Nobody carried knives or anything like that and the blewin’ would be between themselves, groups of themselves. “Back in those days we had a roadie who was a Hare Krishna and they had a farm up in Queensland and we’d go up and stop there a few times. For Desperate Records boss Lang, the Coloured Balls fall into the category of rock band that was always too “purist” to ever attain sustained pop success. And I think because he did cut his hair, as silly as it sounds…it was really so distinct back then, so the Coloured Balls, that was our band.”. And then she went ‘OK, now we won’t then’ and I said ‘No, we won’t’.”. From 1970-1980, the second wave of Sharpies, sometimes referred to as 'Skinheads' by the media, were following hard, tough Rock ’n’ Roll bands like Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls, Buster Brown, Rose Tattoo, The Angels Fashion and music had always played a big part in the sharpie story, as did some of the gang violence newspapers at the time reported in breathless, tabloid tones of condemnation. “It was a mutual decision to end the band really,” says Ian on reflection. “Their style of music: as a 13-year-old all of a sudden it was just there. 16. 22. They were really vigorous, energetic dancers. Rockbrat Remembers: Lobby Loyde This is a re-published interview/article we conducted with the much-missed Lobby Loyde in 1998 If ever a book is written on Lobby Loyde it will sure as hell make for interesting reading. The fighting continued but I’d made another hasty exit. If you could walk out of a show and not be sweating and not be absolutely exhausted and your ears weren’t ringing, you hadn’t enjoyed it. Skyhooks : Horror Movie The kids would spill out on to the street, phone numbers would be exchanged, meetings arranged, last-minute pick-up lines tried on, and then the train ride home. Lobby Loyde was born as John Baslington Lyde on 18 May 1941 in Longreach, Queensland, he later wrote music as John Barrie Lyde and initially performed as Barry Lyde. Lobby Loyde's lost science fiction concept album is found, remastered and released, 30 years after its recording. culture and whatever else takes our fancy. “If I had my life over again I would do exactly the same because what I did was what everyone dreams about doing: playing in a fucking rock ‘n’ roll band and partying for 20 years!”. The sharpies were a Lobby thing, a Coloured Balls thing, they weren’t an Aztecs thing. He didn’t cause any woes for anyone, whereas Billy would go nuts. “The two bands [Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs and the Coloured Balls] were really intermingled; they were like ‘brother’ bands,” says Matthews, who played drums on the first Coloured Balls single, ‘Liberate Rock’. Singer Lobby Loyde remembers very vividly playing to sharpie kids well before Coloured Balls existed, and well before he had adopted a sharpie aesthetic. But Denise McFarlane wasn’t interested in pop stars. “We were pretty spoilt. With the Coloured Balls, the front man duties took a backseat to the music. Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs : Let’s Have A Party covered the Coloured Balls song ‘Human Being’ on their debut EP in 1988, which is what piqued Lang’s interest in all things Lobby Loyde. Punters had come to expect a lot from their bands. They perform a nearly 10-minute version of “GOD,” the song The Coloured Balls debuted at 1973's Sunbury Pop Festival—the same song and festival documented by Greg Macainsh in his film Melbourne Sharpies . You had venues everywhere, basically on every street corner. As the demographic tidal wave of post-war babies grew up to become bored teens in dead-end suburbs, youth tribes gained in number and those numbers meant strength on the streets and in the clubs. The local police would often be waiting at the train station, taking names and making themselves known to the kids. And being a kid, a teenager who looked like a tomboy, I think he was just really thankful to have somebody that could skate with him who wasn’t trying to hit on him,” she says. Lob would have about 32 twelve inch speakers stacked up and I’d have about 15 and the bass player had 16. The band’s louder, heavier and more progressive new sound alienated a lot of Thorpe’s older fans, who came along expecting the middle-of-the-road fare Thorpe had churned out in his pop star days. 9. The Aztecs with Lobby Loyde — Rehearsal + Interview. She started going to gigs with her older sisters when she was 13, including the sharpie jamboree