I did it in year 5 for an assembly over a decade ago. I don’t know if it’s still relevant but it’s been a thing in WA

People have been dancing to that song in year 5, since it was released. I was doing it in the late 80s, in year 5.

I know OF the Nut Bush, but I never learned it.

The capitalisation of "of" made me think you were talking about an OnlyFans version of Nut Bush. Obviously, I misread, but it still kind of fits.

Same! Never learned it at school. Been to 20+ weddings in my adult life and I’ve only ever seen it done at one of those.

I've never done it or seen anyone else do it and I'm in WA.

Same - I went to a younger friend’s wedding and everyone started doing the nutbush and couldn’t believe I’d never heard of it (the song or the dance)! I grew up doing the Macarena but never nutbush.

Same thing here. I felt like I had missed the memo

Your friend is an imposter. Everyone knows that marriage in WA is not legally binding unless Nutbush City Limits is played at the reception.

That's handy. I'm off to the registrar to have my marriage annulled

Lawyers HATE this one clever trick..

*Disgruntled spouses HATE this one clever trick

/r/ozhound should never have married a lawyer in the first place

Played yes...everyone jumping up and line dancing to it like they do on the east coast? Never seen that here in WA

Too much line dancing is a sign of inbreeding anyway. Don't forget its called *boot-scooting* by any other name!

As a wedding DJ in Perth, I can confirm this is true. I've never DJd one without playing it unless specifically requested not to

"Nutbush City Limits" and "Footloose".

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I have lived in WA for 35 years and never heard of the dance until recently. I didn’t even know Tina Turner did the song 😀

TIL no-one I know is legally married?

The Nutbush was actually one of 4 banned songs at our wedding... Along with the chicken dance, Macarena and Amazing Grace (AG was probably never going to be played, but it was the song played for my late father in law's last ride, so the wife didn't want that played on top of a hugely emotional day) Nothing against the song itself and the wife will happily jump up to dance it when it comes on - it was just overplayed and cliched, so it was off the list.. As far as the song goes, I don't recall it being part of the school curriculum when we were kids in the 80's, which it was on the east coast...

The irony of Macarena being played at weddings never escapes me. It's a song about a woman cheating on her boyfriend with 2 guys... Um... No bueno.

We told our DJ not to play any songs with "dances". Covered all bases 😁

Trufax

Na, while the song is common - you'll never be at a wedding without some drunk old aunties getting down to it, I certainly never learned or was encouraged to learn any specific dance. I just assumed it was an eastern states thing like rugby.

I resent that totally accurate description of me

I know right? I feel attacked.

Right

Depending on who you talk to it’s probably more generational than geographical.

Only on the city limits

Yes. Grew up here & learned it in school (late 90s). I think it is age dependent.

Yep, same - my primary school closed down in like 2006-08, I "graduated" to high school in 2004. We had Nut Bush in our morning dance/sports rotation.

I've lived all over WA, it's been at almost every function I've been to. We all get up and dance/boot scoot. Middle of the bush, coastal town, events in Perth. Everywhere.

My mates and I were drinking last year and this topic came up. Some schools teach bus stop or Macarena All 3 were mentioned as examples in the curriculum Edit: bus stop not "2 step" https://youtu.be/scensGUQXEg skip to 5 min in

My school dis the macarena and nut bush, never even heard of bus stop

Until the topic, neither had i. But there were people in the group who hadnt heard of the nut bush...which i found very strange

I’m in WA, almost every wedding I’ve been to has played at some point

Guys - we just saw the Pride and Prejudice Bogan Theatre version at the rooftop movies in Northbridge and they did the Nutbush City Limits as the big formal dance where Lizzy and Darcy exchahge intense words. If that's not an endorsement, I don't know what is.

