G'day Charlie (a mere 2 years, 2 weeks and one day back ...),

In my mind, I kept hearing Eric Bogle singing You're a Bloody Rotten Audience ... but a quick Google search indicates that Tony Miles actually wrote it. Tony is another of t'othersiders that saw the sense of heading off to Australia ... in Tony's case, from England to Queensland.

I have a lovely memory of Tony, while we were singing around a campfire at the Ben Hall Festival, Carcoar, 1979, doing a wickedly good parody of Eric's The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. Our National Broadcaster - The Australian Broadcasting Commission, as it was then called, recorded the whole wonderful session - in high grade stereo, from their mobile recording van ... but never broadcast that campfire. I pressed them for a reason ... and they claimed that: "... the crackle of the fire, in the background, compromised their high standards of acoustic fidelity ...!"

Regards,

Bob