Cursed for eternity
29 12 2007
Down here in the ass-end of the world we are experiencing what some might describe as an ‘Antipodean summer’. This means that while most of the globe’s bounteous population would be going through the tail-end of their White Christmas, we have sunshine and mosquitoes.
Glorious.
On the subject of glorious, I’ve found myself awash in a song that has really been helping me get into the holiday mood. I can’t remember when it went up on myspace (maybe a month ago?) but it is swiftly becoming one of my most-played songs of this summer.
Ladies and gentlemen, the song is Back Of The Van by the very-international Ladyhawke.
It is an achingly 80s tune that brings to mind a dizzying array of singer-songwriter references, and that’s a good thing. After all, summer is all about stumbling into new experiences through a haze of the familiar, along the well-trodden path, all the while adding to the collective understanding of what summer is all about.
Cerebral, I know, but work with me people.
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My first experience of Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke was through her collaboration with Pnau’s Nick Littlemore on a little something called Teenager. I remember listening to the radio while holidaying in Melbourne when Teenager’s song Alone Again emerged. I’d bought their album less than an hour later (amen for Polyester Records). I’ve waxed lyrically before now how good they are but here’s a reminder for you (of how good they are) and for me (of where my summer experience began).
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Teenager – Alone Again from album Thirteen [ buy ]
Ladyhawke’s myspace says she splits her time between Sydney, London and of all places Wellington. I’m insanely curious to know why she counts Wellington among her ‘places I go’ (more the ‘why’ than anything else), but to be honest I’m more interested in knowing if and wishfully when she might next perform here in our nation’s capital.
Fingers crossed it won’t be too long. I’m an only child. I wasn’t built to wait.
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