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Nowhere Else to Feel Rotten

by Cheddar Road All-Stars

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    Comes in old school CD jewel case, just like the first one you got at Brashs.
    You beaut artwork and layout design by Leo Francis, featuring photos of the time, some lyrics and liner notes by Barry Dickins.

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1.
Cheddar Road 03:14
Cheddar Road by Barry Dickins with Leo Francis Cheddar Road my spiritual load Towards the moon you love to go I have followed you to Mars Now all you are is cars! In the days of yore Around the genesis of Reservoir Someone dreamt you up I suppose Unreal you are Cheddar Road! Oh I love you Cheddar Road! In the forties about that time They put in the old pipeline The pure genius that truly showed! People walked their cows up it Admiring the plops of shit It was rather primitive then I kicked the shit with my dad Len! Oh I love you Cheddar Road! I used to see The Highland Fling Met a lady who knew Errol Flynn The overheated bus it croaked Up Cheddar Road just for the joke! I miss seeing its deep pot holes In its splendid puddles some tadpoles All the men were Chris or Noel How I love Thee Cheddar Road! Oh I love you Cheddar Road! Unreal you are Cheddar Road! We waited for the bus all night The summer moon burning like a light People out in it were shelling peas! I still see all the pioneers trudge Up Cheddar Road in the ooze and mud All the way from Lalor they have come To walk the pipeline everyone! Oh I love you Cheddar Road! Unreal you are Cheddar Road! Oh I love you Cheddar Road!
2.
Vietnam War in Reservoir by Barry Dickins with Cat Canteri Vietnam War was on I feared the most for my brother John He didn’t wanna go to war Bad enough living in Reservoir Reservoir, Reservoir Bad enough living in Reservoir All revolved around your birthday That’s when you got that Purple Haze If you were unlucky in that jam They sold your body to Uncle Sam Reservoir, Reservoir Bad enough living in Reservoir Didn’t wanna go to war Vietnam War in Reservoir In the month of John’s birthday We checked the letterbox everyday If he got the call up card We’d hide in a foxhole in our backyard I was in the call up too Checking the letterbox, checking the letterbox Dived my frighten paw right in But dodged a ticket to Ho Chi Mihn Dodged a ticket to Ho Chi Mihn Harold Holt had no fucking clue Don’t wanna Waltz Matilda for you We didn’t wanna go to war Bad enough living in Reservoir, Bad enough living in Reservoir Reservoir, Reservoir Bad enough living in Reservoir He didn’t wanna go to war Bad enough living in Reservoir
3.
Bus to Dundas by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh and Emma Peel Get on the bus Get on the bus, Get on the bus To Dundas! Abandoning Keon Park In the intricate dark The old bus went to Dundas Street I still see the bunion feet In the melancholy People wet without a brolly Up chugged the asthmatic bus Driven by an apprentice 10 folks on it We stop, more hop on Up the back a man named Jack Making out he’s got a heart attack Git on! (Get on the bus!) Git on (to Dundas!) A couple of farmers sound asleep Chewin' garlic, make you weep Sitting next to barrels of milk We ner’more see their ilk Four miles of ruthless quag Half way down a couple of hogs their blonde eyelashes Fluttering at 2 swaggies ‘taches all the hogs, and thru the bogs The gears got caught up in their cogs And the young driver had to double clutch Yeh I don’t like his chances much Git on...! At last he got off the mud veering right off Cheddar Road Lightning comes and so does thunder On the bitumen we rumbles There’s a farmer with a goose Sleeping under paper news a soldier with the horrors He’s been on the bus for hours! Snoozing on me father;s arm As we sail past the lit-up farm And past where they sell the ice In great big blocks it looks so nice! A bob it cost to get the ice you whack a bob in once or twice A glittering block comes out On your toes it lands, you shout! Exhausted Ancient warrior Down High street where it’s stonier Swish puddles so enormous The drunk, he says ‘Tremendous!’ It stops for once at Bell St The dairy farmers to their feet Roll their bottles down the aisle In Bell st where they smoke a while We’re heading now to Dundas street... Dad wakes me from me sleep.. And the driver said.. ..Git off! Get off the bus Get off he bus, Get off the bus at Dundas! Git on...! etc.
4.
Favourite Cardigan by Barry Dickins with Cat Canteri Was it into heaven or into Rezza? I take a look For my dear father reading his books He’s back again my darling Len Reading those pages again and again Back again my darling Len Reading them pages again and again hey! He’s not a ghost but really there Reading his book in his favorite chair Into his PJ’s after his bath Into the garden to water the plants Peaceful, content my dear old friend He never died my sweet father Len Gentle and restful my dear old friend E Hanging in Rez with my father Len hey! Now I got his favourite cardigan on I’m turnin’ those pages I blink and his gone Waking from a dream we were Taking a walk down Edwardes St hey Now I got his favourite cardigan on I’m turnin’ those pages I blink and his gone Waking from a dream we were Taking a walk down Edwardes St Taking a walk down Edwardes St hey!
5.
