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Dave Warner's from the Suburbs revisit Mug's Game in its entirety for one night only in Sydney.
Released at the end of 1978, Dave Warner’s from the Suburbs album Mugs Game was the definitive Australian album of the era, striking such a chord with the ignored kids of Australia’s suburbs, that it rocketed up the charts and went gold within three months.
Around this time on his Rolling Thunder Tour, Bob Dylan declared Dave Warner, along with Richard Clapton, as his favourite Australian artist. But a year and one album later, tired of life on the road and looking for new challenges, that Suburbs line-up split.
'We’d had enough of one another and the whole deal of touring,’ says Warner. `Unlike virtually every other band of the time, we were still based in Perth and six-week tours were a long, hard slog. Besides, Tony (Durant) wanted to go back to England and John (Dennison) wanted to go to film school. Johnny Leopard wanted a break.’
Though the members went their separate ways – only drummer Howie Johnstone staying to tour with Dave on his next two albums – the band members remained best friends. Dave and Johnny Leopard began doing comedy revues and started writing TV ideas, Tony returned and has been playing with Dave on and off for the last twenty years.
Now, with the exception of Johnny who died in 2005, all the members of the band who recorded Mugs Game are heading back on the road for a short reunion tour. There will also be a vinyl re-issue of the original album with an extra album of early, unreleased material from 1976 and 1977.
Dave said the idea would be to celebrate Mugs Game by playing every track on the album. `Suburban Boy was the single and the hit from the album but in those days, people didn’t buy singles if they were getting the album. Convict Streak and Mugs Game were equally well loved and known. Oklahoma and Campus Days are very personal songs that suburban kids of my era related to. Eve of Destruction, a rare cover, was as good a version as anyone has ever done, apart from the original.’
But there are only eight tracks as Mugs Game, more material was needed for a tour. Warner decided to add his 2017 album WHEN as it contained some very early Suburbs tracks the line-up played but that had never been officially released.
As for Mugs Game, the characters Warner created are embedded in the consciousness of anybody who ever heard that song.
`Sure, we’re multi-cultural now and people don’t go to pubs to see bands like they used to. But a Derek is still a Derek, and a Sandra is still a Sandra. Young kids get it.’
After all, forty years on not that much has changed – it is still … a Mugs Game.
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