https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bogle
here in australia and especially in Melbourne, we attract musicians from Scotland. What brings them here? The weather? the people? In any case They’ve done wonders for our music scene, bless’em
Eric Bogle is one of those musical scots who chose australia as his home and how grateful we are,
n. So many of Eric’s songs are the futility of war and the loss from war – I find myself close to tears. but then again all of his songs move me deeply, sometimes to actual tears. that’s how good they are. Prominent among these is “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, written in 1971, later covered by Joan Baez, The Pogues, June Tabor and many more. The lyrics recount the experiences of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) in the Battle of Gallipoli. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the Vietnam War.
to settle near Adelaide,
early influences Ewan MacColl.
his first written songs concerned his parents. One of these, “Leaving Nancy”, which sang of the day he left home for Australia, being the last time he saw his mother Nancy, was often covered, most notably by the Dubliners and the Fureys.
Several of his most famous songs tell of the futility or loss of war. Prominent among these is “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, written in 1971, later covered by Joan Baez, The Pogues, June Tabor and many more. The lyrics recount the experiences of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) in the Battle of Gallipoli. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the Vietnam War.
Another of his best-known songs, “No Man’s Land”, is also World War I-themed. This song is commonly known as “The Green Fields of France”, a title it was first given by the Fureys and which has subsequently been used in many further cover versions. The song refers to the traditional Scottish song “Flowers of the Forest” being played over the grave of a World War I soldier. Bogle deliberately gave the dead soldier an Irish name (“Willie McBride”) as a counter to the anti-Irish sentiment prevalent in Britain during the 1970s.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of zionist interference in Australian arts via @omarsakrpoet (thanks Pablo)
1) Triple J ‘disciplined’ Miss Kannina for calling Israel’s actions a ‘genocide, deleted her episode and axed all future guest-hosted programs on the Hip Hop Show.
2) The Sydney Theatre Company cancelled a performance of The Seagull after three cast members wore kheffiyehs during curtain call.
3) Artist Mike Parr was dropped by Anna Schwartz gallery for having the word ‘Gaza’ in his new work.
4) Antoinette Lattouf was unlawfully fired by the ABC for sharing a link to a HRW report on Israel’s deliberate policy of starving Palestinians, a report the ABC had already covered. They did this at the specific behest of a Zionist lobbying group called “Lawyers for Israel”.
5) State Library Victoria cancelled the Teen Writing Workshops targeting myself, Jinghua Qian, Alison Evans, Ariel Slamet Ries after investigating our social media posts on Palestine at the behest of a Zionist.
6) Academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has her multi-year ARC grant suspended after the direct intervention of Minister for Education Jason Clare, responding to a Zionist-led campaign against her.
7) 2024 Esoteric Festival cancelled Palestinian artist Juman; unrelated, but this year the festival itself was canned on its opening day and is now bankrupt.
😎 2024 WOMAD cancelled Palestinian band 47 Soul, but subsequently invited them again this year, presumably due to the backlash.
9) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancelled pianist Jayson Gillham’s concert for daring to dedicate one of his previous performances to murdered Palestinian journalists
10) National Gallery Australia censored an art collective’s installation to erase the Palestinian flag from the exhibition.
11) SEN Radio sacked cricket commentator Peter Lalor for retweeting posts about Gaza after Zionist’s complained they felt “unsafe” hearing his voice
12) Creative Australia Board revoked the
appointment of Khaled Sabsabi for Venice Biennale in a fit of racist and Islamophobic hysteria provoked by a Zionist campaign laundered through LNP politicians.
13) Subsequently, Monash university cancelled an exhibition of Sabsabi’s work
14) Queensland Music Awards defunded after musician Kellee Green’s “River to Sea” song wins Jazz Award.
15) Classic Cinema Elsternwick cancelled Jewish Council of Australia’s Palestine
fundraiser screening of No Other Land
16) State Library_Queensland revoked the $15,000 black&write fellowship awarded to K. A. Ren Wyld, following an intervention from the state arts minister and premier, based on her tweets about Palestine.
