MY WIFE'S EXPERIENCE
Australia Day is usually my excuse to post great Australian music usually rock from over 25 years ago but we'll get to that later........My Mrs who gets a bit of mention here & there on me blog immigrated to Australia in 1987 when she was 13. She was from a lil' ole town in North Wales called Colwyn Bay which according to my vintage poster is the gateway to the Welsh Rockies. I didn't know they had a 'Rockies', neither did Emma, but there you go. Anyway on the plane on the way over she first encountered
Johnny Farnham (Above) on one of those headset channels. The LP
Whispering Jack apparently had its own station. She played the album several times on the long flight. It was a pretty big foretaste of what was to come because he ruled the airwaves and charts for the rest of the 80s.
Whispering Jack sold a lot of units it's probably the biggest selling Aussie LP of all time. I did work experience in a record shop in 1987 and it outsold everything 50 to 1 and I think it had already been out for a year. Anyway I think even
Coldplay did a cover of
You're The Voice. I've heard this song so many times I don't know if I like it or hate it.
This was her next experience of liking Australian rock.
Crowded House were a Melbourne band believe it or not. They lived, formed and played in Melbourne. At the start they went by the name
The Mullanes. Emma got really into their 2nd and best LP
Temple Of Low Men. Her favorite tune was
Into Temptation. Funnily enough it was mine too and on a good night I can do a great version (well back in my drinking days). Yeah sometimes I'm a dag!
Now one of my wife's faves is
Kasey Chambers who's an accomplished and popular country/pop singer/songwriter in Australia. This song
Guilty I believe is a cover though but I don't know who by. It reminds me a little of
INXS at their most rockin. Kasey is at her best when the guitars are really heavy. I think it's her dad who plays the axe on this one and he is a hell of a guitarist. I like a lot.
