There is this guy that walks into my friends bar (Southside – a rad bar in Brisbane) everyday with a kanga cricket bat and demands that they makes tea with black and gold tea bags. I just found this character fascinating. In a few songs I try and focus on outsider suburban characters that are usually hidden and outcast by society, reenacting tapping into their reality and what they view as normal. More interestingly, it asks a question about our reality and insecurities. It’s kinda like a big “fuck you” to everyone else for living normally and putting these people on a steeple for living outside any preconceived notion of how we should act/feel. It’s like they live out our alter-egos for us, while we hide behind a sheet of normality.
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There is this guy that walks into my friends bar (Southside – a rad bar in Brisbane) everyday with a kanga cricket bat and demands that they makes tea with black and gold tea bags. I just found this character fascinating. In a few songs I try and focus on outsider suburban characters that are usually hidden and outcast by society, reenacting tapping into their reality and what they view as normal. More interestingly, it asks a question about our reality and insecurities. It’s kinda like a big “fuck you” to everyone else for living normally and putting these people on a steeple for living outside any preconceived notion of how we should act/feel. It’s like they live out our alter-egos for us, while we hide behind a sheet of normality.