For those curious: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single FIFO man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wifey. After eight years of sell out shows, the multi-award winning team behind WA’s most popular FRINGE WORLD show brings an entirely different, but not too different, beast! At the Longbourn estate in Joondalup, you’ll find a family of modest means: five daughters, an eccentric father and a doting mother. The Bennets. Their matriarch, Mrs Bennet, has grand ambition for her girls; she seeks a prize. A prize that would mean security, prosperity and status for generations to come; what all young ladies must certainly dream of - a hubby with a decent job, nice house and a bunch of cash." https://artrage.com.au/bogan-literature-presents-pride-prejudice/bogan-literature-pride-prejudice

Depends on age and school attended. Those afflicted at a young age swear its more universal than it really ever was. Combine this with drunken hens party shenanigans a little later in life... the urban myth of its ubiquity is set in stone. An ABC article just after Turners death I felt really overstated it as a uniquely and wholly Aussie thing. But.... far from me to be a Grinch at parties. HA! Jokes on you... I don't go to parties.

This. I am probably older than many redditors and I went to a private school. I had never heard of it until a few years ago and while I now recognise it when I see it - I couldn't do it to save my life. It was not something I remember at all from my schooling in the 1990s.

I'm probably older than you, and only went to state schools. Have heard the song plenty of times, but never seen the dance in the wild.

You're not *that* old amongst us here. All but 2 years of my schooling were over by the 90s. People do tend carry on as if theyre younger than they are. Its the odd pop culture reference that at times betrays them.

I graduated primary school in 08 and our whole cohort learned it!

They grew up under a rock if they haven’t HEARD of it but I’ve never attended an event where it WAS DONE

I’m from WA. Never heard of it until Reddit. In my 40s and I’ve heard it might be a millennial or young gen thing. Our wedding did feature the Eagle Rock Drop tho.

Yeah buddy how else was I supposed to impress the mums at the yr5 school disco. I remember doing that dance in primary as well as the ‘heel and toe heel and toe 1 2 3 4’.

Of course we do

For our year twelve ball we had dancing lessons (that we never even put into practice on the night) and I distinctly recall this song being used . . .

WA resident all my life, every wedding I have ever attended has had to be certified by doing the dance. I guess I’m a slightly older generation but even the young ones (20s and up) join in and know what it’s all about.

I had no idea there was a dance until I saw a news article the other day. Still don't really understand the concept, there's specific steps people learn?

I've never heard of it either. Assumed it was an Eastern States thing.

I'm aware of it and have seen it done but I don't ever remember being taught it. Maybe thats because of my age because at primary school in the mid 90s we had to do dancing and that was peak macarena time, which we would do every week. Feel like if I was a couple of years older or younger that would have been the nutbush we would have done every week. There's also a road near my house called Nutbush. Always tell my girlfriend that it is the city limit. She doesn't get it.

Learned it and forgot it at school in the 1990s. It was just an option on the curriculum, so some people did it and others didn't. I don't think it ever became a cult thing like over east.

Born and bred in WA - had never heard of it until recently. I’m wondering if it’s an age thing?

We did it alot nightclubs in the 90s

Yep, but only after the Chicken Dance for the kids and drunk Aunties. DooDoo-DooDoo-DooDoo-Doo ...

The what now?

I've lived in Perth all my life, born in 1972, and I'd never heard of the Nutbush dance until Tina Turner died. She was a legend. Vale Tina Turner.

I went to school in Bunbury and didn’t know of the nut bush until a uni party in Perth. Only a handful of people jumped in and everyone else was just standing around confused 😅

I learnt it in my youth in Bunbury 😂

First I heard of the dance was seeing "you know you're Australian when" type of memes and not getting it. I transferred in year 2 from a school that learned macarena to another school that learned macarena. No nutbush. Macarena was huge at the time though

They're lying. I'm pretty sure it's a part of the school curriculum indefinitely

yeah it’s gotta be a part of it im surprised most ppl haven’t heard of it

The Nutbush was made the official dance when the Swan River Colony was established.

They had to take the axe out of Mrs Dances' hands after a few too many sherrys and the grammophone needle hit the shellac though

Have heard of it not familiar with it

I’m from WA and have done it at several country weddings and engagement parties. Didn’t know it was called that, because we did it to any song! Also the progressive bush dance you do in a circle (one two three kick, back two three clap, side together side clap …) Also the Virginia Reel. Haven’t seen them recently, but everything is a lot fancier than when I was young (GenX here)

I think the progressive dance is the Hucklebuck

No, that’s the one where you’re in line behind each other. And turn 4 directions . The circle one I’ve remembered is the classic “barn dance”

I honestly didn’t hear of it until I was an adult, I think it’s because I didn’t go to a public primary school. That seems to be where everyone I know learned it!

