13 Weeks Of Hurt Never stopped me Dreaming (KISS the GISS for Australia! update)
The campaign is ON!

Yes, after Australia actually made it through to the World Cup by beating U R Gay, we began thinking of the official song that will be released (BY LAW) to back the Aussie boys as they go off to lose to Togo or Paraguay and we all lose interest! However, we have NO DOUBT that the singer of our official song of course be Laura "The Giss" Gissara, for so many reasons, among them that we still imagine a lovely beautiful rainbow coming over the dark cloud that is So Oz As Idol 3 (13 weeks of hurt never stopped me dreaming Idol!). As you can read below, we g-Unit-mailed the people at "Football" (cheek!) Australia to ask for their consideration of the Giss in singing our anthem, but this is day two, and they still haven't actually responded (honestly, you'd think they had important things to worry about like booking flights! Get your priorities right!) but we will let their hangovers settle down and I'm sure in time, they'll get on to us. However, that won't stop the KISS the GISS FOR AUSTRALIA campaign keeping up.

Our sensational friends at Fop Towers (it's just next door to Pop Towers!) and at I'm Always Right (quite right, you are!) have not only thrown their weight behind this campaign, but we've taken it upon ourselves to source out a couple of the Giss's rivals for this gig and say BACK OFF IT'S NOT YOURS TO SING BITCH! or something like that. Well, we tried to anyway. An attempt to send an e-mail to Shannon Noll proved elusive since the big tool doesn't take e-mails OR PMs on his "forum" (TSK!) and nor does "Murray Pete", but he's probably having a nana nap anyway and neither does THIS guy...



Yes, it's Bernard "Fucking" Fanning from Powder "fucking" Finger, a man who is an enemy of Pop with his "nights of the soul" and introspective pub rock - a man who hates on Idol from a position of pub rock superiority, and not from a position of love like we do! A man who had a go at Harry Connick Jr! Did YOU help the flood victims "Fucking" Fanning! Anyway, this lack of access to send an artist an "e-mail" (what are you the FBI!) is quite annoying, but we eventually found an email for his management people at general@secret-service.com (secret service! We told you! J edgar Hoover isn't after you Fucking Fanning!) and sent them this note!

Dear "Fanning Folk"

Like many Australians, I was delighted when we caned Uruguay in the soccer. Once the euphoria of this momentous occasion died down, we turned our thoughts to the official "song of the people" we'll use to send our Green and Gold heroes off with (until we lose interest of course by going 0-1 to Togo).

We are very hopeful Australian Idols Laura "The Giss" Gissara will step up to this challenge, since she likes soccer and has a big happy smile that can unite the nation. However, we would like to express our concern if Bernard Fanning or Powderfinger are asked to do this job ahead of the peoples #1 choice. For one thing, Bernard and Powderfinger are many things, but happy isn't one of them from what I gather, and so we can't send our footballers off to Germany with a "heartfelt" pub rock song or anything involving introspection (Del Amitri did this for Scotland, and they didn't win a game in 1998). It MUST be poppy and have a great chorus, something we don't see Bernard providing.

I would also hope if you are asked, you turn this offer down - you couldn't have Bernard be thought of as anything but a serious artiste', and I note his links page contains two links to cricket sites, which we accept is his true passion.

We hope you appreciate this isn't a job for Bernard

Regards
Alyson

We hope THAT IS THAT sorted then! And we hope YOU GUYS support this campaign! When our team goes off with a happy Giss smile to face Togo, rather than waltzing out to a pub dirge, we hope you appreciate our efforts!

Alyson