It’s the song that burned bright as a teenage anthem in the early 2000s, and now Take Me Away by Perth band Lash is being introduced to a new generation of fans.

The song, with its iconic sing-a-long chorus of I don’t wanna grow up/I wanna get out , was brought to global fame by the 2005 hit film Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s now being featured in the film’s sequel and the band behind the tune are finding themselves back in the spotlight.

“It’s taking me back into a time capsule,” former Lash member Belinda-Lee Reid says.

Reid wrote Take Me Away when she was 18, but Lash were already a well established band. They formed in 1996 when the members were just 13 years old. They signed to Festival Mushroom Records in 2001 just as the teenagers were finishin

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