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Coffee
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. Good coffee can make my day. Bad coffee (like bad wine) can leave me confused and depressed. I love tea. Tea is dependable. If I want to be refreshed, especially on a hot, sweaty day, tea is the drink. Iced tea? Love it. Herbal teas? Quite like some of them….
Fashion
..adventure couture-wise, mostly in an attempt to be the opposite of Spectrum in every respect, but also reflecting what was going on in the pop scene at the time with the advent of glam rock – you could say that visually at least we weren’t all that different to Gary Glitter and Marc Bolan, both…
Two words
..subject to the fashions of the day and it’s only the occasional performer who manages to transcend fashion. Dutch’s pithy advice to Geoff Achison to ‘play what you know’ is all you really need to know, but Dutch’s bigger-than-life personality surely played a part in his becoming the quintessential expression of Aussie blues. It’s a…
The robots are coming
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