I won a book!

The Australian government-funded free to air channel ABC has a late Friday and Saturday night music video show called "Rage". On Saturdays, for most of the year, they have guest programmers (or sometimes themes or tributes, such as the Nick Cave night, or the Heavy Metal night where Spinal Tap outshone a lot of the other acts)

The show's been going more than 20 years, and the producer has written a book about some of the more interesting/weird/outrageous/surprising programmers they've had on. And they ran a competition for people to describe a favourite Rage memory. So I did.

And I won a copy of the book! Woot!

I'll point you to my entry when they put it up.

30 day music meme . Day Six - A song that reminds of you of somewhere

Summer 1976. The family have rented an apartment in Yamba, NSW, where my uncle and his family live. It's a beachside town, and we did all the usual things - got sunburnt, almost got swept out past the heads, fished off the jetty at the back of the shop, drank far too many milkshakes... (Auntie June used to mark the syrup with the stickers from household cleaners. I have fond memories of "furniture polish" vanilla.)

So the song from Yamba will always be one that was playing on the car radio at the time. ( David Dundas - Jeans On. )