YouTube Clip Of The Day

Readers who were frightened last week by Defarnham Australia’s feverish obsession with Whispering Jack may raise an eyebrow when they view the following clip of Jimmy Barnes belting out When Your Love Is Gone, but they can rest easy – it’s not Barnesy Appreciation Week, it’s just something I stumbled across on YouTube and it tickled me.

I wonder how much coke Jimmy had consumed when he decided to allow his children (aka MASSIVE AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL ENSEMBLE ‘THE TIN LIDS’) and their mates from school to provide backing vocals for the song? Who cares, it absolutely works for me.

Two things.

1. I really want this song in mp3 form.

2. The Tin Lids entry on Wikipedia is worth reviewing:

The Tin Lids were an Australian group comprising Mahalia Barnes, Eliza-Jane Barnes, Elly-may Barnes and Jackie Barnes. All are children of Australian rock icon, Jimmy Barnes. The band released three albums following their first hit single, “Walk The Dinosaur”. The first, in 1991, was a collection of Christmas songs called Hey Rudolph, which sold over 100,000 copies. Two further albums were released including Snakes and Ladders, now listed on rare records websites. also this band is often regarded as the Nicholas Cage of the music industry and visa versa.

That last line makes me so happy, I could burst.