Boom Crash Opera - live on Rock Arena, 1985
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Back in the day Rock Arena on Channel 2 would periodically broadcast bands playing live in the ABC Studio in front of an audience. One such broadcast in 1985 was Boom Crash Opera, then a new and unsigned act. Watching at 10:30 pm on a Tuesday night, teenage me was most impressed indeed - you generally don't see something this polished from a new band! I was instantly hooked and became a lifelong fan.
Tracks present:
00:00 Hold Me Down
03:37 Rocks Are In My Head
08:08 Too Hot To Think
12:47 Axe To Grind
19:25 The Face That I'm Living In
23:17 Gap That Opened
27:49 Floppy Man Stand Up
A pretty good representation of early Boom Crash Opera setlists when they were still doing covers of Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" and Creedence Clearwater Revivial's "Ramble Tamble". I know the band performed more songs than this, but I don't remember whether any more went to air. These seven tracks (broadcast in mono and lifted from a dodgy old VHS tape) are all I have.
It's a crying shame they've not been available on RUclips previously.
I don't own these recordings, and have uploaded them purely for historical interest (and for fans of the band). If anyone would like them taken down, please let me know.
Wow ~some memories this has brought to the surface! I was sneaking out of home to go see Boom Crash play as a teen... thank for this!
Awesome work man, loved Rock Arena and Boom Crash Opera. Get this, I was maybe 17 when the first album came out and me and a buddy used to ride our bikes around at night, my ghetto blaster attached to my bike, playing a tape I made of the first album which I'd bought as soon as it was released, singing the songs at full volume! Take me back to those days! 🤣😂
Thank you so much Dom. This has made my year! 😊
Sensational work Dom, this is the show that got me into BCO, remember taping this myself and wearing out an old Beta tape! After this my mates and I went and saw them most weeks at some pub or other in inner Melbourne. IMO this really captured the driving rhythm section and Richard Pleasance's great bass lines a lot better than the eventual debut album did, though they did manage to get this sound again on 'These Here Are Crazy Times'. I hope people who see this will realise how great BCO were live (and still pretty good btw, having seen them at 'Good Things' just the other week)! Cheers, Rohan.
Amazing - considering how good their early shows were - that so few of the early songs went on to their first album (only two of those played here).
They pulled the right rein in editing Axe To Grind down to its tight, suspenseful version on These Here Are Crazy Times, but geez I loved this incarnation of it. IMO, it's their best song and it (along with Gap That Opened) was a cornerstone of their set. I was so horrified when it didn't get a guernsey on the first album.
True and great point.