Cops ruled the streets and many fled to Sydney. Lindy Morrison stayed to vent anger in all-female punk band Zero
In 1977 and ’78 I was living in a Queenslander on Auchenflower Terrace opposite the railway station, in a sharehouse with creative types. Next door was a bunch of guys who played UK punk relentlessly; one of them, John Hoey (later in Died Pretty) would drop in with the most recent recordings. He’d shake up Jim Dixon (Survivors, Radio Birdman), whose room was on the closed veranda outside mine. Jim spun Kinks singles endlessly on the turntable.
I played in lounge rooms with a female jazz group called Shrew: piano, double bass, saxophone and flute. I was also acting, touring Queensland in two iconic theatre companies: The Grin and Tonic and the Popular Theatre Troupe. I was torn between the world of drums and theatre, and managed to pull the drums into some of the stage shows.
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