Review - Urban Guerillas “Made In
Australia”
independent EP
Urban Guerillas have been playing around the Sydney pub scene for many years; doubtless
many nights were spent at the Sydney Trade or the Lansdowne! And through those
years the sound and line-up of the band have changed around Ken Stewart (in much the
same way as The Whitlams
around Tim Freedman) and all of those sounds are represented here on
the new 5-track EP “Made In Australia”.
No Way To Live opens proceedings with a punk/folk rock anthem, while Equation of Life comes over all Paul Kelly To Her Door until the “...A is what you want...” middle-8. Farewell is introduced by The
Workers United (will never be defeated) chorus, as “sung” by the 7000 voice
Phillips (sic) Street Choir outside John Howard’s Sydney office last year. The
song itself is a “salute” to the end of the old-aus
welfare-state order and hello to Little Johnnie’s New World Order. Fall to Pieces brings back the aus-rock tradition, while Claustrophobia closes the record with a John Lydon-fronts-Violent
Femmes ditty.
“Made In Australia” is
a step backward from the band’s last outing - the full-length “Just
A Lifetime” from 1996, but maintains the Labor
Party rage with a new musical outlook. Contact Ken Stewart at his e-mail
address [email protected]
or check out the Urban Guerillas’ website http://arch.su.edu.au/stewa_k to find
out for yourself where they’ve been, where they’re going, and how to get “Made In Australia” ««¶