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at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,
if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,
look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."
(Slim Dusty)
Show 188
It's
springtime in Australia
Spring
Rain - the
Go-Betweens, from
the album Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, which came out
in 1986. It was
recorded in London and Spring Rain was the first single to be
released from the album.
Gonna
Be Good -
Paul Kelly, from his album Spring and
Fall, a 2012 release.
Spring
Time (Who Hasn't Lost Their Head?) - Sand Pebbles, from their 2011
album Dark Magic.
We're
not Angry, but he is
Angry
Anderson (his first name is really Greg), the bald-headed, heavily
tattooed frontman for Rose Tattoo, one of Australia's most ferocious
hard rock bands, has been having some heart problems. Angry, we wish
you well. With
Angry Anderson singing
and Pete Wells on slide
guitar, we heard:
-
Remedy - from
the Rose Tattoo
self-titled first
album, produced in
Sydney by Harry
Vanda and George Young of Easybeats fame,
released in 1978.
-
A clip from
the 1985 movie Mad Max
Beyond Thunderdome, starring Mel Gibson (American/Australian),
co-directed/written by the
Australian filmmaker
George Miller, with
Angry Anderson in the
role of Ironbar
- that was him speaking
at the end of the clip.
-
We Can't Be Beaten, from their 1982 album Scarred For Life. Produced
by Vanda & Young.
Guitar
Hero
Kim
Salmon has been a fixture on the Australian rock scene for more than
50 years and he's not even 70 years old - here's just a few of the
musical ventures he's been involved with: Antenna (with future Hoodoo
Guru Dave Faulkner), the Surrealists, the Beasts Of Bourbon, the
Darling Downs, the Scientists. We heard:
-
Swampland, the Scientists,
a 1982
single. This
version from the 1983 compilation Blood Red River 1982-1984.
-
Draggin' Out the Truth
- Kim
Salmon &
the Surrealists,
from their self-titled
1995
album.
-
Seein' Spots
- Smoked
Salmon, it's the B side
of a single, the A side is titled
Freudian Slippers and
is on the
album Totally Sick!,
a May 2026 release.
What
the...
Aaron
Chen - humor (humour) from the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy
Festival Gala.
Bruny
- percussionist/composer Harry O'Mara and his band and their brand
new self-titled debut album, Plonk. FYI plonk is Aussie slang for
cheap wine. Also FYI, Bruny is the name of a beautiful island off the
coast of Tasmania, which is itself quite a beautiful island off the
coast of Australia, which is a very big island ...
Little
Boy - Rebecca Barnard, Harry O'Mara's mother, and with his father
Shane O'Mara on guitars, it's on Rebecca's 2006 album Fortified.
Fake
news, new music
Radio
Is Dead! - [editor's note: it's not] the title track of a new EP by
Ups and Downs, their first new music in 10 years, coming ahead of
tour planned for October.
The
Perfect Crime - Ups And Downs, a 1985 single, and it was included on
their vinyl-only album Stained Glass Memories, a retrospective
compilation released in 2025.
The
best filler
Love
And Affection -
the Triffids., from
their 1986 album In the Pines.
This version from the 2007 reissue CD.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
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