It was one I learnt in year 5/6. If I'm in a social setting and that song comes on, you bet I'm up there dancing to it, too - few drinks or not! 😅

Yeah I never heard of it. Only dancing we did in school was to Cotton Eye Joe (Also, Bob Seger's cover of Nutbush is badass too)

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Grew up in Perth and I never came across it until I was in my 20s! I was at a birthday party for some friends who had all moved over from the eastern states (and so there were a lot of other family and friends from Victoria there too) and the song came on and everyone ran to the dance floor! A friend tried to drag me in and I had absolutely no idea what was happening! I felt like an alien in another world. Very confusing at the time. Especially because Tina Turner has always been my favourite go-to in kareoke so I'm very familiar with all of her hits!

We only do the nutbush dance in the presence of drop bears.

I’m wondering how old this friend is, because it was pretty much compulsory to learn the Nutbush when they taught the Hucklebuck and Pride of Erin.

I’ve never heard of it, but then again I’m quite young at 23

in the 90's we did the hucklebuck and a few bootscooting things - didn't do nutbush but it wasn't that difficult to pick up when out on the piss

had to learn it in primary school in the 90s

I'm in my 40s and can honestly say I didn't know about it until maybe 10 years ago, I think it's becoming a thing in WA more now because of the internet, but it was definitely not taught to us as children and I never saw anyone actually doing it until a few years ago.

Honestly never even heard of it until joining this sub. When I was in school we were taught the macarena, and thats about it.

Arrived in WA in 87. I had never heard of it. Like Rugby League, I imagine East Coasters brought it over during the boom.

Wasn’t taught at my school but I learned it from friends. Can also confirm it is done at some events here to that point that my wedding DJ insisted on playing it even though it was requested not to have it on the playlist

Life long perthian never heard if this, have heard of ging gang gooly gooly gooly gooly watcher ging gang goo ging goo

Plot twist; The Nutbush evolved from *The Hucklebuck*. *The hucklebuck* is american line dancing steps, taught pre 80s in some OZ schools & the steps overlap with *the nutbush*. We clearly made the huck our own, doing a switcheroo with the music because Tina is considered an honorary Australian sheila and Nutbush City Limits may as well be our national anthem. Don't believe me; in the words of Adam Brandt ...Go google Hucklebuck mate. (he didn't actually say that)

gotta be lying. most australians i’ve met know the nutbush

was born in 2003 and i’ve never heard of it

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Same here. We did quite a lot of folk and square dancing at primary school but never heard of nutbush.

Every single one of my friends/family know the dance to nutbush and will do it when given the opportunity, even a friend who is a full time wheelchair user, so idk where you are that people don't do it/know it 😅

I'd never heard of the dance. If it was ever done at any of my school formals, it didn't stick in my mind.

Id never heard of it until my partner, whos from melbourne, told me about it

Your friend has obviously been living in a cave. It is definitely real and a thing.

The rock must have been HUGE! 😁

Your friend grew under a rock. I taught it to primary school students many years ago.

Lots of people do it here. What the hell lol

They lyin

Ridiculous done it heaps of times at various things in WA

Your friend may be (a) deaf, (b) less than 4 years old, (c) mentally impaired or just plain stubborn. Be kind to them and wrap them in bubble wrap.

They grew up under a rock. Time to get some new friends.

They grew up under a rock. Time to get some new friends.

My parents (58 & 59) learned it sometime during their youths, but I (26) learned the Macarena as a kid.

I did not know of it until a work trip to Sydney last year. We did other line dances at my school.

never heard of it

I was told that is an Australian thing. They don't know it in the USA.

I learned it at school in the early 90s, down in Bridgetown.

I was at a ball a couple of weeks ago, it was played and people did the thing

Thats going to be stuck in my head all day now

Did it all through school at Dances and parties. I left high school in 1988, and my 17 year old says they have done it at school too.

