News Corp’s resident outrage generator Andrew Bolt took to his blog to fire at the Drones on Tuesday, calling the Melbourne band “foul-mouthed” and “stamping on the ashes of the west’s musical traditions”. He was responding to their new song Taman Shud, with the line: “I don’t care about no Andrew Bolt”.
“Critics like these make me feel I’m offending exactly the right kind of people,” Bolt sniffed, before embedding the song’s video into his blog.
I’d embed it too. It is such a great song.
Taman Shud – or tamám shud in Farsi, meaning “it’s ended” – refers to one of Australia’s most compelling unsolved murder mysteries. In 1948, an unidentified man was found dead on Somerton beach in South Australia. The phrase was printed on a piece of rolled up paper found in the man’s pocket.
Drones frontman and key songwriter Gareth Liddiard is all punk-like petulance in his retelling of the story, sandwiched between a shopping list of things he “don’t give a fuck about”: Anzackery, the Murdoch press, carbon tax, class welfare, the Southern Cross, stopping the boats, miner BHP, MasterChef and paedophiles.
My other musical picks of the week include a track from National Indigenous Music Awards winner Robbie Miller, a new jam from KLP featuring Remi and Sophie Koh’s cover of the Split Enz song Charlie, revisited in the lead-up to her appearance at the Darebin Music Feast on 24 October.
