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Country Discussion : Australia

Straya or na?

  • Yea

    Votes: 25 48.1%

  • Nah

    Votes: 17 32.7%

  • Shrimps on BBQ'd Toast

    Votes: 10 19.2%
  • Total voters
    52
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Andy is the King said:
I wasn't going to respond, then I was, then I wasn't. What the heck. Five minutes of my life I can't get back.

The accent - fair call, aspects of it annoy me. Regional Queensland is the worst. But is the Aussie accent any worse than Brummie?

The racism - this is where it gets interesting. Are you referring to the Cronulla riot; relations with the indigenous population? I raise you Notting Hill, Brixton, Southall, Toxteth, the National Front, British Movement, Britain First......Didn't the first black players on Merseyside get greeted with monkey noises - from their own supporters? What about the religious bigotry in Belfast, Glasgow & to a lesser extent Liverpool? There are issues in Australia like there is the world over. Relations with indigenous people has a complicated history, but don't believe everything you hear in the media. There is much good being done which gets little coverage. Aussie cities are very multicultural & for the most part everyone gets along fine.

The general pent up aggression everyone appears to have, always feels like it could kick off at the drop of a corked hat - oh my; where to begin & end. For all the tenacity in Aussie sport, fans have never been segregated, caged in the ground or escorted to & from the ground by cops. Why exactly was the term "English Disease" coined? Isn't London the stabbing capital of the world? Lads in Australia get p!ssed at the pub or a sporting event & a scrap breaks out like it does in Liverpool & everywhere else. Our towns & cities have all the problems associated with unemployment, crime, drugs, etc - jut like they do the UK. The vast majority of Aussies are laid back & easy going. I am in my mid-fifties & never had any problems throughout my life.

Behave yourself lad with your finger pointing of racism & aggression. You quite honestly have no idea what you are talking about, nor do you take into account your own backyard.
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Whataboutism at it finest
 
Music scene in Australia is awesome, heaps better than the UK imho. It's a shame that some of the greatest artists here are relatively unknown in the rest of the world. Powderfinger, John Butler, Missy Higgins, Tash Sultana, Ball Park Music, Tame Impala and Gang of Youths all spring to mind.

I did a gig opening for Ian Moss a few years ago (guitarist from Cold Chisel, one of Australia's best loved rock bands) and I asked him why they never broke the US or the UK in the mid 70s when they were at their commercial peak. He said that they were unlucky, they'd been constantly touring for ages and were all getting on each other's nerves, so when the opportunity came to go overseas they'd all fallen out with each other. This was around the time that Little River Band and AC/DC were making it big in the US.

Incidentally he told me that Cold Chisel's drummer, Steve Prestwich, was a blue. His family emigrated to Adelaide from Liverpool in the early 70s when he was a teenager. He sadly died from a brain tumour in his 50s.
 
Bishop Thumpety-Thump said:
Music scene in Australia is awesome, heaps better than the UK imho. It's a shame that some of the greatest artists here are relatively unknown in the rest of the world. Powderfinger, John Butler, Missy Higgins, Tash Sultana, Ball Park Music, Tame Impala and Gang of Youths all spring to mind.

I did a gig opening for Ian Moss a few years ago (guitarist from Cold Chisel, one of Australia's best loved rock bands) and I asked him why they never broke the US or the UK in the mid 70s when they were at their commercial peak. He said that they were unlucky, they'd been constantly touring for ages and were all getting on each other's nerves, so when the opportunity came to go overseas they'd all fallen out with each other. This was around the time that Little River Band and AC/DC were making it big in the US.

Incidentally he told me that Cold Chisel's drummer, Steve Prestwich, was a blue. His family emigrated to Adelaide from Liverpool in the early 70s when he was a teenager. He sadly died from a brain tumour in his 50s.
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Not forgetting Eskimo Joe, Jebediah, Southern River Band, Birds of Tokyo, Spacey Jane.
And that is just Perth.
rIt's a very vibrant music scene here, but the tyranny of diatance means that very few become national bands, never mind international.
 

WA Toffee said:
Not forgetting Eskimo Joe, Jebediah, Southern River Band, Birds of Tokyo, Spacey Jane.
And that is just Perth.
rIt's a very vibrant music scene here, but the tyranny of diatance means that very few become national bands, never mind international.
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GUM is my jam lately. Jay Watson is a genius.
 
WA Toffee said:
Not forgetting Eskimo Joe, Jebediah, Southern River Band, Birds of Tokyo, Spacey Jane.
And that is just Perth.
rIt's a very vibrant music scene here, but the tyranny of diatance means that very few become national bands, never mind international.
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I can remember the ABC did a feature 10 or 15 years ago about the explosion of bands coming out of Perth at the time called Something in the Water, did you happen to ever see that?
 

Bishop Thumpety-Thump said:
Music scene in Australia is awesome, heaps better than the UK imho. It's a shame that some of the greatest artists here are relatively unknown in the rest of the world. Powderfinger, John Butler, Missy Higgins, Tash Sultana, Ball Park Music, Tame Impala and Gang of Youths all spring to mind.

I did a gig opening for Ian Moss a few years ago (guitarist from Cold Chisel, one of Australia's best loved rock bands) and I asked him why they never broke the US or the UK in the mid 70s when they were at their commercial peak. He said that they were unlucky, they'd been constantly touring for ages and were all getting on each other's nerves, so when the opportunity came to go overseas they'd all fallen out with each other. This was around the time that Little River Band and AC/DC were making it big in the US.

Incidentally he told me that Cold Chisel's drummer, Steve Prestwich, was a blue. His family emigrated to Adelaide from Liverpool in the early 70s when he was a teenager. He sadly died from a brain tumour in his 50s.
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Prestwich's family lived in a suburb called Elizabeth - named after her majesty. The lead singer of Cold Chisel (Jim Barnes) from Glasgow, also lived in the same area. It was chok-a-block with immigrants from the UK. Very working working class & rough.

I lived in Adelaide for a while. I had a girlfriend who told me she went to a house one day related to work. In the lounge room hanging on the wall were all these framed gold records. It was Prestwich's parents place. Still living in a tiny council house. He didn't care about the fanfare & gave the records to his parents.

One of the most iconic Aussie songs was written by a Scouser, Steve Prestwich. This song is like a national anthem.



Prestwich appears in the clip at 0:34 & puts the hat on his head.
 
WA Toffee said:
Not forgetting Eskimo Joe, Jebediah, Southern River Band, Birds of Tokyo, Spacey Jane.
And that is just Perth.
rIt's a very vibrant music scene here, but the tyranny of diatance means that very few become national bands, never mind international.
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Going back to the 80's, Perth produced some great bands - the Hoodoo Gurus (Dave Faulkner at least), the Triffids, the Stems, the Scientists......
 
Andy is the King said:
Prestwich's family lived in a suburb called Elizabeth - named after her majesty. The lead singer of Cold Chisel (Jim Barnes) from Glasgow, also lived in the same area. It was chok-a-block with immigrants from the UK. Very working working class & rough.

I lived in Adelaide for a while. I had a girlfriend who told me she went to a house one day related to work. In the lounge room hanging on the wall were all these framed gold records. It was Prestwich's parents place. Still living in a tiny council house. He didn't care about the fanfare & gave the records to his parents.

One of the most iconic Aussie songs was written by a Scouser, Steve Prestwich. This song is like a national anthem.



Prestwich appears in the clip at 0:34 & puts the hat on his head.
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That's the only cold chisel song I can tolerate
 

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