Archive for October, 2007

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

The Baby Animals are BACK!!!!!

Now this is the best news of 2007 - my mate Suze DeMarchi and the boys from Perth (with the exception of Dave Leslie who’s from Newcastle) are back … yes, the BA’s, one of the five best Oz rock bands ever, announced today that after 13 years they are reforming, have a new album [...]

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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Suze DeMarchi

FROM THE ARCHIVES, APRIL 1999
Frankly, she looks great. All curves and woman. Jet black hair falling off her face. Dangerous, especially her eyes. She swears often, has a sometimes filthy, sometimes impish, sense of humour, is as down to earth as they come. Tough, you’d better believe it. And you’d better also believe she has [...]

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Stereophonics

Stereophonics has reached the small notch in the tree marked 15 years. These days that’s some kind of achievement. Of course, it hasn’t all been trouble-free. Stereophonics has ridden the highs and lows of superstardom, surviving the departure of original drummer Stuart Cable, some management problems and the inevitable physical and emotional toll that being [...]

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Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Endorphin

A decade and six albums since being unearthed by JJJ in 1996, Endorphin is in a happy place. His new album, Soon After Silence, sees him veer into a textured world of sound that’s moodier, deeper and less beats driven than before. The DJ and composer meet and exchange notes. His wife and two daughters [...]

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Regurgitator

Quan Yeomans is sitting in what could pass for a beige soft porn set in Hong Kong on the 21st floor of a lofty tower. “I seem to end up in Hong Kong,” he says. “I love it here. I’m relocating here. I have been for a while. It always feel like home.”
The multi-instrumentalist, singer [...]

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