Radio Ballads

Women with Guns Why would a Colonial Woman want a gun?
Often for the same reason that any woman wants a gun - to shoot a man. Join the Dingo's Breakfast with a host of Special Guests, in another of their Slightly Off the Wall Radio Ballads, “Women With Guns”. Another telling story disputing the myth that “there were no women in Australia before 1901, excepting for two whores and Caroline Chilsholm.”* Let us tell you, there were a lot more, and they were quite marvellous, and they needed guns. Let us tell you . . .
*from Desmond McPorcine's “Book of Slaps”

Drowning in Lunatic Soup
Uncle Jimbo's History of Australia (Part 3) Drowning in Lunatic Soup cranks up during the Great Depression, rock and rolls into and out of several wars stranded in the incognitant 90's. Join us to be dragged along in the foaming wake of the Jimbo and Murphy clans as they view the world with a jaundiced eye of the well read working class or from the bottom of a glass. A light black look at a once egalitarian Australia now swiftly receding beneath a welter of irrational globalization.

Over Here, Over There The barrage of propaganda that Australians faced at the outbreak of the First World War was tremendous. The brutal Hun, pillager, rapist and baby eater was just over the hill and about to invade, there were mobs of spies already living here and if you didn't sign up for battle you were obviously an arrant coward. Our leaders flag-waved, exhorted and threatened us with the end of the World as we knew it, white feathers were handed out, and so away we marched . . 'and why not, it would all be over by Christmas !! '

Mad Dan Morgan A fierce, bleak comedic tale of a very mad, extremely bad bushranger. Daniel Morgan was a colourful lunatic with a prediliction for mayhem.. Couple this with a vengeful streak, half a mile wide and the result was fatal for not a few colonial, especially if you were into the then Law and Ordure.

Floggers R Us Judicially mandated slavery in colonial Australia. (Heinous)

Year of the Angry Rabbit From Myxo to Calisi to ???. Traces the history of the Rabbit in Australia. This project came into being after reading Russel Braddon's horrifying, whimsical novel 'The Year of the Angry Rabbit'. Once the bunnies develop a resistance to Calisi, what next?. Do we emulate the characters in his novel and go nuclear or what ?

Off Our Selection A collection of the Dingoes favourite songs strung together with a brilliantly witty dialogue..an example is this sample from the intro to the song 'The Brisbane Line' . . '... but no dafter than that half-arsed plan formulated by a gaggle of generals and backed by that dreadful pommie-o-phile, Pig Iron Bob aka Ming the Merciless aka Sir Robert 'I-Did- But-See-her-Standing-There' Menzies . . the dipsticks' plan was to give over half of Australia to the enemy. Whilst most of Oz thought this a barmy idea, Ming and his cohorts thought it a bottler. Fortunately Mad Dog McArthur also thought it a barmy idea.

The Very First Goon Show
of Them All Found in the chest cavity of an odd sea dog of the Mulligan family was a manuscript. It told the real true blue dinkum story behind Capatain Governor Bligh and his feud with John McCarthur. Of three bold comrades-in-chains (guess who folks) who join forces with jovial Capatain Governor Bligh to rout that capitalist running dog of a pommie sea cook, the aforementioned McCarfur, who is actually a pawn in the game hosted by the evil Honourable Stilson-Slim and his ferociously accented henchman, that Right Count Camembert Moronarty MC & IQ79, and their cunning plan to flog off Oz to the Russians, or the French . .or anyone.

Goondyne Joe Tells the real story behind Goondyne Joe (alias Noddy Seizedgroin) a big-girls-blouse of a bushranger and his two bold comrades in chains (guess who, folks) who joined forces as they battle against corruption, nepotism and knee rust in the fledgling West Australian colony.

Moondyne Joe The story of West Australias most famous bushranger and escapologist. A welsh transportee (knicked a loaf of bread, some cheese and some bacon!) who took it upon himself to fight a prolonged battle with corruption, nepotism and distrust. A good man turned gooder despite an ugly government's attempts to bring him down.

