#fred dagg

[ipsiducis]

"At the dawn of the day, in the great Southern Ocean When the world's greatest fish was being landed And the boat they were pulling it into was sinking And the sea was quite lumpy, and the weather was foul And the bloke with the map was as pissed as an owl And the boys called out "Maui, ya clown, let it go" In the noise, he reached down for his grandmother's jawbone And he winked at his mates and he said "Boys, we don't know how lucky we are,"" - Fred Dagg, We Don't Know How Lucky We Are

[thebyrchentwigges]

Meet the Dagg... Fred Dagg that is

NZ comedian John Clarke as Fred Dagg. Live sets included A Bit Of A Dagg and Dagg Day Afternoon. We didn't know how lucky we were. Clarke moved to Australia in the late '70s, where he kicked it in the guts as a cutting political satirist.

[lyrics724]

Not A Bad Day For It

Not A Bad Day For It

Let it go, maestro (clears throat) Maymaymaymay When you’re called on by your country And it sometimes comes to pass You just can’t afford to sit round Drinking cups of tea and hoping A whole lot of other blokes ‘n sheilas are gonna get together And fix things on your behalf for you No, you’ve got to do your bit And when you come to think of it It’s not a bad day for itLet ‘er go, boys Go,…

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[theroadtoelle]

Music Monday: We Don't Know How Lucky We Are by Fred Dagg

Music Monday: We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are by Fred Dagg

So, it’s the last day of Writing.com’s Soundtrackers challenge.  Let’s do a quick recap.

Seven emotional songs: Bastard! by Kath Tait Whakaaria Mai by Sir Howard Morrison Pokarekare Ana Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley Feel Inside (and stuff like that) by Flight of the Conchords Gonna Make You Happy Tonight by Tripod The Last Post

Seven songs from my current playlist: Black Sheep by Gin Wigmore New Rush by…

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[robhosking-blog]

Thought for the day - for John Clarke's birthday

Thought for the day – for John Clarke’s birthday

“It’s a wee bit on the horrendous side, is this town-going.” – John Clarke/Fred Dagg

The late, and very much missed, John Clarke. For his birthday.

Contains Harris Street, just outside where the library is now, and bits of Victoria Street in that vicinity. Filmed in roughly 1976: it looked much the same when I moved to Wellers in 1982.

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[robhosking-blog]

Thought of the day: from John Clarke/Fred Dagg

Thought of the day: from John Clarke/Fred Dagg

    Of all the many turning points and crucial stages –  from primitive ape-like creature through to the sophisticated and marginally less primitive ape-like creature that you see about you at zoos and football matches – the most curious development of all is that of the human brain.”

  “The human brain has got man into a lot more trouble than has previously been supposed and unless we come up…

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[feminerds]

Phrase from old John Clarke reel (while watching the tribute to him John Clarke: Thanks for your time) about choosing was kind of novelist to be, final option being 'pastoral, stream-of-consciousness, gothic, feminist'. 

[nzdappercat]

So long Mr Fed Dagg, succeeded by a line of Trevors