The Broadway Barbarian by Barry Dickins/ Danny Walsh Oh he boasted tow-rope arms Had a mighty back on him Scratches on his hairy shoulders From the claws of screaming children And he crossed his ivory card While kids wept in his dreadful chair For all the rotten ones were doomed before your gore just went everywhere You just had no say in what he done He’d charge your Father a Guinea each Pulled all your teeth out, one by one Till you had no bloody teeth! Mr Bertram, The Broadway Barbarian! Chewing bloody cotton wool Our spirits felt so poor A mouth of silver too much to bear Spat out all our ‘filluns’ in Reservoir! Radioactive zombie processions where the gravel lawns are mowed with blood dripping from gummy chasms Oh how we glowed in Borrie road! Impossible to eat your tea a lemonade-straw-from your mother swearing you’ll never eat another ginger nut But Aspro…you want another! Take a rainy stroll down Broadway today But keep your eyes down in the gutter Like a miner panning for his luck You might find our little bits of silver.! Mr Bertram, The Broadway Barbarian!
6.
Gunny Thomas 06:21
7.
The Old Reservoir Baptist Church by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh There never was better Show and Tell Than the old Baptist church where we all went to Hell The old Reservoir Baptist Church burnt You forever with lessons well learnt To start with it was built on a lean All out of alignment the Devil in between The Devil in Rezza was what folks believed They’d be better off believing in Fairy Queens It felt weird prayin’ in that Old Wreck If you e’a fidgeted they’d be right at your neck I loved Christ and felt hypnotized Because they said (that) he was in front of our eyes But all I seen was real ugly blokes Determined not to make up any jokes What they dished up was plenty of pain And booked Jesus Christ to turn up again! Flock, you’re all gonna burn! The Reverend Stelling Was about as much fun As a hornet stinging you fair in the bum He screeched and he screamed about Rezza going up in flames He said if you laughed ‘you should be ashamed’ What I loved were the words of the hymns Attractive they were as hot dim sims I memorized each single Love word To go straight to hell just never occurred Such pretty young faces looking for hate If God is so violent then he isn’t me mate If Jesus was awful forget about him All of this teachings, just pull the pin! Flock, you’re all gonna burn! Flock, you’re all gonna burn! The flock were just awful I have to say Hating the earth in their own crazy way I loved the wildflowers asleep in the hay They were all hard those people as the shell of a cray They were just all really aunties and uncles Who had to withstand their vast carbuncles Who, though life was against them I hated the way they hauked up their phlegm! My Brother John and me ran home so fast Seen our dad with his trimmers on the path We were so glad to see him at long legged last He was much more fun than their paranoid ghost Flock, you’re all gonna burn! Flock, you’re all gonna burn! There never was better Show and Tell Than the old Baptist church where we all went to Hell
8.
Daddy’s Shout by Barry Dickins with Leo Francis One poor night our Daddy died But not thank Christ his beautiful mind It went on and on forever Memorised like Easter weather! I arrived to find him dead In his gardening shorts Amen! And all his tubes came out I thought I heard a tremendous shout! He was sitting in his chair Sulphurous face and silver hair Like some little light went out All those years our Daddy's Shout! Mum hasn't spoken for a year Finding it tough to dislodge a tear Hard to say if she loved him or not Sweet were the words our mum forgot All those hurtful drops of blood His face was down and then some His lovely blue eyes all shut It felt like God had left the hut He was sitting in his chair Sulphurous face and silver hair Like some little light went out All those years our Daddy's Shout! He once bought mum a rooster He wished she kissed him like she used to
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10.
Errol Flynn in Edwardes Street by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh There’s a coffee shop in Edwardes street Where old Italians rest their tired feet Where Errol Flynn himself comes in Desperate for a glass of gin Errol Flynn He’s walked up and down that Old Broadway Looking more like one hundred I have to say Missing most of his famed panache Missing most of his natty moustache Errol Flynn, Where you been? Errol Flynn in Edwardes Street Oh that is a thing to beat Errol Flynn in our coffee shop Hanging out for one with the lot! Errol feels slightly out of place And doesn’t act with all his grace Swings from a chandelier To the owner creates some tears Errol Flynn Errol doesn’t understand cappuccino Asks if anyone’s seen Al Martino Sick of swinging on their chandelier Decides if he needs a chronic beer! Errol Flynn, where you been? So he walks up Edwardes Street Sick and tired of his old feet Puts the cutlass into a copper Falls over like a crook grasshopper! Errol Flynn, where you been?
11.
The Shit Carter’s Hat by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh The shit carters creak up our road Completely propped up with their foul load They had a hole in the cart back then And carted the waste like a friend I’ve often cried just where I’ve sat Flat as a shit carter’s hat There’s nothing in life as flat as that They tried to have some dignity Picking up what we’d had for tea I sometimes saw the tins capsize I felt sorry for the sewerage guys I’ve often cried just where I’ve sat Flat as a shit carter’s hat There’s nothing in life as flat as that
12.
The Song of Donath Reserve by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh and Emma Peel Somehow it were never novel To go up The Oval Dried out fried out dusty paddock Community headache That’s all it was in times of frost It was simply there because Nowhere else to feel rotten Nowhere else to feel rotten Nowhere else to feel rotten! Mud and prickles misbegotten Nowhere else to feel rotten It seemed to go on forever Ingrown toenails, boot for leather! Nowhere else to feel rotten.. In time of summer pterodactyls Munched imaginary awful prickles When you did a lap or two A tyrannosaurs came in view Two miles of crocodiles How it seemed after a while Goalposts were our ghosts They are still The Oval’s guests! Nowhere else to feel rotten...

