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Sounds

This section features downloadable mp3s of poems and music, as well as links to other sound pieces published elsewhere online.

  • Les Fauves: “Sunbury 97”

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    8 min read

    “Lazy Highways, that was our Australiana record, I suppose.”–Andrew Cox, The Fauves My contribution to this episode of Fauves Are the Best People was recorded in February 2025, in the depths of Dutch winter. I may have been experiencing some kind of down-vibe during the recording process. So, I thought I’d harness yet again the…

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  • Les Fauves: “Tying One On”

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    10 min read

    “This time next week, I’m going out.I want to break all my stitches.I want to burn all my bridges.I’m getting tired of being mild.I want my pants ripped off by someone wild.”— The Fauves, ‘Tying One On’, Future Spa (1996) “Yeah, Doctor and I got hired to play acoustically two songs at a wedding in…

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  • Les Fauves: “Skateboard World Record”

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    6 min read

    “Never skateboarded in my life.” -Andrew Cox, The Fauves My contribution to this episode of Fauves Are the Best People was recorded in late December 2024, when I was at my better half’s family’s for the Xmas obligatories. So, perversely, it was recorded almost two months after the episode that follows it in the podcast…

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  • Les Fauves: “Self Abuser”

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    2 min read

    Third album, third song: this is where a rock band has to crush it, or hang up the Rickenbackers for good.

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  • Les Fauves: “Don’t Get Death Threats Anymore”

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    2 min read

    Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, bit where it stops for the riff, repeat song title, instrumental fade out.

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  • Les Fauves: “Big Brother Age”

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    2 min read

    My first reaction when I heard “Big Brother Age” in my Surry Hills sharehouse back in 1996 was relief.

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  • Les Fauves: “Marijuana is God’s Currency”

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    4 min read

    “Marijuana Is God’s Currency” hints at an alternative history of the Fauves, in which the band broke up after the failure of The Young Need Discipline.

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