Sometimes it seemed excessive to buy two or more of the alternative t-shirt designs at an 'Oils' show BUT this time around I was very glad I had when I stupidly hung the black version of this on the clothesline way too close to the public street... and predictably had it stolen during the day!! This album was huge follow up to 'Diesel & Dust' and we all queued in a huge crowd inside the old Workers Club in the afternoon for tickets to the Oils two nights of concerts held soon after... there were so many people they began distributing raffle tickets and calling batches of fifty to the counter... as my mates left they whispered that nobody was checking the ticket when you got to the front... I did have to get to Uni so I slowly chatted with heaps of people I knew as I sidled up the desk about 700 earlier than I should have... sorry!!
I saw this gig at the Sydney Entertainment Centre as well... which is where this shirt came from... I travelled back down and went with a bunch of Sydney devotees...
It was also a significant album because as a back up to D&D this could have propelled the Oils into U2 territory... but it's been well written about that the band instead took a year off to spend time with family and to set off the round about... the Oils doing what they do... deciding as a band and sticking to that!!
