Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Re: LMOC Cold Chisel vs Midnight Oil
From: "Jeff McLean" <jeff.mclean@exemail.com.au>
Date: 15/02/2013, 6:46 pm
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
CC: "'dutchwaterman@yahoo.com'" <dutchwaterman@yahoo.com>

Couldn't agree more about Circus Animals - one of the most important
luggage items on an Australian East Coast road trip.

And if I was to embark on one of the most ridiculous undertakings ever,
I'd put Houndog on my desert island SONGS list.

On Fri, February 15, 2013 10:09 am, Stuart Tangye wrote:
 I agree ­ Cold Chisel were HUGE in their day and ever since. They won
loads
of awards, sold truck loads of albums, played to huge crowds across the
country and even had the ³audacity² to trash the set of the Countdown/TV
Week music awards in 1981 to make a point about the uselessness of tabloid
magazines. Check it out ­ classic TV footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cgbvRmJsmg

Their recent reformation tour in 2011 sold out across Australia and NZ ­
playing in venues much larger than than on their final ³Last Stand Tour².
When they announced their final shows (in 1983) they sold out 6 shows at
the
then just-opened Sydney Entertainment Centre which held 12 000 people.
This
was unprecedented for any artist at the time. Also, they had the honour ­
like Zeppellin and the Beatles ­ of having sold more albums after they
broke
up than when they were together. So there is no denying the love
Australians
have for Chisel.

And you canıt get much more of an Australian album than Circus Animals ­
put
that on and it takes you to places all around the East Coast; songs like
Houndog, Taipan and Wild Colonial Boy ­ then the tragedy of Letter to Alan
brings it all back to the grit and grime of Sydney, Kings Cross in
particular.

I only saw them once but it was spine tingling!

there are some interesting connections with the Oils to ­ apparently
Chisel
³gate crashed² the recording of Bird Noises at the Music Farm up in Byron
Bay in 1980; Don Walker co-write Deeper Water on Jim Moginieıs Alas
Folkloric and Jim wrote Healing Power of Helpless Laughter for the Tex Don
and Charlie All is Forgiven CD. Check it out!

Cheers

Stu

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Assoc Prof. Stuart Tangye

NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Immunology Program
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
384 Victoria St
Darlinghurst.
Sydney. NSW. 2010.