Issue 71

.. in the course of being interviewed by Michael I discovered quite a lot about the goings-on of Geof before and after our lives briefly intersected in an exchange of letters back in the ‘70s. This Geof-type information curiously resonated with the first writer, Shane Homan’s brief, which is to record the history of venues,…

.. culture in which process BBC radio and TV played a pivotal role. The preservation of The Arts as a rarefied pleasure reserved for those of noble birth couldn’t be sustained and so the definition of culture had to be broadened, and broadened in such a way as to include and respect the way of…

..burn your effigy of choice – I would recommend Rupert Murdoch if you are of an incendiary mind. In the Northern Territory and, until this year the ACT, you could still buy fireworks perhaps because they calculated the fun versus injury equation in favour of fun. In my youth, a state that as for most…

..(as represented on the For Pete’s Sake compilation CD that was produced to help raise funds for the second of Pete’s major Parkinson’s operations), Dragon, Thorpie, Russell Morris, John Farnham, Slim Dusty, Air Supply, Matt Finish, Australian Crawl, Mi-Sex, Pseudo Echo and Glenn Shorrock. No mention of any of my bands you’ll notice. Jamaican Farewell…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. But then some silly words jumped out and put themselves to the silly little tune, and before long a verse, and another, and a chorus.. Bugger me! I had a song bloody writing itself. I couldn’t resist it any longer and rushed, rushed I tell you, into the barely used…