Ringo tended to let Jim Keltner take the lead on most available 70s footage. I think I’d read somewhere that he’d said his confidence (and alcoholism probably) had taken too much of a toll for him to be sole […]

I’ve been re-collecting vinyl for a good few years now but this is the first time I’ve really engaged with RSD and had a pretty fantastic experience. Took the kids to a ‘local’ store about an hour from home and […]

Matt Johnson on the recent The The documentary (a must watch, btw) revealed (somewhat sheepishly I felt) that his job was, essentially, property management. Unsurprising as he was quite vocal about sustainable […]

Yep. I think that “Revolver inspired Pet Sounds inspired Sgt Pepper”, while an interesting enough story has, by some unusual cultural revisionism, led to a worldview where Wilson was in some way McCartney’s […]

I tend to categorise Laura Marling albums into:
Titles in iambic pentameter – yes
Titles not in iambic pentameter – no

(Actually, I don’t really know her stuff, just that some of her titles are in iambic […]

Love that opening roar. If you listen very very carefully, you may be able to hear a woman!

I too am a big fan of the man, and was looking forward to this year’s releases. Leaving aside the very serious allegations of underage grooming and such (for which he should most certainly have his collar felt), […]

Stupidest thing I’ve done this week is being a fan of The Cure and, especially, their long player Disintegration, which they’re playing in its entirety at the Sydney Opera House in May. Due to understandably […]

Given the public acrimony between them, maybe he’s looking to piss off the other members of “New Order”?

I love that English Weather comp. Being born and bred in Australia, and hating the heat, and being an Anglophile all my life, that album has an extraordinarily strong pull (perhaps more than for those who have […]

At the risk of appearing pedantic, the album Icehouse, featuring the song Icehouse, was recorded by Flowers. They then had to change their name upon legal advice so they went with the by-then familiar, you guessed […]

Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.

Interviewer: What do you say to accusations that all your albums sound the same?
Angus Young: *shrugs happily* Same band!

I’m always amazed they haven’t made a Best Of and spent the rest of their lives […]

Smith, Gallup, Thompson, Williams, O’Donnell, Tolhurst on ‘other instrument’.
Morrissey, Whyte, Boorer, Day, Cobrin.

My first child, who’s now 9, was born December 19. Spent the whole week pretty high on adrenaline and living from moment to moment. Then on Xmas Eve, with all in bed, I stood on the back verandah as the televised […]

I tend to tune out at the coda of Arcade Fire’s Wake Up, the double time bit. They were doing just fine up until then.

I’ve always felt the Chuck Berry solo on Unguarded Moment is the most incongruous thing in their catalogue. It’s never made musical sense to me.

Well, well. I only just tweeted him last week respectfully asking about this. Volume 1 is a career high. Great work on Wasp Star but doesn’t feel so much a unified whole as Volume 1. Can’t wait for this.

I think Disintegration is anyone’s best album.
There. I’ve said it.