A Night At The Mirage, by 208L Containers

A Night At The Mirage

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1.	Too Good To Be True 01:05	buy track
2.	Skase's Bounty 02:22	buy track
3.	2MCE 01:18	buy track
4.	Sunburnt In Brisbane 02:09	buy track
5.	Holograms 01:49	buy track
6.	Denton Faces Up 01:43	buy track
7.	Blah Blah Blah 02:21	buy track
8.	Leaving Majorca 01:51	buy track
9.	Cowboy In The Sky 01:29	buy track
10.	Pixie's Cut 01:57	buy track
11.	Channel 7 Ad Break 00:21	buy track
12.	Glossolalia 02:47	buy track
13.	There Was A Moment! 01:40	buy track

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released July 22, 2022

208 came onto the nipaluna scene at a time when everything was getting increasingly fucked for us. This environment imbued their music with a terrifying sense of urgency. It made for powerfully raucous and infectious music, where the anger was delivered through biting satire, and rattling guitar blended with one hell of a rhythm section impossible not to dance along to.

I think you can only spend so much time immersed in our political quagmire before going mad and attempting to dump a truckload of manure in front of parliament house, so I can respect the turn from work focusing on our current situation to getting absolutely stuck into a hyperfixation on some niche element of our cultural landscape. For 208, salvation came in the form of Andrew Denton and Christopher Skase.

Throughout the course of this album, we are treated to an absurd rollick through Australian TV personality Andrew Denton’s ill-fated attempt to extradite corrupt millionaire businessman Christopher Skase from his Spanish island hideaway and back to Australia to face trial. There are Nazi-run cafes in Paraguay, doomed Tasmanian IT start-ups, nudity on the ABC, and mad Mondays at the Mirage Resort.

We see the band opening up into new directions here. The album begins with a stunning reverberant soundscape while an archival interview sample plays, setting the gorgeous tone that leads us into the story of Skase and Denton.

208 are in full form here, with the band locking into the sound established in Knitted Family Helmet and Horseland. The main difference here is the addition of interstitial pieces of instrumental while an archive sample is played, which helps to link together the narrative of each song into the wider concept album. I am excited to give this platter a spin when I get my grubby hands on it, and I look forward to dancing myself silly when I catch them playing this live. I hope you do too.

Rosie Brennan

208 thanks:

Claire Johnston and Julian Teakle (for releasing a concept album about Andrew Denton and Christopher Skase in 2022), Maria Blackwell (for painting the cover art), Donovan Miller (for mixing/mastering),
Nick Milnes (for engineering/morale) and everyone at the Fern Tree Arts Hall (for their selfless support).

208 made this record in nipaluna on the stolen land of the Muwinina people. We pay our sincere respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal community’s Elders past and present.

Gimmie Zine interview:
gimmiezine.com/2022/07/22/208l-containers/

Sunburnt In Brisbane video
youtu.be/ryCEpfuu-j0
Directed by Tim "Bones" Fogarty

Holograms video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcWheyqEqA&t
Directed by Georgia Lucy

HOLOGRAMS
I can’t eat salmon
I can’t eat flounder
I can’t eat anything
In this town
Did I see him?
Fishing off the port?
A ruffled seagull
In the breeze
Throw in some onions
Into the laughing stock
The worst journo on the island
Buried at sea on a
Yacht of broken dreams
Pa, invest at your own risk
So he took you?
Under his wide wing?
If he’s the feather
You’re the shit
Teeth like diamonds
Points of cruelty
As crooked as the
Lighthouse stairs
Throw in some onions
Into the laughing stock
The worst journo
on the island
Buried at sea on a
Yacht of broken dreams
Pa, invest at your own risk

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