So it got its own momentum.”Įverything would fit in the Kingswood. When we started playing on Saturday afternoons at the local pub, people started coming along. We just started jamming and playing each other’s songs. “I met these two guys at the pub, Andy Lewis and Stevie Plunder, who were originally from Canberra,” Freedman recalls. I did seven weeks playing piano in the Sunnyboys, I played piano in The Hummingbirds for about 18 months, just after they released loveBUZZ.”Ī fortuitous, drunken meeting – which Freedman has previously stated happened at the Big Day Out, even though the men already knew each other from the scene – gave the artist a different musical avenue to explore. You’ve gotta convince people they’re going somewhere, which is all just snake oil. When there’s no money, you’ve gotta do it with hope. And just trying to corral drummers, trying to keep a band together. I got used to booking gigs, going to pubs asking if they’d put a band on. “I was in another band called Penguins On Safari…. ![]() I’d already been in about 25 bands,” frontman Tim Freedman tells Double J. ![]() “The Whitlams kicked off in around ’92, so I was about 28. But this band was no overnight success story. For many Australians, Sydney’s The Whitlams just appeared out of nowhere.
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