Aussie Rock - Who is Your favorite Band

[teddy]

Thats a bit stronger than the sort of groping behing the filing cabinets that I was thinking of John. Thats the time a man buys himself a glock and says - I dont care what happens to me, they are not going to do that to anyone else.
We Italians have a saying -Good friends help you move. Very good friends help you move bodies.

teddy

 

[John Watt]

I'm seeing, and listening too, laughing along with,
a Steady Eddy who could be said to have a Frank Zappa ponytail.
Hmmmm!
Any furtherance, EddieRUKiddingVare?

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

You mean Steady Eddie the Aussie comedian, anyway glad it getting a good laugh

 

[John Watt]

I'm not immune to what teddy's saying, and it's not discrimination.
I don't blame a lot of gay people for getting into bands for a living,
getting away from the hateful attitudes of their home towns,
the wearing of make-up with big hair and clothes being accepted as stage presence,
so there is a greater percentage of outcasts in the entertainment business.
That's accepted more now than ever, but being predatory is never good for anyone.

 

[John Watt]

I'm hitting EddieRUKiddingVare with some titles off some CD purchases.
These are artists signed to "Modular Recordings", PO Box 311, Cremorne NSW, Australia, 2090
www.modularpeople.com

agaugefor
the avalanches
ben lee
the beta band
cut copy
eskimo joe
evan dando
new buffalo
rocket science
sekiden sounds like sunset

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Cool, of the list well known established acts here in Oz are:

Ben Lee, Eskimo Joe, and the Avalanches.

Of the others I would make the following comments:
Isn't Evan Dando from an old US act The Lemonheads - wouldn't call him Aussie!
New Buffola is Sally Seltmann not widely known here in Oz, would be much better known in Canada I would say for her work with Feist.
Rocket Science - never heard of them.
BrisVegas group Sekiden - had to Google them, never heard of them but I left Brisbane about 5 years ago. My Sons band - "This Modern Theory" and came second in the local Brissy battle of the bands and were associated with the Butterfly Effect but that is old history now.

Cut Copy- have heard of them and think they have had some success but not a big name.
the beta band- not Aussie a UK musical group
agaugefor - dont know much about this band - Frenzal Romb is much more well known here.

 

[John Watt]

I listened to the disc last night and it's a "Cut Copy" product,
with the other bands listed as part of the packaging.
That's nice, a round, album shaped piece of paper you can mail as a postcard.
"Frenzal Romb": I better start a band soon and use the name I've got while I still like it.

 

[Chi_townPhilly]

In Memoriam

Christina Amphlett- 25/10/1959-21/4/2013.

So I HAVE to mention DiVinyls.

 

[John Watt]

I remember her big hit song and video, a good-looking young woman.
If I riffed off the song at a time like this,
you'd probably think I'm touched in the head.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

I remember her big hit song and video, a good-looking young woman.
If I riffed off the song at a time like this,
you'd probably think I'm touched in the head.

I'm touched by your sentiment. My two favourite Divinlys songs are Science Fiction (which was there first single) and Boys in Town.
But seriously, Chrissy's death was big news here in Oz, she was our biggest female rock star and many female acts here have followed her style. Sad news indeed and sadly missed.

 

[John Watt]

Surprisingly, I'm seeing more rockers as being Australian when I just didn't know.
I would have thought the DiVinyls were from L.A. after all that MTV programming.
It's nice to know they're uh, still in rotation.

Somebody's got to break the log jam in the survey.
Who will it be?

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Surprisingly, I'm seeing more rockers as being Australian when I just didn't know.
I would have thought the DiVinyls were from L.A. after all that MTV programming.
It's nice to know they're uh, still in rotation.

Somebody's got to break the log jam in the survey.
Who will it be?

Good to know this thread is doing something for knowledge of Oz rock - Chrissie and Divinyls very Aussie formed in Sydney in 1980, with Chrissy being from Geelong near Melbourne.

Damn MTV good for rock careers but makes all acts seem like they come from LA.

