What are you listening to right now [2024-08]

[boredjedi]

[possessor]

I know this one, I see the thumbnail on the Tube all the time but I never listened to it

[chuft]

Interesting they have Tanelorn on the front of the bus. Michael Moorcock reference.

https://stormbringer.fandom.com/wiki/Tanelorn

[boredjedi]

Interesting they have Tanelorn on the front of the bus. Michael Moorcock reference.

https://stormbringer.fandom.com/wiki/Tanelorn

Good pickup. Don't think I ever paid attention to that. I did a quick lookup
to see if any of the member were Moorcock fans but found just this
so far from an old Moorcock fan site

Here's a little info I found which might have something to do with the Tanelorn reference in the Down Under video.

In October 1981, the three-day Tanelorn Festival of Transition (held near Stroud, NSW) drew 28 000 fans but still lost money. As well as featuring Redgum, The Church, Moving Pictures, Kevin Borich Express, Men at Work, Sunnyboys, Broderick Smith's Big Combo, Midnight Oil and Split Enz, the festival saw the return of Billy Thorpe, then based in the USA.

The video/song came out in 1982 and may have been filmed in 1981 sometime around the Tanelorn Festival.

Artist: Men at Work
Title: Down Under
Year: 1982

Posted 02-27-2004, 08:23 PM

The only footage on youtube seems to be Midnight Oil clips from that festival

[chuft]

I have no doubt the festival was named after the city in the Moorcock books.

[possessor]

I will blast the vocals version of this song in December.

[boredjedi]

I have no doubt the festival was named after the city in the Moorcock books.

I do believe you are right. From that same thread I posted from.
I didn't even notice Moorcock posting in it.

Michael Moorcock 03-01-2004, 10:01 AM
I'm sorry to hear the Tanelorn Festival still lost money and am rather glad I wasn't able to make it, since they were going to pay my fare and so forth to be there! I'd have felt very guilty about taking their dosh. It sounded like a great festival, though. I always assumed that Tanelorn or Bust stuff from Men at Work was related to the festival, but I don't know if they were readers of my stuff. Quite a lot of Australian bands were at one time, according to the Aussie performers I've met in recent years.

Another random post but this time from Facebook

David Djhdd HickeyAdmin July 14, 2021

Even Fred Alder gets in on the action telling us just why he named the festival Tanelorn. (hope Fred does'nt mind)

Hi, it's Fred Alder here, I was directed to this site by my daughter who googled my name.

The Men at Work video of Down Under was made at the time of Tanelorn and they were one of the main acts there...I always felt it was a bit light hearted as Tanelorn was topical at the time, the clip aired just after the Festival. The name tanelorn was of course derived from Michael Moorcock, and a friend and co-worker Charlie Brown who helped on the Festival had previously name the little cottage I owned with my wife Cynthia - Tanelorn...and eventually we decided to call the Festival by the same name.

Michael Moorcock's book The Quest For Tanelorn was an important volume in Moorcock's whole Eternal Champion and Multiverse novels spanning a number of other past & future books & characters who all meet up within this book on transition & crossroads with the city of Tanelorn. The whole series of books by Moorcock are very hard to sum up (you would just have to have read them) & span a good 32 or more issues. However, this is where the word Tanelorn comes from...a book.

Blue Oyster Cult “Veteran of the Psychic Wars,” a cut co-written with Michael Moorcock that wasn’t specifically intended for Heavy Metal.

Choosing a motif that involved Moorcock’s Eternal Champion was about as metal as you could get in 1981, and the song was clearly gloomy enough to appeal to the metal-minded mopers hitting record stores.

One of my favorite albums

[chuft]

Yeah there were a lot of fantasy or science fiction themed songs back then. I haven't heard that sort of thing in decades.

[boredjedi]

Guitar, Keyboards, Vocal: Eric Bloom
Composer, Lyricist: Eric Bloom Drums,
Vocal: Albert Bouchard
Composer, Lyricist: M. Moorcock
Bass, Vocal: Joe Bouchard
Composer, Lyricist: J.
Trivers Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocal: Donald (Buck Dharma) Roeser
Guitar, Keyboards: Allen Lanier

Always put me in mind of Anglachel/Gurthang the black sword
from the Silmarillion wielded by Túrin Turambar. No doubt the
inspiration.

[chuft]

Elric, who wielded the black sword Stormbringer, was published long before the Silmarillion.

Elric was written by Moorcock.

[boredjedi]

Yeah. I didn't remember the dates off hand and didn't bother to look them up.
I should have. BOCs Black Blade would fit both characters.

"I have this feeling that my luck is none too good" Fits Turin to a tee with the curse
of Morgoth on him.

[boredjedi]

[LazyPooky]

I used to listen to Greenday and Pennywise. This sounds the same a bit.

[chuft]

[boredjedi]

Such a good movie especially on the home theater screen

[Play_z]

[chuft]

[Play_z]

'Lazy Scouts' is one of the only songs that I like that Robbie sings in the show. It might be overrated but it's tooo gooood

[possessor]

mid

[possessor]

JC's first song - which I am listening to right now!

[chuft]

[boredjedi]

Delirium, Deep Forest and Enigma