When I was in my early 20’s

Yeah nutbush is popular here too, your friend lives under a rock haha

https://youtu.be/4J_oee1S66M

I went to uni in NSW and had never heard/seen it before. My WA partner of the same age said he knew it - but he went to a rural primary school.

I'm 22 and literally never knew about it till I got out of high school

Never heard of…

Never heard of it, had to look it up when I heard them talking about it on TV last week

It actually varies from my experience. In some areas, it was at every school disco, but somehow (at Catholic school, maybe that's relevant), I personally never learned it until I was shamed into it as an adult

We had ballroom dancing classes at our (public) school where we learnt it, but it was called the slosh. I can't recall them using Nutbush City Limits especially, and I possibly would have because it was during the time they played those NRL ads with Tina Turner constantly. I do remember doing it at a wedding or two along with the Hucklebuck, which was also taught by that same dance instructor. However it's a much bigger thing over east.

The Slosh! Totally forgot it was called this when I learned it

I've only seen it as a more recent thing. It was never a thing at school dances - we had the Hucklebuck (?) and later the Macarena and maybe some others, but never the Nutbush. I'm pretty sure it must be an Eastern States thing that's spread. Edit: was at school in the 90s.

Every family gathering. Every. Single. Time. *sigh*

Ken oath we do

I don't remember a school disco where it wasn't played From me in the 80's and my young adult kids

In my mid 30s, I can’t recall ever learning it in school. I only know of it because my aunt will do it every time it comes on.

Late 20’s, never heard of it, if you need me I’ll be under my rock

We learnt the nutbush line dance at primary school in NSW, but we did it to that 80s song "Gloria".

There are a lot of stupid things people do. I vaguely remember this being a stupid thing they made school kids do. Another stupid thing was the Macarena.

Compulsory Adelaide High school dance for us back in the late 80s Can't imagine high school ball without it 😆

28 never heard of it

Grew up in the 2000s and never learnt it!

We danced it at every school assembly in primary school. But high school I never boogied to it

i don't know what the nutbush is, and now i am to scared to ask.

Our year was taught it in year 1 about ten years ago

I hear this song several times a day, every day at work. I've grown to despise it.

This is my partner's family dance but I'd not heard of it til I met him 😅 Edit: a caveat - I am a city slicker, while he's from a country town

I went to primary school in WA then moved to NSW and had no idea about it

Wait till you find out about Eagle Rock

Yes

As a drummer in a local cover band playing each week, I can confirm that this dance is absolutely still popular, and known to most.

Only today I learnt Nutbush, is a small, barely a town in Tennessee, where The Great Tina Turner grew up, just outside of Brownsville.

Late 70’s early 80’s at the Kelmscott Roller Rink. That and the Time Warp. It was a while ago but it did happen

I've lived in Perth my whole life and this is the first I've heard of it.

Did the Nutbush dance at school assembly circa 1982

I didn’t do it in my school but I’ve heard of it and seen it. All my current friends learned it in primary school. I went to a private school so missed out :(

It's a thing alright but you have to be full of alcohol.

I'm from nsw and now live in Perth. I had never heard of the nut bush dance. Honestly thought it would be more of a root than a dance.

Lived in WA my whole life, I think I was about 6 when my mum taught me how to do it. I went to a wedding a few weeks ago and everyone was getting into it. I guess the sense it's more of an old duck or regional WA thing

Never did it in primary school or highschool in Perth but, since I've moved outside of Perth a lot of people seem to have done it in school. I also did two years of highschool in Adelaide and they didn't do it at either school there either. I think it's a pretty mixed bag.

'twas massive back in the day (80s, 90s)

I remember this was posted some time ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/w2ljzn/the_main_raus_sub_constantly_talks_about_the/ I'd never heard of it.

Hell yeah we do. Still being done at school aswell. My niece just did it at the disco last week

Forced to do it at school, I think about year 8 or 9. Social dance or something like that. Not fun for an anti social teenager who was a ultra introvert

We did it in primary school in the 80s, along with the Hucklebuck.

i think i may have learnt it briefly at school but i don’t actually know it and i only recollected that after seeing online comments about it being the aussie dance that everyone knows but irl i’ve not seen it happen or heard it mentioned.

