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Southern Comfort: Shona Laing in the Nuclear Age

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Southern Comfort: Shona Laing in the Nuclear Age
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First published in Rip It Up, October 1987 Shona Laing’s ‘(Glad I’m) Not a Kennedy’ is a Top 20 hit in Sweden, which sounds pretty odd, but then so does the idea of Laing touring Australia with Midnight Oil. With her new album South just released, she’s spending a month in Australia supporting the Oils in small towns and large. Their music may be poles apart in subtlety, but both Laing and the Oils share an opposition to things nuclear that provides a link. Maybe one of Laing’s new songs, ‘So...

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3 Apr 2020
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Chris Bourke
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https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/southern-comfort-shona-laing-in-the-nuclear-age

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