A Tale From the Tin Igloo: “Blues, Rags, and the Headhunters”
Published: October 13, 2020
13-10-20. Now Out on Amazon Kindle, digital and print.
The Bishop family from Newcastle England joined the tsunami of postwar immigrants flooding to the antipodean shores seeking a better life, more opportunities and jobs! They were unceremoniously dumped into the Pennington Migrant Hostel in South Australia, a dusty bivouac of ‘Tin Igloos, (Nissen Huts) with a mini league-of-nations for neighbours.
They were ‘ten pound poms’ who came to Australia in the swinging’ 60’s with nothing but dreams of a better life and, for the Bishop boys, Terry and Ray, a love and talent for RnB music now dominating radio waves in the ‘old country’.
From the cramped and emotionally-charged environment of migrant hostel they made friends — and some enemies — and started a pop band, creating a sound that catapulted them into the charts, and for a brief moment in time ‘The Headhunters’ were Aussie pop’s next big thing. Then they were gone in a flurry of bad publicity and blood on the floor!
But, no one knows ‘the truth’ of what really happened — except the boys in the band and one dogged detective with a decades-old murder mystery to resolve.
Review version – True Fiction
