The Fun Things
When The Birdmen Fly

«I'm a rock'n'roll kamikaze and you know I die for you /

If you pay the ticket to see me, then I must do what you desire /

The drums are a machine gun and the voice a scream erupting from the throat /

And the guitars sound like chainsaws, I can't wait any longer /

I'm the last of the leather era, put me on a stage and I'll turn into your savage /

I'm the last of the leather era, put me on a stage and for you I'm a savage ...»

For a moment, forget the Radio Birdman, forget the Saints.

They are the Fun Things: along with the Chosen Few, the grungiest representatives of down-under rock.

One EP under their belt, four tracks, two for the punk annals (the first and last), the others "just" exceptional examples of how it was interpreted in kangaroo land. 

Raw delinquency and these are the pieces of evidence:

When The Birdmen Fly

Lipstick

(I Ain't Got) Time Enough For Love

Savage

Now, you can return to the Radio Birdman and the Saints: they are the instigators.

The former instigate the form.

Guitarist Brad Shepherd (future Hoodoo Gurus) recounts the epiphany on the road to Sydney: «There was a picture of this group. The singer had white hair down to the crack of his ass, black makeup dripping down his face, lurex gloves up to the elbow, and a snakeskin shirt. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen ...». You guessed it, the deity that appeared in such form was Him, the new Christ Rob Younger.

The latter instigate the substance.

In 1980, when the EP is released, the Saints - those of «(I'm) Stranded» - are dead and buried. The Fun Things are grave robbers who exhume that sound, but forget to make it presentable and leave nauseating traces on any stage they tread.

Brad Shepherd, Graeme Beavis, John Hartley, and Murray Shepherd: beings somehow surviving extinction, witnesses of an ancestral era, the one wherein the birdmen flew.

And it's thanks to creatures like these that the birdmen will continue to fly ...

PS: MARYPOLLY, a promise is a debt. You chose the participations; I choose the feedback of «Savage» as the background for your entrance and IMASOULMAN and GNAGNERA as witnesses ...