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 […]
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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 JUKE BOX #11
Originally on the Correct Weight album, now on the double CD Correct Planet (it includes all tracks on Correct Weight and This Is My Planet plus bonus tracks) available from my website. This song is […]
Dave’s Australia Day Advent Jukebox #10
HALF TIME AT THE FOOTBALL Not bothering with the lyrics on this one. Vic Hotel 1977 live and sweaty. My Australia Day Playlist on Spotify is building. (To hear the track just hit the title […]
DAVE’S AUSTRALIA DAY ADVENT JUKEBOX #9
SIDEWALK SURFIN Written 1975 Brixton after a letter from Al (WildScrote) Howard about the #skateboard craze in #perth. This the live 1977 version: band Johnny Leopard guitar, Stuart Davies-Slate drums, Haydn Pickersgill bass, John Dennison […]
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 […]