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| RTU co-director
Sean Anderson's digital effigy stands awash
in the Southern Hemisphere's bright summer
light outside the Bondi Pavilion and in front
of the Gooney Bird, where tickets to Live Bait
events could be purchased. The Gooney Bird
was a welded chimera made from a DC3 airplane
and an old Chevy truck. Sean himself was back
in unseasonably cold Kentucky, feebly
repressing his anger at not being able to
attend. Sean's effigy, on the other hand,
made many friends, enjoyed kangaroo jerky and
spent hours watching the sunbathers on the
topless Bondi Beach, eventually returning to
the US with a bad sunburn. |
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| The Ukulele Land
concert audience applauds enthusiastically in
the pavilion's Seagull Room. This being the
first ukulele-specific event in Australia in
recent memory and perhaps ever, the crowd was
much larger than expected. Festival
organizers had to scramble as the doors
opened to supply the room with more chairs--a
lot more chairs. The turnout was
largely due to the many radio interviews
lined up during the week by Ukulele Land's
creator, Rose Turtle Ertler, the Electrik Ukulele Lady. Bill
got to do two radio spots--one with Rose and
one with Azo Bell of the Old Spice Boys at the Australian Broadcast
Company. |
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| Ukulele Land
emcee, Jean-Paul Bell, a professional Clown
Doctor and Co-Founder of the Clown Doctors'
mother organization, The Humour Foundation, performs a uke number as Jane of
the Tea Ladies uke duo dances a hula. |
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| The opening act was the hapa
haole band Hoola, led
by husband-and-wife duo Jenny Griffith (on
cow-pattern Fluke) and Graham Griffith (on
slide guitar). |
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