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Buskers and Angels

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Released
  
September 2000

Producer
  
Jon English

Release date
  
September 2000

Length
  
65:00

Artist
  
Jon English

Genre
  
Rock music

Buskers and Angels (2000)
  
English History II (2001)

Label
  
Ambition Entertainment Pty Ltd

Rock music albums
  
Jesus Christ Superstar, Owsley, Slade in Flame, John Farnham & Tom Jone, Elton John One Night Only – Th

Buskers and Angels is a rock musical written by Australian rock musician Jon English. This was his second self-penned musical, following Paris in 1990. Buskers and Angles is about a busker going from the streets to stardom as well as canvassing the pitfalls of the entertainment industry for women. English said "It's probably the most misogynistic industry left" and cites his feisty mother and suffragette grandmother as role models, and points out that both his musicals deliberately feature "forthright, strong women trapped by circumstances but not by their own sex. And I sort of miss that badly in a lot of musicals."

Contents

The show premiered in Newcastle in September 2000 and closed in Perth in February 2001 with Belgian born Martine Monroe playing the lead female character of Angel alongside English. The musical received warm reviews. The album includes Jon English's son Jonathan English on bass.

The album was released digitally in 2011.

Track listing

  1. "Always the Busker" - 5:34
  2. "Out On My Corner" - 2:20
  3. "Fancy This" - 2:00
  4. "The View Up There" - 2:21
  5. "20-20 Hindsight" - 2:00
  6. "Nothing to Hide" - 3:37
  7. One Thing Leads to Another" - 1:50
  8. "Nature of the Beast" (Jon English & Martine Monroe) - 3:55
  9. "Life Is Like a Wheel" - 1:47
  10. "Splitting Image" - 1:52
  11. "Dear Lee" - 1:03
  12. "Money Tree" (Jon English & Marcus Pointon) - 2:59
  13. "Potential Angels" (Jon English & Martine Monroe) - 4:55
  14. "Try to Be a Hero" - 2:40
  15. "What's the View Like Up There?" (Jon English & Martine Monroe) - 2:54
  16. "Roll Daddy Roll" (Jon English & Carol Starkey) - 2:27
  17. "The Guy for Me" (Jon English & Carol Starkey)
  18. "Doing Okay" (Jon English & Martine Monroe) - 4:18
  19. "Love Is the One Thing" (Jon English & Carol Starkey) - 3:09
  20. "Palm of Our Hands" (Jon English & Jay Collie) - 3:53
  21. "Fallen Angel" (Jon English & Martine Monroe) -3:39
  22. "When I Was Younger" - 1:07
  23. "Street Beat" (Jon English & Martine Monroe) - 2:43
  • all tracks written by Jon English, except "Splitting Image", "The Guy for Me" and "Love is the One Thing", written by English and David Mackay.

    • Songs

    1Always The Busker5:35
    2Out On My Corner2:20
    3Fancy This2:01

    References

    Buskers and Angels Wikipedia
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