Listen To Older Voices: Bob Bright - Part 4

Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.



In this final program, Bob Bright talks about his life and work after the death of his friend and partner, Laurie Allen, in 2002. Bob is a man who is highly respected in the music industry, so when he talks about his thoughts and feelings on where the Australian music scene is going, we should listen! Bob also talks about his latest release, a 2013 EP titled “Child of Rock & Roll and how his mother, Els...

"[The Sun Aint Gonna Shine] is an all-or-nothing existential ballad, a Spector-style wall of sound fronted by Scott's huge voice." (The Guardian - March 2014)


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This is album number one hundred and seventeen in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and Cd albums in my collection.

The series is called "Cream of The Crate " and each review represents an album that I believe is of significant musical value, either because of it's rarity, because it represents the best of a style or styles of music or because there is something unique about the group or the music.
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In broad terms a podcast will into one of two categories.

The first is the rebroadcast of a radio or television program. It goes to air, then's made available as media on demand. Think Hamish & Andy, or Late Night Live on the ABC's Radio National network. Often now if it's a prerecorded program, the release is simultaneous.

Second is the podcast created to straight online. The Sweetest Plum produced in Australia by Declan Fay and Nick Maxwell a notable success., and one show we'll look at in the future.

This American Life fits into category one and in many ways it sets the bar for what can be achieved. But it's also got a solid claim to be part of category two. Hosted by the person who started it in 1995 Ira Glass, it's produced in the studios of WBEZ in Chicago, and rebroadcast around the US. Those programs are also available as a podcast globally. In the US, the program estimates it has a million downloads a week. If you take into a...

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It’s a predictable tale of controversy in modern public space: a woman or group of women are welcomed to or excluded from a place because they are breastfeeding. The event makes the midday news and ushers in debate about whether breastfeeding is a fact of life or something that should be cloaked away in private.

Last week, a Sydney cafe owner’s sign welcoming breastfeeding mums in for a free cuppa made its way to headlines and internet viral status. As usual when this issue arises in the news, the story was greeted with passionate responses praising the gesture and a few intentionally inflammatory comments about inappropriateness, decency and the “special” treatment of women.
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"Bo Diddley's Beach Party is shockingly impolite"(Express)

". . . we get to the closing Roadrunner, which might be the most unhinged live performance from rock’s first decade." (Recordcollector)


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This is album number one hundred and one in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and Cd albums in my collection.

The series is called "Cream of The Crate " and each review represent an album that I believe is of significant musical value, either because of it's rarity, because it represents the best of a style or styles of music or because there is something unique about the group or the music.

The first fifty reviews were vinyl only and the second fifty reviews were CD's only. Links to these reviews can be found at the bottom of this page.

From review 101 onward I will mix vinyl and CD albums and,...

US TV-style ‘interventions’ aren’t the answer.

Some of the greatest impacts of drug use are on families, but families sometimes feel in a position of little control when it comes to responding. Often they receive mixed messages about what they should do.

Ice or crystal meth, the strongest form of methamphetamine, has arguably the biggest impact on families of all drugs. It increases the risks of psychosis, violence and impulsivity and decreases emotional control. This can create a volatile and chaotic environment for people living with a person with an ice problem.

So, what can families really do?

The good news

The good news is fewer teenagers and young people are drinking and trying drugs than in the past. Those who are drinking and taking drugs do so less often than in previous years. Most young people who are offered drugs don’t try them.

Drug use does not necessarily mean drug dependence. So parents shouldn’t...

It’s a predictable tale of controversy in modern public space: a woman or group of women are welcomed to or excluded from a place because they are breastfeeding. The event makes the midday news and ushers in debate about whether breastfeeding is a fact of life or something that should be cloaked away in private.

Last week, a Sydney cafe owner’s sign welcoming breastfeeding mums in for a free cuppa made its way to headlines and internet viral status. As usual when this issue arises in the news, the story was greeted with passionate responses praising the gesture and a few intentionally inflammatory comments about inappropriateness, decency and the “special” treatment of women.
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Review #75

Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday.

ONE NIGHT AT McCOOLS (2001) Starring: Matt Dylan and Liv Tyler


"Sensational total hornbag Liv Tyler, in you bewt film. Almost as good as ‘There’s Something About Mary”

Thrill after thrill and real funny all the way. And featuring a ‘twins comeback’ by the recovering misogynist and The Snapperhead - Ford Fairlane ie Andrew Dice-Clay as Andrew Silverstein."

Rating: 8/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Review #75

Mugsy is our O/S Film Reviewer and brings his own unique style of reviewing to the Toorak Times on a weekly basis every Sunday.

ONE NIGHT AT McCOOLS (2001) Starring: Matt Dylan and Liv Tyler


"Sensational total hornbag Liv Tyler, in you bewt film. Almost as good as ‘There’s Something About Mary”

Thrill after thrill and real funny all the way. And featuring a ‘twins comeback’ by the recovering misogynist and The Snapperhead - Ford Fairlane ie Andrew Dice-Clay as Andrew Silverstein."

Rating: 8/10

Scale:
Remember 5/10 is good enough.
10/10 I can leave in the DVD player for a month and keep on watching it.
4/10 I go get a coffee and start looking for a new film.

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Surprise, Surprise - and wow! thank goodness for that!
Hi, I'm Rob Greaves.


This is the twenty fifth posting in this on-going, if not somewhat ad-hoc column called "Ruminations From My Verandah".

First things first! Second day of Autumn and I'm out on my verandah in the beautiful hills of Belgrave and it's all quiet except for the birds and the running water of the waterfall that I built that flows water into the pond in the garden. I don't know about you guys but I have loved the Summer of 2013/14 - and now we are moving into Melbourne's best season - Autumn! The chilled white wine has literally run like water over the past 6 weeks - I have had my best friend David, and his wife Lisa and 2 year old daughter Dali staying with me. They arrived from Slovenia in mid January to stay until they got all the paperwork done for Lisa and Dali to become Oz citizens, and next Wednesday they head to the mid-north coast of NSW to find a home. So it's b...