‘We can write what we want to write.’
John Farnham, ‘You’re the Voice’I want to tell you a story
I come from a saltwater people
Waiting on the weekend, set of brand new tires
Is running in your veins
I’m tired of the city lights
Let’s go down to the sand
You don’t need a friend when you can score
Out here nothing changes, not in a hurry anywayCall this history? But what could we ever really know?
So you look into the land, it will tell you a story
I would not tell lies to you
I love her far horizons
A rain of falling cinders
Yeah, we razed four corners of the globe
Now she’s gone, gone, gone like the wind
No way, get fucked, fuck offI come from a land down under
I’ll be coming home to see you tonight
I woke late in the middle of the day
The hot gold hush of noon
Crying in the wilderness
The hot sun is a killer
So long, long between mirages
I didn’t know how or whyThere was nothing that I owned
If half of what I’m saying, of what I’m saying is true
In convoys of silence the cattle graze
We see the cattle die
The Western desert lives and breathes
And rumour said there’s a boom ahead
More than working for the rich man
Mistaking tacky sex for sensualityI feel like a good time that’s never been had
Each passing day our culture slowly dies
Come and see the real thing
She pays us back threefold.
And that ain’t bad
Watching as the ships came one by one
Life is a bitter disappointment
Let’s swing for the crimeNow listen, we’re steppin’ out
Like a child at big store windows you feel confused
Help is on its way
You will not understand
There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain
Close the doors to the past forever
So throw down your guns
Dream on white boy (white boy)
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones