Review
Don Walker
Shots
(Black Inc.)
I call bullshit on this memoir. On its long, windy sentences. On its attitude. On the story it tells, or rather doesn’t tell. On just about everything about it. I do it with great reluctance, because when it comes down it, Don Walker is some sort of genius, probably Australian rock’s greatest [...]
Review
Alex Ross
The Rest is Noise
(Farrer, Girroux, Strauss)
Alex Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker magazine and the author of this book, was, I noticed, in Sydney at the Writers’ Festival. Wish I’d been there, cause I’d like to hear him speak. (Anyone catch it?)
I’ve just started this book but I thought I’d say [...]
Review
Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?:
Misadventures in Music
by Stephen Cummings
(Hardie Grant Books)
Stephen Cummings was the lead singer of The Sports, which I knew. My old record shop sold a lot of their albums, though I wasn’t personally a huge fan: still, it was pretty hard not to like some of their songs and even know [...]
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