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Independent's Day - The Borderers



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1. Don't Let It Go
2.
Independent's Day
3.
She Made A Woman Outta Me
4.
I Fell For You
5.
Fighting For Peace
6.
I Belong
7.
Fate
8.
Isolation
9.
Five Little Minutes
10.
Liberty
11.
All My Sisters
12.
Independent's Day (reprise)

'Independents Day' was recorded in 1995, and the title track was recorded 4 times before we ended up with the one on the album. We had one hour left to re-record it on the very day we were due to start mixing, so we ran in and did it live. This song then went on to receive commercial airplay on 5AD, the No.1 station in Adelaide. The song was also picked up by domestic violence groups & counsellors in Australia as their theme song, and message of hope, it helped women feel brave enough to escape from the situations they were in.

'Fighting For Peace' was written about Alex's hometown Belfast, and primarilly about her sister Lisa who had never known peace since she was born - the Child of Circumstance. The biggest fight was the fight to retain peace once it was decided to have a ceasefire. It still is!

'I Belong' was a song that Jim first recorded in 1990. Back then, it was in a minor key and sounded an awful lot like "Simple Minds" with keyboards and drum machines. The Borderers then changed it to a major key, sped it up and now sounds like us.

'Fate' is our favourite from this album, because it sounded like the old
dixieland funeral marches with the trumpet and the horns wailing away at the end. There is one sax note that goes for ages that still gives us shivers of excitement!

'I Fell For You' was about an imaginary couple who don't like each other when they first meet, in fact the guy's going out with the girl's best
friend. They eventually realise they're more suited to each other and elope to the famous "Gretna Green" to get married. It took months to write these lyrics.

The melody and music for 'She Made A Woman Outta Me' was written in a friend's flat in West Hampstead, London. This house had a history of rock stars who used to live there. Phil Lynott from "Thin Lizzy" had a pad upstairs, and Lemmy from "Motorhead" used to pop in for some sugar as all he lived on was Mars Bars & coffee. So maybe their vibe got to us?
The lyrics were written in North Adelaide by all 5 members of the band at the time, with each of us writing a line of verse on a piece of paper, folding it so we couldn't see what the other had written and then passing it round in a circle to repeat the same procedure. That is why the lyrics are so weird, but we thought it was very funny. It is one of our best songs live, and people still come up to ask us what the song means. We wish we had a clue!


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