And Now For Something Completely Different in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia | Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant

And Now For Something Completely Different

Locality: Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: 412 3347

Address: 5 1/4 Brown Street 2067 Chatswood, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent.com/

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24.01.2022 Recently, I had a whole bunch of people come & visit for a few daze and we all ran around with cameras & lights (under the very able direction of the wonderful ...Aer Agrey) and shot a bunch of footage which I've now edited into a video clip for one of our Pagan Love Cult tracks. It’s called Funeral March. Huge thanks to all our friends & family, who made it happen. See more

24.01.2022 Kirk Lorange This is Kirk's new 20 minute promo video for his Plane Talk guitar teaching package. Great to see him and hear the stories and see his approach and products. Really enjoyed it. Find out more planetalkguitar.com

23.01.2022 Nice to see Kirk Lorange on Countdown Classics on the weekend playing his illustrious licks. Oh and of course Mr Clapton as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaV0efelZI

16.01.2022 Neil's great new album - listen for free - only $10 download on Bandcamp https://paganlovecult.bandcamp.com//the-last-of-the-long-l Neil performed regularly at the restaurant around 1976-77 in his band Flying Fish.... Main website http://paganlovecult.com

15.01.2022 KANGURU I've just been tidying up the ANFSCD website (for the new domain name) and saw White Company listed in the performers at the bottom of the Home page and suddenly remembered Kanguru were their support. White Company were a dance group. So I googled Kanguru and bingo... 45 minutes of absolute magic - just imagine this live! With dancers! Did you know you can download the 100mb mp3 audio from YouTube videos by pasting the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR60QKwqDKo into vidtomp3.com Full Bio: tyme-machine.blogspot.com.au//kanguru-dreaming-australia-1 Review: allmusic.com/album/kanguru-mw0000839781

15.01.2022 Message from Dave Anthony... "I played at ANFSCD for about two years from just after it opened. I have fond memories of it as an acoustic venue and loved the relaxed atmosphere I remember lounging on the cushions listening to the melodic tones of Flying Fish and all the other great act of my time at the Diff. I would love to catch up with anyone who remembers me especially John McLaren, Howard Jackson and Narelle." https://www.facebook.com/david.anthony.7982

14.01.2022 In the late 70's Kirk Lorange was one of Australia's top session guitarists and he was quite a regular at the restaurant with his amazing slide blues guitar and great Canadian vocal style. He was Richard Clapton's guitarist for many years and now has a successful guitar tuition business as well. http://www.kirklorange.com and email Kirk for a copy of No Apostrophe [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNK8kfB8_C

12.01.2022 In 1975 Jim and Mick Kenny formed Crossfire, Australia's most successful jazz-rock fusion band. Crossfire toured extensively and cut seven Albums, including a live album with American singer Michael Franks and Australia's first direct-to-disc LP. They played quite regularly at the restaurant. The drummer Steve Hopes, who I got to know quite well, used Jay's drum kit to save lugging his up there. He was one of Australia's top session drummers. This is the quality of music we were all exposed to and mixed with or a regular basis, literally. Find Crossfire on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa//viewAlbum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsQavNvpMhU

10.01.2022 Our first Train gig tomorrow night without the late John McConnell. It's going to be strange without him, after 30 plus years of him being there on the desk. We hope to see all our Sydney fans there. The Bridge Hotel, Rozelle ... 9 PM onward.

10.01.2022 Just noticed that all the videos weren't loading on the main ANFSCD website homepage because the YouTube embed code had changed - so just updated them all (and watched them again). What an amazing collection of talent. It inspired me to post them. Here's the first one of Alex Smith who first played there with his bands The Bilgola Bop Band and then This Side Up before moving on to fame with Moving Pictures and the hit single What About Me. Alex actually worked part time for a while as a waiter at the restaurant and one day while cleaning the tables with ‘Mr Sheen’ he looked up excitedly and exclaimed Moving Pictures! that’s what I’ll call my band!. Alex gave up waiting tables! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzQKECQgjW8

09.01.2022 This is Glenn Cardier who played at the restaurant as a solo act and with his band The Cardinals. Buy Glenn's albums on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa//viewArtist This was one of our favourite songs and went on to be released as a single. This clip is from 1980 and was sent to him by a stranger as he did not have a copy! Eat your heart out Elvis Costello. www.glenncardier.com

07.01.2022 FUNDRAISER I spent many long months collating, creating and running this FB Page and the website plus buying the premium domain and now I need your support. Some of you have already donated and some will donate soon and I'm very grateful. If any of you can spare some funds in these scarce times it would really help - any amount. The initial urgent operation through the private system cost $4000 and while the current chemo and eventual bladder removal is through the public system there are heaps of ongoing costs for tests, scans, transport, new foods, alternative treatment regimes, moving and more. Read some of the story on the GoFundMe page. Money is great but also if you can simply click Share and post this to your Timeline it would help get the word out there. Thanks, Jay. https://www.gf.me/u/xfkfwh

04.01.2022 Just looking through the photos here and noticed a poster with the names Dave Nesbitt and Andrew de Teliga - so I did some searching and found this from Andrew's website. I had forgotten about Sirocco as well - I'm sure they played at The Diff. "Andrew de Teliga is a multi-instrumentalist and composer with a long career as a performer that took him on tour to 32 countries over a 20 year period as the main composer for the internationally renowned group Sirocco. Andrew’s background is in rhythm and blues guitar. As well as performing in a wide variety of rock bands, Andrew learned the classical violin. Andrew then turned to the Irish fiddle and to the music of the different ethnic groups in Australia. His inspired compositions have been used around the world." 2 mins. https://andrewdeteliga.com

02.01.2022 Another act at the restaurant was Matt Moffit who originally had a band called Jai Bolo (Sanskrit for ‘it’s OK’). Matt went on to fame with his band Matt Finish and had some great pop hits. Unfortunately, Matt died of a stroke in 2003. This YouTube clip represents the type/style of atmosphere you would often find on Friday and Saturday nights at The Diff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLE7Y2yJ7Vs