Patti Smith is giving up long haul touring on medical advice. But at Festival Hall last night, which she called a “shitty little club” for all the right reasons, Smith looked anything but frail.
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Author: redcountess
Rockchyk, geek, doll weirdo, learning to live well with fibromyalgia.
Melbourne’s Arthouse to go out with a bang!
Melbourne’s famous alternative music venue ‘The Arthouse’ is closing its doors forever on May 1st due to issues caused by the same liquor licensing
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40 Sad Portraits Of Closed Record Stores.
Saturday the 16th of April is International Record Store Day, but this photo essay documents the ones that are no longer with us.
Read More79 Revisited with Mindroom and Embrace The Ashes @ the Noise Bar, 2010-11-26
A tribute to the bands from the period 1979-1984 known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), this was 79 Revisited‘s first
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Metallica @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2010-11-21
The final night of a tour is special. When the band has been touring two years and the last night is in your home
Read MoreMy Album Cover Lifestyle
With thanks to the fabulous Kallisti of blastmilk.com for the heads up, album covers as Ikea catalogue pages on Flickr.
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Seven Ages of Rock.
The ABC in its infinite wisdom has started broadcasting its first run of the BBC’s Seven Ages Of Rock in the Silly Season, with
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Royal Mail issues Classic Album Covers stamp set.
Royal Mail has issued a stamp set that commemorates ten classic rock album covers ranging from The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed to Coldplay’s
Read MoreHell Freezes Over.
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are confirmed to share the stage at the Sonisphere festivals in Poland and the Czech Republic next Northern Summer.
Read MoreLucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ legacy to benefit lupus.
Julian Lennon and co-songwriter James Scott Cook will donate a percentage of profits from a song on Lennon’s new EP to the Lupus Foundation
Read MoreGet Well Soon Ronnie James Dio!
We’ve all poked fun at him over the years, but one of Rock’n’Roll’s veterans with a big heart, Ronnie James Dio is battling the
Read MoreRage Against The Machine For Christmas No. 1
There is a social networking campaign to stop Simon Cowell achieving another Christmas no. 1 spot this year with one of his overblown ersatz
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Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
After screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival last year, Anvil! The Story of Anvil is to go on general release in Australia in
Read MoreIron Maiden: Flight 666
Iron Maiden has a global fanbase, they even played Poland while it was still in the Soviet Bloc, but there is no better illustration
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God is a Guardian reader
(Or the other way around!) Keith Cameron wrote earlier this year in the Grauniad of all places about the re-release after twenty years of
Read MoreThe Wall of Hair.
From the same company that brought you the Black Velvet Wesley Crusher.
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Bono disappears up his own arse (again).
In a response to Rolling Stone’s review of the reissue of U2’s early album Boy, Bono likens The Edge to Van Gogh and recording
Read MoreSister Morphine grown up.
Amy Winehouse should be so lucky to survive, and thrive, as Marianne Faithfull has done.
Read MorePatti Smith, St Giles In The Fields, London, Fri 18 May 2007.
Patti Smith entered St Giles In The Fields, a small but beautiful working church built in the 18th Century in the heart of London
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Lobby Loyde: godfather of Australian hard rock
A fascinating interview with Lobby Loyde, the guitarist cited by Cobain, Rollins and Bored! (who covered two of his songs), in today’s EG in
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TrouserPress.com Relaunched
Ira Robbins, editor of Trouser Press‘ seminal guides to alternative rock music in the ’80s and ’90s, has relaunched their online companion – with
Read MoreEncore season of ABC’s Long Way to the Top
ABC-TV is repeating Long Way to the Top on Saturday nights at 9:30 pm. And don’t forget the Long Way To The Top concert
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