Earlier this year I was invited into Radio National’s The Music Show to speak with host Andrew Ford about the life and music of the recently deceased singer and composer, Scott Walker.
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Down by the River: Nick Cave’s boyhood in Wangaratta (1959-70)
Here is a chapter from my long awaited biography, Tender Prey: The Life and Times of Nick Cave, a work-in-progress that’s been derailed and locked down by all kinds of problems: personal, professional and legal…
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Poverty is a disease. Newstart is its major vector in Australia. Sign on and you become dysfunctional and grotesque, a creature excluded from a society trying to protect itself.
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If I became a blue thing
whipped gem-like from the cold,
spiritual in your street
like a lone bike lamp,
like a man walking a dog
with sky-coloured hoodie on…
Stuck in Honey – The Cure live streamed from the Sydney Opera House
Here’s my ‘live’ review of The Cure as they were being live streamed online playing ‘Disintegration’ at the Sydney Opera House. I started taking photos of my TV screen and found myself drawn inside…
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