{"id":1154,"date":"2010-08-30T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2010-08-30T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T03:13:22","slug":"peter-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Peter Brown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1156\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1156\" title=\"Tim - addressing the music lovers at The Corner Hotel, 28.08.10.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tim.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tim-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tim-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Freedman is looking for a guy name Peter Brown. Have you seen him? He was the band&#8217;s unofficial astrologer in the early 90&#8217;s, when he&#8217;d turn up to band practice and tell <a title=\"The Whitlams!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhitlams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Whitlams<\/a> members their fortune.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve figured, I&#8217;m a bit of a fan of &#8216;ole Timmy here, so when he announced that he&#8217;d be doing one last circuit of the country before splitting up the band, I had to go, for old times sake. Lucky for me, and all precious the memories I hold of listening to his music and going to his gigs, he&#8217;s still got it\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAs has Jak, the guitarist [pictured right], so my youngest sister tells me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1155\" href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1155\" title=\"set list - The Whitlams 28.08.10 - not mine I'm afraid...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/set-list-140x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/08\/set-list-140x300.jpg 140w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/08\/set-list.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was more than a little strange to be bopping around the place to a band that I fell in love with as a teenager, and first saw live almost 13 years ago. But when it comes to performing (even after a day at the Caulfield Races, and a couple of bottles of wine on stage) Tim, with Jak and Warwick and of course Terepai (anointed King of Tonga by Tim on stage, I wonder how that will make <a title=\"The King of Tonga - a tiny Tiki bar in Elwood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thekingoftonga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a> will feel&#8230; let alone <a title=\"the *actual* King of Tonga\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Tupou_V\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>) was in some of the finest form I&#8217;ve witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>Long live The Whitlams.<br \/>\n(And the King of Tonga)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa went to see The Whitlams&#8230; again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}