New CDs arriving in Arts include a few re-releases by Irish supergroup U2, all with a bonus disc. The recent multi-Grammy award winning English singer, Adele, features on her 2011 multi-planinum release 21. There is also High Society : original Broadway cast – a show based on the 1956 MGM musical and last produced in Melbourne by The Production Company in 2004.
Down the Overlanders Trail : the early days of Country Music in Australia is a compilation presented by record producer and broadcaster, Warren Fahey. Classics are reimagined on Declassified and Arcane is a 2010 release by iconic Australian band of the alternative rock scene, Crow.
Most of these and many more are currently available on Listening Posts 3 & 8 in Arts. You can listen to the entire CD or just select different tracks.
The Joshua Tree. / U2.
Universal Island Records, 2007.
High Society : Broadway’s new musical : original Broadway cast. / music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
DRG, 1999
The Poet Sings : Australian Art Songs.
Stone Records, 2012
Warren Fahey presents Down the Overlanders Trail : the early days of country music in Australia.
ABC : Universal, 2012.
21. / Adele.
XL Records, 2011
Declassified : classics re-imagined.
ABC : Universal, 2012
Arcane. / Crow.
Non-Zero : Shock, 2010
October. / U2.
Island/Interscope : Universal, 2008
There are eight jukebox listening posts in the Arts Reading Room, where you can listen to CDs from the audiovisual collection.
Group of people using listening post in Arts room © Andrew Lloyd
Other CDs & audiovisual material can be requested through the Library’s online catalogue, for playing on audiovisual equipment in Arts during opening hours.
