This Machine is Made of People, by Wild Pumpkins at Midnight

This Machine is Made of People

by Wild Pumpkins at Midnight

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bencourtice This album contains some great evocations of 20th century Tasmanian industrial life that ring pretty true to me and are catchy, sentimental and political all at once

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1.	Retrenchment Town 02:36	info	buy track
2.	Get On That Train 03:42	info	buy track
3.	Strange Disease 02:48	info	buy track
4.	Counting the Pennys 03:22	info	buy track
5.	Only 5 Days Until the Weekend 03:13	info	buy track
6.	The Gaiety 03:42	info	buy track
7.	This Machine is Made of People 02:59	info	buy track
8.	Another Nervous Breakdown 03:12	info	buy track
9.	Home 04:23	info	buy track
10.	The View 02:49	lyrics	buy track
Bonus track! Not found on original 1989 physical EP but recorded in same period Deserves to be here!

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2020 Digital re-release of 1989 Aria Award wining album
Recorded in December 1988 at Richmond The Studio, Melbourne
Produced by Chris Thompson, assisted by WPAM
Engineered by Chris Thompson and Melanie Fazackerly
All Songs & Arrangements by WPAM & Kate Calwell

This album was the outcome of an Arts Council Musicians in Residency project in the small mining town of Rosebery on the west coast of Tasmania in 1987. We wrote songs and put on concerts with the miners and their sons and daughters. It was an amazing experience that we will never forget

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released March 19, 2020

Vocals: Deb Manskey, Guitars & Bvs: Micheal Turner, Bass & Bvs: Dan Tuffy, Cello: Kate Calwell

Many Thanks to:
Chris, Marg, Jamo, Ron, Arthur, Max, Mark, Ian, Jim B, Jim C, Max, Austra, Ian P, Dave, Rod, John, Don, Kerry, George, Richard, Gill, Peter, Jenny B, Mick, Chris, Sue, Larissa, Nigel, Jen, Murray, Uncle Wilbur, Kate, Tom, Jules, Tim, Jan, Williamsford Rigby Club, Town of Roseberry, Howie, Maree, Liz, Dave, Lisa, Rod, Esther, Steve, Pete, Bruce (eh eh!), Leon, Joy, Bill, Nance, Ethel, Audrey, Mal, Terry, Garth, Moira, Grant, Jaylene, Frank, Also thanks to the following organisations:
Kaleidoscope Community Arts Company Tasmania, The National Art & Working Life Project and the Australian Trade Union Movement

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Wild Pumpkins at Midnight Melbourne, Australia

Formed in Hobart Tasmania 1983. Winner of 1989 Australian Aria Award for best Independent Album. Disbanded in 1998. The band would go through several line-up and sound changes, from punk-folk towards psychedelic indie pop/rock. Several European tours in the 90's and a phenomenal live reputation with own crew and lighting show. One of Australias most exciting experimental DIY music exports ... more

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