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Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good-hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions".
Larrikin Records is a record company founded in 1974 by Warren Fahey. Larrikin started as an independent label and was sold in 1995 to Festival Records. [1]
Larrikin Love were an English four piece indie rock band from London.. Consisting of singer-songwriter Edward Leeson, guitarist Micko Larkin, bassist Alfie Ambrose and drummer Coz Kerrigan, and also occasionally including violinist Rob Skipper from The Holloways or roving violinist Jonnie Fielding, the band were briefly described as being part of a Thamesbeat scene by the NME, a scene which is ...
The Rocks Push was a notorious larrikin gang, which dominated The Rocks area of Sydney from the 1870s to the end of the 1890s. In its day it was referred to as The Push, a title which has since come to be more widely used for cliques in general and the left-wing movement the Sydney Push.
The Freedom Spark is the sole album by Larrikin Love. It was released on 25 September 2006. Track listing "The Spark" "Six Queens" "Edwould" "Downing Street Kindling"
A biography of Strachan, Shirl: The Life of Legendary Larrikin Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan, written by Jeff Apter, appeared in 2012. [18] Apter had already written 15 celebrity biographies; for Shirl , Apter had access to Skyhooks' band members, Strachan's family, and "music industry figures, people from Strachan's later career in TV and radio ...
"Six Queens" is the debut single by English band Larrikin Love, released in September 2005 on Young and Lost Club Records. Although billed as a double A-side with "Little Boy Lost", the greater popularity of the former among both fans and the band, and the fact that it had a music video made for it means that the release is usually simply referred to as just 'Six Queens'.
The term larrikin originated in the "Black Country" dialect found in the area near Birmingham, the English West Midland councils of Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall. The term larrikin originally meant the tongue; calling someone a larrikin implied they were using their tongue, or were "gobby"- mouthy.