digital download...

'Slow Down' is now available for digital download from the mongrel marketplace...

hamish
 

slow down...

'i remember thinking
or more correctly, feeling, like strings were being pulled,
seeds being sown,
agendas set.'

hamish

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angus
 

slow down...

"a reminder for us all, of how important and valuable our world is and to take a stand to help re navigate this 'earth' ship of ours."

dalbo

dalbo
 

be aware
be inspired
be involved

slow down...

The Bullalmah
Spirit world
Ancestral beings
that gave us the law of the land
From the Dreamtime to the meantime
You've seen many things come and go
From droughts to floods
and the soft silent fall of snow
You've watched the clever man makin' his magic
and the song man sing his songs
An emu as she runs kicking up puffs of red desert dust
From the wood to the spears
From the rocks to the guns
And now metal machines tearing up the ground.

mark

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band photos by:
Marshall Lee

The initial catalyst for Slow Down
came from a statement last summer in Australia
from ex-Prime Minister, Bob Hawke,
suggesting Australia should start digging up our huge uranium deposits
selling them overseas
and then take all the world's radio active nuclear waste back
and bury it here
because it would mean lots of money to us.

money
money
money

i was struck at the time
how odd it seemed
because it just came out of the blue -
the country wasn't debating it,
the issue had not been in the media,
it was a random mega statement.
i remember thinking
or more correctly, feeling,
like strings were being pulled,
seeds being sown,
agendas set.

Suddenly, not even 12 months on,
and the whole nuclear issue
and Australia's linchpin role in that
is one of the hot topics.

Then in about August i saw the Aussie film,
Blowin' in the Wind,
looking at the unknown facts surrounding
the use of depleted uranium weapons around the globe,
the very real potential for their testing in Australia
via the many joint military training exercises here with the USA,
and the alarming realities of using Oz to store the world's nuclear waste.

Shortly after, BROTHER was in France,
a country who has relied heavily on nuclear power for the last 30 years.
Talking to people there
we were told that their nuclear power plants
were built with a shelf life of 25 years.
Now 30 years on
the plants are compromised
and they don't know what to do.

Not good.

i was compelled to write
- thoughts, a poem, a song.
The nuclear path is not in the best interests of the earth
nor its inhabitants.
And Australia
with 30% of the world's uranium deposits
is a key player.

Dig it up
ship it out
everywhere
Make some good money for the next few years.
Mess it up
turn it round
bring it back here
where it's gonna glow
for a thousand years.

And a song was born.

hamish
 

On a typically hectic day in france a few months ago
hamish and i came separately to the same realisation,
had the same words come to us. we all need to 'slow down'.
Those words have become the theme of these times for us,
and the theme for more than one song.

Touring australia last year i was struck by the rampant land development, especially of the coast south of sydney.
We know this area well from our childhood summer holidays
- idyllic 'babe' like farmland on rolling green hills,
virgin bushland with an endless variety of wildlife...
but the landscapes i remember so well are fast disappearing.

And so came the lyrics which ended up fitting well
as the second verse for the song hamish began shortly after france...

farmland bushland, all the same
dig it up for a short term gain
they give me reasons say i don't understand
but isn't it treason to sell out this land?

angus
 

'Slow Down' and 'More Consideration' for me, take song writing the extra step. I feel I try to convey a feeling in every song I play live or record. These songs particularly have reminded me of how much more feeling I can put into a song by relating the lyrics to my day to day life. The frustrations of where the world is at times and the joys of helping to turn it all around, with our international friends and governments. I feel these songs are feel good songs but with a reminder for us all, of how important and valuable our world is and to take a stand to help re navigate this 'earth' ship of ours.

dalbo
 

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