL had some accurate information about this photo and RtBfY is asking for some more details in the comments. Well done to both of you from Bullring.

Well that is it - WAIT A TICK!!!! I have just found some photos of the band in the bottom of the envelope. Check out these snaps and the Bullring Blog will get back soon to open the second envelope.