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Album Presentation by Algernon.
The Go-Betweens released this album 30 years ago. It was the final album by their original lineup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8ZH-Z59hQ&list=PLC8753AB9D674AFA5
05 Friday Oct 2018
Posted Algernon, Bands at the Pig's Arms
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Album Presentation by Algernon.
The Go-Betweens released this album 30 years ago. It was the final album by their original lineup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8ZH-Z59hQ&list=PLC8753AB9D674AFA5
26 Friday Jan 2018
Posted Algernon, Entertainment Upstairs
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AC/DC, Archie Roach, Australia Crawl, Clairy Browne and the Banging Rackettes, Cold Chisel, Divinyls, Dragon, GANGgajang, Gotye, Jimmy Barnes, Midnight Oil, Missy Higgins, Paul & Dan Kelly and Missy Higgins (and the Rockwiz band), Paul Kelly, Powderfinger, Renee Geyer, Richard Clapton, Silverchair, Spazzys, the Angels, the Go-Betweens, the Saints
Playlist by Algernon.
Yep they’ve all been presented somewhere before. Well I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzd_bcVDnJQ
To her door – Paul Kelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XaSm9-r_4U
These Days – Powderfinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erSJGrpfnOI
Working class man – Jimmy Barnes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD982yrmx4
Tomorrow – Silverchair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irNtyaNHq5A
Love Letter – Clairy Browne and the Banging Rackettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqJhfE08wxE
My Boyfriends back – Spazzys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfP6G0LSEA
Streets of your town – The Go Betweens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M3b9lh-7s
Know your product – The Saints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8F5mL_vRbU
Stares and Whispers – Renee Geyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA2waTkFZAc
Girls on the avenue – Richard Clapton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFFuukk9Y8
April sun in Cuba – Dragon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYSN8z0x7m0
Daughters of the Northern coast – Australia Crawl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVuJxIRd9U
We’ve got to get out of this place – The Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI
Long way to the top – AC/DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj-82dn75bg
Pleasure and Pain – Divinyls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaN4vma0n0A
Shark Fin blues – Missy Higgins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fm27zZ4psw
Droving woman – Paul & Dan Kelly and Missy Higgins (and the Rockwiz band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
Somebody I used to know – Gotye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJJV1nruUUA
Flame Trees – Cold Chisel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZEodxUx2ME
My Island Home – Warumpi Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtj21ALOHE
Beautiful child – Archie Roach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE
Power and the Passion – Midnight Oil
Hundreds of Languages – GANGgajang
24 Wednesday Dec 2014
Posted Algernon
inStory by Algernon
Streets of your town – The Go-Betweens
John goes to the letterbox to see if anything is there. He walks out to the kerb looks one way then turns to look the other way. Turns around then goes back inside. John and Jane built their house in the mid ‘50s around the time they got married. They’re now lived in the street the longest. John is about 80 and Jane two years younger. They’re active and belong to a caravan club up the coast. They head off on small trips regularly.
“Algy will you collect our mail for us” they’ll call out often at a time when you’re in a hurry. No problems John, bins as well. He says he’ll be back on Tuesday. Lately it’s just a knowing nod with a quick question how long are you going.
John goes to the letterbox to see if anything is there. This can be repeated 5-6 times a day. John will come and have a chat after all he’s a haveachat. He can talk the legs of a chair. A two hour session with him isn’t uncommon and you’ll come back wondering what he was talking about. The theme could change three times in the one sentence. Jane will often come out and rescue you from the chat.
Not much gets past John, he sees things that most other wouldn’t. Charlie next door lay at the side of his bed for a couple of days. John knew something was wrong Charlie never left his car outside the garage after 5:00pm. Little things nobody else would have picked up. Probably saved his life.
Next door to him lives Jill, said to have been a victim of the Granville Train Disaster, I need compensation she’d cry when we first moved in. She’s older now and somehow appears to have moved on. Her son Jed has lost his licence a few times for Drink Driving; he’s grown up a bit too.
Two doors down lives Nana the Greek lady, her husband George died about 10 years ago. George would have given you the shirt of his back, a generous man. Nana is the exact opposite. Appeared to hate children, if they looked at her she’d threaten to report you to DoCS. Needless to say all those with children over the years learnt to ignore her; leaving her to wallow in her own bitterness.
On the other side, lives Chet and his wife Vicky. They’ve got kids the same age. Chet came from a small timber town up the coast and left school in year 10. He’s worked for the government all his life. Vicky on the other hand grew up in a non conformist family at Glebe. They have kids the same age as ours. Vicky would tell you that they never did anything for Christmas or Easter. The oldest Alan was still believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny in year 8. Ours were about 6-7 when they worked it all out. Each year Mrs A would do an Easter Egg hunt for the children and did that until the youngest was 9. Alan thought no different. His Mum and Dad didn’t buy the eggs so the Easter Bunny must be real. He was most upset when Junior told him that Mrs A had been doing this for years.
Next door to them lived Alaric and his wife Sharon, they’re Chinese and both have lived here since their teens. Their parents live a couple of kilometres away. The lied about their address to get their kids into a supposedly better school as do many of the Chinese out of area for that school. Each to their own I suppose. He’s lived in the street about 17 years. Often asks questions about our car as we both drive the same type. We often catch up at home auctions around us. Across the road was a new development three strata units and a pair of two storey houses. The houses are an architectural abomination. Alaric and I went to one of the auctions. The builder was walking around the crowd. The houses are well built. He was looking for a pat on the back, I mentioned that it was a shame they didn’t use an Architect to design the buildings, He quickly walked across the road.
The auction came down to two bidders both Chinese. One was constantly on the phone. The House salesperson was there with the calculator. Alaric reckoned they had the exchange rate wrong. All the new owners are Chinese, which shouldn’t surprise given the area we live in.
John and Jane on a few occasions have had meet the neighbours get togethers to break the ice. Many go along to these occasions. John and Jane hark back to an earlier time when people looked out for one another. They tend to be well attended. Phone numbers are exchanged but you hear nothing more from them.
John and Jane talk of moving up the coast in a few years to a retirement village maybe. They’ll get a bomb for the house but it will get knocked down to build another one of those Architectural wonders I suppose.
John goes to the letterbox to see if anything is there. He walks out to the kerb looks one way then turns to look the other way. Turns around then goes back inside.
Some of the local drivers….
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=720181568049820
Merry Christmas to all the Pig’s Arms patrons from the Algernonian tribe…