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Bono disappears up his own arse (again).

20 August, 20081 April, 2017 Rock 0

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

Brucie Teardrop.

16 June, 200824 August, 2016 Punk, Rock 0

Back in my day, Bruce Springsteen was a ridiculously mainstream live rocker made pop star with “Born In The USA” and its ilk. I’d

Review: Kim Salmon, E(a)rnest

16 September, 200224 September, 2016 Record, Rock 0

Long term fans of Mr Salmon’s heavier works may have been in the main disappointed by the musical detours of recent years (a subject he actually canvases on this album), but nevertheless respect was always due for the fact he had decided to go his own way rather than merely retread the past.

Lobby Loyde: godfather of Australian hard rock

23 August, 200224 September, 2016 Rock 0

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

Classic power ballads.

24 September, 20013 May, 2017 Opinion, Rock 0

When the adolescent males have slammed, stagedived and pogoed their little hearts out to your fast ones, going up to four (or even five) chords (on acoustic, of course) with that big, slow “thump … tha-THUMP … thump … tha-THUMP” drum line will cement your cred as a truly great writer of truly moving songs and not just another spandex-clad, fretwanking attention-seeker searching the front row for male adulation and female lust dumb enough to lead to a night with you.