Midnight Oil

Subject: Re:The Angry Tradesmen
From: "n0_reaction" <gmsky75@hotmail.com>
Date: 11/05/2008, 9:41 pm
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au

or "the Tradies", as me and my mate like to call them  ;-)


--- In powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au, "Tom Spencer" <tomspencer@...> 
wrote:

Hi Aliester (I can call you Al?)

The 'Angries' (but why are they Tradesmen?) put out a 5 track 
EP, "Beat
the House", a "pre-release EP" which was available at the Woodford 
Folk
Festival, north of Brisbane, last December.  The full album is to 
be out
in 2008.  The EP's tracks are:

1 My indecision is final 
2 Drug you're on
3 Big wave
4 Long grass people
5 Yeah right

The third track is my favourite - a high-energy surfie feel with a
relaxed refrain/middle eight (like the "Redneck Wonderland" 
single). 
When dancing to it at Woodford, several people up the front stopped,
caught their breath and wiped away the sweat at that point, before 
the
band threw us into the next verse.  "Drug you're on" has one of the 
most
confrontational lyrics that I think I have ever heard on anything
outside death metal.  "Yeah right" is a particularly good one to 
chew
over if you're in Brisbane, cycling down the riverside boardwalk,
amongst the new golden palaces and temples.

t