IAN RILEN and the LOVE ADDICTS - Passion Boots & Bruises CD

CD only.

"I been tryin' to change, tryin to change my life, been married 27 times but just met my future ex-wife; we'll have it: passion, boots and bruises" - Ian Rilen, the title track off Passion, Boots and Bruises

Ian Rilen is an Australian rock institution. The Keith Richards of Australia, or "a national treasure", according to Cold Chisel songwriter Don Walker, the 57-year-old lives and breathes the rock 'n' roll lifestyle - you can hear it in his gravelly voice and see it in the crevices of his face.

He never rehearses, confesses to being unmanageable, and once had to look up his own songs on the Espy jukebox to jog his memory.

He has thrown over girlfriends for a schooner of beer, and he doesn't mind the new rock kids coming up to him and squealing "You're a bloody legend"!

Rilen wrote two Australian pub anthems - Bad Boy for Love (when he was in Rose Tattoo) and TV Glue (as frontman of X).

And now, having moved back to Melbourne from Sydney, he releases his second album with the Love Addicts.

Over grinding swampy blues rock, he spills his guts about girls, mobile phones, his hometown of Bendigo, St Kilda street workers, the music industry and more girls.

His motto is encapsulated in opener Booze to Blame ("it's a shame, booze to blame").