DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX
NO FENCES Martin Cilia and I wrote this song around 1991. I wanted to make a statement about the importance of including one another into our culture. It’s a country feel with a bridge inspired […]
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Dave’s Australia Day Advent Jukebox #19
JOEY BLACK One of my hard rock numbers from the 1979 Correct Weight album. Has a few of my favourite lyrics in here. (`these streets aren’t safe for violence any more’) Live Johnny and Tony […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #18
FREE KICKS Second single for Mushroom, a football-themed disco-rock number. Mixing footy with pop music was just too ahead of its time. Or maybe it wasn’t very good? Though I reckon it’s not bad at […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #17
MUGS GAME In my Pus days (1973-75) I developed the idea of satirical monologue over a riff with Throbbing Knob. At the same time Pus was playing The Fugs’ ‘Couldn’t Get High.’ When I wrote […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #16
BIG LAND Something different today – I’m not the singer, although it’s still in the family. For my jukebox number today I’m handing over to Nicole. This is the opening track on her album `Forever […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #15
THE AUSTRALIAN ROCK AND ROLL INDUSTRY From the Correct Weight album this track is a snapshot of the Australian rock industry at the time – 1979. It was just before the likes of INXS, Men […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #14
WIMBLEDON Much as I like the original recording it wasn’t exactly as I heard the song in my head. Finally in 2017 I recorded WHEN and the song as I’d wanted. (just hit the title […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #13
MAN ON THE LAND A previously unreleased track for number 13 Man On The Land was something Martin Cilia and I got together to create in the late 80s hoping to write some material for […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY JUKEBOX #12
UK EUCHRED This song was track one on my fourth album This Is My Planet – which then became This Is Your Planet (a c.d. with extra tracks) and is now on Correct Planet, a […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #8
SURRY HILLS BOOGALOO Wrote this one in about 1988 after a stint down the road from the Hopetoun Hotel where Leopard was working. A low time for me as I felt no record companies were […]