Australians in Europe

MES: So what if it goes all right, er, say... say it works out real good, would you be up to doing something, say, around like March, April? We could get it... I'd like to take it around to Liverpool, Manchester and places like that, y'know. Trevor Stuart: Yeah, you can have me until April the 20th. MES: Yeah, you got work on from there? TS: Yeah, going to Australia to do a show. MES: Right, OK. ​ (1)

Australians in Europe
Never ever breathe
Australians in Europe
Get a whiff of that antipodean breeze (2)
Australians in Europe
Higher! Australians in Europe

THINK.
Why did the Great Grandad leave?
Australians in Europe never see.
He was consigned to a boat, after using a huge great cleaver. (3)

Australians in Europe never ever....
Breathe...
Australians your biggest things rejected, (4)
I have ever seen.
Because the boys use a map and they live in Berlin.
Your like a pair of dogs loose in McGregor's kiln, (5)
you know shit.
Australians in Europe
Wake up and suss the scene.
You'd better leave them parents, and try Hamburg to Berlin.
Your just a bloody Twister, so who do you think your foolin.
Australians in Europe

1. The song begins with MES talking with Trevor Stuart, who played Luciani/John Paul I in MES's stage play, "Hey Luciani" (thanks to Reformation for this information).

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2. Antipodes are any two places on earth exactly opposite to each other on the globe (i.e., if one were to bore straight through the earth from one, one would wind up at the other). This is roughly true of England and Australia and New Zealand, so these are often referred to as "the antipodes" in England (the actual antipode of England is located somewhat south of New Zealand). 

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3. From 1780 to 1848, Great Britain transported prisoners to Australia, particularly to New South Wales which was established as a penal colony.

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4. According to Rich:

"We Australians are very proud of our big things eg Big Pineapple, Big Sheep, Big Lobster, Big Ned Kelly. They usually have gift shops attached. I personally climbed to the top of the Big Pineapple in the 70's (for you Brits a pineapple is what you would refer to as an 'aubergine,' not to be confused with a 'courgette' which of course is a watermelon.)"

Now that's weird--an aubergine is an eggplant. I have not been able to confirm this, but Rich ought to know (unless he's mistaken about what an "aubergine" is).

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5. There seems to be a kind of electic kiln--used to fire pottery--called "Mcgregor's." Thanks to superjudge on the Fall online forum, who speculates MES may be saying something akin to "a bull in a China shop." And Danny points out that a pair of andirons with a grill between them is called a "firedog."

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