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at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,
if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,
look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."
(Slim Dusty)
Show 130It's
alive!
Begging
Bowl - Geoff Achison recorded a solo gig in 2011 and released it as
the album Live At the Burrinja Cafe, which is in the small Victorian
town of Upwey.
Along
About Midnight - Andy Baylor and his band, variously called the Cajun
Combo and Andy Baylor's Rainbow Band, from the album One Night In
Fitzroy, recorded in a pub, the Rainbow Hotel, on October 10, 1999.
Broke
Down Engine - Backsliders, from a show they recorded in 1996. The
album was titled Live At the Royal because the show was in the
Theatre Royal in Ballarat, a good-sized city in central Victoria. It
was the first permanent theater built in inland Australia, opening in
1858.
Heartbreak
Hotel - Still in Ballarat, Tommy Emmanuel in 2006 in concert at Her
Majesty's Theatre in Ballarat. Elvis did the song in 1956.
Face
In the Mirror - Chris Wilson, Live At The Continental, recorded on
May 20, 1994 in the sadly now defunct Melbourne nightclub. This
version from an expanded 2021 reissue. With Shane O'Mara on guitar
and Jex Saarelaht on piano and organ.
I
Drink - Bill Chambers, from a 2011 show in Tamworth, New South Wales,
the capital of Australian country music, the album titled Live At The
Pub Tamworth
It's
A Man's Man's World - Renee Geyer doing the Jame Brown song, from a
concert on November 14, 1998 in the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the
biggest stadium in the southern hemisphere (it'll hold 100K people)
and released as an album, video and DVD titled Mushroom 25. The
nine-hour concert included 56 acts, performing to celebrate the 25th
anniversary of Mushroom Records, organised by the label's founder
Michael Gudinski.
Never
Let Me Go - Vika and Linda, the Bull sisters, from an album they
released titled simply Live 2011. The sisters are best known as
backing singers for Joe Camilleri's band the Black Sorrows, and Paul
Kelly.
Destination
- the Church, in concert in 2011 in Sydney, it's the opening track
from their album Starfish, which they played in its entirety for this
show.
Concert
of the decade?
Paul
Kelly and Neil Finn joined up for a tour that peaked at the Sydney
Opera House on March 10, 2013. In November it was released as an
album and DVD titled Goin' Your Way.
Dumb
Things - a Paul Kelly song originally from the 1987 album Under the
Sun by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls.
Before
Too Long - first recorded by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls for
their 1986 album Gossip.
Distant
Sun - the Neil Finn song, first done by Neil and his band Crowded
House in 1993 for their album Alone Together.
Intro
thanks to Slim Dusty (G'day g'day, Slim), and Roulette by Dom Mariani
and the Majestic Kelp, Underwater Casino, 2003.
Exit
and extra: Pacific Heights - Baby Langston from their acclaimed 1998
album.
