Radio Australia Today Editorial

Blasting Everyone Else Away

18 April 2008

We just got word today that the Aussie superband Small Mercies will be coming in the studio next month to give us an early play of songs from their new album.

Small Mercies is a favourite of many of our listeners, especially for their hit song Innocent, which stayed on the Breakfast Club’s Top Ten for a gazillion years. Sometimes a song will just get people’s blood racing, and that is one of them.

And they’re good looking guys too:

Well.. good looking for rockers.

The lead singer, who’s next to Addy in the photo, was chuffed when I said that he looked like Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan (back in Purple’s wild early days of 1969).

Small Mercies is a rollicking band, and we’re SO looking forward to having them in the studio, albeit with acoustic guitars.

We just hope it’s not a repeat of the time we had Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes performing live. I’ve written about that elsewhere in the blog. In short, he blasted the foundations off this building (and that was when he was being acoustic too.)

It just goes to prove: if you rock, you rock.