This band was fronted by Nic Dalton who was bassist in The Lemonheads for a while. He also founded the Sydney indie label, Half A Cow.

This song is about the “New Realist” artist who, along with his wife Jeanne-Claude, liked to wrap large things in fabric…such as the Reichstag, Pont Neuf, Central Park and the coastline at Little Bay in Sydney.

At a press conference in Australia years later, the cultural impact of Christo’s work in 1960s Australia surfaced in an unexpected way when a journalist at a press conference told Christo about The Plunderers’ song. He whipped out a tape deck and played part of the song to the polite but slightly nonplussed Bulgarian-American artist.

The linked video documents this exchange and also includes The Plunderers’ music video.

Nic Dalton tells his side of the story here.

Yewtube link