Tiger Princes of Oz Some of the largest shearing contracting gangs in Australia came out of the Toodyay area. These gangs of up to fifty folk travelled to the huge shearing sheds of the North West. The Murchison and Gascoyne runs carried up to 100,000 sheep and the sheds held forty stands. Tommy Fleay, gun shearer, from a family of shearers summed up the hardship in one sentence . . 'the sight of burly shearers crawling on hands and knees to the catching pens at the end of the day, to drag themselves upright, was an unedifying sight....'

The Life & Times of Jack Sorensen
W.A.'s Forgotten Bard Down a minor road at the back of the once booming railway town of Midland lies the grave of Western Australia's forgotten poet. A simple headstone bears the inscription...
Jack Sorensen 1906-1947..Weaver of Dreams,Farewell.
So begins the story of the life and times of Jack Sorensen. Poet, orchardist, shearer, wool-classer, boxing champion, journalist and soldier.

Bad, Sometime Brutal Days
for Bruce Set in the late Seventies, Bruce can be seen reeling from countless Sunday Sessions across the land, sometimes with a desperate woman in tow but more often than not, with his like-minded mates. See him aimlessly engaged in a constant round of parties, pregnancies, loathsomely futile marriages with domestic violence the norm. Drifting from mate to mate, state to state, he heads inexorably ever downwards. Bepaunched, watery-eyed, big-mouthed, he slouches his way through life with all the grace of an impaled toad. Marrying at an early age, Bruce and Sheila, with their offspring 'Jellybean', (‘cos of the shape of his head you know) head Westward with high hopes gilding their flimsy ambitions. We follow Bruce down his days, to his inevitably awful end with a heavily medicated ignominious finale played out in one of Her Majesty’ Lunatic Asylums.

Turbulent Times in
Western Australia's
Great North-West. An overview of one of Australia's last great frontiers. Using traditional and contemporary poetry, the latter collected from the mining communities of Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Newman, Panawonnica and the port towns of Hedland, Dampier and the like, plus songs and a short story or two. Tales from the horses mouth, of and from hardy pioneers, of whom many are still breaking new ground in this incredibly rugged and isolated area.

Goldfield Chinese The gold rushes in Australia encouraged a plethora of races to descend upon the land of Oz to try their luck. The Americans, Europeans and Poms were bearable, but not so those Chinese. Extremely industrious, the early Yellow Peril attracted a lot of opprobrium. They worked the creeks and gullies until nothing of value remained, they came in behind the white colonials and found as much gold as the previous miners taken on their drive through, and to compound this, in the main they kept to themselves. This won them little in the colonial popularity stakes. Living in interesting times indeedy !

Songs of Love and Suchlike Foolishness In which we dissect the many forms of being in Love. It can come in many guises and is a very serious business. Dark Love, Unrequited Love, Love of Self, Utterly Hopeless Love, Love of Money, Sex, Drugs or Rock'n'Roll. All is explained, in a not very explicit fashion.

Trucking Through From punching your way through the Mulga in a Chevvy grasshopper to three trailers up on a road train, 'Trucking Through' tells the history of the road transport industry in Western Australia. Tales from the Ticket of Leavers, those road builders who became the first transporters for the fledgling colony. These doughty folk became Bold faced Men, husbands to Truckers' Wives, Hawkers, Overnighters, there is even a lament from the City Trucker.

Wayang Kelly What happens when a couple of Indonesian gods come over to Australia in the eighteen hundreds to find out who the great heroes of our young nation are. They meet up with the Kelly Gang and share stories and experiences. They also share traditional songs. Written by Mike Burns and Roger Montgomery. Performed at various Oz venues and in Surabaya with a full gamelan orchestra and a scratch Aussie Bush Band. Very interesting.

