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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 183
Peter
Allen was born in Australia in 1944 and went on to international
acclaim as a songwriter and performer. In 1980 he wrote I Still Call
Australia Home, although he lived most of his adult life in the US,
which led to the parody song I Still Call Australia By Phone, because
Aussies are expert at parody.
It's
pop
I'll
Be There - the Gnomes - that's gnomes, as in the little folk who live
English gardens. The song is on their album titled Introducing the
Gnomes, a 2025 release.
Who
Needs Who Now -
the Crystal Set, the B-side of a
1987 single. The A-side was the title track of their debut
album.
The
lead singer and bass
player in the band was Russell
Kilbey,
whose
big
brother Steve Kilbey
produced the album.
Steve Kilbey is better known as lead singer and bass player in the
Chruch.
Fever
Dream - Bagful of Beez, a single that came out in April. The band is
run by Link Meanie - aka Link McLennan - he's been around for awhile
with his other band the Meanies.
Tenterfield
Saddler -
Peter Allen (born Peter
Richard Woolnough)
singing
about growing up
in a small
town in rural New South
Wales.
He released the song
in 1972 as the title track to his second album.
This version from a
1996 compilation At His Best.
Into
the vault
Not
really Vault material, seeing as how it was recorded in 1980,
released in Australia in 1981 and everywhere else in 1982, but we
were talking about Steve Kilbey so, from their debut album, Of Skins
And Heart, here are three singles off the album by the Church:
-
Tear It Away
-
She Never Said
-
and Unguarded Moment
Is
random OK? Sure, random is OK!
Do
You - Steady Weather, from their album Golden Child, a June release.
Friday's
Blue Cheer -
Ed Kuepper,
a founding member of the mighty
Saints,
from his 1991 album
Honey Steel's Gold.
By
Water - Hedge
Burners, it's
on their album,
Fall Out of the Future,
which arrived in March.
As for the band's name,
vandals setting fire to
people's garden hedges was a thing in Melbourne in the early 1990s.
Somewhere
in there we heard a
little humor from a beloved Aussie TV show called Hey Hey It's
Saturday, which started
out as a Saturday morning kids' show and became a cult-like
comedy/music show for adults on Saturday nights.
Night
Comes In - two of Australia's most in demand session guitarists, Joel
Silbersher (Fancy
Weapon, Hoss, God, Tex
Perkins, much more)
and Charlie Owen (New Christs, Beasts Of Bourbon, Tex, Don &
Charlie, etc),
from an album titled Tendrils, something they did in 1995, and which
had the vinyl reissue treatment in 2018. The song was written by the
renowned English musicians Richard and Linda Thompson, they did it on
their 1975 album Pour Down Like Silver.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
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