known as Summer Jam held at the Melbourne Showgrounds: “I was the youngest sister, the tag-along.” To this day, she’s still upset she never made it to the band’s famed show at the Sunbury Festival in 1973. But that didn’t bother McFarlane too much. He grabbed the mic and said, “Fuck this shit, the gig’s over.” And it was. They dragged a lot of power out and were pretty loud amps. It was late ’72 also and there was a concert celebrating the end of the draft and our involvement in Vietnam. Getting ready for a night out was almost ceremonial for the McFarlane girls and their Ferntree Gully sharpie crew, affectionately known as the “Gully Guzzlers”. “This train’s going straight to hospital!” he said through missing teeth with a shit-eating grin. The band’s heavy rock struck a chord with the disaffected kids of sharpie suburbia — just like the sharpies, the Coloured Balls were…ballsy. He had grown up as something of a drumming prodigy, touring the US with jazz greats Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich as a child. She likes all sorts of music, but her face lights up when she talks about the classic ’70s Aussie rock bands like the Coloured Balls, Buffalo or Buster Brown she saw as a teenager in the town halls, high schools and sports clubs of Melbourne’s burgeoning live music circuit. He says the popularity of live music in Melbourne during the ’60s meant there was plenty of work for good musicians and plenty of bands for punters to see, including Loyde’s pre-Coloured Balls groups the Purple Hearts and the Wild Cherries. Sharpies were sometimes associated with excessive violence, [1] regularly taking part in fights. (Recorded live at Sunbury 1974) © 2013 - 2020 Shoot Farken. Standing just inside was a group of Sharpies, dressed up to the nines in their best stomping gear — conny jackets, tight jeans and big platform boots. The Coloured Balls vinyl reissues are available on Desperate Records through Aztec. Geelong band Bored! Ted Mulry Gang : Crazy Kurt Cobain was also known to have been a fan, as is Henry Rollins. Friday night in the McFarlane home was usually spent watching TV. “We’d all watch The Aunty Jack Show and stuff, and I remember a few times my older aunts and uncles would arrive and there’d be this house full of sharpies, and they’d be all sort of going ‘mmm, what’s going on here?’ But they were always respectful at mum and dad’s so it was never really an issue,” McFarlane recalls. Shoot Farken is an Australian-based online Members of the audience were getting stuck in too, as Melbourne rock identity Bruce Milne recalled in an article about sharpie culture for Perfect Sound Forever. particular, rock guitarist Lobby Loyde and feminist photographer Carol Jerrems. He was off his head! Like all the clans would just come together.”. Coloured Balls : Flash “AC/DC were lucky and somehow managed to find a huge mass market in the US and Europe by the late ’70s without really compromising their sound at all — the basic riffs and cheeky schoolboy lyrics just hit a note where others didn’t — but they’re an exception.”, “Some music is simply meant for a cult audience and that’s the way it’ll always be.”. Step into the world of the sharpies, Australia's answer to mods and skinheads. If the Coloured Balls did have a weakness, according to Matthews, it was vocals. Henry Rollins and Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus are huge Coloured Balls fans. quality writing on football, sport, popular Though there were other bands on the bill, it was definitely the Coloured Balls that everyone had come to see. Stevie Wright : Hard Road So that was the original motivation to get that mullet. Coloured Balls disbanded at the end of 1974 and Loyde returned to solo work. Then it was time to get a lift down to Ferntree Gully train station. 4. There was no doubt that by the ’70s, sharpies had a reputation — and it wasn’t always good. Between 1972 and 1975, Melbourne’s much-feared sharpie tribe had found their soundtrack: the Coloured Balls, featuring Australian guitar legend Lobby Loyde. 