New thread so the Australians can talk about Suzie Beauchamp

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Wasn't she delicious?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

woo hoo!

yep. brilliant lyricist too!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Punch out that Looney Sappy Tune is a pretty damn unique record

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

who was she again?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

box the jesuit?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, and Madroom - and who could forget Ripe for You?

She still has a shop in Netown as is still lovely looking.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Netown = Newtown.

Damn, there are no pictures of her on the net. But if you google 'Box the Jesuit', round about the 40th hit or so, you stumble on the inspiration for that particular name.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i never saw them, did i? maybe madroom. can you wax a bit more lyrical on them?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

They owed a bit to The Birthday Party and Jim Foetus, but were more colourful, loose and freakshow. On a bad night they could be a total shambles, but on a good night their music was cathatric - they used to cure my headaches. They always looked great. Their lyrics were bizarre. Basslines were very important I remember. The drummer was classy classy classy. Like The Birthday Party, hey were just seedy enought to avoid being pretentiously arty.

As for Suzie, she played violin (it sounded like a mewling cat) and, er, electric clothes horse.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

and she wrote some of the filthiest lyrics in the history of music

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds so obscene! but that dirty muscle must be cleaned!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i obviously need the record, in lieu of my oversight in never seeing them. does it hold up? (and how hard is it to get?)

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

v hard to find online but probably a lot easier in Aussie record stores. it holds up surprisingly well, vaguely suffers from wimpy 80s engineering but hasn't dated especially badly

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm For an Art..." is Madroom's only LP, and I liked it a lot. Unfortunately some of their best songs, always played live, were never released. "A Man's Not a Camel", for example. Suzie's lyrics were invariably hilarious.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

There was also a song, possibly a Box The Jesuit number, called 'I Used To Count My Fathers' Sores'.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

there's also "three cheers for the pancreas" but that's may be a Goose number

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

...and then there was 'Bapgook'. Which, Goose once explained, is a dish that Westerners in South East Asia are not allowed to eat. Anyone out there sampled some bapgook? Nice, was it?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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