Issue #04 (April, 1988)

After reading the editorial to #4 it seems that we did venture into some advertising. What was the Murderess and I thinking? Was this going to be the start of something big scale? I highly doubt it though I did know at twenty bucks a full page and ten bucks a half, we were the cheapest in town! How else were we going to release more issues, fund compilation cassette (issue 5) and cover costs? Upstairs for thinking and downstairs for very little it seemed, but this was fun. Plus overheads between Denison St, Pemmell St (where The Murderess resided) and Eliza St (where Vicky our layout chief hung) were super cheap. We were all in the same suburb pretty much; Newtown/Enmore and no I am not going to go into any boring dialogue about how things were better in 1988.

Tall Tales and True:

I remember the interview well. The Murderess and I went to Mathew's large terrace in Stanmore for beverages (long necks of VB and Melbourne Bitter were the rage) and chat before heading to a show (could've been industry related as they were gathering traction) that was on at Max's Petersham. Duncan (RIP) was booking shows at the time so it was a pretty packed out mid week thingy and the band were definitely on fire.

From that show on the band were doing gigs all over the country and eventually overseas in Canada and the like. They signed to Roo Art and were the darlings of the music press for some time - I remember their Trust single being spotted on a Phillips ad. For a band that formed in 1983 and continued on until 1995 they certainly experienced a lot; I'd say trials and tribulations but most of all they took it in their stride. Matthew relocated home to Perth sometime back in the late 90s and released two solo albums - he has a facebook artist page here and appeared at a book swaray/launch at the Bassedean in late 2017/early 2018 in a fab outfit called Lazy Horse which disbanded sometime in 2019

The very affable Paul Miskin the TTT bass player has kept rather busy since the band broke up and only recently was playing banjo for a show called the 'Millers Point Songbook', detailing life in Millers Point -a snapshot of Millers Point and this storied neighbourhood.

Following the breakup of TTT, drummer Dave Rasleigh went onto play with the wonderful Jackson Code.

The Cannanes:

Still going strong forty years on, and now up on the Central Coast (Woy Woy to be precise). Sir Hairs (Stephen O'Neil) and Fran Gibson are writing new material and playing more gigs in the last 3 or so years than they did in a few decades after moving to Bendigo for sometime. Their lineup now also features the entirety of local Sydney act Miau

Check out https://www.facebook.com/Cannanes