MICK NADIN'S ON THE LOOKOUT FOR 'CATHCART JOHNNY'

About 60 ks up the back road from Pambula to the high country ski fields is a little town called Cathcart.

Perhaps Cathcart's most talked about character is a fella most folks call Cathcart Johnny.

Little is actually known about him. He's very reclusive. 'Spite of that, Cathcart Johnny is a local legend.

People spot him walking along Mt. Darragh Road. Rumour has it he lives in a hollow log up near the top of Big Jack Mountain and walks to the Cathcart store to collect his goodies from time to time. 

Story goes the Cathcart community gave him a caravan but he prefers his log.

His long black coat, black trousers and boots never seem to change, despite the extremes of weather up the top of the range.

That's about all we know.

PBGB loves producing songs about local people and places. We were stoked when Mick told us he had written a song about Cathcart Johnny. 

We kicked it about, performed it at the Merimbula Classic, then took it back to The Shed and turned on the recorder. 

Take a listen......click  HERE

Mick Nadin wrote the song, sang it, and played Harp.

Steve Faggotter played Lead Guitar

Al Noble played Guitar

Louise Nadin played Bass

Pete played Drums

Neil Porter Produced.

Anyone seen our friend ?

SOMETIMES AL NOBLE FEELS LIKE A CAVE MAN !!

Towards the end of 2018 we started kicking around a song Al had dragged out of his kit bag. He called it 'Cave Man' and he wanted us to get down and dirty with it.

We think words like sludge, grunge, gritty and nasty best describe the feel Al was after. Al steered us towards the Trogg's version of Wild Thing as a guide. He wanted it to sound loose. Sort of sounds that might well come up best after a bottle of bourbon or two. You know, just enough to take the edge off.

Essentially Cave Man is an alpha male song that has no place in the 21st century.................talkin' 'bout the sort of feelings a totally unreconstructed Neanderthal might sense creeping up on him when sitting across the fire from a woman draped in a leopard skin.  "Waaaah !!  Come with me to the cavern of love baby......we can jump all around........ I got a PhD in primitive love !! "  You know, basic instincts.

We got  Manny to get out all his grungy trick toys and turn them all on at once. Volume 11 please Manny.

It's probably true to say that we actually spent more time roughing this song up than polishing it.

Click HERE to have a listen.

Al Noble wrote the song, played guitar, and sang it.

Manny Aigner played the lead guitar

Steve Faggotter played electric rhythm guitar

Mick Nadin blew the harp

Graham Brown played percussion

Neil Porter played the bass and did the production

Pete played the drums