Nearly 40 years of recording and non stop touring. 25 top 40 hits in Australia. Sustained international airplay and Mentals are still at it. Martin Plaza and Greedy Smith are always writing songs. They can’t stop! Here comes a loony chunkabilly track from Plaza. Slide guitar harmonica and laconic vocal take us to his bedlam. -Goat Tracks In My Sandpit-. A troubled soul? Recorded in Martin Plaza’s Sandpit and A Sharp In Riverwood. Plaza obliquely pays tribute to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys referencing his famous living room sandpit where Brian wrote his songs and faced his personal demons.…
Author: Bayside News
POLICE are hunting for two men who tried to ram raid a Coles supermarket in Patterson Lakes around 4am Thursday 5 January. A silver Holden Colorado utility was reversed through the front windows of the store, at the Gladesville Boulevard and McLeod Rd intersection, at about 4am. The two men fled the store after trying to break into a cigarette cabinet. Bakers in the store chased them out. A Coles employee, who had just arrived for work in his car, followed the offenders along EastLink. The two cars collided near Thompson Rd in Carrum Downs. The burglars drove off. The…
Police investigating a suspicious fire in Carrum Downs have identified a man pictured in images and CCTV footage released as part of the investigation. Detectives have spoken to the man and determined he was not involved in the incident. Emergency services attended a reserve in the vicinity of Paddington Avenue and Odell Place on Wednesday 28 December about 3.15pm following reports of a fire. The blaze took about two hours to contain, with either side of the Peninsula Link freeway blocked at the location during this time. No one was injured during the fire and there was no significant damage…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives have released CCTV vision as the investigation into a suspicious scrub fire in Carrum Downs yesterday (28 December) continues. Emergency services attended a reserve in the vicinity of Paddington Avenue and Odell Place about 3.15pm following reports of a fire. The blaze took about two hours to contain, with either side of the Peninsula Link freeway blocked at the location during this time. No one was injured during the fire and there was no significant damage to any private property. The fire is being treated as suspicious. Investigators have released the below images of a…
Police are investigating after a man exposed himself to a group of girls in Bonbeach last month. Two 12-year-old girls and two 11-year-old girls were wading into the water about 1.40pm when a male jogger passed them on 26 November. The jogger was travelling south towards Patterson River but reversed direction after passing the girls. As the man drew closer, the girls noticed he had no pants on and was exposing himself towards them. They sought refuge at a nearby house belonging to a relative of one of the girls, while the man fled north along the beach. He was…