Apr 25 2006
Hug an Australian Day!
If you’re anything like me, you have next to know idea about all of the weird and wonderful things going on in the world at any one time. As such, you probably have no idea that April 26 is a day of great importance. It’s not a day for remembering some important event or anything silly like that, but rather a day for each person to express their appreciation to Australians simply for being Australian. Yes, April 26 is Hug an Australian Day!
Hug an Australian Day is one of many holidays created by those crazy folks over at Wellcat Holidays just to make our lives a little more fun. Which we could probably all do with a lot more of. As part of this, April 26 is when everyone should go out of their way to not only be nice to Australians, but to actually hug them. Of course you might want to explain this to any Australians you meet before you hug them, or you may just seem incredibly weird.
So if you live with, or work with, or just happen to run into any Australians, be sure to give them a hug tomorrow. I for one will be hugging every Australian that I meet tomorrow. There aren’t usually a great many Australians in my room (where I’ll spend 95% of my day) at any one time, but you never know, fate could conspire to bring one here tomorrow! And they will certainly be getting a hug for their trouble.
The one thing putting this together did teach me though is that I have hardly any bands from Australia in my music collection. Sure, I have a bunch of Architecture In Helsinki and Ben Lee, a little Jet and that funky ‘Frontier Psychiatrist’ thing by The Avalanches, but that’s about it. I really need to explore the Australian music scene a little more. Of course any recommendations of bands is always greatly appreciated!
Anyways, seeing as this is supposedly a music blog of some kind, here are a couple of cheerful songs by Australian musicians that should make you want to give Australians a big hug.
MP3 Architecture In Helsinki - It’5 (expired)
MP3 Ben Lee - Catch My Disease (That’s The Way I Like It) (expired)
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actually, 26th april is what we here in australia call anzac day. it’s a public holiday and is in fact for remembering some important event… it’s the day we mourn for the thousands of australian servicemen and women who lost their lives in wars, and it’s held on this day as it’s the anniversary of the battle of gallipolli, where we were literally slaughtered by the turks in WW1.
but i guess that reinforces the point about no-one knowing a single thing about us australians, and thanks for the nice gesture anyway!
rosie
p.s. some good australian bands you should check out are youth group, wolfmother, cut copy, the presets, end of fashion, new buffalo, the grates, i heart hiroshima… oh and you totally forgot ac/dc! they’re national heroes! haha.
actually, anzac day is the 25th
definitely recommend the presets and cut copy. they are excellent live!
The 26th April is not ANZAC day, the 25th April is ANZAC.
Daniel
hey great info on the holiday so which day is this really?! i found this hug holiday on another website and i have to put a powerpoint 2gether on it. just cuz its different than holidays in the U.S.A. if anymore info comes up feel free to e-mail me at DarkenTearz@yahoo.com thx ~.^