Delightful Rain - DVD + CD

"Delightful Rain" is a celebration of Australian surf music and beach culture over the last five decades.

Filmed and recorded between May 13th and 27th 2006, in the Freshwater Surf Life Saving Club, right on the beach at Harbord on Sydney’s North Shore, and looking out over the water where in 1915 Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku introduced surfing to Australia, this was a unique recording project.

"Delightful Rain" gathered together some of Australia’s greatest ever surf music artists to record material, old and new, and to tell their stories and to celebrate the journey of Australian surf music. Produced by Kerryn Tolhurst and recorded by Mick Wordley, the Freshwater sessions included The Atlantics, Les Green from The Denvermen, Richard Clapton, Robbie Hirst and Martin Rotsey of Midnight Oil fame with Backsliders’ Dom Turner, Tamam Shud, Pete Howe, Tim Gaze, Celibate Rifles, GANGgajang, Cruel Sea founder Dan Rumour and his band, The Pigram Brothers, Beau Young and Andrew Kidman.

Track listing:

1. Dan Rumour Band - Shadder


2. Tamam Shud - What's Come Over You?


3. The Atlantics - Riff A Go Go


4. Andrew Kidman - Remember The Duke


5. The Angry Tradsemen (Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey, Dom Turner) - Big Wave


6. Richard Clapton - Walk On Water


7. The Atlantics - Wedding Cake Island


8. Beau Young - Simple Ben


9. Les Green of the Denvermen - Surfside


10. The Atlantics - One More Summer


11. Celibate Rifles - Lazy Sunshine


12. Dan Rumour Band - The Drift


13. The Pigram Brothers - Blue Bay Blues


14. GANGgajang - Surfin' Round The World


15. The Atlantics - Bombora


16. Peter Howe - I'm Alive (Delightful Rain)