Exact same boat as you. I got them when they came out and remember listening to them a fair bit at the time. Pleasant as they are, I’ve had no urge to play them since and I’d forgotten the poor chap even […]

You’re not wrong.

I don’t follow football but usually these sorts of rules are added for a reason. What is the problem they are trying to solve? Was there an exploit where a team could have 12 players on the field at once? The […]

No bank holiday in Brisbane! Listening update: I listened to Time Out of Mind and my assessment remains unchanged from ~30 years ago: too many generic, swampy 12 bar blues and not enough actual songs.

I’ve had the hump with Bob since ’98 when I saw him deliver the worst live performance I’ve seen: it was almost spitefully bad. I’ve occasionally bought albums (such as the bootleg series basement tapes) but then […]

Check out Ed O’Brien’s appearance on That Pedal Show from a few years ago. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t a guitar player; you can witness a genuinely lovely guy doing extraordinary things. Ironically, one of the […]

In the late 70s, my neighbour and I used to raid his older sister’s record collection and mime along to “The Jungle To The Zoo” on tennis racquets, my axe of choice being a Bancroft Junior Bjorn Borg sig […]

That’s my problem with it: the riff may as well be an AI pastiche of post-Exile Stones. Once Keith learned his two finger Open G tuning trick he very quickly settled into ‘the riff’ and has recycled it endlessly.

I saw her around the time of Red Dirt Girl, with the incomparable Buddy Miller on guitar and Brian Blade on drums. Fantastic concert. I did find her studio output, and voice, started to get a bit one note after Wrecking Ball.

I have a Hunt Emerson cartoon of the Ramones looking over me from my office wall. My gateway to the world of rock was a big book called 25 Years of Rock which my parents gave me in 1980. It contained this cartoon, […]

I had this one last week. 24 greens, no yellow! Obvs 25 greens is the maximum possible. 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩…[Read more]

After writing the above, I put on Climate of Hunter to accompany my morning work. Some deft guitar work on one track caught my ear, and in looking through the credits I saw that Billy Ocean provided background […]

I have Tilt somewhere, but I think I’m off the train with Mr Walker at Climate of Hunter. The thing I love about Scott Walker is the contrast between dark content and the lush, almost easy-listening veneer of the […]

I’m always amazed that he was an in-demand producer as his own albums sounded messy and chaotic. I find I can only listen in small bursts.

Lordy lord.

I’ll be watching with interest, as it’s a genre I should like more than I do. I have a fairly low tolerance for the strident vocal, sea shanty, hey nonny nonny end of things. I very much like the more melodic, […]

btw, I love how the standard photo doing the rounds in the Australian media is of Andrew looking like he’s been taxidermied, reclining in the back of a vehicle with one red, glowing eye!

I’m going to make a prediction that no charges will come of this. It’s a bit of theatre to show that the King has distanced himself from his brother and that the police are ‘doing something’. A search of his […]

I see they avoided any mid-period Lou. Not edgy enough? I’d rather hear I Love You Suzanne or Dirty Boulevard than a cover of Venus in Furs. Some (many!) of Lou’s songs were carried by his voice and swagger, but […]

Well played.