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Publication and date unknown Upstarts the Doug Anthony Allstars are taking their own version of sex and violence to the Karrinyup shopping Centre today. At 5.30pm the trio of ex-Catholic school boys turned over-the-top satirists will be busking, signing albums, and supposedly autographing girls bottoms for a few hours.

DAAS ON THE FOOTPATH

Publication and date unknown The Doug Anthony Allstars hit town today for a short blitz on Perth innocents. If you think you've secured self preservation by staying away from the five-show assault starting tonight at 8pm, beware of the footpath outside His Majesty's Theatre at lunch time today. At midday the irreverent trio will be doing a touch of busking and chalking the footpath for passers by, warming up for the unveiling of their new show Sex and Violence. And just to prove they're not the elitist, ivory-tower mega-star snobs they pretend to be, DAAS go public again at Karrinyup Shopping Centre at 5.30pm today. Shop at your own risk. If you're taken in by the whole affair, tickets to see the group take on a full audience live at His Majesty's Theatre are still available at BOCS outlets.

DOUG ANTHONY ALL STARS LIVE

(Hoyts Polygram, 90min.) by Kent Acott. Publication and date unknown. If anyone saw and enjoyed the Doug Anthony All Stars when they were in Perth last month, this video release should provide lots of memories. Filmed at the National Theatre, it is virtually the same concert we saw in WA - complete with the stripping, down to his pants, of a man in the front row. The video promotion claims that "virtually all the material in this video is offensive - there are only two clean jokes". It is a fairly accurate description. Without the restrictions of television decorum, most DAAS humour is crude, sexist and schoolboyish. Their real comic qualities shine through when they forget about exaggerated use of four-letter words and simulated sex. Otherwise, the humour is laboured and contrived. But the Doug Anthony All Stars have many fans as a result of their appearances on The Big Gig. These will, no doubt, enjoy this release.

THE BEST OF BAD TASTE

Publication and date unknown Mayhem and irreverence return to His Majesty's Theatre next Thursday in the grizzly form of the Doug Anthony Allstars. Call them bad taste, call them smart-arses, call them what you like, but be prepared - they will probably attack your foibles (and those of anyone else) with so much venom you will wish you played safe and laughed along with these maniacal mirth-makers. Parents of the Johnny Young Talent team could only muster a look of horror (followed by a grimace) when they discovered the Allstars had signed their children as their Brisbane support act. One of the troublesome trio Tim Ferguson said they wanted as a replacement the Brisbane Braille Society Male Choir, but they were busy with shooting practise at the local gun club and could not be disturbed. Comedy musicians Divine Decadence will be the support for them for their five Perth shows.

ALL-STARS IN ATTACK OF THE SKINHEADS TOUR

Publication unknown. By Derek Pedley, 1990 The Doug Anthony Allstars are heading back to Perth with their new show. Having successfully rid the rest of Australia of its hippy problem on the last tour, DAAS have now decided to purge WA of the skinhead plague. According to a spokesman for DAAS: "Skinheads are wimps and woosies who can't get girls. Most of them play dungeons and dragons too much and I defy you to find one that doesn't have a bum covered in pimples." DAAS will be at the Quarry Amphitheatre, Subiaco on December 15 and 16.