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Grey Street / Mary of the Morning

by Souls of Ambience

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Grey Street 05:20
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Mary of the Morning 03:45

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The Name of the song 'Grey Street’, may get its name from a place, a real street in the suburb of St Kilda Melbourne Australia, set on the seaside; familiar to everyone from Melbourne.

A few of the other lines such as: 'The Leering Cars and all-night streetlight lies...' 'All the girls you’ve killed...' 'Palace wall...' definitely suggest the actual place. The Palace was a famous venue in St Kilda that has since burnt down.

But maybe it’s just “Grey’ - the colour- You don’t need to know this actual place to relate to this song, with a strong melody and timeless lyrics.

For those who don’t know Melbourne or those who are too young, this song is set in the era when St Kilda was a place for the underclass: Students, the poor, street people, working girls... with a strong artist community and immigrants who established European Cafes, cheap hardy foreign food - No English. You could go to the local hamburger shop, order your fish and chips along with heroin. In the 1940’s 50’s famous Australian painters lived and painted here, Such as Albert Tucker and Sydney Nolan.

Grey Street in this song is a place that no longer exists. It’s now a place for the Tourists and the well heeled. An expensive and exclusive street with Palatial mansions and grand terraces.

At the end of Grey street is located the Crystal Ballroom at The George Hotel. It became known as a pivotal venue for Melbourne's post-punk scene.

List of bands who played at the Crystal Ballroom:

Greg Sneddon, The Birthday Party, Dead Can Dance, Hunters & Collectors, Crime and the City Solution, The Models, The Moodists, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Saints, The Triffids, The Go-Betweens, The Boys Next Door, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Cosmic Psychos, The Cure, Simple Minds..."

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released April 14, 2024

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Souls of Ambience Melbourne, Australia

Australian 70’s prog rock Keyboard player GREG SNEDDON (LP ‘Mind Stroll’ on Mushroom Records) teamed up with internationally known British New Wave Metal bass player KEVIN KERSHAW (‘Valhalla’, ‘Ztormtrooper’), guitarist MAREK TABORSKY (‘Powerslave’, 'Fifteen Minutes of Peace', 'The Small Victories') and drummer CHRIS GEORGE ('Chariot Arcana') to form SOULS OF AMBIENCE ... more

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