BIG TROUBLE

Blog #19. | 26.1.2022

BIG TROUBLE WITH AUSTRALIA DAY - A REPOST.

Big Trouble" is a live, raw and unedited sorry poem. It's my take on Australia Day. History has a habit of weaving faction and fiction into a taught myth. From Australia Day to Anzac Day our myth-making,flag waving, icon shaping national celebrations have been a finely honed product of a distorted imagination fed by the DNA of colonisation, racism, and the exoteric disease of Christian self-entitlement.

The music was written and arranged by Phil Rigger with a special thanks to Bruce Carr for his inspired didge playing. The video was shot by Brandon Batton at Art Equity in Sydney at the combined launch of Deborah Young's Meditations exhibition and the launch of my poetry book Walking Skin.

The Big Trouble video features: TERRY McARTHUR - Spoken Word PHIL RIGGER - Keys, Vocals RAMSAY McINNES - Guitar GEOFF INNES- Trumpet NATHAN HANDLEY - Snare Drum, Percussion

© Big Trouble (McArthur-Rigger).