06/07/2024
Wikipedia reports on the passing of Filipino-Australian rock star, writer and events director Ignatius Jones, who in the late seventies fronted the theatrical punk band "Jimmy and the Boys", who were considered ground breaking in the Australian music scene. In 1981, they scored their only top 10 single with "They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me". In 1984, as an actor, he appeared in an episode of ABC-TV's music drama series, Sweet and Sour. In 1985, he appeared on Culture Shock for SBS-TV as a reporter on youth affairs and interviewer. SBS is an Australian public broadcasting network that specifically serves minority communities. Jones directed the 2002 Gay Games Opening Ceremony, he greeted the audience of 38,000 with "Australia and the gay and lesbian community is not so much a melting pot ... We are more of a mixed salad, where every part remains separate, yet adds to the wonder of the whole ... I have been lucky, I have never had to come out, I was never in". Jones died after a short illness at his home in the Philippines, on 7 May.
