It’s been forty years since Australian rock legends, Le HooDoo Gurus, joined forces and their frontman, Dave Faulkner, is releasing a mini-documentary to mark the occasion.
It was December 31st, 1980 when Dave Faulkner, Kimble Rendall, and Roddy Radalj met at a fateful New Years’ Eve party and joined with James Baker to form Le Hoodoo Gurus. The band was originally made up of a singer, drummer, and two guitarists – without a bassist, they had a unique sound, which was captured on their first single ‘Leilani’.
Throughout the years, band members came and went and the whole story of Le HooDoo Gurus plays out in the thirty-seven-minute documentary. The doco named “Homemade” and presented by Dave Faulkner will be available to view for free on the group’s YouTube channel for just thirty-six hours, beginning at 10:00am AEDT, Thursday, Dec 31st.
Faulkner announced the news this morning on the Le Hoodoo Guru’s Facebook page, “To mark the (anniversary of) the occasion I have put together a 37 minute documentary talking about that night we first got the idea of playing together and some other stories from the early days of the band,” he posted.
“I say “documentary” but I’m using the term very loosely: it’s really just a couple of Zoom conversations I had with Kimble and Rod, firstly, and then James a week later (James was unable to join us all for the first one). I intercut those two Zoom chats together and tried to piece together the story of the band during those heady days of 1981 and ’82.
“It’s a bit long-winded in places but, hell, it’s free and it’s the unvarnished truth – or as best as we can remember it. I’m going to put it up on YouTube at around 10 PM AEST (and I’ll post the link here). I’ll leave it up for 36 hours so that, wherever you are in the world, you can relive that New Year’s Eve with us from 40 years ago as we all get ready for the arrival of 2021.”
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