I hate Noosa Heads and Surfing*
Today, this image came up on my facebook news feed, and it made me smile. Of course, images on facebook news feeds rarely come with any real contextual information, so I trawled around the net a bit and found some more information... This is an album cover for the ' Warumpi Band ', from the settlement of Papunya in Australia's Northern Territory**. It seems that this image was the cover for an EP of their song 'Jailanguru Pakarnu (Out of Jail)', which was the first ever rock song recorded in an indigenous language. It's a pretty jumping song. It's worth noting that on the Warumpi Band's wikipedia entry , the list of their musical genres includes 'anachro-rock'. *On a personal level, this is absolutely not true. I love Noosa Heads. And surfing! **Update: I had read that the man wearing the t-shirt is singer of the Warumpi Bane, George Burarrawanga. As Dave commented below however, it isn't George. Thanks for your comment, Dave!
Oh yeah! Cool!
ReplyDeleteThat would be one Ian Hoff. Nearly taught me all I needed to know about style all himself. Super guy and one of those types that has been interested in alternative/throwback surf craft long before it became la mode.
He makes a lot of time for himself in Australia actually. A heck of a lot of time.
La mode, eh!
ReplyDeleteWell, Ian Hoff is looking pretty steezey on that wave and I like that picture the more that I look at it.
(Haha. I used 'steeze' in a sentence!)