And if you stay at someone’s place late enough, there’s a chance of vickning* *This knowledge courtesy of Kaisfatdad

Lot of folk had nowt but praise having watched this…

Schlagerbilly Death Gospel Surely people are making them up by now…

Classical?

Does she look anything like Britt Ekland? Or Alana Hamilton, or Kelly Emberg, or Rachel Hunter, or…(continue and fade)

People may not talk about it, but they’re still listening (speaking purely for myself)

It’s often been observed that the Australian public don’t vote new governments in, they vote old governments out. Last night might have been the first time they voted the opposition out.

“A Beatles cover version which went to #1 in Australia by Elvis Costello’s dad, yes really!” Not really – #16 that I can find, and I’m blessed if I know where because it certainly wasn’t in these parts.

The Tubes – What Do You Want From Live

Now, up in Bradford a chap named Radford While taking part in a local play Was intercepted and then suspected Of going ooh-wakka-doo-wakka-day

Adelaide, South Australia – biggest turnout for The Beatles (the legendary 300,000 in ’64)….that’s about it.

An Oz FB page Batshit Crazy Cookers describes itself thus…”The Chronicles of Australia’s Conspiracy Fearists, Sov Shitizens, Grifters, Anti Vaxxers & Freedumb movement…Also known Down Under as […]

Alas, he was no Slartibartfast.

Ah, if it’s Bolero on film you’re after, you can’t go past Bruno Bozzetto’s “Allegro Non Troppo”

When his 1971 book came out, I heard the Hepster interviewed on the ABC Radio book show…a brief conversation about that year in music, then the announcer asked “So, if you could somehow do it, you’d be happy to […]

Fingers crossed for you (we could use some rain down here – only 2mm since the start of December and all our dams are at their lowest levels in 30 years)

Neville Brody was mentioned in the New Years Honours list…I daresay a lot of designers (and design student) watched with interest to see what he was doing.

I asked Nick Cave on his Red Hand Files page if he’d accept one – he never got back to me. If “for services to complacency” or “for services to general ineptitude” were categories, I’d consider it.

Step forward, Roy Wood…

During the 80s a lot of soundtracks became less compendia of incidental music composed for the film, and more collections of old pop hits. They probably sold more that way, but sort of lost something in the process.