
Originally Posted by
dave.king1
None of the crims were behind bars, at the men's jail we were on a stage about a foot high and could literally touch the front row of the audience.
At the girl's home the stage was about shoulder high and they had cafeteria chairs thrown in a jumbled heap about 10 feet wide right across the room, sort of like a tank trap for humans, they were deadly serious about keeping the girls away from the male performers.
Both jail experiences were brilliant.
We also played at a bikers pub in Oxford Square before that part of Sydney became LGBT and had a pub full of Gypsy Jokers at the Tropicana one night. Oxford Square show was very friendly but the other one got very violent at the end of the night but only amongst themselves. ( we were paid by the pub not the bikers )
The Tropicana pub at Wilberforce is/was a water skiers drinking hole and we did every second Sunday there for a couple of years, the skiers were a great crowd always full of adrenaline after a day on the water so it really went off