I was one of those viewers from the start, ‘raging’ for hours at a time, drifting through the darkest hours of the night, being woken by those blood-curdling r-r-r-r-rage! screams, never dreaming that I would one day produce the show, program the videos and direct the guest programming shoots.
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Since that first night, rage has maintained a place in the hearts of music lovers, video fanatics, twenty-four hour party people, dipsomaniacs, stoners, TV addicts, bleary-eyed insomniacs and random viewers caught in a strange video vortex, staying up to watch just one more video, one more video, one more video, one more video. A late-night music video program had launched (and given everyone a good excuse to stay up all night long). On Friday, 17 April 1987 the lights finally came on. ABC TV was once a cold dark place after midnight. But I’m getting ahead of myself …Īll of this really began years earlier with an idea about 24-hour television broadcasting. The exiting rock star is Courtney Love and the year is 1999. The blonde rock goddess-and rock bitch-turns and leaves the room.
(Some electronic artists have a fondness for arson.) With the biggest names in music and juicy backstage anecdotes, Real Wild Child is packed with real wild moments, rock and roll tales, and plenty of secrets from the couch. Its fabric has been marked by cheap wine, fine Champagne, cocktails, beer, coffee, pizza, hamburger, cigarette ash, and other substances. Over more than twenty years of rage, the couch has seen it all: the famous golden bottom of Kylie Minogue and the partly leather-clad, mostly bare buttocks of KISS rocker Gene Simmons the contortions of Courtney Love the tattooed muscles of Henry Rollins the dark and light sides of Nick Cave, trent Reznor, Gwen Stefani, Billy Corgan, Marilyn Manson, Michael Hutchence, Jack Black, Lily Allen, Green Day, Beastie Boys, Silverchair, Public Enemy, the Prodigy, the Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters, Powderfinger, Coldplay, New Order, the Strokes, Sonic Youth, Kings of Leon and many, many more. Narelle Gee and the rage couch have shared many secrets. What followed were constant close encounters with the world's most popular bands and music artists. Real Wild Child is the story of a music obsessive who landed the job of her dreams programming rage. What happens when the world's biggest musical acts sit down on Australia's most famous couch? the answer: drunkenness, dark introspection, mania, hilarity, incoherent rambling, sharp-edged commentary and fiery 'artistic differences'. Packed with backstage anecdotes and music industry gossip! From the ABC's iconic music show, 'rage', comes a rock biography about what happened when the world's biggest musical acts sat down on Australia's most famous couch.
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