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Depiction of a larrikin, from Nelson P. Whitelocke's book A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side (1885). 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".
The verse novel's first edition includes a foreword by bush poet Henry Lawson, who writes that The Sentimental Bloke's original appearance in The Bulletin "brightened up many dark days for me", and that, in Bill, Dennis had created a character "more perfect than any alleged 'larrikin' or Bottle-O character I have ever attempted to sketch". [6]
The painting is a social comedy containing several visual puns. While at first it seems a depiction of decorous behaviour, the three figures in the foreground are rigid and disunited in their arrangement. The fashionably dressed woman is seated with her back to the scene, including Mentone Baths, a gender-segregated bathhouse.
The Little Larrikin (1896) is a novel by Australian writer Ethel Turner. It was originally published by Ward, Lock & Co. in London, England, in 1896. [1] Synopsis
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 ...
Just before his death, Barrett disclosed that the character "Les Norton" was based on two likeable Sydney "larrikin" identities, primarily his friend, Ken Wills (Willsy), a polyathlete who was a retired Sydney TRG/ water police officer, deep sea diver, first grade rugby league player for South Sydney in the mid 1970s, a professional boxer and a skiing gold medalist.
Larrikin Music, a publishing company Fahey sold in 1988 owns the rights to the well-known children's "Kookaburra song". In a high-profile case that began in 2009, Norm Lurie, then the managing director of Music Sales, Larrikin Music's parent company, sued the group Men at Work for using its melody in 5 bars of their 93-bar song "Down Under."
"Downing Street Kindling" was the second single to be taken from Larrikin Love's debut album, The Freedom Spark, and their first release to enter the UK Top 40, charting at number 35. In the song, Larrikin voices his discontent with England, culminating with the proclamation that " I think that it is hell ".