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Stephen's amusing & highly controversial memoir, WILL IT BE FUNNY TOMORROW BILLY is available now at all good book stores. Published by Hardie Grant.
Sydney Morning Herald. 2009.
Undeterred by the threat of becoming persona non grata, Stephen Cummings has produced a page-turner, writes Bernard Zuel.
So this is how it ends. Stephen Cummings has been playing music for nearly 40 years, written a couple of novels, done some journalism, helped flog Medibank ("I feel better now" - he does every time the royalty cheque comes in, thank you) and, with the Sports and his solo career, has racked up enough crucial musical moments to fill a classic-hits radio station playlist.
This month he publishes Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?, an often hilarious if occasionally uncomfortable memoir with sex and drugs, bad behaviour and really, really bad behaviour, unfettered opinions and brutal honesty. It's not so much "tell all" as "Oh my God, did he really say that about (insert name of famous musician/manager/TV personality/parent) in print?".
So, Stephen Cummings, are you happy with the notion that you may never work in this business again? "Well, the industry part of it has never been that helpful to me. They've just sort of taken," he says after an initial splutter. "I don't really see people from the music industry, frankly. I don't go out much. They don't enter my life very often so I've got little to lose."
Well they, or their lawyers, may be entering his life more frequently in the near future. "They [the publisher and its lawyers] have taken a hell of a lot out of the book," he says more confidently. "Everything that's left in there, well, you know, you've got to be able to take a joke.
"Are they going to sue me? I have nothing. If they sue me I'll have to get a [benefit] concert going I guess," he laughs. "I might get the Oils to reform for it."
As long as the Oils haven't read the chapter about them. "Well, that's just stating facts."
This is true. In fact, most of the book is just stating facts. It's just that a lot of these facts aren't the kind of things that people normally say outside private bitching sessions in their homes. Cummings roars with laughter at this.
"I say I make no moral thing on this, I'm just stating a fact. So I think that's all right. But it's the most unlikely people who are the ones who will sue you. Other people, like Michael Gudinski, he has a thick hide and hopefully can take a joke. And I say good things about him, too."
This is the Michael Gudinski who has been one of the most powerful men in the Australian music industry for 30 years with a record label, touring company, publishing, and Kylie Minogue. He released albums from Cummings's band the Sports and briefly managed them.
He also is variously described in the book as "an offensive and abusive bear of a man", the Moriarty to Cummings's Holmes, having "an attention span the size of a bee's dick", "all about power" and someone who "totally screwed us financially" as well as a lover of music, a passionate man and the only person who made the Sports money.
In one of the funniest parts of the book, Cummings describes in detail how tempted he was to throw Gudinski over Niagara Falls during an uncomfortable and unhappy American tour made all the more uncomfortable and unhappy by Cummings being a complete prat. The story culminates in this exchange. "He caught himself on the rail. Then he barked: 'You'll get a big fat f---ing surprise if you try to push me over Niagara Falls.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well, I gave it my best shot. But you're too f---ing fat."'
In truth, there isn't really that much in here which could be actionable, except maybe for those who find reports of their hardly secret drug use a touch worrying. "But I don't think someone like Steve Kilbey would take offence at that. It happened," Cummings says, oblivious to the fact I hadn't mentioned a name, let alone the founding singer-songwriter of the Church who produced an early Cummings solo album.
"Steve Kilbey is a straight-up person, like him or hate him. I also say he is a very nice person and I admire him. It's just that having your producer nod off while you're singing for a couple of hours, and gradually slump on to the recording desk is, you know, a bit demoralising."
The thing to remember for anyone who's crossed paths with Cummings and is tempted to go to the index to look up any scurrilous references (a waste of time, by the way, as there is no index) is that whatever Cummings may say about others, he says much worse about himself.
In this book, the usually private Stephen Cummings is broken down into little pieces and stomped on - the fat kid with no confidence, the snotty young star, the insecure narcissist, the destructive paranoid, "a pop singer with hang-ups"- by the now very public Stephen Cummings.
