Unfortunately this clown who sings The Newcastle Song doesn’t know Newcastle at all. He shows a bit of footage of Hunter Street in the 1970’s and then goes on to say the iconic Beach Hotel is nowhere near where it actually is. The fucken wanker
Now if you want to know what Newcastle was really like back then I suggest the following video instead….
Not that I class myself as a Novacastrian X, I’m just giving you a bit of it’s history. My mates and I used to go and watch Chisel whenever they came to town, most often at the Workers Club. I was driving a work truck along the street behind the Worker’s on our way back to the Gas Co when the earthquake hit in 1989 and flattened it. We drove around to the front and saw all the shocked white faces of the people who ran out and ended up spending the next few months repairing all the broken gas mains in Newcastle, Hamilton and all the surrounding suburbs.
Unfortunately Newcastle has never been the same since, all the old iconic shops gone, a ridiculous tram rail put down Hunter Street that took away parking and eventually sent businesses that had survived the earthquake bankrupt, just to put in apartments.
Even the Shrifty 500 Supercars race they brought to Newcastle has been a fuck up for people living around the top of town and the beach area.
I’m sure you know all about earthquakes X, and I’ll be fucked if I know why I spent all this time explaining all this bullshit…. I guess I’m just getting fucken restless waiting for the mining license. Now I’ll just fuck right off again and stop giving a shit.
By the way Wombles, yes I’m still positive on us getting the ML