The spontaneously-named AO and BO got down and got back up again to bring some old-school country fiddlin' to town, performing the Mic Conway classic Aussie Country for colleagues at the AOBO end-of-season party 2001. 
Big finish!
"The ukulele, the missing link between music and noise."
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At the 2002 end-of-season party AO and BO sought to entertain their colleagues with a heartfelt ode to life in the partitioned-off brass area within the Opera Theatre pit. My lyrics strove for timeless yet relevant references to brass players reading magazines in their bars' rest, the resident section fishing-nut, (hence the hat-fish), intonation, workloads, etc., The 'new pit in 2004' line is beyond dated, that promise pushed off ever into the future. I wasn't prepared to wait.
LYRICS(To the tune of Singing In The Bathtub)
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Playing in the brass box
Making lots of noise
Feeling kind of tough now,
Just like one of the boys ‘Loud enough for ya?’
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Putting in my earplugs
Got my magazine
Someone’s talking fishing,
All night, or so it seems
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Here come the trumpets,
Each with a different tune,
Here come the trombones,
And the tuba’s gonna come in soon !
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Bonding with my colleagues,
Who could ask for more ?
We’re gonna get a new pit
In two-thousand-and-four !
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Kerazy bebop on the Big Trumpet.
Blow it out your...2003's Orchestra party saw the usual variety of in-joke-laden skits. AO and BO's contribution was a farewell tribute to departing musical director Simone Young. My notion of parodying My Sharona cried out for those killer riffs on electric bass, and my illustrious partner-in-crime swapped violin for something louder.
The back-drop that they DIDN'T have at the North Sydney Bowling Club.
LYRICS
(To the tune of My Sharona)
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1. You tried your hand,
with the band
keeping us in tune and in time, Simona.
We're here to play...
you had to pay
for putting us on the line, Simona.
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CH
Things are getting tense,
hotting up, just a little bit,
All the extra bods,
dressed in black,
sweating in the pit
why why why why why? Woo!
B-b-b-bye, Simona!
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2. Lots of good reviews...
in the news,
yet there's a tear in my eye, Simona?
Was it the way to go?
I don't know… or just more pie-in-the-sky, Simona?
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CH / OUTRO