"I could have been more brutal [about myself] than that," Cummings says. "But I thought, 'No, I have to go to school and face the parents of my youngest child's friends and they may think I'm really weird'."
Stephen Cummings weird? Heaven forbid.
In short nonfiction
Reviews by Sacha Molitorisz.
WILL IT BE FUNNY TOMORROW, BILLY? MISADVENTURES IN MUSIC
By Stephen Cummings
Hardie Grant, 202pp, $29.95
Stephen Cummings is a talented Aussie singer-songwriter who never quite hit the big time with the Sports or as a solo artist. "When I was 'on' I was great yelping, spitting, caressing the microphone - and when I wasn't I was totally inaccessible," he writes. "I could sabotage things at will and without even realising."
This memoir is an engaging account of a Jekyll-and-Hyde character unafraid to share his shortcomings. Another part of the appeal is hearing Cummings spill the beans on Michael Gudinski, Joe Camilleri, Billy Joel (the "Billy" of the title) and other pop luminaries. The writing is intelligent, immediate, well-crafted and sparse.
At times sentences jump wilfully from one topic to the next - but then what else would you expect from such an erratic man? Over a pop music career that has lasted an improbably long time, he has established his abilities as a performer. And in this great rock'n'roll yarn, Cummings displays a complementary gift forstorytelling.
The one-man band
MUSIC.
Robyn Doreian
This Australian pop stalwart has overcome a bleak childhood to do things his own way, writes Robyn Doreian.
For someone who's commanded a microphone for almost 40 years, Stephen Cummings's panic at doing interviews is odd.
In between radio chats at Melbourne's ABC studios the musician's anxiety is so omnipresent that once seated on a reception chair and ready for Extra's questions, he clutches his designer courier bag as if it were a shield.
Forty-five minutes of conversation sees him shift in his seat, emit nervous laughter, drop his face into his hands, and at one point require an urgent bathroom visit.
"I am never going to do another interview ever when this is all done," Cummings says. "I am so sick of talking about myself it's so draining."
At the height of his pop career during the 1970s and early '80s, Cummings was prominent on the national radar. Whether it was fronting his band the Sports on Countdown where he sang hit singles Who Listens To The Radio? and Boys! (What Did The Detective Say?) or performing their three top-10 albums in Australian pubs, Cummings was often in view.
Clues, however, to the musician's unease, can be found in Will It Be Funny Tomorrow Billy?, Cummings's newly published memoir, which he will talk about at the Sydney Writers' Festival this Friday and Saturday (see www.swf.org.au for details).
His early life was spent in Yarraville, a western suburb of Melbourne. His father, Max, was a professional chef. He had served in World War II as a general's cook, later fought in the Middle East, then moved to New Guinea where he collapsed with malaria. He was 11 years older than his wife Lorna.
The family ran a cafe. Long hours meant Max left the house at 4am and returned at 7.30pm.
"I was a latchkey kid before the term was invented," Cummings says. "I wasn't close to my sister, so I'd come home by myself. Mum left food on the stove and instead of personal attention that's what I got. I equated food with love and approval."
As a boy, he was chubby, had a passion for music and reading, and spent hours in his bedroom. Max, meanwhile, enjoyed two bottles of beer each evening and loved sport. The two had little contact and barely spoke. For one year, Cummings was sent to an expensive boarding school. "I was fat and a total misfit and outsider," he says. "Boarding school was a brutal place. It was like being in the army, very violent and rough. I remember having my head flushed down the toilet. All of that has an effect on you."
When Cummings became a day student, after-school hours were spent window-shopping for guitars. He began seeing local bands at 12, taught himself guitar and wrote and recorded songs on a cassette player. Of that time he writes: "I was a tangle of emotional and sexual neurosis. It was sad, but this neurosis perfectly conditioned me for a career in music."
Considering it a step on the road to becoming a musician, Cummings went to art school. He met guitarist Johnny Topper and in 1974 started his first band, The Pelaco Brothers.
