FOND’A CIVIC
This entire piece was written without using the expression “Down Under.”
June 1, 2023
A man much wiser than I once said, “I love it when a plan comes together.” And though I’m pretty sure that at the time this deeply perceptive soothsayer was chomping on a cigar and talking to Mr. T after landing a van inside an airplane, he could easily have been discussing Melbourne’s CIVIC.
Australia has a rich history of unbelievable unsung bands of the punk and pub rock variety, as for every AC/DC there are dozens upon dozens like Rose Tattoo, Coloured Balls, the Saints, and X. Bands that made major ripples in influence and created timeless records—shaping everything from punk to hard rock to Oil—but never got the credit they deserved.
