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Mic Conway's National Junk Band
Corporate Chook (RRR45) has been launched to sell-out crowds across Sydney, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains. Described by PBS FM Music Director Peter Merritt as Conway's greatest studio effort in a long and distinguished career, the album has been featured on ABC Radio nationally by the likes of Lucky Oceans (Daily Planet), Red Symonds (ABC Melbourne), Carole Whitelock (ABC Adelaide), Richard Glover (ABC Sydney) plus ABC Perth's Breakfast show. The Junk Band performed live on James Valentine's afternoon show on 2BL last week and the legendary Mic Conway was recently featured on ABC TV's Collectors programme.
Look and listen out for the Chook in Drum Media Sydney, The Brag, Trad & Now, ABC Local Radio nationally, 2RDJ, Blarney Bulletin, The Glebe, Illawarra Mercury, PBS FM, Huon FM, 2UUU and community radio nationally especially 3RRR, 2BLU, 2VTR and 4ZZZ.
Springboard Media editor Geoff Green writes...
"If you are old enough to remember when music could be fun, then this CD will remind you who the UK's Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and George Melley were. If you're not, then welcome to some light relief from the digitanal insertion rationale of contemporary pop and rock. It's called 'entertainment' - possibly a new experience for the under 40s.
Liberally laced with Aussie humour, even John Lennon would smile at the band's rendition of his thought-provoking 'Crippled Inside'. Irreverence and vaudeville aside, there are smatterings of social comment with the excellent Kane and Welch offering 'Just Like That', and Randy Newman's wry U.S.government dig 'Political Science'.
To blend such threads into one album that gels, it takes a bucketful of skills from sharp observation of humanity, through lyrical precision that bites, to what might seem throwaway musicianship. That last ingredient is deceptive. Musical virtuosity abounds here, ably moulded into production by Marcus Holden and the Bloody Dog studio crew as we've come to expect.
Corporate horseshit is rightly put to the sword in '(A High Standard Of) Mediocrity' and 'Corporate World', and the final track 'Race Call Of Life To Death' is blisteringly funny. The definitive track has to be 'Rubbish Wrap', taking the piss out of what is the only justification for genocide - Rap - and all who write and 'perform' it, record it, sell it, airplay it, and waste hours excusing it away as urban poetry.
Jeffrey (Lord) Archer was once asked by a smug literati interviewer why he thought his novels sold so well. "Because they're a bloody good read." the unflustered author replied.
Borrowing from Lord Jeff, "It's a bloody good listen." is how I’d describe this work.
Go buy it and cheer yourself up."
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The National Junk Band live experience is also something to behold...
"Seeing the band for the first time today, I can imagine people being transfixed with a permanent smile on their faces. Every performance presents such an array of action on stage, there's no opportunity to get bored or divert your attention from the stage." (Trad & Now, June 2008).
It's little wonder then that the band has been confirmed to appear at the prestigious Cygnet Festival in Tasmania in January 2009.
Corporate Chook (RRR45) is now available on Rouseabout Records through MGM Distribution 5th July.
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Eric Bogle
Good news for fans of Eric Bogle...
Not only is he touring (see tour dates on this page) at present but there's a new studio album in the wings to be released on Rouseabout early in 2009.
Meanwhile Other People's Children (RRR39), At This Stage (RRR38) and The Colour of Dreams (RRR33) are all available on Rouseabout Records.
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Russell Morris
Congratulations to Russell Morris from the crew at Rouseabout Records on being inducted to ARIA's Hall of Fame. The ceremony was held at Melbourne Town Hall last month.
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FORTE - Golden Fiddlers
As Highland FM 107.1's Bob Cady pronounces...
"FORTE is a marvelous compilation that displays Australia's fiddling talent at its best. A great mixture of styles and performances. Will get a lot of airplay".
FORTE (RRR44) is also doing the rounds on 2AIR, 3CR, 3NOW, 5CST, 2BLU, 4CRM, 3ZZZ, 94.7 The Pulse, 3WAY, Triple R, 3RPP, 3RPC, 3PVR & 2BOB.
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Forte (RRR44) is out now on Rouseabout Records through MGM Distribution.
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