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...standing and elbows if you don't get there early Watch out for falling beer from waitresses rushing about Old time blues, reggae, folk, and '60s rock are featured here, and Albert King, Doc Watson and Robert Hunter are scheduled for dates this summer at this JFK St pub...
...first calls "synthopop" and then amends to "something that's more savage and tribal." She plans to use the same kind of dance roots as, say. David Bowie did on his most recent album. Let's Dance, but "bring them down to a very raw kind of pub sound. Fifty people beating on drums--that's what they did in the first place...
...have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...
...failing business at the same time. But in 1980's Sydney. Australia, the girl next door is a Toyah-coiffed punkette who's not averse to finding true love in a one-night stand, and the mom and pop business is the HarborView Motel, a working class pub with a vintage Fabulous Fifties interior that squeaks like your grandmother's plastic slipcovers...
...looks are no coincidence but rather part of an elaborate send, up of what Australians love to hate-the British and the Americans. Jackie's heartless, penny-pinching pub-tending mother (Margo Lee) is a dead ringer for Margaret Thatcher. Clad in a garish polyester pants suit, she layers on the lipstick and tells Jackie, "Why don't you stop wearing those ridiculous clothes, you can't change who you are." American politicians fare no better in Armstrong's vision. One of the film's best moments features a maniacal sound booth engineer presiding over a chaotic television...