one of those strangely-named Aussie glass sizes like midi or schooner or something?

has had a full and varied career. The front of the LP - Bazza McKenzie's Party Songs - is pictured on this page http://www.barrycrocker.net/discography.htm

The track listing is in the photo I posted, if you squint hard enough 8-}

...if you drive through Sligo or Donegal every other tree by the roadside has a garish, primary coloured poster board advertising some country and irish goon playing in the locale. Some 60s leftovers like 'Big Tom & The Mainliners' (those drug-crazed cowboys of the psychedelic era, with their matching flannels), some 80s sub-Daniel-O'Donnel nearly-men like Declan Nerny, and then a bunch of 16 year-olds with Garth Brooks hats... Every generation seems to sustain this barage of awfulness...

I can't do the picture uploading thing, but - by way of example - you'll find some images of 'Farmer Dan's remarkable ouevre here:

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=farmer+dan&gbv=2&oq=far...

For anyone outside or, indeed, inside Ireland, fear not: the advertising phrase 'Ireland's favourite singer!' is, frankly, a lie.

For at least 25 years, a stall has appeared at our local weekly market specialising in Country & Irish music. As this is rural North Yorkshire, it's somewhat surprising.

Originally it just sold C&I cassettes, but branched out into other budget titles, VHS videos, DVDs and even computer software, all being fairly rubbish titles that even Woolies (RIP) wouldn't touch.

I've never seen anyone actually buy something from it in all this time.

to be accepted into the Massive. It's when you start finding duplicates you realise you have gone too far. Barbara Woodhouse LP anyone?

..."Fosters: The Beer Even Aussies Can't Drink"

(or at least it was ten years ago), but you do have to make an effort to find any.

very big in the Potteries. All the blokes who worked with my old man down the pit seemed to have that Blaster Bates album.
There were 7 or 8 albums released I think. My Uncle couldn't stand him because he was from Crewe.

it's good to see he made the effort to dress for the occasion

Looking at the song titles I'm guessing he's in Sydney. The first track relates to The Hill, a once notorious area of the Sydney Cricket Ground favoured by serious drinkers. It's no longer there but Wiki has this to say about it:

Up until the 1990s the Hill was a grassy slope without seating. It was the 'outer ground' costing the least to get in and attracting working class patronage. The invention of the beer can and the portable cooler in the 1960s increased alcohol consumption at cricket matches which in turn fuelled bad crowd behaviour. In the 1970s the advent of limited overs games held partially at night attracted a different kind of crowd to cricket at the SCG. They were less interested in the subtleties of the game and more in the excitement and spectacle. Brawling and excessive drinking were features of the crowd on the Hill at this time. Even the introduction of individual seating on the Hill failed to completely eradicate crowd misbehaviour. Stricter measures such as banning alcohol were later implemented with greater success