Lindy Morrison

I was very fortunate in the early '70s to be living in a house with a bunch of actors and musicians in fact, it was an extraordinary house where all sorts of tricks and theatre antics were played out every single day. And there was one room that was a music room, and basically I just started sitting on the drum kit and started playing.

There was a drummer there who lived in that house as well, a guy called Lindsay Arnold. And he kind of taught me quite a bit and had a big influence on me, but it was really the house, it was one of those classic share houses, we were very bohemian, it really had an influence on me to become a creative person.

I went overseas for a couple of years before returning to Brisbane, when I did a couple more years of acting. And I did that for a couple of years before really settling into drums, and probably settling into drums because of the political movements in Brisbane at the time due to the oppression of the Bjelke-Petersen government and punk music. Being such a significant artistic movement, it really affected me, And I just went, oh my God, I wanna do something that's significant.

Jenny was working in those little squares, she was working and you can see it in the portraits. So she, in fact the seating was to take polaroid photos. That's how she did it, so she just sat me down, and took quite a few polaroid photos, and then she worked at a grid system around the photo to paint that. All three portraits were incredible, and we used the portraits on our first album cover, "send me a lullaby".

It was just incredible luck that we got, well, it wasn't so much luck because Jenny and John lived in the same apartment block in Spring Hill that Grant McLennan lived in. So, and they were just around the corner from where Robin and I lived in Spring Hill. So it wasn't such a big shock, or unusual, but we're so lucky because those portraits are just so brilliant. You know, those portraits, she was selling those portraits. This is just extraordinary story, for 50 bucks. And, you know, we were so poor. I can't tell you we had no money, and I really wanted to buy that portrait, and I mentioned it to my family, but they had no conception at all, but in the end, the person she's a partner with, who's an architect, he bought the portraits.

But I'd always been tracking them, I wanted to know where they where I was, you know, and also they would have been split up, which would have been another kind of weird thing if Andrew hadn't bought them. I think I've got that story, right? I mean, I've never checked that story, but I'm pretty sure that story's right.

The colours are really great, you know, I mean, I can't wait to see it again today. It's been a long time since I've seen them and I look so serious and so punk, and I was, I was like that. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Gee whiz. Yeah, look at that. Gee, they're in good nick. God they're really weather proof shit.