As the band's tongue-in-cheek parodies gained traction, Cummings's father died of lung cancer. During a hospital visit before his death, Max heard a taped radio show of The Pelaco Brothers performing, but praised their guitarist rather than compliment his son.
"My relationship with my father has had an incredible impact on me," he says. "Because a father-son relationship is a fundamental one, I constantly sought his approval and wasted a lot of my life seeking it, which was stupid."
The Pelaco Brothers became The Sports. Shyness often saw the sharply dressed Cummings speak little during a show and turn his back on the audience. Finally girls desired him, but after a gig, embarrassed and overwhelmed, he hurried off to his girlfriend. At that time he admits he wasn't good company. He was, after all, a "pop singer with hang-ups".
"I was just an intense, neurotic person," he says. "I wanted success and couldn't really say I wanted it and so I was generally angry."
By 1979, with an American label with a US top 40 hit, a bungled performance derailed The Sports's big-time chance. But in many ways, Cummings lacked the temperament for international success.
"I knew it wasn't for me as you have to tour for years to make it," he says. "To do that I would have had to become an alcoholic or a drug addict because it was so boring. I love playing music but everything else I wasn't rapt in. Everyone who runs it is so horrible and stupid and I can't take it."
Cummings disbanded The Sports in 1983. Since then, he's recorded 20 albums and performs regularly.
Come 1990, his songwriting earned Cummings an ARIA, but five years earlier, at 32, a midlife crisis had hit.
"To keep it at bay I gave up smoking, coffee and sugar and ran along the beach every day," he says. "I also gave up music a couple of times, and have done some courses at university stupid things like film theory that will never lead anywhere. Controlling gestures like that."
Anxiety attacks began and Cummings entered lengthy psychoanalysis that pinpointed his lack of male role models when a child as the source of his psychological unease. "For me, psychoanalysis is a good thing because I was so wound up and neurotic and am a much better person for it," he says. "It has made me much calmer. Before I did this book I was feeling quite anxious and so I went and saw someone twice. The process has allowed me to enjoy life more."
In his 50s, Cummings has achieved some peace. In inner-city Melbourne he lives with his long-time girlfriend, Kathleen, and son, Dominic, 11. He bonds over life-drawing classes with older son Curtis, 23.
He's continued to reinvent himself: from pop star to jingle writer (he co-wrote I Feel Better Now for the Medibank ad), to solo artist and author. But says the process of metamorphosis is at an end. "I have reached the stage where I can't reinvent myself again," he says. "I wrote this book as a sort of exercise but it just reinforced that I don't want to do it again I just don't have anything to say.
"Music is what I am naturally good at, but I really like reading, too. If I could get away with it, I'd happily spend every day just lying on the bed, reading and playing a bit of guitar."
Rock'n'roll: it's a blood sport
MEMOIR
Michael Dwyer
By turns, scathing and self-deprecating, Stephen Cummings takes us on a wild ride, writes Michael Dwyer.
Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?
By Stephen Cummings
Hardie Grant, $29.95
THE "kind of music memoir" advertised by Stephen Cummings' first non-fiction book is the kind that names names, bursts bubbles and burns bridges with the recklessness of a man with nothing left to lose. "The past smells like rotten eggs," he declares on the first page. "At this stage of my life, I don't need libel actions but what the hell."
The former Sports frontman turned novelist and adult contemporary troubadour is nothing if not fatalistic. The title of this scathingly funny series of flashbacks refers not to a classic high point on his rock'n'roll road, but to the moment it all went wrong - in front of Mick Jagger.
Not that he's trying to deflect the blame for anything. Summarily disowned by his father after a poor showing at a junior cricket match, he has assumed every misfortune was his own silly fault since a dog took out a piece of his leg on a school excursion to Alice Springs. Inexplicably mortified, he bandaged the open wound for months without telling a soul.
How such a contained and terrified suburban Melbourne youth got hooked on the promise of rock'n'roll is easy to understand. Far more remarkable is how he managed to make his bed between its teeth and emerge only somewhat lacerated: with years of chronic back pain, more years of therapy, and mind chemistry that includes equal parts venom and Valium.
