Doug Anthony All Stars on Rock Til Dawn from Dickson circa 1984

The interviewer is on something called smug – a drug commonly used by baby boomers even to this day.

According to the Wikipedia entry, which helpfully has a para entitled ‘The Early Years’, this would be 1986, probably shortly after the Adelaide Fringe Festival of that year if you listen to the Q and A.

DAAS should be on ‘Like Canberra’! Actually, come to think of it, no. DAAS, like RiotACT, are too classy for the technicolour yawn that is that ghastly website.

Ahh the memories, it was shot in the canteen at CTC-7 in Watson, great night, great crew, great times, when local production was supported and encouraged by the station management and owner. The Doug’s were starting out and still ‘local boys’.

Is there a date on the printed material on the table, able to be made out by those of sound eye and computer?

It would be 1985 or ’86. Rock Till Dawn was a locally-produced music video program on CTC7 (then called Capital 7) which was Canberra’s only commercial TV station at the time. Stations in the major capitals had been screening all-night music video shows such as Music Video and Nightmoves for a few years. This was before the ABC’s Rage which began 1987.

I’m fairly sure Rock Till Dawn didn’t begin until 1985. I used to watch it when I was studying at CCAE (now Uni of Canberra) in 1986. Unfortunately this clip does not include the RTD font which gave song title and artiste because if it did I could pick the air date immediately. During 1985 the program used a red and white running writing font, whilst in 1986 that was changed to something resembling Century Gothic.

They had food machines in ’84?

johnboy said :

Certainly looks like Dicko, but I don’t remember an area looking like that (and as a kid I was there a lot).

Maybe the Dickson Gardens professional buildings across the road?

Where they now hold jazz upstairs. And some of the aficionados have perms and jumpers much like those of this host in 1984…Perhaps even the same jumper.

johnboy said :

I love how rocking ’till dawn circa 194 in canberra involved a collared shirt, wooly jumper, and blow wave perm.

he would have got all the laydeez in the Private Bin with that too.

That flannie he is sporting under his jumper should have been out and proud (untucked) so he could score with the ladies at either the Rose & Crown or Blind beggars- not the Bin..That was all acid wash and skinny ties.

That was filmed at the Dickson library, from the looks of things?

What the f*** is the interviewer on??

AMAZING!!!!