6/14/2017 0 Comments 20. Dirty Old Town: The PoguesTalking about moshpits at Selina’s, these lads got everyone moving. Continue
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6/13/2017 0 Comments 19. Love Removal Machine: The CultI know they were rubbish, but my god they were great at being rubbish. Continue
6/12/2017 0 Comments 18. Love Like Blood: Killing JokeI could never be a Goth, sadly. I mean look at me: I’m bloody ginger, I’ve got blue eyes, it’s too ridiculous for words. Continue
I don’t really get homesick. Maybe it’s because I’ve moved around the world so much that it burnt out, or maybe it’s that I tend to live in the here and now, not the there and then. Continue
6/10/2017 0 Comments 16. In Between Days: The CureThey were one of the few bands to convince me to see a show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre (because obviously I’ve always been a music snob, and big venues suck). Continue
They were supposed to be U2 sized, weren’t they? Continue
Remember when people danced in their clips? Amazing, wasn’t it? Continue
God, where do you start with The Smiths? Continue
I miss those nights out, doing whatever the hell we did back then, and coming home at some ungodly hour but not wanting to sleep, so putting on Rage to see what they were going to show us. Continue
6/5/2017 0 Comments 11. Barbados: Models“All I see is washed away, I am the voice left from drinking.” The genius of this song is to go from that despair to the unbridled joy of the chorus. Continue
Mark Seymour, lead singer of the Hunters, wrote probably the best music memoir of all time, so there’s not a lot I could add to what he’s already written. Continue
He’s just so effortlessly cool, isn’t he? Defiantly geeky when he arrived on the scene, he clearly didn’t care what people thought of him with his giant glasses and fifties styling, because he knew his songs would last forever. Continue
6/2/2017 0 Comments 8. Town Called Malice: The JamBack when I was a kid I used to play soccer for the local team, and because my folks were working in the shop on the weekends I used to get a lift to the games with Gabriel Keegan, a curiously named Argentinean kid on my team, and his dad in his old blue Bedford van. Continue
Most people think that the only thing you need to be a successful racer is speed. If a kid has speed, the saying goes, then the rest can be learnt: you can’t learn speed. We’ve all heard this saying, maybe you’ve even said it. But what if it’s wrong? What is speed isn’t all you need? Continue 6/1/2017 0 Comments Taking it to the streetsAll eyes were on Charles Leclerc as the grid arrived to start their weekend in the glorious sunshine bearing down on the Principality of Monaco: coming into Round 3 as the championship leader he had the additional benefit of racing around the streets he has lived on all his life, and if he hadn’t ever raced there previously, no one believed it wouldn’t be another advantage for him to use. He led the championship at the end of the weekend too, but not in the manner he was hoping for when he arrived in the paddock on Wednesday. Continue The first record I ever bought was Zenyatta Mondatta (and it was a cassette, from Target in Parramatta), and the first song of theirs I learnt the bass line to was Walking on the Moon, but this song was the one that captured my heart. Continue
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