kid cornered

It's said his birth was announced at half-time of the local rugby league derby between the Shamrocks and Workmens Club. Later that night, the birth was announced on local Lithgow radio, wedged in between the Rolling Stones 'Can't always get what you want' and 'You're so vain' by Carly Simon. Big deal right?The industrial Gothic landscape of Lithgow is a town settled in a hole, where the archaic mists of Blue Mountains soak the coalmines and prisons that drive dollars just west of the ranges. The Kid ran like hell from the town, but his songs could still hail from those cheap old pub rooms and TABs, from homes breaking under the weight of tobacco soot and too many unspoken truths.