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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? A Date With Lou Reed
Here’s my Lou Reed story. It’s long, but I’ve never written it down before, and so you’re getting the whole thing.
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The Story of CK32111
I'm going to tell you about a little quest of mine; a search for the (not so) Holy Grail. It's a mountain size molehill of my own making and I admit it. But in these dire days of corporate mediocrity -...
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Sonic's Rendezvous Band: The One That Got Away
Consider the Sonic's Rendezvous Band saga... Arisen, phoenix-like, from the ashes of four of the Motor City's finest proponents of high-energy rock -- the MC5, the Stooges, the Rationals, and the Up...
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Flashback: The Iggy-Sonic’s “Eurostrike” tour of 1978 bootlegged
It was 35 years ago - May/June 1978 - when the two greats of high energy Detroit rock ‘n roll, Fred Smith and Iggy Pop, got together to bring a roadshow to Europe.
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Au Revoir Christian, from a bandmate and friend
Christian Houllemare (centre) with the reformed Happy Hate Me Nots, with the author, Matt Galvin, next to him, second from the right . Mark Roxburgh photo It's hard to remember how I first got to know...
View ArticleFirst Detroit Punks interview series goes live
Punk turned peace activist Ivan Suvanjieff - originally known as Mark Norton from the Ramrods - is a former Cream writer and film maker as well. Here's episode one of his series, Detroit Punks,...
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Bloodymindedness: The Birth of the Celibate Rifles
The story of the Celibate Rifles starts in 1979. We're looking back at their gestation - in schools, surf clubs and garages on Sydney's Northern Beaches - and eventual birth. As we take it up, our...
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Carlton cowboys and Fitzroy floors…a retrospective and review
There’s a time machine where I work. The size of an average bathroom, it can spin rock samples at 16 times gravity, replicating a century’s worth of gas and water movements throughout aquitards in a...
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No winners: The Case of The Music Industry and Social Justice Warriors vs Ms...
Half a Cow in the inner-western suburb of Glebe was the coolest bookshop in Sydney; an advocate of the underground with shelves bulging with left-of-field fanzines, authors who had been banned and...
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Unforgettable Charlie Tolnay
I was at Muscle Shoals Records Fayre, on Lygon Street in Melbourne, when I received the unwelcome news from one of my dearest friends, a character in and out of bands in Adelaide for decades, who I...
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From Barracuda to Unbeing Sage: The art of Jeremy Gluck
The more art I make, the more persuaded I become that there is no other art than mine, and no other artist than I. - Jeremy S Gluck Currently Artist-in-Residence at Eltham Hill School (Greenwich,...
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Ride On, Tony Pola
All photois: Greg Walsh. Let's start with a jovial reminder of who, Tony Pola, the man really was, in his own words. From one of his social media messages: PC "culture" is a cancer to freedom of...
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A Swede deal for Sydney live music fans
Like the escapees from lockdown prison that they are, Melbourne’s Swedish Magazines are setting a frenzied course for New South Wales now the gates are again open, and will land at Marrickville...
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