The Valley of Ewen
18.6.08 - Brenden Mason popped up on my doorstep this morning, thrust a disc into my hand and fled back to Real Guitars. So, here it is at last for your viewing pleasure, featuring quite a bit of me as it turns out, as well as the fiddle-playing Lance O'Reilly. If you want to see this clip, and any of the others on this page for that matter, in its pristine condition, go to our site on YouTube

Rocket Girl - the sequel
3.4.08 - For whatever reason, this never got shown at the Capers' launch. Which is a shame, 'cause I think it's funny. Well done Mazz! For better quality, go to Mazz's YouTube site

Mike on Wrokdown
14.2.08 - Wendy Stapleton does her best with Rambling Mike Rudd, but he just rambles on and on till the collective snoring almost drowns out the interview. Anita Monk's worthy agenda with Wrokdown is to track the latter-day careers of active musicians and artists from the sixties and seventies and apprise the great unwashed of the same. This particular episode has been shown twice on Channel 31 and may even have helped our crowds (Wendy played the previous Sunday) at the Mordialloc Sporting Club. Or not..

Chants R&B on TV3
9.12.07 - Miranda Worthington read my bit in the Chants R&B diaries where I said I'd not seen the TV3 interview with Trev and me and didn't know whether it actually had seen the light of day. Mazz saw it first by accident when it was initially re-broadcast on Foxtel, and then discovered it on YouTube. So, here it is, complete with their mistakenly identifiying me as Mike Judd. (They love a musical dynasty in NZ). Thanks Mazz!

'But That's All Right' at the Ormond Hall Reunion
10.10.07 - I popped over to The Substitutes' Peter Summers' place in Canterbury last night and we spent a very pleasant couple of hours chatting about this, that and the other. Peter had some footage from the Ormond Hall Reunion gig on Saturday night, including the song he provoked me into revisiting, But That's All Right, which he was happy to share with this site. The band gets a glimpse of Hugh McSpedden's lightshow at last!! You should check out The Subs' site, and if you're a '60s British music fan, I'd recommend that you go and check out a Subs live gig somewhere soon..

Rocket Girl
17.7.07 - I haven't got time for this - how do you people do it? Anyway, it's here - and there (on YouTube) - the live studio nucleus of the clip that will eventually get to air on the Music Box show on Channel 31.
It's meant to look a little bit GTK, hence it's shot in B&W, and because the track remains basically unmixed, it manages to sound pretty live - and it looks it too - until near the end where the synch slips out a bit.
I think all the Music Box girls and boys, led by Miranda Worthington, have done a fantastic job so far.
As I said, I haven't got time for this - I'll expand at some later date.

San Andreas at the 'Sheaf
Michael Hunter politely requested to shoot some video at our recent (Queen's Birthday Monday June 2007) performance at the Wheatsheaf in Adelaide. I'm sure Michael reckoned on there being some light in the room, (there wasn't), so the band is reduced to lumps of red plasma floating on an undistinguished black background. Still, it's a good listen - check out the Pump's sinuous slide figures throughout.

Mike and Bill's Music Box interview
If I haven't told you already, the Music Box team from the Deakin campus have undertaken to do a clip for us. The song is Rocket Girl from the new Spectrum album, Breathing Space, and Mike and Bill are seen here answering some questions about the clip in a film-within-a-film moment made possible by the Music Box people rashly supplying us with a camera. The sound is pretty ordinary, but I think you'll get the gist of it. I'm in the process of re-editing this clip using an Adobe program, which I'm assured will be ultimately a worthwhile exercise.

ICANS - Mike and Dick's entrant in the Pigdon Five-minute Film Festival
It didn't win the Oscar, but I believe that it won a lot of friends in the audience on the night. Unfortunately, owing to a prior commitment at the Wild Thyme Café I couldn't be there, but Dick said his daughter Elizabeth wasn't actually embarrassed by it, so he's deliriously happy. Incidentally, we owe a debt of thanks to Bill Dettmer, who added to the reality and drama of the crucial opening scene by loaning us his ambulance - and himself.

Bill's Zippo Blues
Everytbody loves Bill, and everybody seems to love this clip! This is Bill's unique contribution to the world of advertising - the Zippo people actually like this a lot. Our mate Brenden Mason deserves a gong for producing the clip, and putting the finishing touches on the recording - not to mention putting up with Bill.