''All Is Forgiven'' is the second studio album by Australian rock band

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. It was released in September 2005 and peaked at number 58 on the Australian albums chart. In 2005, The album was shortlisted for the

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The song "You're 39, You're Beautiful & You're Mine" was written by Paul Kelly. Perkins said, "I was on a mission to get good songs, no matter where they came from. I basically just spoke to every great songwriter I came across and got down on my knees and said, 'Pleeeeease! I've got nothing! I've got nothing!' So he threw me a bone." Walker later said of his song "Harry was a Bad Bugger", "The subject matter is a combination of three blokes that I knew when I was young in Grafton. These were older guys who were part of the

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generation who had washed up in regional Australia. Guys who were five or ten years older than me and are cunning as all fuck, never short of money but never have any visible means of support, utterly ruthless with anybody around them, and devastatingly attractive because of that."

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The album was promoted with a short film, written and directed by Karen Borger, which included a special edit to be used as the music video for the group's single, ''Whenever it Snows''. Band member Owen said "The record company came up with the idea, instead of making just a video, they thought we could make this so they can show it in other places rather than the rock video format." The short film won Best Film, Wollombi Film Festival (NSW Australia), screened at St Kilda Film Festival (Victoria, Australia) and was selected for 'Best of the Fest' traveling film festival (across Australia). It screened at Woodford Folk Festival, Queensland on New Year's Eve and at the Australian Film Weekend in

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, Ontario Canada w. feature film 'The Proposition'. The film has been screened repeatedly on RAGE - ABC TV, Australia.

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"Harry was a Bad Bugger" was described by Chris Johnston as, " a

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meets '' Wolf Creek'' kind of tune - the Australian song of the year", by Mess & Noise as, "one of the finest Australian compositions of the last 20 years", and ''

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'' as a "lyrical masterpiece".

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– vocals, guitar * Don Walker – vocals, piano, keyboards * Charlie Owen – guitar, dobro *Shane Walsh – double bass * Jim White – drums *

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