Red Hot Green Black
2-CD, 1998

Oracle Distribution Service / National Union of Students
- ODS / NUS (Red Hot Green Black is a compilation album of QLD artists and bands
- raising money and awareness for environmental and indigenous issues
put out by the National Union of Students)


released December 14, 1998

Liner notes by: Peter Garrett / Bob Brown - Australian Greens / Tom Widdup




1.3: taken from EP ' (plunge) ' (Candle / WEA 01) - Feb '98
Pop Music Never Dies by Stephanie Clifford review in SCENE magazine 6/5/98 :
WEAVE seem to have this euphoric energy about them. Each of the four members seem to have such positive outlooks and loads of energy… like small, excitable animals, they’re nice to be around. If you’ve had the chance to listen to Weave’s music live of on their recent release ‘PLUNGE’ you get that same feeling from it. The WEAVE sound simply makes you feel good.


1.5: George

1.8: Stephanie Clifford / SCENE magazine

1.10: ' Precision Oiler Bluebeard (Vocal Glutton Mix) Precision Oiler (Valve) '


1.13: Endorphin aka Eric Chapus born 1962 France // currently Sydney, NSW, Australia


1.14: Lucinda Shaw and Toni Lawson formerly Isis (Brisbane band)

2.3: ' Pangea - Again / Pangea (Valve) '

2.5: SixftHick

2.9: JackeMaeno / (Autumn Tickle Moon)
miz jackeMaeno (Jackemaeno from the hugely successful "Joy Hester Eyes" release in 2001)

2.14: written by Dylan McCormack [Member of: THE lookalikes, Small Fantasy, Biro, Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side, David McCormack & The Polaroids]
- Lookalikes aka THE lookalikes, The Lookalikes
- Small Fantasy issued a self-titled EP. The EP featured the track DSS, which came in at number 5 on ZZZ's Hot 100 of 1996
Trevor Ludlow , Dylan McCormack and Nick Naughton soldiered on as a three piece, playing a show under the moniker Mall Fantasy (aka "Small Fantasy" without the S for Swingle). The trio then changed their name to The Lookalikes, which was a joke about how dissimilar all the band members were. The Lookalikes eventually called it quits, however Trevor, Dylan and Nick then got together for an impromptu show at Ric's where they billed themselves as Skippy
- Biro (John Swingle (guitar, vocals), Trevor Ludlow (bass), Nick Naughton (drums), Dylan McCormack (guitar)): Related Artists ~ The Melniks, Small Fantasy, The Lookalikes, Skippy, Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side, David McCormack & The Polaroids

2.19: 2 Dogs aka 2 Dogz, Two Dogs

2.20: live at the Zoo


CD-ROM (each CD) contains articles on environment and indigenous issues

Peter Garrett:
A compilation like this is a great starting point for anyone who
questions the status quo, who isn't satisfied with the way things are
and who would ike to be really engaged in what counts; real equality
of treatment for all people regardless of colour and circumstance, a
genuine looking after our country, freedom to create, hope for a
future not planned by the bureaucrats and corporatists but through
the efforts and for the benefit of average people.

These sentiments are not empty words on a page, they are the stuff of
now. Whether it is the campaign to protect special places like Kakadu
or to see positive peacemaking with the first Australians as a
foundation of the imminent Australian republic. Whether it is
tattooing the best clause of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights on your arm or turning up at the next rally for better
conditions for students. To be connected to your community, to be
prepared to speak out or act on something fundamental in your
society, to identify with the very real struggle of people of the
land and of the land itself, is at this time to be fully human.
Making a stand takes a person from passive observer to active
participant and it speeds the changes in history that are possible
when we work together for a common good.

The artists on this CD have given their songs to this aim, I hope you
the listener, can be inspired to act in the spirit of red hot green
black.


Senator Bob Brown:
In all issues we first ask this question: 'Will people 100 years for
now thank us for doing this?' That question should be carved over the
north, south, east and west doors of state and federal parliaments.
It would revolutionise the way society works.

Consideration for all future generations, as well as the rights of
all our fellow creatures on Earth, is foreign to modern materialist
society. But it is not new, by any means. It is the wisdom of the
ages, of all Indigenous peoples including Indigenous Australians.
When that wisdom rules again, we will again find peace, security and
the happiness of being able to look our children's children in the
eye, across the decades, and say 'we thought of you!'

In this simple way, Black and Green wisdom entwines and, together, we
reach for a fairer society and protection of Australia's natural and
cultural heritage. In this CD, that Black and Green companionship
comes through. In music, as in politics, there is much we share.
Here is a recipe for happiness: for people, for the planet, for all
time to come.