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] Date Posted: 00:32:19 11/06/04 Sat saw an advert on tv today for radio 6 (digital tv and radio + internet) that promoted a programme about aussie music.......i cant really remember now but the person narrating said something along the lines of "remembering/paying tribute to the links between UK and Aus. im not really interested in the show but it was an example of the BBC promoting a Commonwealth link on national tv primetime. http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/index.shtml?logo ============== What has Aussie rock ever done for us? There's an old joke that asks: what's the difference between Australia and a yoghurt? A: Leave a yoghurt alone for 200 years and it will grow its own culture. People used to mock Australian music for being crude and 20 years behind the times. Now, they celebrate it for the same reasons. Ha and, indeed, ha. But while Australian is clearly a great country for weather, beaches, amusing wildlife, oddly compelling daytime soap operas and infuriatingly difficult to defeat sportsmen, its rock'n'roll track record is, at best, patchier than a Crocodile Dundee sequel. Now true, when an Aussie band is good, they're really bloody good, sport. In a sane world where Channel 4 employed people who actually knew something about music, AC/DC, The Birthday Party and The Go-Betweens would all be fighting it out right now for a place in the so-called UK Music Hall Of Fame. But take away those three wizards of Oz, the planet's finest festival Big Day Out and Brody out of The Distillers, and the case for the defence looks pretty damn shaky. The country's sheer distance from music's twin centres of Britain and America seems to negate the advantage of a shared language, meaning Sweden has produced more great bands in the last ten years than Australia has in 50. Although to be fair, it's probably also why the likes of The Saints, Radio Birdman and The Hoodoo Gurus went largely unappreciated during their briefly promising "careers". Their isolation from the rest of the world has meant Australia is responsible for the uniquely irksome "tribute" band phenomenon (as popularised by The Australian Doors/Pink Floyd), which started off as a way of appeasing world tour-starved Antipodeans and has ended up clogging up venues around the world that would otherwise have to book someone new and vaguely exciting instead. It's also thrown up the unintentional tribute band eg The Living End, who spent much of the Nineties being rather better at being Green Day than Green Day actually were at the time, and the shameless graverobbing riffs of The Vines and Jet. People used to mock Australian music for being crude and 20 years behind the times. Now, jaded by the knowing sophistication of Europe and America's finest, they celebrate it for the same reasons. But when the country's best known musical exports include INXS, Men At Work, Kylie and Jason, Powderfinger, Midnight Oil, Delta Goodrem, Jimmy Barnes and Stefan bloody Dennis, you have to conclude that really, living in Australia is just too ruddy great for them to have the requisite angst levels to consistently produce brilliant music. Why else would most of their youth be slumming it behind bars in west London if not to be well-placed for the Shepherd's Bush Empire? > More on 6 Music Goes Down Under Mark Sutherland, Presenter [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 02:58:13 11/06/04 Sat This is a perfect example of why a good number of Australians would not be interested in the FCS idea, because being sneered at by sad tossers does not appeal, and this kind of arrogant ignorance is very much what we come to expect. We should pardon the man's lack of perspective, I suppose. I mean, he has never heard of the Triffids or Hunters and Collectors, and we should take him seriously? Prat. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:14:56 11/06/04 Sat I think it's great that a radio programme is playing Australian music and promoting the ties between the UK and Australia - we need more of that. It's too bad that the BBC blatantly ignores that Canada even exists and reports every little thing in the United States as if they were the only country on the North American continent. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:24:29 11/06/04 Sat I once read an article about the British world view and how it has little to do with actual geography. The USA is where Ireland is, Canada is a small forest on a hill somewhere around Vancouver; Australia is in the Middle East, New Zealand is on a different planet; India is about where Holland is, and Europe is a small cluster of picturesque towns around Calais; who knows where South America might be, or what it's for; and Africa doesn't exist, except for Sun City. I think the significant part here is the US position... it hardly seems like far away, and the fact that, eg, Concorde flew between London and New York and never went to Ottowa has rather entrenched the idea that the US is more important and closer. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |