Welcome to the Guthugga page (aka Guthega Pipeline, Guthagga Pipeline, The Human Salamanders, Manic Pipeline and Manic Rhythm)
As you can see this page is still VERY MUCH in its' infancy but will I hope grow (as i find the time [MP3S COMING - hopefully this century!]) to the definitive Pipeline archive. Many thanks to 'Pling for allowing us to use so many of his fantastic photos, and to Glen Wynes for coming forward with some classic b/w photos back in Feb 2005 ( Hey Glen please zap us an email if you see this, we've lost your address again!) ~ If anyone has any tapes, photos, corrections or anything to add - eg. Photo credits, film, anecdotes, odes etc... please feel free to email sirhairs[at]cannanes[dot]com
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NEWS! last updated 5th November, 2018
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October 2018 ~ New page added True Confessions: a photo album of the Guthugga scene 1979-1981? you can view it here

January 2017 ~ was some talk of a reunion to celebrate/commemorate/mourn... the pulling down of the ANU Bar in Canberra - NB some talk... oh oh too late, it's gone now.. bummer!

14th January 2012 : Ap, Gus & Hairy [with help from Chrissy G] play The Dream @ a party ~ goes down a treat!

23rd May 2011 ~ 666 ABC Local Radio Canberra epublished an article and series of interviews under the title 'Real indie: Canberra bands thirty years on'. Guthugga Pipeline and close relatives The Lighthouse Keepers got a few mentions! click here to read & listen

 

Also check out our old mates The Young Doctors aka Young Docteurs who play around Sydney and Canberra a bit since 2009-2012+?

 

GUTHUGGA PIPELINES ONLY RELEASE...

...THAT I RECALL WAS THE TRACK 'CIRCUS SONG' ON THE CASSETTE COMPILATION THAT CAME WITH THE BRILLIANT AUSTRALIAN FANZINE DISTANT VIOLINS [ISSUE 17] SOME TIME IN THE MID TO LATE 80'S


The main players:


Guthugga Pipeline 1978 - 1979
Butler, Gavin 'Gus' (v) [later played with The Slab, The Cannanes, Teapot, Flywheel, Grey Tapes, Tut Tut Kings & Ors]
Millar, Wayne (d) [later played with Made for TV, Back to Back]
O'Neil, Stephen 'Hairy' (g) [later played with The Particles, The Lighthouse Keepers, The Cannanes, Ashtray Boy + Ashtray Boy & his country cousin, ATV, Teapot, Sleater-Kinney, Flywheel, El Duende, Jamalia & Ors]
Appel, Greg 'Ap' (g) [later played with The Lighthouse Keepers, Rainlovers, The Widdershins, Hammerhead, One Head Jet, King Curly & Ors]
Woodrow, Jack (b) [later played with The Creeps, Real Gone Lovers & Ors]
Ketley, Nick (b) [escaped to Germany for many years but now back in Gods own! and has in this century been playing with The Cannanes, The Vacant Lot & Ors]

 Manic Rhythm 1980
Butler, Gavin "Gus' (v)
O'Neil, Stephen 'Hairy' (g)
Philip, Dave (d)
Woodrow, Jack (g)
Ketley, Nick (b)

Guthugga Pipeline 1981 - 1983?
 Butler, Gavin 'Gus' (v)
Dunbar, Lindsay (d)
Ketley, Nick (b)
O'Neil, Stephen 'Hairy'(g)
Woodrow, Jack (g)

Guthugga Pipeline 1984
 Butler, Gavin 'Gus' (v)
Dunbar, Lindsay (d)
O'Neil, Stephen 'Hairy'(g)
Woodrow, Jack (b)

 

GUTHUGGA CIRCA 1978/79 ^ MORE OR LESS FIRST LINEUP
LOOKS LIKE THE GRIFFIN CENTRE IN CANBERRA CITY
PROBABLY A 'ROCK AGAINST BOREDOM GIG'
L-R GUS, APP, JAKE, WAYNE, HAIRY

 
L - R GUS, JAKE

 
THE PIN UP BOYS!

ERIC VERMIN OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ^ MYXO ^ A CANBERRA BASED BAND OF THE SAME PERIOD IF NOT A LITTLE EARLIER

CHRIS SHAKALLIS OF ^ THE YOUNG DOCTORS (AKA young docteurs)^ ANOTHER FINE CANBERRA OUTFIT OF THE PERIOD

 

GUTHUGGA CIRCA 1984 REUNION LINEUP
IN 1984 THE PIPELINE REUNITED TO ROCK THE HAROLD PARK HOTEL IN SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) ~ FOR PERHAPS THE LAST TIME

 
L-R HAIRY, JAKE, LINDSAY, GUS

 
TRIPPY PUBLICITY SHOT ~ CHIPPENDALE / SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) 1984

KNOWN GIGS [The absolute beginning of a list] [ S

1981 2nd June @ The Jam Factory w/ The Chancres, Vitos E, Matra Fact ~ as Guthega Pipeline (according to The Canberra Times of 27th May 1981)


THE BEGINNINGS OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Baby Take a Bow : a short history of The Cannanes / Compiled by Iain McIntyre, The Cannanes.
[London] : Woozy, 1997.
[60 p.] : ill., ports. ; 20.5 cm.

Dig : Australian rock and pop music 1960-85 / David Nichols.
Portland, OR : Verse Chorus Press, 2016.
viii, 596 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Head full of flames : punk in the nations' capital 1977 to 1992 - alternative sub-kulture and tribal interactions / compiled, written and edited by Chris Shakallis, Robin Gugler, Cody Anderson, Steve Nebauer.
Hughes, A.C.T. : Robina Jane Gugler, 2013.
348 p. : ill., ports. 23cm.

CREDITS:

THANKS TO NICK FOR THE FAMILY TREE

MANY THANKS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHERS:

AT THIS STAGE ONLY SURE ABOUT GLEN WYNES TAKING THE 1978/79 PHOTOS [IE. THE B/W SHOTS] & perhaps Ben Donaldson took the 1984 shots? & 'Pling who took most of the shots in the True Confessions album

MANY MORE TO COME!

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: ALSO THANKS TO ANDY COFFEY FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WITH THE WEB STUFF