I went to Oil gigs, different places. The Oils were "our pub band" in Newcastle/gosford/northern Sydney. I remeber the early days. I'm an old man now so The Oils must be older too. We had to wait a fair while for the first LP. I played it to death. "Koala Sprint" etc. It was very well produced we thought. It was exactly the sound they had on stage. There was an earlier EP but I never saw it anywhere. PG would throw sweat on the front 3 or 4 rows. He used to drown in sweat he was so manic on stage. He would chuck lollies or Oil's buttons into the "crowd" (100-200) as well. The top of the bill at that time was Cold Chisel. Later on I went to a Oil's new year's eve gig where they were top of the bill. The second on the bill was INXS and the first warm up act was Mental As Anything who got slow clapped etc, they were starting out. 77 or 78 or 79, I lost track. I do remember the Oil's pushing "death to disco" (we were so happy when Xanadu tanked too).
The '83 album "10,9,8,7" etc was the end for us. The Oils "sold out" their pub base and actually made a promo-video and were then showing up on TV which they had avoided so hard for so long; it was when they didn't want any fame or bull**** gigs and fans and stuff. They rejected "the biz" and the marketing guys outright. And big crowds too ; it was like when Dylan treated his audience as not so important and just did music he was into.