18. The band only made it through a “We played outback country towns and shearing sheds through Queensland but most of the work was in Melbourne and Adelaide,” says Ian. Keywords Aztecs, Coloured Balls, Lobby Loyde, Melbourne, Oz rock, Sharpies References Beilharz, P ( 2007 ) Lobby and me: Remembering the Melbourne music scene in the sixties . Billy [Thorpe] was an incredible singer, an incredible front man who could just grab an audience by the neck and control them … Whereas Lobby wasn’t much of a singer, he’d get up there, close his eyes and play guitar,” Matthews says. One such show was seeing a raw and hungry AC/DC at a local ice-skating rink. Fine Knits! “Surprisingly, we used to listen to a lot of that but we’d listen to everything. “Certainly there were a ton of great Aussie bands in the ’60s, but the 1970s, which was also guilty of coughing up a lot of terrible Australian bands, was when it really came into its own.”, VIDEO: Coloured Balls, ‘Heavy Metal Kids’ from Heavy Metal Kid. “Then you’d catch the train and wherever you were going, whether it was to the city, or to let’s say Box Hill, at every stop more [sharpies] would get on and you’d all know where to get on. They were just innovating back then. The leader of the gang stepped towards the door as a young kid was about to enter. Lobby Loyde & The Coloured Balls were playing. Bordel ça fait plaisir de voir du Lobby Loyde, bien avant les rose tattoo ou ac/dc, il a créé le "son" australien! In New York I might expect that but I was really surprised it happens in Australia too. It was like the meeting of the clans, like the scene from Brigadoon when they’re all coming in for the Scottish wedding. As the producer of Heavy Metal Kid and someone who knew the band’s sound intimately, Matthews was uniquely qualified to oversee the vinyl remastering of the albums in the absence of Loyde, who had died in 2007 from lung cancer. “Knives, knuckle-dusters and ice-picks are part of a really ‘sharp’ teenager’s dress,” The Argus newspaper reported in 1955. “It’s the guitar I have had for forty years I guess. 19. “Lobby’s Lobby, G-O-D, that’s it, and nothing will ever change that. More On Sharpies & Bogans Lobby Loyde, Buffalo, Ian Rilen, Rose Tattoo.... 90s Classic Rock Radio Revival Analysis Spiral Rowland S Howard Lane Ekoplekz - Reflekzionz LOBBY LOYDE CONRAD SCHNITZLER Chris Knox A bona fide Melbourne rock chick, 40 years later she still loves seeing bands. We bleached it at the back  and the sharps thought that was fantastic but it was all from the Hare Krishnas, they were into the mullets.”, Although The Coloured Balls occasionally ventured out of Melbourne, the sharpie phenomena was pretty much unique to the southern city. The bouncers in those days were pretty savage. Lobby had the skinheads sort of chasing him all over the place, going to all his gigs. But it works,” Lang says. “But in saying that, within our groups we had long hairs, if they were your friends from school or something, they were part of it. The Melbourne sharpie scene in the 70s was as much about fashion as it was about angst and both weren’t particularly pretty. The Coloured Balls are one of those bands that should be heard on vinyl. I just preferred the natural sound, a good guitar and a loud amp.”, Sadly, the rest of the world never got to experience The Coloured Balls full-on rock ‘n’ roll sound. Hard to imagine now, but I did,” she says. People are still trying to copy it today.”. Young kids having a good time.”, ‘When Sharpies Ruled –  A Vicious Selection’ is out now, Album tracklisting: “The problem with the Coloured Balls was there really wasn’t a lead singer as such. Milne said a lot of the violence at shows was generally “overstated” by press reports keen to play up the angle of ‘sharpie gang violence’. I saw more brawls over there but that was more bikies than anything else. Both albums were of and out of their time, if that makes any sense.”. Lang says Matthews did an excellent job on the remastering: “It’s definitely the best sounding version ever available.”. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2015 Vinyl release of "When Sharpies Ruled (A Vicious Selection)" on Discogs. “I would simply put it down to the fact that a lot of, possibly most, real and purist rock music — don’t get me started — is simply too ‘real’ for a mass market. You could just lose yourself in it.”. Matthews remembers the hours spent in the studio with Loyde trying to finesse the sounds and songs on HMK. Matthews remembers a lot of the shows being wild affairs. “With the vigilant Truth newspaper guy attributing all this violence to the Coloured Balls music, you know, music from satan … it got to the point where venues didn’t want to know about us. “Ball Power is basically non-stop, high-energy, loud and distorted rock ‘n’ roll. The band only made it through a few songs before an all-in brawl between rival Sharpie gangs broke out in front of the stage. But it’s fair to say his tenure with the Coloured Balls inspired the most fervent passion and loyalty among fans. According to sharpie folklore, the tribe had evolved from the “sharps” of the 1950s and ’60s, and as the name implies, these were teenagers and young adults who took what they wore seriously. 