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Songs

The Gooch Palms – Great Dividing Rage

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 17 February 2020

“The Gooch Palms roar back with their sights set on the fire and the smoke and the politics of this long, hot, Australian summer. There is nothing overdone here, just brutal simplicity. This is a primal, desperate anger at the deniers and the procrastinators, alongside a deep sadness at how the sound and fury only […]

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Shows

The Gooch Palms @ Oxford Art Factory, 14th Jan

Post author By Alex Kirk
Post date 15 January 2017

“The Gooch Palms are greeted like the old friends they are, and it’s always a dirty pleasure to have them back. Blisteringly loud tonight, we get the full party-version tonight, Crowdsurfing from the off, and mayhem down the front. Joyously bonkers, and with songs like skyscrapers, only the soulless couldn’t enjoy this.” Facebook | Instagram […]

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I would like to acknowledge that the gigs that are pictured here, the stages they’re played on, the bars and venues they’re held in, and the good times they represent, are all held on lands that were never ceded by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I acknowledge these First Australians as the traditional custodians of the continent, whose cultures are among the oldest living cultures in human history. I pay respect to the Elders of the community and extend my recognition to their descendants.

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