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.

I missed my one chance to see them live back in the mid 90s on a tour with Crowded House and Hunters and Collectors. Had a front row ticket but had (unbeknownst to me) blown my eardrum attempting to waterski […]

I love the Koln album, but the tradition of live albums in jazz would completely change the nature of the list.

Agree on getting the original version first. I have several expanded versions, including the sister Hull gig, but it’s the original version the reputation is based on. It’s like a text book in rock riffage.

If an album is consistently described as ‘important’, it is usually unlistenable.

Maybe hit up Big Ted for a loan. It’s nice to shout ourselves occasionally. I love these sort of books, but this one is just outside my price comfort zone. I bought the big tome “Recording the Beatles” some years […]

A quote I read from him in a guitar mag decades ago has always stuck with me: all you need is a telecaster and a Fender Blues Junior. If you can’t make good music with those two objects then no amount of gear will […]

I worked on an investigation for several months with a Chinese man who taught me the ways of tea. He would have all these marvellous (and very expensive) varieties and would make me numerous cups per day in his […]

I’ll check some of these out. I listened to exactly zero tracks released in 2025 this year. My kids were delighted to tell me that my Spotify estimated age is north of 70 (I’m 54).

Jesus!

It is slightly ludicrous having two major sporting stadia in the inner suburbs. Locks the city down anytime something is on. They should build them out in the boondocks at the end of the train line somewhere.

I can actually gaze out to it from my level 28 office. It’s quite small but tall and almost perfectly circular, so it looks like a cauldron. In case you were unaware, Gabba is a contraction of Woolloongabba, the […]

God, she seems revolting. I’d never heard of them, but I knew exactly how they would sound before I sampled a few tracks.

Love this album and have probably played it more than my other Eno and Roxy albums put together.

When I first moved to North Queensland in the early 90s hitchhikers were still pretty common on the highway, and I picked a fair few of them up on my jaunts. They were all European backpackers on their way to and […]

Oooh! Police and Toto are good contenders!