IN THE RAW

THE PLAYERS

 

Paddy Conroy

Role:  Head of ABC TV (1988)

Quote: "...there has never been an appearance by rock group of any kind nude since. So I guess that says something about it..."

 

 

Marty Coombes

Role: Blah Blah Blah Director

Quote: "I think they (Lubricated Goat) made it a bit hard to love them.."

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Mark Fitzgerald

Role: Blah Blah Blah Producer

Quote: "...I finally realized why clothes aren’t such a band idea on men..."

 

 

Andrew Denton

Role: Blah Blah Blah Presenter

Quote: "Well the Taboo at the time was that female nudity at the time was OK but male nudity was somehow other offensive. .....the prevailing cultural view that was the taboo. It’s a stupid taboo"

 

 

Bruce Griffiths

Role: Blah Blah Blah Staff Writer

Quote: "The point was Lubricated Goat playing In the Raw nude.  That was the idea.  Well that was part of the idea.  It had to be that band, that song and performed that way, it was just the right combination...."

 

 

Peter Hartley

Role: Ex-Lubricated Goat Guitarist who appeared on Blah Blah Blah

Quote: "Coz Charlie was too shy. Charlie (Tolnay) had taken over my guitar job was too shy to get naked on TV"

 

 

David Hill

Role: Managing Director of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1988)

Quote: "... if they’d had put that to air without referring it upwards. Then I would’ve been mighty pissed off."

 

 

Guy Madison

Role: Lubricated Goat Bassist

Quote: "I mean I was up for it, obviously Stuart (Spasm) was up for it. …

 

 

Andy Nehl

Role: Blah Blah Blah Staff Researcher

Quote: "On the ABC telephone logs, the next day there were 99 complaints, from the whole of Australia, there were only 99 complaints...."

 

 

Peter Read

Role: Lubricated Goat fill-in Drummer

Quote: I found out it was happening and for some reason Brett (Ford) couldn’t or wouldn’t and because nakedness was not unknown to me I was asked but it was a completely different situation to what I thought it would be..."

 

 

Stu Spasm

Role: Lubricated Goat Lead Singer/Guitarist

Quote: "...basically through misinformation. Someone thought that we were a band that played naked all the time and we weren’t, it was another band called NO MORE BANDICOOTS...."

 

 

Adrian Hornblower

Role: No More Bandicoots Sax Player

Quote: "We decided we weren’t going to do anything else except play nude and this kind of inspired Spasm to do the nude gig especially coz it was televised"

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Barry Terzic

Role: No More Bandicoots Lead singer

Quote: "Well No More Bandicoots loved nudity, I think we were the first and to my knowledge the only band to make it habit of playing nude

 

 

Charles Tolnay

Role: Lubricated Goat Guitarist who refused to appear nude

Quote: I didn’t want people laughing at my big fat hairy arse for the rest of my life because I could just picture in my mind all these people pointing at it and having laugh of their lives at my expense for the rest of my life.

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