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    DAS LEBENDE SCHLAUSS: Noch im Rollen (THE LIVING END: STILL ROLLING ON)

    Sep 05, 2018 7 minutes

    This October will mark the 20th anniversary of an Australian rock classic: the self-titled debut album from punkabilly rebels and 27-time ARIA nominees (five-time winners) The Living End. I have a strong bias towards my relationship with that album, because it was the first one – at the ripe old age of two – that I ever properly liked. My dad would blast the shit out of it, “Prisoner Of Society” ringing through the hallway as I mindlessly bashed my Lego blocks around. There’s home video footage of me as a toddler, struggling to stand, belting along to “All Torn Down” – with terribly misinterpreted lyrics, obviously – while family members roared with laughter in the background.

    And today, at age 21, my official day job involves sitting with the man behind those lyrics, frontman Chris Cheney, and reminiscing on those glory days of VHS and Calippo Shots. The mere concept that The Living End has become a band adored by two adult generations (with a third impending) has the noted Gretsch aficionado at a loss for words. “F***,” the Melbournite says, blunt and in awe. “It blows my mind when I hear stuff like that. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were trying

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