12. However, going to a show in Melbourne back then certainly had an edge to it: The worst Sharpie brawl I saw was at a park in Richmond. We sat around thinking what sort of sounds we wanted, ” he says. A few times here I’ve had people come up to me and thank me for turning them on to the Coloured Balls. “Lobby was ours. La De Das : The Place (single edit.) In fact, Matthews had already worked with Loyde, engineering the Wild Cherries single “I am the Sea”. According to Bobsy, the sharpies were merely a misunderstood subculture. Thorpe had been one of the country’s biggest pop stars in the mid-60s, but had taken his music in a heavier direction in the late ’60s. For me, my main memories were that my sister’s boyfriend was a sharpie and I happened to be a sharpie as well and that’s what we did — we just listened to Lobby,” McFarlane tells Shoot Farken. “Long before Angus [Young of AC/DC], Billy Thorpe, the Angels or Rose Tattoo, Lobby inspired Australian bands to step forward and play as loud and aggressively as they could. Saturday night was for going out and seeing a show, often at places like the Box Hill Town Hall. 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We’d put Lobby on and crank it up. “This was also a time when a lot of people who had grown up on punk were investigating pre-punk hard rock and really digging the sounds of everything from Black Sabbath to Blue Cheer, AC/DC and Deep Purple, early Rose Tattoo and the Aztecs. covered the Coloured Balls song ‘Human Being’, Defunct Yugo bands you should listen to in order to beat the Covid blues. Sometimes the sounds came from unlikely sources. I’d have to plait my hair so I had tails that night. Ted Mulry Gang : Jump In My Car When he climbed back on stage, he had blood streaming down his face. 180 gram vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve. Tea would be at home because eating out was too expensive. And then the police would be waiting for you at Ferntree Gully station. The young kid jumped back on the platform and waited for the next train. With these guys, the violence wasn’t anything like it is these days. Lobby Loyde & The Coloured Balls were playing. Rolling Stone magazine senior editor David Fricke called Lobby Loyde “the founding architect and guardian spirit of Aussie garage rock and heavy music for more than three decades”. Through this connection, he started working with Gil Matthews, the head of Aztec, to put the Coloured Balls back on vinyl. Even though the band was relatively short-lived, they’re still revered by rock aficionados, including Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, who covered the Coloured Balls classic “That’s What Mama Said”. “The Coloured Balls were solid. Similar to the relationship between mods and The Who in the UK, the short-haired, rat-tailed, ‘connie’ cardigan-wearing sharpies and the Coloured Balls developed an intense, sometimes conflicted bond which came to define both groups. His artistic wanderings included writing a sci-fi novel (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster) not long after disbanding the Coloured Balls and recording a suitably spacey soundtrack to go with it — probably not something that would ever have been part of the game plan for the AC/DC global empire of rock. Even though the scene was gang-related, the sharpies’ bark rarely turned to bite. Upon leaving the Aztecs in ’71, Loyde recorded his highly regarded prog-psych album Plays George Guitar. Mixing “The track called ‘Metal Feathers’, that’s got a Mellotron on it and there’s a bell on the end of it. “No. “Loyde disciples AC/DC took Aussie power boogie to the world in the Seventies — but only after Loyde set the high bar at home with the bludgeoning majesty of Coloured Balls, on 1973’s Ball Power and 1974’s Heavy Metal Kid.”