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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".
A reviewer in The Maitland Daily Mercury found some problems with the novel and noted: "This is Ethel Turner's most ambitious work so far; it is much more elaborate than any other of her books; it is not a atory for children or mainly of a child; but, instead of being a well constructed novel for adult reading, it is a series of episodes — doubtless interesting enough in themselves ...
Larrikin started as an independent label and was sold in 1995 to Festival Records. [ 1 ] Artists who have released albums on Larrikin include Eric Bogle , Sirocco , Mike and Michelle Jackson , Bobby McLeod , Kev Carmody , Flying Emus , Robyn Archer , Redgum , Margret RoadKnight , Jeannie Lewis , Mark Atkins , Renée Geyer , Rank Strangers , The ...
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 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]
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 ...
After Larrikin Love's split, Larkin moved to Los Angeles to work with former Hole frontwoman, Courtney Love. Mairead Nash, manager of indie pop groups, Florence + the Machine, and Queens of Noize recommended Larkin to Love in June 2007, [2] and after his audition became lead guitarist of Love's solo group, unofficially titled The Courtney Love Band.
"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 ".