Created by TwoBob Productions

Women with Guns	Why would a Colonial Woman want a gun? Often for the same reason that any woman wants a gun - to shoot a man. Join the Dingo's Breakfast with a host of Special Guests, in another of their Slightly Off the Wall Radio Ballads, “Women With Guns”. Another telling story disputing the myth that “there were no women in Australia before 1901, excepting for two whores and Caroline Chilsholm.”* Let us tell you, there were a lot more, and they were quite marvellous, and they needed guns. Let us tell you . . . *from Desmond McPorcine's “Book of Slaps”
Drowning in Lunatic Soup Uncle Jimbo's History of Australia (Part 3)	Drowning in Lunatic Soup cranks up during the Great Depression, rock and rolls into and out of several wars stranded in the incognitant 90's. Join us to be dragged along in the foaming wake of the Jimbo and Murphy clans as they view the world with a jaundiced eye of the well read working class or from the bottom of a glass. A light black look at a once egalitarian Australia now swiftly receding beneath a welter of irrational globalization.
Over Here, Over There	The barrage of propaganda that Australians faced at the outbreak of the First World War was tremendous. The brutal Hun, pillager, rapist and baby eater was just over the hill and about to invade, there were mobs of spies already living here and if you didn't sign up for battle you were obviously an arrant coward. Our leaders flag-waved, exhorted and threatened us with the end of the World as we knew it, white feathers were handed out, and so away we marched . . 'and why not, it would all be over by Christmas !! '
Mad Dan Morgan	A fierce, bleak comedic tale of a very mad, extremely bad bushranger. Daniel Morgan was a colourful lunatic with a prediliction for mayhem.. Couple this with a vengeful streak, half a mile wide and the result was fatal for not a few colonial, especially if you were into the then Law and Ordure.
Floggers R Us	Judicially mandated slavery in colonial Australia. (Heinous)
Year of the Angry Rabbit	From Myxo to Calisi to ???. Traces the history of the Rabbit in Australia. This project came into being after reading Russel Braddon's horrifying, whimsical novel 'The Year of the Angry Rabbit'. Once the bunnies develop a resistance to Calisi, what next?. Do we emulate the characters in his novel and go nuclear or what ?
Off Our Selection	A collection of the Dingoes favourite songs strung together with a brilliantly witty dialogue..an example is this sample from the intro to the song 'The Brisbane Line' . . '... but no dafter than that half-arsed plan formulated by a gaggle of generals and backed by that dreadful pommie-o-phile, Pig Iron Bob aka Ming the Merciless aka Sir Robert 'I-Did- But-See-her-Standing-There' Menzies . . the dipsticks' plan was to give over half of Australia to the enemy. Whilst most of Oz thought this a barmy idea, Ming and his cohorts thought it a bottler. Fortunately Mad Dog McArthur also thought it a barmy idea.
The Very First Goon Show of Them All	Found in the chest cavity of an odd sea dog of the Mulligan family was a manuscript. It told the real true blue dinkum story behind Capatain Governor Bligh and his feud with John McCarthur. Of three bold comrades-in-chains (guess who folks) who join forces with jovial Capatain Governor Bligh to rout that capitalist running dog of a pommie sea cook, the aforementioned McCarfur, who is actually a pawn in the game hosted by the evil Honourable Stilson-Slim and his ferociously accented henchman, that Right Count Camembert Moronarty MC & IQ79, and their cunning plan to flog off Oz to the Russians, or the French . .or anyone.
Goondyne Joe	Tells the real story behind Goondyne Joe (alias Noddy Seizedgroin) a big-girls-blouse of a bushranger and his two bold comrades in chains (guess who, folks) who joined forces as they battle against corruption, nepotism and knee rust in the fledgling West Australian colony.
Moondyne Joe	The story of West Australias most famous bushranger and escapologist. A welsh transportee (knicked a loaf of bread, some cheese and some bacon!) who took it upon himself to fight a prolonged battle with corruption, nepotism and distrust. A good man turned gooder despite an ugly government's attempts to bring him down.
