I’d driven up from Melbourne, straight through, petrol stops only, ten hours by the time I got through the city.
Bondi.
‘Are you tired?’ Addy said. I lied and said I wasn’t.
‘That’s great. I’ve organised with Alicia and her new boyfriend to go and see Beatfish at Salinas. Liandra and Spacy are coming too.’
‘What’s Beatfish?’
‘Martin Plaza from Mental as Anything and James Freud, they started a new band called Beatfish.’
‘You would have been about ten when the Mentals were big. Who or what put you…’
‘James Freud, babe. That’s why. James Freud.’
‘Same deal. You would have been about ten when the Models were big. Teenage Radio Stars, you would have been in nappies.’
‘Don’t get jealous and don’t feed me that, ‘I was there when’ crap. James Freud is hot.’
‘He’s f*****g gay is what he
