Help Down Under

[larryhammer]

I want CDs of some Aussie singers. Specifically, ones whose sample tracks I've loved (thanks to iRate, mp3.com.au is more dangerous to me than its Stateside counterpart ever was) but where my google fu has been too weak to find a seller who'll ship overseas. Thus, an appeal to the lazyweb. Are there any Australians reading this pretty good journal willing to mail anything by the following to the States?

Penny Flanagan (especially Light Sleeper)
Nick Hanlon and the Goddesses
Elia Bel
3AM

Assuming you can find them, that is. Or anyone else who strikes you as similar, if it comes to that (or on the lines of Penelope Swales*). I can reimburse cost + shipping (PayPal or check in US$), or swap US wares you can't find.

*Irritatingly, the version of her Monkey Comfort available in the States is a one-disc selection of the two-disc Australian edition -- and lacks "Lionhearts." Hmph, I say.

---L.

Comments

[rosefox]

This is the sort of question that's great for ljgenie. If you don't get any hits here you might try there.

[larryhammer]

Cool. Thanks. <makes note>

---L.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I will look for a band called Drowning, Not Waving. I think I have it somewhere. Digerido music combined with other instruments.

[larryhammer]

Are digeridos to Australian pop music what uilleann pipes are to Irish pop music?

---L.

[randimason.livejournal.com]

The Melbornean contingent of my FL is off at Continuum at the moment, so don't expect anythign quick, but I'll repost on mine.

Unfortunately I am sans the technology to make copies of Darren Hanlon and such, but there is the possibility of Regmail now that he has the ability to do so.

[larryhammer]

And another of the Melbornean contingent still hasn't gotten her CD back from the printer/duplicator, the last she said, or I'd be poking her with a virtual sharp stick to fling one this way already. Or maybe that should be flinging virtual boomerangs at her.

I confess my first reactions to Darren Hanlon is "an emo Luka Bloom" and "a little goes a long way." But that may unfair and the luck of which tracks I listened to.

---L.

[randimason.livejournal.com]

Do virtual boomerangs end up hitting you in the end? Never mind.

And yes, an emo Luka Bloom covers it fairly well. Which I can say because Reg isn't here to defend his musical tastes. Hurrah.

Am debating whether to call his hotel room in the middle of Doctor Who, as that's the only time I know where he will be for the next set of days. Mind you, if I do that, I risk being disowned.

I'm under the impression that interrupting Doctor Who for him is as great a sin as farting in church would be for Billy Graham.

Although with the size of his gatherings, I'm sure that a few air biscuits can safely be launched with no one truly noticing.

Yes, I'm depressed. Why do you ask?

[waited4thisday.livejournal.com]

aussie singers? Daniel Johns - The disassociatives. That is all you need to know

[enrobso.livejournal.com]

I can help you out with a copy of Penny Flanagan's Bravado as well as some of her earlier work with Club Hoy. If you're really nice to me I could even throw in a copy of her first novel Sing To Me

[larryhammer]

I can be nice. I can be very nice, if you tell me how.

---L.