Post 726 - XL Capris - Where's Hank?

XL Capris formed in Sydney in 1978 by Julie Anderson, Tim Gooding, Johanna Pigott and  Kimble Randall. Their best known single was a punk version of Tommy Leonetti's "My City of Sydney" (1979). This single was the only Australian disc found in legendary UK DJ John Peel's "battered wooden box" of 142 favourite records when, following his death in 2004, the contents of the box were revealed to the public in a Channel 4 television special. XL Capris made two albums, “Where Is Hank?” and “Weeds” both produced by Todd Hunter of Dragon and released on their own label Axle Records. Hunter later joined XL Capris as guitarist and subsequently married Pigott; they became a successful songwriting team: co writing "Rain" for Dragon and "Age of Reason" for John Farnham. Prior to forming the XL Capris, Gooding was a film and television screenwriter.(The Aunty Jack Show; Wollongong The Brave/Kev Kevanagh: Beyond The Infinite; Heatwave). He and Pigott worked together creating the 1984 ABC TV series ‘Sweet & Sour “ which chronicled the activities of a fictional band, The Takeaways, and their efforts to succeed in 1980s Sydney Pop scene. Where Is Hank? (Axle 103) released in 1981 produced by Hunter, Gooding wrote ten of the fourteen tracks including two with Pigott. 'Hank' in the title was a German shepherd owned by Rendall: "Hank went to live on a farm at Nambucca Heads".'Tosca' was the name of their landlady's cat and it was chased up a tree by Hank thus the album title Where Is Hank? is a pun on a 1980s TV ad for a chocolate bar: 'Where's George?' The response is ... 'gone for a Tosca!'.
 Thanks to Chris for sending me this LP for the Blog and Tim for sorting out the IT issues. flac