Down on the farm

Press, 15 July 1982, Page 14

Down on the farm

BY NEVIN TOPP , Ah, yeah. Gidday. I would' r like to tell you about this band coining, to Christchurch, 1 called Daggy and the Dick- 1 heads. I . The band . come from t Taihape, near where me ' mate Bruce Bayliss lives. You remember Bruce don’t you? 7 j Well, Bruce swears (which , is nothing hew), that, this . bunch of jokers are the best he’s heard in a long time. ‘ Trev, me brother, agrees, . although his opinions aren’t as reliable because he’s tone deaf , from'blowing the , dog I whistle too much. However, I not being able to appreciate ' the music ; doesn’t seem to 1 worry him too much. He gets < to the pub 'has a . few jugs, J and then slides off his chair I and' falls 'asleep fonder the , s table. I'.keep telling him its a < strange' -place to batch 40 I

winks, but I don’t think he understands. Well, about Daggy and the Dickheads. .Sort of hit the headlines around here awhile back by being featured on the television programme, "Country Calendar.” Now,, to be quite honest it really didn’t show them in a fair light. They were actually working on the farm. I must admit it was a bit of a shock at the time and poor Trev was convinced he was having a nightmare.' > ’ '* . But we soon both got over that when they showed the band practising in the house. The programme didn't seem half as bad then, and it was even better when they were down at the sale yards, you know, pretending to bid for sheep when they didn’t have any money: Made me laugh.

I overheard on the party line last night that the band are on a national campus tour playing to students, with the occasional shows at hotels. I nearly gave the. game away by saying it would be better to put a dosing strip at universities instead of letting the Dickheads play there, but fortunately there was an emergency - Bruce got stuck in an electric fence. Talk about laugh, although his wife was not amused. . Yeah, weir I thought you would like to know that the , Dickheads are playing at the : University of Canterbuiy's ! Student Association building i tomorrow evening, where ■ there is some restriction i about one. ,I.D? between :. couples. They return to play at the Gladstone Tavern, on

Monday and Tuesday. Oh, and another thing, apparently the five farm workers from Taihape have signed a contract with WEA Records to release something called an EP in August. Trev here keeps muttering something about a set designed with flying sheep. I don’t know, the lad’s going around the bend, and I might have to get the .303 and put him out of his misery. If you see Marl? Kennedy (vocals), Paul ' Kennedy (drums), Dan McCartin (lead guitar), Tim McCartin (rhythm guitar) and Neil Mickelson (bass), say hello from me will you. Well, that’s about all the news from up our way. What’s been happening down your end?