Cummings structures his stories, not unlike recent benchmark memoirs by Bob Dylan and Cold Chisel's Don Walker, in discrete episodes that play loose with cause and effect. A chronology exists, from the gleeful anarchy of the Pelaco Brothers to the anxious expectations that drove and destroyed the Sports to diminishing cycles of solo success, but omissions are gaping and diversions in time, space and trains of thought are many.
In some chapters his memories are married to personal soundtracks. The long careers of Lou Reed and John Cale, for instance, are a prism for reviewing halcyon days as a Bourke Street cinema usher and film student, random flashes of early bands and share-house trysts, and a post-Sports stint moving scenery at Channel Nine.
Other chapters use collaborators or touring partners to illustrate aspects of the pop musician's life. Split Enz's farewell tour of 1984 is a maddening ensemble piece. Cummings' last gasp as a major label act is shadowed by the degeneration of his erstwhile junkie producer, Steve Kilbey. An opportunistic disco assignment with Kylie-wannabe Melissa Tkautz demonstrates much that is false, vacuous and tawdry about soap-star pop.
A particularly daring chapter uses Nick Cave's outrageous success as a yardstick for the author's simmering sense of injustice. By turns he confesses huge admiration and crippling jealousy for this "smug, superior and bone-thin" kid whom he nurtured when the Sports were riding high. "It's almost funny," he concludes, but as always, "the joke's on me."
Given Cummings' default position of self-deprecation ("in retrospect, I was an idiot"), it's not likely that libel actions will ensue from Cave, Kilbey, Kate Ceberano, Ross Wilson, Robert Forster, Glenn Wheatley, Midnight Oil, Eddie Rayner, Don Walker, Renee Geyer or any other party possibly wounded by his beautifully turned words of steel.
His former manager Michael Gudinski might well laugh aloud at being called "an offensive and abusive bear of a man" with "an attention span the size of a bee's dick".
The winners of this stupid game, after all, have no need to engage with Cummings' theory that "success has more to do with luck than talent", a viewpoint that frustrated his bandmates and minders no end over the years. Even given plenty of both, his pattern of self-sabotage underscores his basic incompatibility with the pop scene's less attractive prerequisites of bullish self-belief and ambition. Laid bare with a minimum of romance, the game ultimately smells so rotten that retreat looks like a kind of heroism.
Cummings still makes good records and performs to devoted fans. He's also found true love, as touchingly declared in a loaded final chapter that manages to tie in several early sexual encounters and a near-death drug experience. Somewhere between the rotten eggs and sour grapes lies a unique path through a fabulous minefield.
Private Gigs: Stephen plays private functions. If he likes the idea and you've got the money. Interested? Contact him via his agent Andrew Walker (andrew at buxtonwalker.com).
What the papers have said:
“Alongside Nick Cave and Tim Rogers, I would nominate Stephen Cummings. He is easily one of our great storytellers, capable of creating lives in miniature.” -Bernard Zuel, The Sydney Morning Herald
“Apart from Paul Kelly, no other Australian solo artist has managed to sustain a recording and performing career at such a high level of artistry for as long as Stephen Cummings.” -Shaun Carney, The Age
“Debonair, romantic and sensitive, Cummings owns a voice that allows vulnerable yearning qualities as much space as an authoritative voice of experience.” -Lauren Zoric, Rolling Stone
“STEPHEN CUMMINGS, who just may have Australian pop's finest male vocal chords. His voice is full of echoes of early Elvis, rockabilly/honky-tonk & Chicago blues, but as expressed through a definitely post-modern, literate Melburnian state of mind.” by Lucky Oceans ABC Radio National, 7 February 2003
“STEPHEN CUMMINGS is a master of poignant detail, the oblique image that captures a state of rapture. It was evident on his band the Sport's debut album, Reckless, in 1978. In the intervening years his language has become more direct and acute. That he hasn't been acknowledged as one of the great lyricists of the time is still a mystery. Perhaps it speaks more to that fact that his songs explore the contradictions and the subtleties of relationships rather than paint generic pictures and glib platitudes.”
by Toby Creswell - HQ, Dec-Jan 2001-2, issue 86
Some Background.
