Friday 26th November 1993 Sydney, Australia Football Stadium
Note: The quality of my MP3 is quite poor, making parts of it extremely difficult to transcribe. Please let me know if you have a better quality clip or you've been able to decipher anything I couldn't – do any Aussies recognise or remember what the crowd are singing?
MacPhisto: "Jolly good. That's wonderful. Look what you've done to me. You've made me very famous and I thank you." Crowd: [cheer] MacPhisto: "I know you like your pop stars to be exciting so I bought these." [shows off platform boots] "Don't they look glamorous?" Crowd: [cheers and whistles] MacPhisto: "Quite a spectacle, ZooTV, isn't it? Costs a fucking fortune." Crowd: [laughter and cheers] MacPhisto: [inaudible] "Well, I, uh... I'd just like to say that... I'm very disappointed by the way you're treating the, um... the monarchy." Crowd: [boo] MacPhisto: "I believe that it's... a shame, and I would like to say, as an Englishman, that... I used to babysit the Queen, and, um... I'm personal friends with the Queen Mother whom you tried to kill off just the other day." Crowd: [laughter and cheers] MacPhisto: "Style and swagger – don't you like Lady Diana's [sounds like "friendship"]?" Crowd: [wolf whistles] MacPhisto: "So why are you trying to sever links with the Crown?" [outraged] "After all we've done for you! Fish 'n' chips... punk rock... even your national sport, the game of cricket; where would you be without us?!" Crowd: [boo] Crowd: [singing – inaudible] MacPhisto: "I beg your pardon?" Crowd: [singing continues] MacPhisto: "Shall I give Lady Diana a telephone call?" Crowd: "Yeah!" MacPhisto: "Let's see what she has to say about all of this, then. How [sounds like "pro"] she is." [dials] MacPhisto: [singing – inaudible] "I just called... to say..." Crowd: [laughter] Woman: "Hello?" MacPhisto: "Hello, I'd like to speak to the Queen Mother, please." Woman: "I will get her for you. One momento." MacPhisto: [sounds like "Throw up the usual discussions about trade."] "Hello, I'd like to speak to the Queen Mother, please. ...Hello? Lady Diana?" Different woman: "Hello?" MacPhisto: "Is that Lady Diana?" Woman: "Hello possum! How are you, darling?" Crowd: [cheer] Woman: [laughs] MacPhisto: "I was looking for... Lady Diana or the Queen Mother. Wh-who's this?" Woman: "This is Dame Edna here, you naughty little devil!" Crowd: [cheer] MacPhisto: "Australian royalty! Oh... um-- I, I don't know what to say, I'm just here with a few friends and we're talking about this dear old woman ourselves. We were wondering if – heaven forbid – something should happen to the old dear, you might be in line for a promotion?" Dame Edna: "I'd love to step into those shoes! I would! But how did you get my number, though? Only Lenny Kravitz has got my number!" [laughs] MacPhisto: "I borrowed his suit and it was left in the, er, pocket actually." Dame Edna: "Oh, golly. Have you got a show tomorrow?" MacPhisto: "I'm always on stage as it were, Dame." Dame Edna: "Oh. You must come and see me, I'm in Sydney for two weeks – at the State Theatre!" MacPhisto: "Advertising [inaudible] here on ZooTV!" Dame Edna: "In a spooky coincidence, because I was at the zoo today, darling!" MacPhisto: "...Yes?" Dame Edna: "I was-- I thought of your beautiful album, Zooropa!" MacPhisto: "A-haa...!" Dame Edna: "I reall-- I adore it. Is there anyone at your show tonight?" MacPhisto: "Well, there's a few here." Crowd: [cheer] MacPhisto: "If, uh... if you're interested in a little song, perhaps, Y-Your Highness...?" Dame Edna: "Ohh, just call me Edna. You know you always do. You're very good." MacPhisto: [chuckles ironically] MacPhisto: [sings] "God save our gracious Dame, long live our noble Dame, God save our Dame! Send her victorious! Happy and glorious! Long to live over us... God save our Dame!" MacPhisto: "Hurrah!" Dame Edna: "Thank you, Bo-no! I mean – thank you Bono!" [Lemon begins] MacPhisto: "Au revoir!" |
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