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has been a recent uprising of local ska bands,providing Melbourne with an
up-tempo, very danceable sound. Dicky Moron and the Rudeboys, as the name
suggests, are a ska group, but with their own style, which seperates them
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group; Sir Dicky Moron (Richard)-vocals, Mory 'Aggro'- bass, Rod-guitar,
Robbie 'Buff' Drinkwater-drums and Pete-keyboards, are entering Mark 3 of
Dicky Moron and the Rudeboys. This not only entails a slight change of direction,
but a name change as well. So if you're skanking away to a group called
No Nonsense and they appear vaguely familiar, then you'll know why.
Mark I began in April
`81 with Rod and Richard. Robbie was initiated as drummer and as Rod says,
"We started off just mucking around and writing a few songs. Then we
thought we`d get a bit more serious, we put an ad out and we got Mory through
the ad". The first bass player left for fame and fortune in another
local group, whose name shall be disclosed for embarrassing reasons. "After
that we got pete. I was at a party and he said come around to my place for
a bit of a jam, and I said why don't you come around to our place for a
jam with our ska band".
The band took a definite
ska direction, although at the time of it's inception only Mory and Pete
were into the music, "the rest of us really grew to like it",
claims Rod. Although the new name will be accompanied by a musical change,
their basic style will remain. Rod: "It was all a big test before ('Dicky
Moron') trying out new songs and seeing which songs we'd get sick of first".
Mory: "One of the main changes is looking at the songs. Changing a
few arrangements, maybe kicking out a few and putting in a few new songs.
A lot of the earlier stuff was very amateurish and now that each of the
musicians is getting better we have finally found the direction". Rod:
"It's taken us a while to get it together as a band, but then everyone
starts to settle on one direction". |
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That
direction would be best described as a 'nutty' sound as Mory pointedout,although
they are hardly out to jump on the Madness bandwagon. The groupdo only three
covers at the moment, one of them being a Madness number, 'Deceives the
Eye'. Mory: "Most of our influences come from Bad Manners and Madness,
so we naturally lean towards a sort of Nutty sound". Rod: "That's
the way the songs usually come out when we write them for some reason. They
always seem to come out up-tempo".
The covers are limited
as there is an abundance of songwriters within the group, all racing to
put their own songs in. They play the occasional cover just to please themselves.
Recording
is a prospect in the near future, and the band should have no difficulties
with the amount of prospective recording material. Rod: "If we can
get a sax player and settle down the line-up again, then we're hoping to
record about half way through this year. I think it would be a really good
experience for us to try an do an E.P". Mory: "We've been saving
all the money and we've got enough now to do a demo if we wanted to, but
we'll wait a while before we go to the studio". |
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Both
Rod and Mory are impressed by the recent 'Ska scene' in Melbourne. Mory:
"It's really good because all the bands vary." "I'ts like
a big family", ads Rod. The most notable of these being Big Kids, Strange
tennants and the Eskalators.
Despite the title '....and
the Rudeboys', the members of the group do not claim to be part of the movement.
Mory: "We're nutty boys more than anything." The audience they
attract are diverse which is important, as they don't want to be put in
a category as far as their audiences are concerned. Mory: "That's the
whole thing we are trying to get away from. It's becoming too much like
a fashion parade." |
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