MUSIC:

Brisbane songwriter Vince Agarol has called for an inquiry into the compilation of the ABC’s Triple-J Top 100 after his entries were excluded for the fifth year in a row.

The youth-oriented radio network’s annual Hottest 100 was announced yesterday with Say Nothing by Flume in top spot.

Mr Agarol – the composer (at left in main picture) of the unproduced rock opera Poo Jogger the Musical based on the life of the Brisbane man who terrorised inner-southern suburbs by defecating on driveways until being caught in 2018 – said the process for compiling the Hottest 100 was “definitely suss if not totally corrupt”.

“Triple-J has an obvious and longstanding hostility towards me and my oeuvre. It’s a blatant case of  personal and artistic discrimination,” he claimed.

“For the past five years I have asked Triple-J to include songs from Poo Jogger in the long list offered to listeners for their consideration.

“One is a sensitive and moving love ballad called My Fart Will Go On which I wrote in homage to the theme song from the blockbuster movie Titanic.

“It’s performed by a young Brisbane drag queen Dion Celine and has received a rapturous reception at live venues around town, especially at the end of the song when Dion holds up a huge Styrofoam turd above his head and throws it into the audience. (below)

“Naturally the artificial moulded turd is smeared with real human excrement for authenticity’s sake.

“The other song they keep rejecting is Portaloo, sung by Brisbane acappella group The Brown Coils to a tune very close to that of Abba’s Waterloo.

“They are both very popular at Brisbane venues, yet for five years now Triple-J has given me, my song, and young Dion and the Brown Coils the arse. I’m sick of being treated like shit by them.

“There needs to be an official investigation. The whole system needs a good enema to wipe away this discrimination and I am writing to the chair of the ABC seeking just that.

“I reckon she may well see my point of view. After all, with a name like Buttrose she would have to have some affinity with my preferred subject matter, wouldn’t she?” he reasoned.