There’s a classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Daffy Duck presents an act no other performer has dared to emulate. Warning those with weak constitutions to leave the theatre, Daffy – who is dressed in a Lucifer onesie – consumes gasoline, nitro, a “goodly proportion” of gunpowder and uranium-238, then swallows a match and blows himself to smithereens.
Cheered for an encore by an impressed Bugs Bunny, Daffy’s ghost delivers the punchline: he can only do it once. Such was the fate of the Hoodoo Gurus’ Dave Faulkner, who said much the same thing of his band’s legendary first album, Stoneage Romeos. “I look back at it with a bit of awe myself,” he told Double J this year. “You only get one shot at that moment.”
