New Order = boring (Vol.4, 1982)

It’s 24 November 1982 and there were all types of spaghetti restaurants: Tree, Theatre and Graffiti!We go to the Seaview Ballroom in St Kilda, to see Allniters, INXS, Soldiers of Fortune and No Nonsense.We have more sunburn, more disillusionment with uni, more thinking and more existential angst. There’s a bad poem: Do Something, a party upcoming in Box Hill and an English guy at The Ballroom tells Jenny she looks like Janice Joplin. Jenny isn’t sure this is a flattering comparison, but Lily says she’s had a few people tell her she looks like JOHN TRAVOLTA and then Jenny says that when she met Lily’s dad he used the name John and said that people said HE looked like JT as well!Jenny earns $18 at Roger’s work and buys two Juke magazines. She does three Johnny Rotten sketches, we hear more about the Osborne computer and the acoustic coupler. Meanwhile in Turkey, Lily saves a drowning beetle and we reminisce about the AA Milne poem Forgiven, about Alexander the beetle.We hear about Jenny putting off looking for a part-time job, and stunningly she writes: ‘I find things of the past losing value eg Adam’ !!!But nevertheless, life goes on. At the Central Club Richmond, to see more bands, developing a ripe smoker’s cough and getting told by a skinhead to ‘cheer up. Life’s not that bad!’ Reading Indecent Obsession (Colleen McCullough), seeing New Order (‘boring’) and The Saints (‘less so but not fab’) for $8 at the Ballroom, seeing the Bad Bros at the gig, along with stepsister who tells Jenny about Roger being kicked out. ‘At least three other women involved’ doesn’t sound very good. +Follow us on Insta @mumsbaddiaries Follow Jenny at  @jenny_ackland Click to head to our website to read more about My Mum’s Bad DiariesWe'd love to read your comments or questions! Send us a text!