The letter "M"

Tomorrow we are going to cover the following topics:

- Melbourne



- mateship / larrikinism
- marsupials
- music (contemporary) from MGF, Powderfinger, Crowded House, INXS, AC/DC, Nick Cave to Kylie Minogue


In a moment I'll post some links that you can look up, but I'll be doing the presentation tomorrow myself.


Once I get you in new teams we can start with earning points for real ;-)


A good way to get you started - Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue in an iconic duet.





We have quite a number of films lined up for the Film Club already, and there comes yet another one ;-)


For many reasons Thunderstruck is the most apt a film to illustrate some of our topics:

- the title of the film is adopted from the title of a famous song by a very famous Aussie metal/hard rock band. Do you know the name of the band?

- it's one of the most "bogan" comedies around - pure joy to watch :-) Do you remember what "bogan" means?

- it is not a musical, but some characters break into a song especially at the beginning of the film (see the two clips below)

- you should be able to recognise some of the actors whom we've seen already in other Aussie films. Do you remember them?



clip 1 (the little number which the boys are singing is "Turn Around" by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler)


(Hint: the red-haired actor in the back seat. We saw him in The Castle and Rogue)


clip 2
Unfortunatelly embedding is disabled for this clip, so you have to go here.

(Hint: the red-haired actress in black. We saw her playing love interest in Dirty Deeds)