. As a result, venues who would book the band became rare and media reports accused Lobby Loyde of encouraging the violence of some sharpies. The bands were all playing three or four gigs a week. The band had a deal with Ibanez and were afforded the luxury of visits to the factory to choose whatever guitars and pedals they liked. Lang’s interest in the Coloured Balls was reignited by Aztec’s CD reissues. A house which no doubt saw its share of partying. Rose Tattoo : Remedy Lobby Loyde was born as John Baslington Lyde on 18 May 1941 in Longreach, Queensland, he later wrote music as John Barrie Lyde and initially performed as Barry Lyde. Is this mythical “Ball Power wasn’t really produced; Ball Power was just recorded. There’s pop and then there’s rock. “AC/DC was always a big favourite because we had Iceland, which was the Ringwood ice rink, so the bands always used to play there. Gang fights were common. “They were a good bunch of guys,” he recalls. guitarist Lobby Loyde and photographer Carol Jerrems. Their dress and dance styles were strongly influenced by the British ska , mod , and skinhead subcultures , and many of the early sharpies were in fact British immigrants , recently arrived as Ten Pound Poms . Never forget the next 24 hours, but thankfully the dust settled. “My dad would drive us all to the station in his old EH Holden station wagon, I think it was, and we’d be picking up people all along the way so we’d be all packed in their illegally; we’d all be in platform shoes and boots, it was fun. “You’ve got to get in the mood with the music. “The scene was extremely different to what it is now. “Everyone goes on … Pretty heavy guys up there. Ian ‘Bobsy’ Millar, was at the sharpie movement’s epicentre, playing rhythm guitar in the band Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls. “Everyone goes on about the violence. I saw more violence from the bloody bouncers than the sharps. McFarlane laughs when asked whether the AC/DC singer was a good skater. To celebrate the period, a brilliant new compilation has been released called ‘When Sharpies Ruled – A Vicious Selection’ and it features the aforementioned bands plus many others and comes with a sweet 80 page photo booklet. I might even go out to a Lobby song, don’t know yet.”, VIDEO: Coloured Balls, ‘G.O.D’ live Sunbury ’73. Feature image painting of Lobby Loyde by Brown Hornet. The talking box came out and Lob used one of them for a while but Ibanez had these different pedals. He [Lobby] always did that, he always caught the energy of the place,” she says. Sharp hero Lobby Loyde and his Coloured Balls were the first to get worldwide attention maybe a couple of decades or so, and over the last couple of years the flood gates have opened Hush Greg Macainsh is a major actor in the Australian popular music scene. They got in the studio and went bang, bang, bang and recorded it. They wanted to come and dance, that’s all they wanted to do. Lobby Loyde had left the Aztecs early in 1971 and worked on his debut solo album, 'Plays with George Guitar', with Johnny Dick and Teddy Toi. Bands like Black Flag, Hard-Ons, etc, who flaunted and talked of their influences…really opened up the idea of people interested in punk and nominally ‘indie’ music to acknowledge the raw brilliance of this music.”. Coloured Balls : Love You Babe The bands soon started playing around town together, shaking the foundations of many a Melbourne venue with their high-decibel rock. It was a different thing altogether for the Aztecs than it was for Lobby.”, “The Aztecs had a whole group of people follow us everywhere, and this is back in the sharpies and widgies era. The Summer Jam album, recorded live at Sunbury ’73, features one of the signature Coloured Balls tunes, “G.O.D (Guitar Over Drive)”, an epic track that well and truly lives up to its name. However, it wasn’t long until he was back in the fray with a new band, the Coloured Balls, formed in early 1972 with Janis ‘John’ Miglans on bass, Andrew Fordham on guitar/vocals and Trevor Young on drums. It was issued in September and "remains a progressive rock milestone, one of the most remarkable heavy guitar records of the period". 7. Now of course, you can mike up with a little 60 watt amp and sound like you have 32 speakers.”, Millar’s guitar of choice back in the day was an Ibanez Strat copy. Then you’d get your dreadful make-up we’d all wear. Bands like Buster Brown had the combustible street poet Angry Anderson, while rising stars AC/DC had the devilish and charismatic Bon Scott. “In Adelaide it was the migrant  group from out Elizabeth way who were the main contenders over there. The soundtrack to this generation came from bands like Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Rose Tattoo, Skyhooks, La Femme and the sharpies’ pin-up boys, Lobby Loyde and The Coloured Balls. 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