By Greg
You may have noticed that we have just passed the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop.
It wasn’t an anniversary that was on my radar, in fact, neither Trenna or I were big fans of hip-hop. We didn’t dislike it, it was just that there was a lot of other music around. That is until hot one afternoon in December 2013.
Each year Perth has an international festival. And each year I … Read the rest ... “Trenna & Public Enemy – 50 years of hip-hop”
By Greg
My four-part series on The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg received a lot of positive feedback, so I thought I would follow it up with the tale of how we got engaged and then married. Well, actually it didn’t really get much feedback, but I liked it, so wanted to tell the rest of the story.
You can also read a little about it in the post The Newlywed Diary.
There are tales to tell in … Read the rest ... “Engagement and Wedding”
By Greg
We were always going to feel a little uncomfortable in this environment. But I felt it was something we had to do – and Trenna was prepared to go along to prove that I was wrong!
It was a Slim Dusty concert at the Perth Concert Hall.
I cast my mind back to our house a month or two earlier.
“Hey, Tren. Slim Dusty is doing a concert at the Concert Hall”.
“So?” Those two letters were … Read the rest ... “Eric Bogle and Slim Dusty – Two Concerts We Remembered”
Note: The recordings I refer to in this piece formed The Kitchen Tapes series. It starts HERE.
The ABC is Australia’s national media and broadcasting service. And on the ABC Radio National station on weekday mornings the Life Matters show has been running an interesting segment entitled Life in 500 Words.
I have listened to quite a few and there are some fascinating stories … Read the rest ... “Trenna’s iPad”
This series of transcripts starts here.
Sue woke me at 7.30 and I very unwillingly got out of bed. Had breakfast and then got dressed and left for work.
It was really cold walking to work so instead of taking 15 minutes it only took me 10. Today a new girl is starting her name is Eileen she is about 21 … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 12”
This series of transcripts starts here.
I got up at 7.20 and went down to breakfast. I left for work early as I had to stop at a chemist and buy a packet of Modess.
I walked through the dental hospital on my way to work and went to the toilet.
Work was pretty well much the same. Pat didn’t come in because she was sick. … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 10”
This series of transcripts starts here.
I got up at 8.30 and had breakfast. Thank goodness I didn’t have a stomach ache this morning. We went to Janette’s Sunday School. At first we all just sat in the hall and sang songs. Then we all broke into classes but no one came to Mr Nelson’s class so only 2 of us were in his … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 7”
This series of transcripts starts here.
I got up at 10 to 7 and had breakfast. Today I don’t have to go to BC. It’s now at 10.20 and I haven’t done hardly anything except Mrs Cole locked me out of my room by mistake.
I’ll meet Julie and Sue for lunch. We had a rather expensive lunch at Petite. Then I walked Sue … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 6”
By Greg
I recently published Part 5 of The 1973 Diary. In the Comments section, at the bottom of the post our friend Helen has written “I think once Tren met the Gibson sisters and moved into Bey Apartments her life changed dramatically and she had to grow up quickly“.
The Gibson sisters were “the Twinnies” (Sharon and Joyce), and their older sister Rose. In the Kitchen Tape recordings Trenna … Read the rest ... “Why She Left Bey Apartments”
By Greg
This website has now been live for six months so I thought it about time to make some comments about how it has been going, how it has evolved, and what I hope for the future.
I would greatly appreciate constructive feedback, either by commenting on this post, below, or by using the Contact Greg form.
Around the time I was starting the website I was enjoying a … Read the rest ... “Six Months of TrennaMahney.com”
This series of transcripts starts here.
Got up at 7.00 had a shower and breakfast. Left for BC at 8.15. Met Julie and Sue at 8.40.
BC was the same as usual. Met Sue at 4.20 after waiting for about 15 minutes. She said Julie had to leave BC early, and she had just seen Murray Benton and was hiding from him.
We went and had … Read the rest ... “The 1973 Diary, Part 4”
GM: This recording talks a lot about Trenna’s time at Girl’s Friendly Society (GFS), where she moved after Craig House closed down. The year was 1973, which was the only year in that period of her life that she kept a diary. Later, in 2018, Trenna with my assistance transcribed that diary and it is worth reading in relation to this recording. One point Trenna was surprised to find was that she started business college, and … Read the rest ... “Kitchen Tape No. 24 – but not the end”
GM: Today is Wednesday the 20th of June 2018. Trenna Mahney will be speaking.
Tren, we’ve talked a bit about your time at Girls’ Friendly Society in Adelaide Terrace? It sounds like an interesting period to do a bit more discussion.
[GM: phone call interrupts us]
I think we should look a bit more at this time at Girls’ Friendly Society. The sort of things you did. If we get … Read the rest ... “The 23rd Kitchen Tape”
GM: Today is Thursday the 14th of June, 2018. Trenna Mahney is telling us of her memories. I reckon we ought to talk a little bit more about your time at Girls’ Friendly Society, in Adelaide Terrace in Perth.
THM: Just to place it a bit better… I remember that it’s at 122 Adelaide Terrace. And across the road a little bit was the Sheraton Hotel. [GM: Now the Pan Pacific Hotel… Read the rest ... “The Kitchen Tapes #22”
GM: We are continuing our recordings with Trenna Mahney. Today is Monday, the 11th of June 2018. Tren, we’ve talked a lot about Craig House. Eventually you moved out to Girls’ Friendly Society. I think you were 15, it was 1973. Tell me about that era.
THM: Well I turned 15 in September 1972, and that was the final year of Craig House. I spent the … Read the rest ... “The Kitchen Tapes # 20”
[ GM: This was one of the longest recordings at 1 hour and 6 minutes. In it Trenna sounded less tired than she had in other recordings, especially in the ones that were to follow. To see why this one was a bit different I looked at Trenna’s diary for this date and was surprised to see that she was not at all well, and had not slept much the night … Read the rest ... “The Kitchen Tapes No. 19”
Intro by Greg, the Diary by Trenna
Today I was looking for a different piece of Trenna history, when I stumbled across a lovely hard cover book I hadn’t seen for some time.
It was bought at Myer (department store) for $15 (which sounds to me like a lot of money, considering it was in 1989). It comprises 100 or so blank pages.
The very first page has Trenna’s writing on both … Read the rest ... “The Newlywed Diary”
As the title suggests, this is the second part of the story, the first part is here.
So there we were, in the tongue pit with Tren’s great friend Sue, who she probably hadn’t seen for a couple of years, and Sue’s sister, Judy.
“Ahhh! You’ve got the same top as me!” Both have a black (of course) “It’s only rock n roll” singlet top. Judy has a different, but equally cool Stones top.… Read the rest ... “THE Rolling Stones Concert – Part 2”
The time had to come in the life of this website when I had to write about THE Rolling Stones concert. For one reason I have HUNDREDS of photos Trenna and I took at the concert, and for another, Trenna and I had such a good time.
Trenna told me that she was keen to go to the Rolling Stones concert, at the WACA grounds in 1973. She would have been 16 years old … Read the rest ... “THE Rolling Stones Concert Part 1”
Looking through Trenna’s iPad I came across the document she wrote to review/record the Black Sabbath concert we went to along with a friend, Adrian. It was the first time I had read this piece since 2016.
It immediately brought back memories of a really fab night. I also found some of the turns of phase pretty entertaining.
I will put her writing below, in the main body of this post but also … Read the rest ... “Moshing With Black Sabbath!”