Leadfinger: Friday night heroes, stories of (extra) ordinary Aussie-rock
After the great wave of visibility during the second half of the eighties, thanks to the record productions of groups such as Celibate Rifles, The Scientists, Midnight Oil, Died Pretty, Hoodoo Gurus, The Triffids, Moffs, The Stems, The New Christs, Hard- Ons, Beasts of Bourbon and many others, Australian rock has experienced years of partial oblivion, no longer being attractive to specialized critics, if not through a few die-hard Aussie-rock fans. Yet in all these years there have been examples of productions including some historical formations of the first hour, such as the glorious Radio Birdma n or The Saints; Nick Cave became a world-renowned artist; and there are many of the second wave that have held high the flag of kangaroo-land rock: waiting for a new wave, in the new millennium, today named after bands such as The Chats , RVG , Rolling Blackouts Coastal Feve r, Primo! – all of them and former Stem’s Dom Mariani Datura 4 released really interesting records in recent...