Happy Birthday, Lou!
And as today would have been his 79th birthday…someone on Twitter thought it fun to share these…lol Happy Birthday Lou Reed pic.twitter.com/Lks78nOOAD — Crayon Jones (@CrayonToCrayon) March 2, 2021
Oz Music’s Big Loss
One of the biggest names in the Australian music industry has passed away. Michael Gudinski created one of the biggest record labels in Australia – Mushroom, and it had on its books just about every Australian music artist or band you’d ever wish to name. From Skyhooks to Split Enz to Kylie Minogue, many a…
Rock Secrets – Jim Kerr and Billy MacKenzie
This book was produced by Virgin Records in 1982, and asked rock and pop stars of the time a standard Q and A. About 40 of them were printed in the book, including one “mystery star” who if you could name and send in a postcard to Virgin with your answer, you could win a…
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Minds Music Monday – Superman V Supersoul
Today is the official calendar start of spring – but I much prefer to think of it in seasonal terms and don’t really feel any real sense of spring until the equinox on March 20th. That in mind, I wanted to choose something that conjured up warmth and light and joy and optimism, and maybe…
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Rave Reviews For The Anchoress
It’s hard to escape all the amazing reviews coming in for The Art Of Losing, the follow up album from 2016 debut Confessions Of A Romance Novelist by The Anchoress. Below are the latest reviews printed in Mojo, Classic Pop and Record Collector, as well as a short Q and A interview also from Record…
Knackered Distraction
Felt very drained today. The nerves from conducting last night’s interview got the better of me and I woke up in the middle of the night with it all still swilling around in my head. Excited that it seemed to go okay and excited to share it on the blog, but still with niggles about…
Always Destined To Be The … Next Big Thing
I posted this onto SMOG earlier this afternoon – but I get the feeling it is going to be somewhat overshadowed by a wonderful post about Jim, which I am sure he will love (who can blame him?). Anyway, I thought I’d also post it here as well. (I haven’t altered the words I posted.)…
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Happy Gray Day! 40 Years Of Lanark
Today has been marked as Gray Day – marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Lanark by Alasdair Gray. I read Lanark for the first time last year and fell in love with it and Alasdair. Last October I went to the Oscar Marzaroli exhibition at the Street Level Photoworks on Trongate and had…