This set list is from a Roaring Jack show at their most famous home ground, the Sandringham Hotel in Newtown, Sydney. This one took place on my 23rd Birthday, 17 November 1988.
Roaring Jack played a Thursday night residency at the Sandringham ('The Sando') from about 1987 to 1991. On this particular night, they played the following songs:
FIRST SET:
The Old Divide and Rule
Crooked Jack
Honky Tonks in Heaven
Plains of Maralinga
The Ballad of 1975
Sons of Liberty
Walk in the Room
Ways of a Rover
Moving On
Home Boys Home
Rules of the Game
The Leaving of Liverpool
SECOND SET:
Buy Us A Drink
Bastards from the Bush
Uisge Beatha
Shell Shocked Crowd
Whistle at the Window
Lass Behind the Beertaps
Wild Rover Again
Child's Play
Destitution Road
Pissed on Monday
Love in the Modern Age
Thin Red Line
THIRD SET:
Polythene Flowers
(We Don't Play No) Elton Fucking John
Just Like Cigarettes
Jack Dandy
Playing for the Traffic
To Have and Have Not
Lads of the BLF
Ever So Humble
Poor Old Dicey Riley
Go, Leave
Lights of Sydney Town
Yuppietown
Cat Among the Pigeons
ENCORE:
Sally MacLennane
A New England.
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