 BIG AND UGLY
Primitive Calculators On Kick-Starting the Aussie "Little Band" SceneIt's 1979 and Robert 'Simply Irresistible' Palmer stands at the back of a dingy Melbourne venue in his best pop star finery looking at the stage in mild disgust. Someone from his entourage has dragged him along to a Little Bands night and he doesn't like what he hears. At all. On stage there's something quite punk rock happening; only it's not the safety-pinned, mo-hawked version of punk that others are aping in 1979. With drum machines, synths, guitars and minimal musical...
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