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Decades
Just Like Fire Would - the Saints, 1986, from their album All Fools Day. At this point singer-songwriter Chris Bailey and drummer Ivor Hay remain from the original foursome. Guitarist and co-songwriter Ed Kuepper is well into a solo career.
If We Can't Get It Together - Tim Rogers and his band You Am I, 1996, from the album titled Hourly Daily. In 2021 the album came in at No. 11 in Rolling Stone Australia’s list of "200 greatest albums of all time."
What's That Sound - the Dolly Rocker Movement; 2006, from their album Electric Sunshine.
Totality - the Peep Tempel (no that's not a typo), 2016, a song on their album titled Joy.
If 2026 was a glass would it be half full or half empty?
Irresponsible - Peter Black, from his new album A Bowl of Spiders, a February release. Fans of Australian punk rock will know Peter Black as Blackie, from the Hard-Ons.
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die - Yumi Zouma, from New Zealand, it's on their album No Love Lost To Kindness, a January arrival.
Fever Dream - Bagful of Beez, a single that came out in April. The band is run by Link Meanie - aka Link McLennan - he's been around for awhile with his other band the Meanies.
Into the vault
Three tracks from Midnight Oil's 1982 album 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
- Outside World
- US Forces
- Power And The Passion
More 2026 - it's like they never left
Swimming Hole - Eddy Current Suppression Ring, a band that's been doing the rounds for 20 years, with a new album titled In Light Of Recent Events.
Seein' Spots - Kim Salmon, he's been banging around the Australian music scene since the 1970s, here he is with a band he's inevitably calling Smoked Salmon, and a new album, Totally Sick!.
Our idea of classic rock
Older Younger - Belles Will Ring, a Sydney band, it was on their 2007 album album Mood Patterns.
Destination - the Church, from 1988, it was on their album Starfish.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
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