| Author | Message | ||
     Rebecca Mullins Member Username: Beckmull Post Number: 2 Registered: 06-2005 |
Any ideas as to what "The Locust Girls" is about. I'm just curious what the general consensus might be. | ||
| pd Member Username: Peter_d Post Number: 3 Registered: 05-2005 |
hi - i think its reminiscing about life in rural Queensland, dancehalls etc..think he's bitter that the girls have moved on to greener pastures (Brisbane, Sydney ?) and left a barren (emotional)landscape for him.. | ||
| Charles Member Username: Charles Post Number: 2 Registered: 04-2006 |
I reckon it's refering to a period of some inner city scene. A bit like "Darlinghurst Nights". The reference to gangsters evokes a culture of drugs and parties and glamour, upon which the Locust Girls fed. I can understand the thought that it could be rural Queensland, there is a Henry Lawson like quality to the language and imagery. That works for me, in that it sets the song in the past, perhaps the early eighties, which can sometimes seem as ancient as a Henry Lawson story. The Locust Girls are like the casualties of an era which passed them by. The beautiful girls we knew, who never to got out while the going was good. Who hung around the scene a little too long until it died around them. The ones who failed to get a career or have a family during the short time it seemed they had the world at their feet. |