James Young, the recently appointed Night Mayor of Melbourne and after dark’s greatest champion, will quite literally fight for your right to party. Arm him with a roll of coins and here’s what you’ll find on the jukebox.
“Guaranteed air-guitar, high kicks and hair-whips.”
AC/DC - ‘Rock n Roll Singer’
“Gonna be a rock n roll singer. Gonna be a rock and roll star. Yes I are!”
Creedence - ‘Run Through the Jungle’
“When Guns n Roses toured a few years back I was in the middle of a conversation with Axl. We were talking about Elvis. All of a sudden Creedence starts playing and a roadie does a dive to pull the jukebox power out from the wall. Everyone looks at him like WTF? And he says ‘Axl doesn’t do Creedence.’ True story."
Easybeats - ‘Friday on my Mind’
“Contender for unofficial Australian national anthem.”
Fleetwood Mac - ‘Rhiannon’
Have you seen that meme with Kermit the Frog dancing around four wines into iso? I’ve seen it. It’s real. It happens to people when this song comes on.
Heart - ‘Barracuda’
“Guaranteed air-guitar, high kicks and hair-whips.”
Lynyrd Skynyrd (hardest name in rock to spell correctly!) - ‘Freebird’
“Nothing brings the last hanger-onners of the night together like the big finale. I can’t change.”
Rolling Stones - ‘Miss You’ or ‘Gimme Shelter’
“Both. I don’t care. They can count as one song. No reason needed.”
Runaways - ‘Cherry Bomb’
“Cherie Currie - the original and the best - has sung this herself on-stage with her band at Cherry.”
The Sweet - ‘Fox on the Run’
“Gets everyone up and dancing with their fingers up like fox ears.”
ZZ Top - ‘La Grange’ “Must be the original Tres Hombres ‘73 version and not the 80’s re-recorded one. “
