This week’s featured song:
On Hold
From the abandoned Real Estate project, a song about depression. That'll get the family audience in, eh!
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Three-Quarter Time
This one hasn’t found its album yet, but it’s fun to play. Continue reading
Posted in Homeless Songs
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Hunting The Governess
I think the Sound Of Music excerpt at the start was Cam Rogers’ idea initially – I ripped off the same moment as part of the incredibly haphazard ‘book’ for A Largely Fanciful History Of The Spiegeltent – and then … Continue reading
Posted in Operation Gettin' Down
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Tullamarine (Reprise)
The ‘Tullamarine’ tag which closed Northcote Country Soul.
Dear John
This song didn’t fit in Northcote Country Soul at all – it’s almost totally humourless (which some might say made it a natural fit!) – but I had to put it in there. I can’t really explain it for those … Continue reading
One More Time
The long-lost other track (apart from “Senseless”) performed by the gorgeous 5 Wayz from Gippsland in Victoria. This was part of Northcote Country Soul. Don’t ever play it… or read the words. Hit ‘Back’ now before it’s too late. Sweet … Continue reading
Churlish
Part of Northcote Country Soul. My mother’s heart was big and strong my father’s heart was true my sisters were delightful in the childhood that I knew and I never had to go without or sleep out in the rain … Continue reading
The Book
Hallelujah! This song may make absolutely no sense to you whatsoever; it barely makes sense to me. It’s the second song from Northcote Country Soul, and introduces the theme that ran like a very very very tenuous thread through that … Continue reading
Tullamarine
This had actually been sitting around for a year or so, but it always seemed like the opening song of a show, for obvious reasons. It opened Northcote Country Soul, which was largely a show about Melbourne, Australia. (Tullamarine is … Continue reading
Brisbane And Darwin
Oh yes, the KEATING! behemoth rolls on, and don’t you worry about that. Like beloved characters leaving Neighbours, we’re a-headed for Queensland. There’ll be sun! Sun! In August! We remember the sun! We remember what it was like to be … Continue reading
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Helpmanns: Bring It On!
MELBOURNE, July 7th, 2006 – In the wake of a nomination for Best Original Score at this year’s Helpmann Awards, the Drowsy Drivers have apparently vowed not to follow the destructive publicity pattern of death threats and misinformation that they … Continue reading
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