about

By the 1940’s, vast areas of Reservoir were still undeveloped. Paddocks laden with cows stretched as far as the as the eye could see. The roads were few. Of those that existed, most were unpaved and riddled with pot holes that filled with mud when it rained. But by the end of the decade, things had begun to change. Increased birth rates as a result of the “Baby Boom” and an influx of new immigrants from Europe saw Reservoir’s population increase exponentially. The “Great Australian Dream” was in full swing. Soon, Edwardes Street and Spring Street became bustling shopping strips, and the distant sound of cattle in the fields was replaced by the sound of houses being built. Young families keen to escape the crowded inner city moved in. Their children played cricket in the dirty, dusty streets and went swimming in Edwardes Lake on the weekends.
One of these children was Barry Dickins, prolific Australian playwright and author. In recent times Barry has worked on a series of verses which vividly capture the beauty, terror, humour and banality of everyday life in Reservoir.
The Cheddar Road All-Stars have worked Barry’s verses into this album of songs.

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released November 16, 2019

Nowhere Else to Feel Rotten : The Verses of Barry Dickins

1, 8 by Barry Dickins with Leo Francis
2, 4 by Barry Dickins with Cat Canteri
3, 5, 12 by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh and Emma Peel
10 by Barry Dickins with Danny Walsh
6, 7 by Barry Dickins with Justin Bernasconi and Danny Walsh
9 by Barry Dickins with Mick Meagher
11 by Barry Dickins with Warwick Dunn, Kit Warhurst and Danny Walsh

Cheddar Road All-Stars :
Barry Dickins – vocals on 6, 9.
Leo Francis – backing vocals, mandolin on 7, lead vocals and acoustic guitar on 1 and 8.
Danny Walsh –mandolin, backing vocals, guitar, lead vocals and guitar on 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12.
Cat Canteri – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on 2, 4.
Justin Bernasconi – lead guitar, backing vocals.
Adam Green – bass.
Emma Peel – keys, backing vocals.

Jorge Leiva – percussion.
Claudia Escobar – backing vocals.
Brooke Penrose – backing vocals, additional guitar.
Warwick Dunn – guitar and backing vocals on 11.
Kit Warhurst – drums and backing vocals on 11.
Mick Meagher - electric basses and sound design on 9.

Recorded and mixed by Brooke Penrose at Captain B Studios, Reservoir, Australia.
Except; 10 and 11 Recorded and mixed by Nao Anzai at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms.
Mastered by Nao Anzai at Reel 2 Real Mix Master.

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Cheddar Road All-Stars Reservoir, Australia

The Cheddar Road All-Stars project is a collaboration between Reservoir-based songwriters Leo Francis (The Rechords), Cat Canteri (Kutcha Edwards), Justin Bernasconi, Danny Walsh (Danny Walsh Banned) and Emma Peel (PBS FM), and prolific Australian playwright and long-time Reservoir resident, Barry Dickins. It also features an array of special guest performers. ... more

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