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NUNS!! Lucky Father Jack doesn’t live in ole’ Sydney Town. I tells ya, that photo from the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald did amuse me with aforementioned priest in mind.

It is rare for an artist to emerge fully formed on their first album. Usually, influences haven’t been fully integrated into their sound and rough edges can be found. The one exception that comes to mind is Jimi Hendrix. Are You Exeperienced was stunning its in realization of a sound that was unlike anything else [...]

One chord. One rhythm. One man. Spell M-A-N…man. He walked 47 miles of barbed wire and had a cobra snake for a necktie. Had a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind. Just turned 79 and don’t mind dying. Amanda pays her respects as does Dave Alvin with a rememberance of the night Bo banned the ‘beat.’ I’ve thrown [...]

I like to have boots of shows I’ve been to. I’ve only scored two. One is AC/DC at the Syd Ent Cent back in 2001 and the other is PJ Harvey at the Enmore in 2003. Other than that it has been slim pickings. Back in 1994, I saw his Bobness when living in Japan. [...]

Jeff Lang’s Aussie tour dates are up at his site. I’ll be fer shure at the Ettalong gig (booked tickets ages ago). Sydney types would want to get to the Basement gig on May 31st. Jeff’s new album is Half Seas Over out on April 26th. On the tour, a lucky few may get to also [...]

A month or so ago in Melbourne, I was minding by business and biding my time over a pint or two and reading the Herald Sun. Casually reading a column, I was momentarily dumbstruck by a paragraph of concentrated stupidity. Sure enough checking the byline, it was by Andrew Bolt. Cut to today’s SMH and they [...]

Mucking about with a great audio recording program Reaper. A quick and dirty recording of My Babe. A little bit of Fred McDowell in this one.

I stumbled onto The Monks via some thread on Fark. They were a 60s group that twisted the conventions of the time that sorta sounds familiar but with a wicked, twisted edge. Check out the following vid Monk Chant. You have jungle drums, fuzz bass, blackboard nail dragging organ solo, a communal tapping, proto-feedback guitar solo, [...]

Here we go again. But at least this one refers to Australia. The lads are supposed to be playing Suncorp later in the year. One day, I’ll stumble on the right one and y’all hail me as a rock’n'roll prophet (after I delete all the failed predictions of course).

Learned today that Kevin Dubrow, the singer from 80s metal band Quiet Riot, died earlier today. Best remembered for the Slade cover, Cum On Feel the Noize, Quiet Riot really broke metal in the mainstream back in 1983. Depending on how you feel they should be congratulated or condemned for the rise of 80s hair metal. [...]