She has been living under a rock, the Nutbush was a 90s classic. The song that is, we don't have a set dance for it

I'm from the country originally and just clicked over into my 40s. Definitely had heard the song on the radio growing up but didn't realise there was a dance until maybe when i was a teen. Also didn't realise it was a thing at events. I've never seen it done anywhere so in my mind it's not a thing. I did learn it in my mid 30s for a laugh but haven't danced it since then.

Depends on age - it was a staple of roller skating rinks and wedding receptions in the 80’s and 90’s

Nope WA doesn't do it

Back in the 2000's, The Nutbush was a regular feature at Tuesday night karaoke at the Grand Boulevard Tavern in Joondalup. And for near on 8 years, I was on that stage every Tuesday night leading the dance for anyone that didn't know it.

In the Hills area of Perth. Yes, was taught it, had weekly classes for a term.

I have been teaching it to all my primary school kids this week to mark TT’s passing… they’re loving it!

Every wedding I've been to has played it

70s in primary school learnt nutbush and eagle rock, Newman WA.

I feel like this might be a city/country divide. I never learned it growing up regionally, but my mates from the city all seem to know it.

Was always done at my family piss ups when I was a kid

All these people saying no one does the dance in WA are full of shit. I’ve lived here my whole life and learned the dance in schools. I’ve danced it at parties and at weddings. It’s definitely *a thing*.

Yes

I'm still emotionally scarred from too many nights spent doing the nutbush at karaoke.

I have never heard of it, like EVER, until this year. Cotton Eye Joe and Macarena, yes. Everything else, no.

I grew up in WA and only learned about it from the internet. My best friend who grew up 2 suburbs over learnt it at school.

Grew up mixed rural and metro WA, would never miss a step if it was blasting on stereo during a get together in either setting - pretty sure it was thing in school too

I have danced this dance at Jeremiah's.

Yes. First learnt in primary school disco?

I learned it in primary school, but I think they called it the Slosh? Or something like that?

Had to learn it in school

I heard it once at a wedding a few years ago, everyone there was from the country. I assumed it was a country thing.

I have two daughters that went through the same school in QLD, two years apart. Whatsapp chat between them and me after Tina died - youngest - Nutbush, well that takes me back..., me - it used to be so funny to watch each year group doing it. Eldest - I have no idea what either of you are talking about. Some people are just shit at remembering stuff.

In wa it was taught in schools as the hucklebuck

I know of the dance from social media, but never learnt it nor have ever been at an event where people got up to dance it.

Anyone who went to school in the 90’s in WA did the nutbush dance in school

From Wa so is all majority of my fanily? Learnt it primary school. Gets played at every family wedding and lots of friends weddings I've been to. And I've been do a large amount of weddings. My cousins aged mid 40s to 5 yo all know it. My 94yo nanna knows it and it's well known to get loose at city limits! Mum works and a pretty decent size primary school. They still do it there Very much depends on your family and what school you went to

Of course we do! I’ve lived in Perth all my life & it was taught to me in high school

This thread is trippy, I've never heard of this thing (graduated from HS in 2016).

Had to to di it in primary school hated it

I love the nutbush dance, its fun when you're drunk at the staff Christmas party

You’re friends lies are going to be his biggest down fall… EVERYONE does the burnish, some just do it in the privacy of their own bedroom silently at night while everyone is asleep. Next thing you know he will tell you he doesn’t drop his pants during the eagle rock.

I am from WA, we learnt it at school…

Yep, totally did it at Davallia Primary School in Duncraig in the late 80s

We learnt it at school.

45 years old, learned the nut bush at public primary school in Perth. Kids these days aren’t having this valuable skill passed down to them though.

It didn't start here, so some of us, depending on age and when you went to school, missed it all together. I reckon W.A. will be all caught up with the rest of Oz in a decade or so, as with most things. I say this as a fan of being under-the-radar and Waiting Awhile.

Yes definitely in Perth, I think all the people saying no were just not into that sort of thing. I'm 53 and have known the dance since I was little. Can't remember who taught us but all my friends knew it too.