If you're near the east coast of Oz, and you'd like to see yet another way that Rob H. can thump drums into submission ...

http://backsliders.com.au/tour-dates/

A quick listen to the new album "Starvation Box" reveals "Flannelette Border" to be a good 'un (a recent rock song with a thoughtful lyric - nice! Maybe "Weird Al" Yankovic doesn't have to hold the fort alone). I also found "Angels Lie" catchy, and "No Grace" (with Jim M. on piani) is just such a simple, skipping, melody, I wondered why no-one had written it before.

(JB's Hi-Fi blurb for Starvation Box) - "Sydney's Backsliders - founding member and guitarist/ vocalist Dom Turner and 'new' drummer/percussionist Rob Hirst (of Midnight Oil fame: he's been a Backsliders for only 10 of the band's 25 year existence) return after a long absence with their new album. Recorded in another former Midnight Oil member Jim Moginie's studio, Starvation Box is an affectionate nod the band's past heroes containing five covers of past greats including Lead Belly, Robert Johnson and blues mandolin elder statesman and another key Backsliders influence, Yank Rachell. The album title is based on the story that Lead Belly's father used to call his son's guitar a starvation box (because it would make him poor)."

PS - The blurb neglects to mention that there's also a Fogerty cover ("Feeling Blue") on there too! But you won't have to buy the album, because commercial radio will play this gem for you 24/7, right??