Its one of those songs where if your goal was only to sell records, whatever it took to do it, then the song would have been called This is Australia. But its not about that. Its a brick veneer drama. My parents got divorced when they came to Australia, it was a horrible period of my life. The song was used in a Coca-Cola ad and in the feature film, North Shore. It was Bundaberg in and, when Callaghan started at the Christian Brothers school now Shalom College , he was painfully aware of the suspicion he aroused in the Aussie kids in his class because of his "Pommy" accent.
Those first few months were tough - it was difficult to make friends and everything seemed so foreign to him. Callaghan and his family lived in a simple brick veneer home in Kalkie now owned by former Member for Hinkler Paul Neville , surrounded by scrub and cane fields. Cane fires were prevalent in those times, and he found it strange to watch the crops grow and grow around them for months, only to disappear in what seemed like an instant after a great show of leaping flame and deafening crackle.
But he worked at chipping away the prejudices of his peers. He joined sporting clubs such as Bingera FC and eventually made friends out of those suspicious Aussies. Aged 15, Callaghan penned the words to a poem from the deck of his home that would one day become Sounds of Then, with the memorable chorus: "Out on the patio we'd sit, and the humidity we'd breathe. We'd watch the lightning crack over canefields, laugh and think, this is Australia.
When he left Bundaberg a few years later to study architecture at the University of Queensland, he found himself among a concentrated collective of like-minded people for the first time in his life. We were a small class of 40, but 13 of us played the guitar," he said.
He formed a band with three others from that class in , jamming and playing punk gigs here and there: "Punk was all about just getting out there and playing, not being a virtuoso. By , that foursome had evolved into the Riptides, and Callaghan decided to give up uni after four years of study, once he had gained his diploma of design something that has come in handy for house renovations but not much else. Pill For The Pain. Let It Go. Carioca Girl.
Anodyne Dream. Ordinary World. Maybe I. View 10 more explanations. Write an explanation. Bold Italic Link Add an image new! Explanation guidelines: Describe what artist is trying to say in a certain line, whether it's personal feelings, strong statement or something else. Provide song facts, names, places and other worthy info that may give readers a perfect insight on the song's meaning.
Add links, pictures and videos to make your explanation more appealing. Provide quotes to support the facts you mention. Before you get started, be sure to check out these explanations created by our users: good , very good , great.
Request explanation. Ask us or our community about the part of the song that interests you We will try to respond as soon as possible. Keep posting annotations and earn respect from LyricsMode community. Cancel Correct.
0コメント