Various Artists - Songs from Down Under
This week we take our first trip outside of the main box of cassettes, with a compilation tape my friend Kathy made for me in (I think) the summer of 2001. Artist: Various Album: Songs from Down Under UK Record Label: N/A UK Release Date: N/A UK Single Releases from Album: N/A A bit of background then: Back in early 2000, I happened to be listening to James Whale’s show on the recently re-branded talkSPORT (the station had been known as Talk Radio, but switched to a more sports oriented output which included a name change in January 2000, however slightly confusingly they still had some non-sports based content, including Whale’s programme). Now whilst I certainly don’t agree with the man’s politics, he would sometimes have some interesting guests on, and so it proved on this particular night. The guests were a band called My Drug Hell, who I wasn’t previously familiar with, but who performed a song in session called ‘Girl at the Bus Stop’ that even on first listen I ...