Tiger Princes of Oz	Some of the largest shearing contracting gangs in Australia came out of the Toodyay area. These gangs of up to fifty folk travelled to the huge shearing sheds of the North West. The Murchison and Gascoyne runs carried up to 100,000 sheep and the sheds held forty stands. Tommy Fleay, gun shearer, from a family of shearers summed up the hardship in one sentence . . 'the sight of burly shearers crawling on hands and knees to the catching pens at the end of the day, to drag themselves upright, was an unedifying sight....'
The Life & Times of Jack Sorensen W.A.'s Forgotten Bard	Down a minor road at the back of the once booming railway town of Midland lies the grave of Western Australia's forgotten poet. A simple headstone bears the inscription... Jack Sorensen 1906-1947..Weaver of Dreams,Farewell. So begins the story of the life and times of Jack Sorensen. Poet, orchardist, shearer, wool-classer, boxing champion, journalist and soldier.
Bad, Sometime Brutal Days for Bruce	Set in the late Seventies, Bruce can be seen reeling from countless Sunday Sessions across the land, sometimes with a desperate woman in tow but more often than not, with his like-minded mates. See him aimlessly engaged in a constant round of parties, pregnancies, loathsomely futile marriages with domestic violence the norm. Drifting from mate to mate, state to state, he heads inexorably ever downwards. Bepaunched, watery-eyed, big-mouthed, he slouches his way through life with all the grace of an impaled toad. Marrying at an early age, Bruce and Sheila, with their offspring 'Jellybean', (‘cos of the shape of his head you know) head Westward with high hopes gilding their flimsy ambitions. We follow Bruce down his days, to his inevitably awful end with a heavily medicated ignominious finale played out in one of Her Majesty’ Lunatic Asylums.
Turbulent Times in Western Australia's Great North-West.	An overview of one of Australia's last great frontiers. Using traditional and contemporary poetry, the latter collected from the mining communities of Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Newman, Panawonnica and the port towns of Hedland, Dampier and the like, plus songs and a short story or two. Tales from the horses mouth, of and from hardy pioneers, of whom many are still breaking new ground in this incredibly rugged and isolated area.
Goldfield Chinese	The gold rushes in Australia encouraged a plethora of races to descend upon the land of Oz to try their luck. The Americans, Europeans and Poms were bearable, but not so those Chinese. Extremely industrious, the early Yellow Peril attracted a lot of opprobrium. They worked the creeks and gullies until nothing of value remained, they came in behind the white colonials and found as much gold as the previous miners taken on their drive through, and to compound this, in the main they kept to themselves. This won them little in the colonial popularity stakes. Living in interesting times indeedy !
Songs of Love and Suchlike Foolishness	In which we dissect the many forms of being in Love. It can come in many guises and is a very serious business. Dark Love, Unrequited Love, Love of Self, Utterly Hopeless Love, Love of Money, Sex, Drugs or Rock'n'Roll. All is explained, in a not very explicit fashion.
Trucking Through	From punching your way through the Mulga in a Chevvy grasshopper to three trailers up on a road train, 'Trucking Through' tells the history of the road transport industry in Western Australia. Tales from the Ticket of Leavers, those road builders who became the first transporters for the fledgling colony. These doughty folk became Bold faced Men, husbands to Truckers' Wives, Hawkers, Overnighters, there is even a lament from the City Trucker.
Wayang Kelly	What happens when a couple of Indonesian gods come over to Australia in the eighteen hundreds to find out who the great heroes of our young nation are. They meet up with the Kelly Gang and share stories and experiences. They also share traditional songs. Written by Mike Burns and Roger Montgomery. Performed at various Oz venues and in Surabaya with a full gamelan orchestra and a scratch Aussie Bush Band. Very interesting.