42. Pace It – Magic Dirt

I remember talking to Mark at some race somewhere about Magic Dirt, and how they were just a perfect band for a sub-group of people who were looking for a strong female front person with a soaring vocal dropping bombs from on high over huge, huge guitars, bass and drums. Mostly because we were both in that sub-group of people.

Adalita was (and probably still is) an amazing singer, and just commanded a band that could have fought their corner against anyone but chose to follow her into war instead. And what an amazing racket they made, until their bass player Dean died so suddenly and they decided they couldn’t continue without him.

I remember You Am I, one of my favourite bands in the world, doing a Live at the Wireless on Triple J with a bunch of mates, and they got Adalita in to sing Berlin Chair, their greatest hit (“how about it Adalita? Here’s your chance at stardom”) and she owned it. I can’t find that version anywhere, but she comes on halfway through this to own them once again. But back with her own band, I just flipped a coin to come up with a track to represent them, and you could do worse than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXaySubvFc4