IML English Dept.

Images and Cold Chisel

This is the link to the freaky little page that Sylvie put up in the staff room. This is internet circa 1990 so you have to click into different windows until you get anything. I didn't really look into it but good luck. http://crdp.ac-dijon.fr/clic_images/#


Juliet seems to have the impression we aren't blogging enough. Of course she backed this up with the thought that maybe we are doing real work and talking to each other in person but she wasn't sure. So I thought I would show my solidarity to the blog and the department by posting a useless post.

To continue in your contemporary cultural tour of Australia every respecting Australian knows Cold Chisel. Legendary rock group started in Adelaide in 1973 and forged for the first time a music which was uniquely Australian. It's not quite the blood and guts of Christophe's musical tastes but honest sweat your eyeballs out rock talking about things and places specifically Australian (I remember hearing about the girls of St Anne's in a Cold Chisel song whilst being in the St. Anne campus drinking 50 cent beers). Officially separated in 1984 when they sold out the Horden Pavillion in Sydney in 8 minutes (a record never beaten) I saw them unofficially at the Adelaide University bar playing under a pseudonym I can't remember. We were about a hundred people at the start of the gig and by the time the word got out there were people beating the doors down to come in for the last set and lines going around the campus. Ah, youth.

Tim

posted by IML English Dept. @ 1:32 PM