Now some acts like Air Supply and Little River Band- let's just say they came from LA!

 

[teddy]

Oz rock? Is that Ayres?

teddy

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Could be - check out band called a Goanna!

 

[John Watt]

Geologists say the first land to emerge from the primordial seas was Scotland,
with Australia, and presumably, Ayers rock, being second.

EddieRUKiddingVare! I hope you're not just over-reacting to the incredible success of
Air Supply and The Little River Band.
I still sing "Love is in the Air" to myself, when I have a chance to move with it.
They're still using those songs for dance studios around here,
and no, I'm not having a prissy, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, moment with you.

I can't think of the actor's name right now, starring as the bad Matrix man in Matrix,
and being featured in many other movies, mostly as a sad and bad man.
I know in Australia he's famous for song and dance stage work,
especially singing "Climb Every Mountain".
My cousin used to sing that in the Port Colborne Operatic Society, making people cry.
That's not the kind of mountain you can chop down with the edge of your hand.

 

[John Watt]

Geologists say the first land to emerge from the primordial seas was Scotland,
with Australia, and presumably, Ayers rock, being second.

EddieRUKiddingVare! I hope you're not just over-reacting to the incredible success of
Air Supply and The Little River Band.
I still sing "Love is in the Air" to myself, when I have a chance to move with it.
They're still using those songs for dance studios around here,
and no, I'm not having a prissy, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, moment with you.

I can't think of the actor's name right now, starring as the bad Matrix man in Matrix,
and being featured in many other movies, mostly as a sad and bad man.
I know in Australia he's famous for song and dance stage work,
especially singing "Climb Every Mountain".
My cousin used to sing that in the Port Colborne Operatic Society, making people cry.
That's not the kind of mountain you can chop down with the edge of your hand,
and then make love in the sand.

Not "goanna", we spell it "guano" over here, getting more expensive all the time.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

Hi John glad you like Aussie Rock - yea Air Supply and Little River Band I should not diss, both bands contained key players over along periods in the Oz rock scene.

"Love is in the Air" however, was not an Air Supply song but was John Paul Young written and produced interestly, by George Young (Angus and Malcolms older brother AC/DC) and Harry Vanda of EasyBeats fame.

The actor your referring too is Hugo Weaving of Matrix and Priscilla Queen of the Desert - all moments are good John :grin:

guano now thats a but beow the belt :crazy:- Goanna as well as being a large Oz lizzard is the name of a big 1980 Aussie rock band. Refer to the early posts here for one of their videos "Solid Rock".

 

[John Watt]

From yesterday's Toronto Star: Startled roo takes a run at Aussie politician.

A politician taking his morning jog came out second best Thursday after crossing a kangaroo.
Shane Rattenbury, a minister in the Australian Capital Territory government,
which administers the city of Canberra, said he was running on a sidewalk in suburban Ainslie
when he suddenly spotted the eastern grey kangaroo grazing at the end of a hedge.
"We both got a nasty fright, and of course, when kangaroos are startled they lash out", he said.
"As the kangaroo sought to escape it landed on me, and its claws dug into my leg".
Rattenbury, 41, said the four-foot-seven kangaroo knocked him to the concrete sidewalk,
the claws of its powerful hind legs drawing blood with two scratches to his left leg.
His right leg was bruised.
A passerby saw Rattenbury was injured and drove him home.
His mother heard of her son's plight on a radio bulletin and took him to a hospital,
where nurse gave him a tetanus shot.
Rattenbury limped into the ACT parliament a few minutes before Thursday's session
and more than three hours after his painful brush with nature.
He was more bemused that many people seemed more concerned about the kangaroo's welfare than his.

You gotta love Australians.

 

[EddieRUKiddingVare]

and gotta love those kangaroos- great judges of character. Maybe a roo should be our next PM couldn't be any worse and a lot more truthful!!!

 

[John Watt]

I read that kangaroos are one of the few mammals on earth that keep growing with a good food supply.
What's the biggest one you've ever heard of?