Review: Spirit of Progress - The McAlpine Fusiliers

It is possible that Spirit of Progress are a good country band. They play simple country ditties with open chords and a pleasant tune. At their best they will sing about the obscure and fictional Australian poet Ern Malley. At their worst they will sing songs like, 'they're aint no seven eleven in heaven' which is just a really long list of the various items which heaven apparently won't be catering for. I said it's possible these guys good play good country, thats as I know very little about the scene but generally speaking this band is bland and unoriginal, sort of like all the other country bands.

While I'm here I should mention the McAlpine Fusiliers, above. These guys play colonial era Irish-Australian bush ballads with emphasis on some mean fiddling. They aren't musically great, quote "we'll play this song in G major because friends play in G major", but they are good fun. I was enjoying it greatly before being dragged from the Old Bar by a narrow minded friend who would sadly have rather been almost anywhere else.