Down Under Hour
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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 148Weirdness ensues - possibly brought on by a pumpkin spice overdose.
Dodgy
Train -
Adrian Kosky, it was on his album The High Side of the Low
End, a 2006 release. Before taking up the guitar, Kosky was renowned
as a player of the mountain dulcimer. He splits his time between
western Victoria in Australia and Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Hard
Travellin' Newell Highway Blues
- Andy
Baylor, from his 2012
album Down Where The Banksias Grow.
Mothers
Not Feeling Herself Today
- Suzannah Espie,
the title track of her 2015 album.
My
Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes
- Captain
Matchbox Whoopie Band,
from their 1973 album
Smoke Dreams. The
song dates back to 1931.
Baked
Beans - Mother Goose, from their 1977 debut album, Stuffed. Mother
Goose started in New Zealand, moved to Australia, and were so
successful they often had up-and-coming future headliners such as the
Angels and Men At Work opening their shows. They moved to the US in
1978 and spent a year trying to make it there, before returning home
Down Under.
Dark
Was The Night
-
Brendan Gallagher, from his album Wine Island, a 2013 release.
Along with making his own records, Gallagher
is an in-demand record producer, session musician, and works with his
band Karma County.
Walking
In
the Rain -
Flash and the Pan,
written, produced and performed by George Young and Harry Vanda,
of Easybeats fame.
It was on their
self-titled 1978
debut album. Grace Jones had a hit with it in 1981.
Evil
Eye - Joe Camilleri and his band the Black Sorrows from their album
The Way We Do Business, a 2024 release.
And
I'm Blue -
Ariel, a
band from Melbourne,
not the little mermaid,
the
song was on
their 1973 album A Strange Fantastic Dream.
Ariel was led by the prolific Mike Rudd and Bill Putt and featured
Tim Gaze on guitar, from the band Tamam Shud.
Now
for a word from Holden
cars, from 1966 - and if you're in the market for a new
Holden, sorry,
they stopped
making cars in 2017.
Ambergris
- King
Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, from their 2022 album Omnium Gatherum.
A band called Died
Pretty had a song with the same title in 1985 – this is a different
song.
We
love it live
Antenna
-
the Church,
in concert in
2011 in Sydney. The
song originally appeared on
their 1988 album
Starfish, which they
played in its entirety for this show.
Play
With Fire -
Tex, Don and Charlie
(Tex
Perkins, Don Walker and Charlie Owen)
from their 1995 album
Monday Morning Coming Down.
The Rolling Stones originally released it as the B-side to the single
The Last Time and in 1965 it made it onto their album Out of Our
Heads.
Less
live but still real
Love's
Not Good Enough -
Skyhooks, one
of the great Aussie 1970s groups, the
song was on their
1975 album,
Ego Is Not
A Dirty Word.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp starts us off, moves us along, and
tells us when we're done.
