Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] a little help please

Jeff and Jane Scott jscott@iinet.net.au
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:50:28 +0800


At 26/11/01 08:55  -0500, Chris Jansky wrote:
>Hey workers-
>
>I have a show that was taped from the radio around 1990.  It is from the 
>BSM tour and starts with King of the Mtn. after which Peter greets the 
>crowd with "Good evening, good evening fellow ausie's and kiwi's.  How are 
>you tonight?  I know the palms (?) are sitting up in the back.  No, no 
>that's not true, that's not true.  I spotted your sun tan my friend, it's 
>alright.  I recognize a refugee from a Yorker andy day of the week."  Then 
>they kick into Dreamworld.  I was wondering, what does he mean by palms 
>(if that is what he says), refugee and where is this show.


"palms" = "poms" ( = english people)

also "a refugee from Majorca".

London, 12th May 1990.

the comment is a reference to the fact that the Oil's travel all that way 
to play only to find the audience dominated by australians and new zealanders.


jeff...