Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] What does Powderworks mean?
From: Chris
Date: 16/04/2010, 12:39 pm
To: Glitch Baby <glitchbaby1976@yahoo.com>, Powderworks <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

A "powderworks" is a gunpowder factory, yeah. The significance to this list is the record label of the same name, founded by Midnight Oil and Gary Morris, on which Midnight Oil, Head Injuries and Bird Noises were released. (along with a few other Australian acts from the same era - some early Spy vs Spy material, including the first proper album, "Harry's Reasons", for instance)

Why do the lyrics of Powderworks talk about a powderworks in the first place? That, I don't know.

- Chris

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Glitch Baby <glitchbaby1976@yahoo.com> wrote:

As a veteran member of this group, I am embarrassed to ask this, but here goes.

Tonight I was wearing my longsleeve maroon Powderworks shirt (remember those?) and my fiance asked what "powderworks" meant. �I quoted the lyric that it comes from, which helped somewhat, but we still couldn't really define it.

Am I just being thick? �Is this something I don't understand because I'm American? �Obviously it has something to do with explosives but does it have a more specific meaning than that?

-Sena

They say the truth is what you see

I know the truth is what you feel