Angie Hart (of Frente! & Splendid fame) and Glenn Bennie (GB3, Underground Lovers) have collaborated on a cover of the Go-Between’s Devil’s Eye.  It’s a great cover of the song, with Glenn and Angie complementing each other’s talents.

The song is part of Love goes on Anyway, a tribute album to Grant McLennan, The Go-Betweens singer-songwriter who died earlier this year. It’s great to see that this tribute album is being produced by an indie label, Rare Victory Records, as The Go-Betweens were one of Australia’s great indie bands.

Love Goes On Anyway, A Tribute to Grant McLennan, is Rare Victory Records’ testament to just how much of an effect the Go-Betweens had on an entire generation of music fans and musicians. These new versions that we’re hearing as they trickle in from various artists are astonishing, and they seem to conjure up the very spirit of what Grant and Robert were after, picking up a piece of the past and making it live again.

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• The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people who fear the number 666
• The Pope’s been known to wear red Prada shoes.
• Each person sends an average of 55 greetings cards per year.
• Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
• For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality.
• Rainfall on the roof and gutters of a three-bed detached house can amount to 120,000 litres each year. (Everyone should install a rainwater tank!)
• In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.

For these and 92 other things that we now know, but didn’t at the start of 2006, check out the BBC’s Magazine Monitor site. They also have an archive of their weekly 10 things we didn’t know last week posts, from which the 100 list was drawn.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas.  Now comes the tidying, the indigestion and the promises of new year diets.  I’m in the process of trying out a new design for this site.  Having the design ability of a colour blind zebra as I do, I’m borrowing a design from the guys at WPThemes, specifically the MistyLook theme.  I think I like it. It’s a nice, clean look and it’s got a few features that sell me. The way it lays out comments is particularly nice & I love the default banner image, but I really need to find one just for this site Found one! The it’s now a shot of the Brickpit Ring Walk at the Sydney Olympic Park. We went there this weekend with the kids. It’s a bizarre structure, but definitely well worth a visit, for the view and for the history..

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The reservations of many groups about some aspects of the new bill were at least partly appeased with the changes. Most of these seemed to be with the on-the-spot penalties for non-commercial copyright infringements, which appear to have been removed.

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