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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 186
In
the northern hemisphere we are well and truly into the dog days of
summer. This show is going to the dogs.
Front
Row Seat - Office Dog, from Auckland, New Zealand, it's on their
album Prime Corner, a June 2026 release.
Under
Water - Dog Trumpet, from their album Live Forever, which came out in
late 2025. The main guys in Dog Trumpet are bothers Peter
O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa
(Christopher O'Doherty),
mainstays in the band
Mental As Anything. Reg
Mombassa is also an
artist and designer for
the Mambo fashion label.
Three
Legged Dog - The Cruel Sea, the title track of their 1995 album.
Win-Lose
- featuring the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, from the
soundtrack of a 1986 movie he was in called Dogs In Space. The movie
was written
and directed by Richard Lowenstein,
and Hutchence played the singer in a band called Dogs In Space. The
song was written by Ollie Olsen.
From
the year 2026
Avon
Valley -
the Bures Band, a
single from an album that's supposed to be coming soon.
Avon Valley is a national park in Western Australia, near the city of
Perth, which is where the Bures Band is from.
Bloodhorse!
- Grace Cummings, it's the title track to her latest album, which
arrived in mid-August. Blood horse is a term from thoroughbred horse
breeding and racing.
Kill
For the Steel - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, it's on their
album Alien Metal,.also an August release. King Giz has often toyed
with techno but this album is total techno, 40 minutes 58 seconds,
eight "song" titles but no gaps. The album sounds as if the
band plucked it out of the middle of a two-hour rave. By some counts,
Alien Metal is the band's 28th studio album since they started in
2010.
Into
the vault
From
1967, the self-titled debut album by the Masters Apprentices (or the
Master's Apprentices, either is accepted. They got together in
Adelaide, South Australia, in 1965, and in 1967 released eight
singles and their first album. We heard:
-
Undecided
-
Theme For A Social Climber
-
Hot Gully Wind.
Here
we are, back in 2026
Play
and Share - Ross
McLennan and Heir
To the
Squandered Millions,
another
single from a promised
new album. Ross
McLennan has been
around for many years with his band Snout.
Fever
Dream - Bagful of Beez, a single that came out in April. The band is
run by Link Meanie - aka Lindsay McLennan, Ross's brother - he's been
around for yonks with his other band the Meanies.
Midnight
TV - Huxton Creepers, a new single, their first new music since 1990.
Good
clean fun
Selling
cars, 1970s-style, with a TV jingle for football, meat pies,
kangaroos and Holden cars. Holden was Australia's very own car maker,
until it was bought by General Motors of the USA.,
Followed
by a comedy bit from beloved Aussie TV show Hey Hey It's Saturday.
Strange
Girl - Belles Will Ring, from their 2007 album Mood Patterns.
Dom
Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell
us when we're done.
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