User:Thesickthings

The Sick Things were a punk/Harcore, band that met at a dingy little rehearsal room in Preston Melbourne Australia.I was the first drummer in the band and this page is being put together by me.To the best of my knowledge i will try to keep the dates and times correct.Around 1980 or 81 i was working at Doug Saunders Sound Studios in Melbourne. Doug had not long opened up the studio and was putting it together bit by bit.One day while walking home from school i dropped in and asked him for a job. Not actualy knowing what i was doing,only that i knew i wanted to work in the music industry,i boldy said "i would like a job in here please.".He looked at me kinda strange as he always did and said "well i cant pay you to much money but i can teach you about the recording studio" that he was building in the back room. So off i went home to mum and told her i was leaving school. I cant remember how long after i started there that i met the band but one day while sitting in the office waiting for the bands to turn up, in walked a bunch of fellas and a couple of chicks. These guys were unreal. Scruffy looking but very polite and well mannered. Anyway they set up in the front room and as it happened the other band didnt turn up. Now i was a cocky young bloke and realised that they were missing a drummer so i opened the door and offered myself as a drummer for the rehearsal. Well to cut a long story short THE SICK THINGS were formed. The Sick Things were not the first harcore punk band in Australia im sure but we came along at a good time when there wasnt to much of that kind of music around. So we rehearsed and rehearsed and we got our fist gig at a school in Dandenong. It was outrageous. I remember traveling in Micks little car, but i dont know how all the gear got there.