• Formed the legendary rockabilly band, The Pelaco Brothers in 1974
• Started The Sports in 1976. Recorded the Fair Game EP and received rave reviews in NME - the first Australian independent release to do so
• The Sports signed with Mushroom and Stiff in the UK
• Toured with Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, the Buzzcocks and Blondie
• Scored a Top 40 hit in the US with 'Who Listens to the Radio?'
• Signed with Arista in the US
• Disbanded The Sports and started his solo career in 1983. First solo hit, Gymnasium
• ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary album in 1990
• Recorded 15 solo albums
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August 30 ‘THE TOFF IN TOWN’ AS A PART OF THE MELBOURNE WRITER’S FESTIVAL. “WILL IT STILL BE FUNNY BILLY” PERFORMED WITH A FULL LIVE POP GROUP IN A ONE-TIME-ONLY- RECITAL.
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Topic: Join Stephen Cummings in a must-see night of neuroses, culture and great music. Cummings has brilliantly adapted a chapter from his memoir Will It Be Funny Tomorrow Billy?, and for one night only at the MWF you can enjoy this weird and wonderful mix of in-your-face performance, pop and soft-core action. The narrative involves a trip across America when for a few weeks The Sports were hot shit. The cast includes: Billy Joel, Michael Gudinski and men wrestling at Niagara Falls. It's obviously a must see/hear/experience.
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Close-Ups CD (2004). New Book Edition with Ed Nimervoll essay
“When I left the Sports, I left the Sports. That was it. I left the
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Little Girl On A Sofa
No Stopping
It's Not Me, It's You
I Remember
Hey Kitty Kitty
From The Day I Was Born
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Hi There Thanks for the add!! I've been enjoying your talent for over 30 years now! wow I feel a little old now... look forward to seeing you @ the Sydney show :) Cheers Lisa
Hey Stephen! Saw you on tv last night on the “my first gig” program. Great stuff! It made me realise though, you should upload more music video clips of your solo career onto youtube. They would be good to see! Keep up the good work though, plus, I have heard nothing but good things said about your book! Anyway, hope all is rocking and I will probably see you at an upcoming gig. I am pumped because I just finished most of my exams for the semester! woo! Cheers, Guy
Hi Steve Just finished your Funny Tomorrow book. Honestly Steve! A very enjoyable and entertaining glimpse of all these jumbled up times through your inimitable viewfinder. Nice work - great read! Peter O'D
Well my Old Friend, I don't recall another comment apart from that flattering one you left. What did you say - were you scathing? Resend it. I enjoy your nasty ones. All the best with your new book launching. xL
Hi S.C, just caught the Reg Mombassa opening in the Nong. Beautiful show. He mentioned you - in a fond way. You're looking a little peaky right now. Do you know that every one get's an alert when you upload a photo to your album? I know youve up loaded about two dozen in the last week-I'd choose any one one of them over this one.This is actually scary-like a death mask. cheers and love Lisa
Hey hey.. check out The Necks on tour in Europe this month....if you're anywhere near any of these places..!.. 2/3/4/5-Brussels (with B2B), 6-Amsterdam, 7-Tilburg, 8- Bielefeld, 10- Rome, 12-Ljublijana, 13-Zagreb, 14- Belgrade, 15- Moscow, 16- Berlin, 20- Eberswalder, 21-Halifax, 22- Birmimgham,, 27-London, 28- Bristol, 29-Dunfermline....... Check www.thenecks.com for details...........
Hey there stephen! That was a good article and exposure you got this morning in the age! it was a good read. I'm looking forward to reading the book, sounds like it will be great. Anyway, i hope it is ALL going to plan, and all the best. Guy
