More than twenty years have whipped by since Max Thrower and Phil Muscatello opened a tiny Audio production house in a room in a dodgy men’s boarding house in Darlinghurst.
They called themselves “Really Really Big Productions” because they were so small.
(That’s irony for those of you up the back who aren’t keeping up.)
Phil liked it because it was two doors away from the Tropicana and Max liked it because it was above Nicholas Pounder’s bookshop. I liked it because for over a year I would spend intense bursts of time recording several characters for a radio serial written by Max called “Gary K. Mankavitch: Spiritual Detective”. As well as the title character, I had fun being a very Welsh Doubting Thomas with Jesus in Galilee, and a few other bits and pieces.
The national broadcaster, bless ’em, saw fit to broadcast the series a couple of times on ABC Radio National in 1995.
Through the porous membrane of memory I recall vocal contributions from Lee Perry, Laura Gabriel, Peter McCallum, Sascha Huckstepp, Monroe Reimers, Louise Howlett
Let’s see how they have weathered the intervening storms of time.
hugh wade 