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Local and/or General
Studio album by Models
Released	October 1981
Recorded	Farmyard Studios, Bucks, United Kingdom
Genre	New wave
Label	Mushroom
Producer	Stephen W Tayler, Models
Models chronology
Cut Lunch (1980) Local and/or General (1981) Pleasure of your Company (1983)
Singles from Local and/or General
"Local and/or General" Released: November 1981 "Unhappy" Released: December 1982

Local &/or General is the second studio album by Australian new wave rock band Models, which peaked at #30 on the Australian albums chart. It was released in October 1981 on Mushroom Records with Stephen W Tayler producing.

Early in 1981, Janis Friedenfelds was replaced on drums by Mark Hough (a.k.a. Buster Stiggs) from New Zealand band The Swingers. Prior to flying to the United Kingdom to record Local &/Or General, Models had made some demo recordings, which proved successful enough to be released as an EP, Cut Lunch in June. One track, "Man o' Action", from that EP was re-recorded for Local &/or General. The album provided two singles, "Local and/or General" in November and "Unhappy" in 1982, neither peaked into the Australian Top 50 singles chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sean Kelly and Andrew Duffield unless otherwise shown

Personnel

Credited to:

Musicians

Models

• Andrew Duffield — keyboards, EMS Synthi AKS
• Mark Ferrie — bass guitar
• Janis Freidenfelds (a.k.a. Johnny Crash) — percussion, traps, syncussion
• Sean Kelly — guitar, clarinet, vocals

Production

• Producer — Stephen W Tayler, Models
• Engineer — Stephen W Tayler, Tony Cohen
• Mix Engineer: Stephen W Tayler
• Re-mix — Steve Brown
• Artwork — Roy Snell
• Photography — Anton Corbijn

In pop culture

The album gives its title to the name of a radio program focussing on new Australian music on Melbourne radio station Triple R.

Television music quiz program RocKwiz has a round on general music knowledge titled "Local and/or General" after the album.

References

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2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
3. ^ Holmgren, Magnus; Baird, Paul; Aubrey, Ross; Acosta, Lisa. "The Models". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
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8. ""Dying for My Country at the War" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 4 March 2009.
9. "Local &/or General". Discogs. 1981. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
10. ""Man o' Action" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 2 March 2009.
11. ""Drunk in the House" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 4 March 2009.
12. ""Tearing Hair Out" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 4 March 2009.
13. "Local and/or General album credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 February 2009.

• 1981 albums
• Models (band) albums
• Mushroom Records albums