Mick Daley is a self-styled wild
colonial folksinger, born again on the banks of the River Styx, just outside
Nimbin after a wild, inconclusive career in rock with the Bush Punk Cowboys, an
interminable apprenticeship with the shambling, unkillable Ragadoll and punk and
western ramblers the Australian Beefweek Show. Now doomed to an eternal life of
wandering the earth undead-style, squawking folk songs about forests, fucking
and forgotten souls, he masquerades as a journalist and is soon to return to
European shores after a summer brawling his way from Bourke to Nimbin via
Newcastle, Toonumbar, Wagga, and a thousand gloomy metropolitan pubs beeping
with pokie prolix. Wearily wailing about outlaws, STD's and some kind of
quasi-Buddhist philosophy, quaffing beer and sipping herb, cursing Li'l Johnny
Howard and all his works and all his empty promises, Daley remains cheerful,
obstinate and certain that some day, somewhere, the Fuckers are gonna pay.