Waiting For Guinness The Southern Cross Tattoo

All Australians, big and small, black, white, grizzled, and grey, green and gold, red, white and blue.  
We hope that this Australia Day song of ours will recharge all Aussies with a few volts of self-love.
Let's find ourselves with a dripping trowel of consonant and vowel,
knowing that it's okay to dab your underside with an Australian flag beach towel. 

We often ponder this land, its people, its troubling occupation and relentless efforts to define a nation. Australia Day is a day with lots of flags on sticks, so be careful where you point them.

May Love Conquer All!
 
Waiting for Guinness

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[Waiting4Guinness]

The hat-wearing, non-instrument playing guy in the middle is a very fine tenor sax and accordion player. He's also a founding member of Waiting for Guinness, the editor/producer of this film clip, and a prolific songwriter (check out "Keeping out the Riff Raff", a fine satirical song about mandatory detention and xenophobia, recorded at the height/nadir of the Howard era). He also fronts his own band, On the Stoop. His name is Serge Stanley and he is a legend.

[Waiting4Guinness]

Hi Everyone, thanks for all of your feedback. Very thoughtful comments. All opinions are welcome. If you're interested to read more, there's some more blogging about the song going on at crikey.com

[goodlukeing]

Where do I find some more mariachi music similar to Waiting for Guinness. I want more, more, more.

[danykurniawan12345]

@EvilKorbinDallas `mate you just don't understand

[DukeFlare]

Great song!

[EvilKorbinDallas]

I wasted my time... hippy leftists video D:

[whoseontrial]

Like your message but I got to say...this is sooooooo catchy!! Haha! I find myself singing this randomly

[Gezarie07]

@bedylc I think they are asking whether those sporting the southern cross in ink feel that all Australians, regardless of heritage or religion can feel that the southern cross tattoo is a symbol of home. We discussed this with an american last week. He wanted a southern cross tattoo, we bemoaned the negative, nationalistic connotations. That in itself is sad. Here's to all australians taking the symbol back. Great, song and carefully done, I appreciate it.

[judychair]

after watching you guys last night, i tried unsuccessfully to lead a group of well meaning young people to newtown to get the southern cross tattooed to our arms. I shan't give up!

[sp4cecat]

What's with the hat-wearing, non-instrument playing guy in the middle? Did he just wander in off the street? :)