Meeting Meanies

Interviewed Wal and Link of cult Aussie rockers The Meanies for work. A pleasure. One of the group's best known songs is "10% Weird". Assuming it applies to them, that leaves 2% ego and 88% likeability, by my calculations. The Meanies are promoting a new DVD that documents their 17-year history and includes a concert filmed in 1994 at Newcastle University's Bar On The Hill. Wish I could have told them I was there, but I think I may been on a break from my degree at the time. I was also yet to discover the sheer joy of watching a talented band "going off" in a confined space that serves cheap beer.