KEVIN COSTNER HAS SOMEWHERE TO LIVE NOW THAT GRAEME CONNORS HAS BOUGHT A BEACHHOUSE IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.

Graeme my man! Get some You Tube vids up mate of songs off your STILL WALKING album, that's all i can say for crying out loud. Finding one is like looking for a needle in a haystack, in other words they're non-existant. You Tube is the world's biggest distributor of music multi-media Graeme so it only makes sense for a country musician like yourself to sacrifice a little intellectual property to get your music out to a world wide audience. GRAEME CONNORS, my favourite australian country muso alongside TROY CASSAR-DALEY, was always renowned for his more contemporary, almost adult orientated rock influenced brand of modern country music, and is considered to be one of the great storytellers, in the same league as SLIM DUSTY and TOM T. HALL. Although all his albums over the years have always been pleasant sounding at the very least, he saved his best for his very first album NORTH in 1988 and his most recent album, STILL WALKING, which was released in 2010. This is not the first time Graeme has frustrated me by not personally uploading some tracks from STILL WALKING onto You Tube, two songs off the album which are just brimming with satire and cynicism is the climate change pisstake parody A BEACH HOUSE IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, and the anti-stockmarket and anti-globalization rocked up anthem ALL THE MONEY'S GONE. I have already written about the latter on Lost Treasures, but A BEACH HOUSE IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS certainly has a very anti-left political message camouflaged within the satirical lyrics, which is in contrast to the profoundly anti-right wing capitalist message being conveyed in ALL THE MONEY'S GONE. Connors done a great job of taking the mickey out of all the left wingers and greenies who reckon the sea is going to rise that high that the ocean will end up lapping Lithgow and Sydney will go completely underwater before too many years due to global warming and rising sea levels. Of course Connors completely exaggerated the potential consequences of rising sea levels in the song for purely entertainment purposes but you can just tell in a round about way that he is still trying to convey a serious political message to the climate change brigade that he thinks they're full of crap. At least KEVIN COSTNER can now have a shit, shower and a shave and has somewhere to live besides WATERWORLD.