True story about my mate Rob Healey who was the keyboard player over two different line ups of our band NO COMMENT in Cairns back in the 80's. I met Rob when I joined a band called Kuta after moving to Cairns from Bundaberg. We formed NO COMMENT and played the venues in Cairns. Rob was a great keyboard player and had a wicked bent sense of humour that matched my own. Every now and then NO COMMENT would invent and perform a comedy skit. I used to do fire eating and fire breathing occasionally and Rob and I both put together comedy skits like the Stalk Taste Test and Luigi the Unbelievable Saw The Bloke In Half skit. We also appeared as a punk band called Fred Puby And The Enemas and be our own support punk band, We had hair dressers who made us punks. Rob had a giant safety pin that looked like it went in one ear and out the other. The performance would culminate in me hanging myself by the neck (or so it looked like to the audience). We had a lot of fun in that band. Rob was also in the band when the nightclub we had set up to play in was firebombed the night before our first gig there. Luckily Rob had not set up his expensive keyboards when we set up the rest of the gear so his equipment survived. NO COMMENT held the crowd record for the FUN IN THE SUN festival for long time. Mainly because we decided to do the hanging routine and it was advertised so thousands turned out to watch. I had obtained out of date parachute distress flares and we formed a line in front of the stage letting them off at the start of the song Smoke On The Water. A drunk cop was standing next to me holding up a flare that he had pointed right at my head. I reached over and corrected his aim. Had it hit my head it would have killed me. https://rumble.com/v796feo-mr-healeys-keys.html
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