Two Leaping McSpedden (one bending over) (Much More Ballroom)

In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger. Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.

THE LEAPING McSPEDDENS
Mock acrobatic troupe melding vaudeville and anarchy. Performed T.F. Much/Much More Ballroom (including the ‘human alphabet’). Members included Bani and Hugh McSpedden (a.k.a. Humania).

Published Much More Ballroom – You and me and who? Planet, 10 May 1972 (p.5)