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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Emily Barker on ABC's The Music Show - this edition Under The Milky Way


Cover Story: Under The Milky Way - ABC listen

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshow/cover-story-under-the-milky-way/104892084?utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared







https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshowRbzEqlMsIm8R0dC_w_aem_rm-19fdJnf8DpVobv4IKW



check it out here . . . .

"In 1987, Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson were living together, and armed with a joint and a piano, one night they came up with the bones of Under The Milky Way. It became a hit for The Church as part of their fifth studio album, Starfish, and since then it’s featured in almost every list of great Australian rock songs (and a fair few car ads too). On Cover Story, Andy is joined by poet, singer-songwriter and academic Kate Fagan, and Youth Group member, singer-songwriter, academic Toby Martin to analyse the song’s wide – and wild – range of versions."

Music details:

Under the Milky Way

Composed by Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson

Originally recorded by The Church for the album Starfish (1988) on Mushroom Records

Covers by:

Emily Barker, Lukas Drinkwater, Fanny Lumdsen - Room 822 (2022)

The James Valentine Quartet- The Power and the Passion (2011)

George - Special Ones (2001)

The Cherry Pickers - Hand Picked (2016) 

John Kane & Ian Simpson - Banjo Australis (2013)

Strawpeople - Broadcast (1994)

Jimmy Little - Messenger (1999)

The Church and the George Ellis Orchestra - Live at the Sydney Opera House (2014)


The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country. 

Technical Production by Hamish Camilleri and Bethany Stewart


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