AUSTRALIAN ex-pat David Brooks is back in Bury and playing a hometown gig tomorrow (Saturday Oct 14) with his musical mates from Oz.
David headed "Down Under" some 20 years ago to play football, just a year after being part of Bury's triumphant "Jeux Sans Frontieres" team in Portugal.
And he's now making a career in a four-piece comedy group which takes the mickey out of all things Antipodean!
He says the band went down a storm during a recent tour of Australian pubs in London, and tomorrow night they're appearing at Walshaw Sports Club.
The group, the Music Men, features three Australians David met over there, but that doesn't stop them singing "satirical" songs about everything from Neighbours and Kylie Minogue to Rolf Harris, Sir Les Patterson and even cricketer Shane Warne.
David (47), who played for Radcliffe Boro and Greenmount Cricket Club, was part of Bury's famous It's A Knockout team which won its European heat in Portugal back in 1979.
He still comes home to Bury each year to visit his parents, Audrey and Ernest, who live in Cardigan Drive, Bury.
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