Roaring Days
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Roaring Days is the second studio album released by Australian rock band Weddings Parties Anything
. The title of the album was based on the poem, "Roaring Days", by Henry Lawson
.
Weddings Parties Anything
Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1998. Their name came from The Clash song and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s.-Formation and...
. The title of the album was based on the poem, "Roaring Days", by Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest writer"...
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Track listing
All songs written by Mick Thomas, except where noted- "Industrial Town" - 4:06
- "Under the Clocks" - 3:29
- "Gun" (Dave Steel) - 3:43
- "Brunswick" - 2:54
- "Tilting at Windmills" - 2:53
- "Sergeant Small" (Tex Morton) - 3:13
- "Sisters of Mercy" - 4:42
- "Roaring Days" - 2:54
- "Say the Word" - 3:21
- "Missing in Action" - 3:07
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) - 4:39 - "Big River" (Dave Steel) - 4:32
- "Summons in the Morning" - 3:17
- "Morton (Song for Tex)" - 3:18
Weddings Party Anything
- Pete Lawler - bass guitar, vocals
- Marcus Schintler - drums, vocals
- Dave Steel - guitar, vocals
- Mick Thomas - guitar, vocals
- Mark Wallace - piano accordion, keyboards, vocals
Additional Musicians
- Michael Barclay - vocals ("Under The Clocks")
- Barb Waters - vocals (Tilting At Windmills")
- Anthony Morgan - cello ("Sisters Of Mercy")
- Dave Docker - trumpet ("Missing In Action")
- Mick O'Connor - hammond organ ("Titling At Windmills")
- Ian McKenzie - tin whistle ("Laughing Boy")
- Jason McDermid - brass ("Industrial Town")
- James Greening - brass ("Industrial Town")
- David Basden - brass ("Industrial Town")