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Immigrant song

Bloody queue jumpers. Are you like me and royally peeved that so many immigrants are stealing our thunder?If it's not Russian pole vaulters or Chinese doctors making us true Aussies feel inferior, then it's musicians who arrived on our shores just long...
Tue, November 24, 2009, 2:57 pm WST
I'm not a hater, but Brit was just plain bad

Britney Spears' visit to Perth for two shows last weekend was a circus, and I'm not just talking about the three-ringed theme of her dire concerts.From the minute she stepped off the plane through to the media backlash that followed her pathetic...
Mon, November 9, 2009, 11:20 am WST
Get ready for a flood of Jacko releases

This Is It. Has there ever been a more misleading movie title?Michael Jackson's concert film is most certainly NOT it. Given the music industry's propensity for milking every last drop out of relatively meagre artists, we can expect a flood of releases...
Sun, November 1, 2009, 8:11 am WST
One Movement, many outcomes

As I write this, it's Monday morning, I'm knackered, hungover and I'm listening to my latest purchase, Chinese indie rock sextet TooKoo's anthology 7 Years.I saw my new favourite Chinese indie rock sextet absolutely dominating the confined spaces of the...
Mon, October 19, 2009, 10:34 am WST
Keep your shirt on!

The summer festival season arrived early on Sunday, with the sun beating down on Wellington Square where 20,000-plus music fans gathered for the Parklife festival.Well, perhaps it was around 5000 true blue music lovers there to see Empire of the Sun, La...
Mon, September 28, 2009, 4:53 pm WST
The Liverpool Marathon - Part II

The Liverpool Marathon - Part IISorry that it took me a while to Get Back, but working my way through the entire Beatles back catalogue was a Long, Long, Long and Winding Road and sometimes the happiness of a warm bed when I'm So Tired delayed when this...
Mon, September 21, 2009, 11:27 am WST
The Liverpool Marathon - Part I

You'd have to be living under a rolling stone not to have heard that the entire Beatles back catalogue has received a digital spit ‘n' polish and reissued to a world that hasn't quite moved on from the Fab Four's 1970 split.I was lucky enough to...
Fri, September 11, 2009, 1:43 pm WST
Get your motor runnin': best driving songs

I'm gonna get my motor runnin' and head out on the highway. I'm looking for adventure and whatever comes my way ... Yes, this weekend, I'm hopping in my 1999 Laser Sedan and driving down to Albany. Doesn't matter whether you're born to wild or driving...
Thu, September 3, 2009, 6:00 pm WST
The best and worst AFL footy songs

As another season ends for the Fremantle Dockers, fans can stop looking for short term excuses and face the fact that the Shockers got it wrong from day one. In fact, I can pinpoint the exact moment where Freo set course for disaster, under performance...
Fri, August 28, 2009, 12:44 pm WST
Tunes to work out to

Exercise is painful enough. So why do the people who run gyms insist on setting this self-inflicted torture to a soundtrack of mid-90s techno and remixes of songs that were crap in the first place?Is it because these flab fascists are trying to break us...
Mon, August 24, 2009, 12:01 pm WST
Petty, Prince, the Stones... Who's your dream tour?

Check one, two … is this thing on?I thought I’d start my first music blog the way I intend to continue – with a list. And, in the great tradition of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, it will be a Top 5. A high five inspired by a...
Tue, August 18, 2009, 2:50 pm WST