Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Episode 112-Gently Now

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is my reaction to learning from the radio and then the internet that Rise Up Australia, (a less crazy on the outside, but no less miss guided than good old Pauline Hanson and her crazies I think, political party), is organising a "Reclaim Australia" rally on the weekend, which made me immediately think of the Cronulla riots and how bloody shameful and racist and dense that whole kerfuffle was and how this could certainly lead to the same kinda thing. Definitely some anti Muslim sentiment going on in Australia at this point which irks me no end because its basically a lumping together of a whole lot of individuals into one over the top image of some extremist garbage which is "extremist", meaning not something that everybody buys into. Sure over in the Middle East atrocities are happening that should be stopped at the hands of I'd dare say far too many extremists, but not here, Australia doesn't need to be reclaimed from anyone, and as a work friend of mine said today, how can anybody reclaim it if it never belonged to them in the first place, you don't see people rallying to ship all us white folks out and give Australia back to it's original inhabitants.
I'm not a political person, more emotional than political, because I know that any political issue is a massive can of worms, but here's my two cents on this anyways. Hope you like it anyways, it's just a song.

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Episode 111-Meet Me at the Meat Market

 
 
Hello listeners, this weeks song is a tune about a couple of fictional gay men who are getting on a bit, one is a failed predatory type, tries to reel in young folks with no success, the other is the only person who cares about his friend really, at the end of the day, and drags him back home drunk after he's failed yet again, but isn't entirely ecstatic about this life. I kinda stole a bit of Paul McCartneys "No More Lonely Nights" for the choruses, kind of a cynical twist on that I guess.
Thanks for your time and your ears. Hope you enjoy it.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Episode 110-Marius & Eponine

 
 
Hello. This weeks tune is based on a quote from Le Miserable:
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."
I extrapolated it into a kind of depressing old Englishy lullaby kind of a thing that I can imagine being sung by a grandmother to her grandchild. I'm aware that somebody already turned this entire story into a to a pile of super amazing tunes, but I read this and had a go at my own anyways, I think it works out of context even though I named it after the characters in the book, (they have great names). Thanks for your time, as always.

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Episode 109-We're Friendly Now


 
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a Mandolin one about permanent separation, based on my own from a marriage quite a while ago but hyperbolised and maybe not entirely about that really. I'm not sure. Anyways, hope it's a good listen and thanks for your time.

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Episode 108-Steady

 
 
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a finger picking ukulele tune. It's meaning I can't really talk about other than like the song says, I'm not gonna talk about it, but I hope that it says whatever it wants to say to whoever hears it anyways, and that it's a good listen.
I've seen a lot of live music recently and wanted to send some recommendations out with this week's tune, Jordie Lane, The Darling Downs, Ruth Moody and Rowena Wise were all seen/heard and massively appreciated by myself and a bunch of other folks this past weekend and I think you should check 'em out. As always, thanks for your time and ears, much appreciated.