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  • Cassandra by Kathryn Gossow

    Cassandra by Kathryn Gossow




    Kathryn Gossow is a masterful storyteller who displays great insight and sensitivity in her handling of difficult themes. The result, her debut novel Cassandra, is an extraordinary and engaging coming of age tale.


    On a remote farm in Queensland, Cassie Shultz feels useless. Her perfect brother Alex has an uncanny ability to predict the weather, and the fortunes of the entire family hinge upon his forecasts. However, her own gift for prophecy remains frustratingly...
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    Last edited by Mick Pacholli; 6 October 2021, 01:15 AM.

  • Spiderbait Mojo

    Spiderbait Mojo



    Spiderbait is one of Australias rocknroll national treasures.


    Damien Whitty, Janet English and Kram or Mark Anthony Maher have played together since they were 12 years old.

    Decades of musical collaboration, creativity and god given talent reveal a powerfully loving and mutually supportive bond that is irresistible to their world wide fan base, devotees of a spiritual variety!

    ​ I experienced my maiden voyage on starship Spiderbait last night
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    Last edited by Mick Pacholli; 6 October 2021, 01:22 AM.

  • Lovesick re-released!

    Lovesick re-released!

    My memoir, Lovesick, came out in 2011 to popular acclaim. I decided to re-release the book and give it a new lease of life after a friend and high school teacher told me he thought it should be much more widely read.
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  • Coming Clean – Leonard Ottone

    Coming Clean – Leonard Ottone



    In and out of juvenile detention as a youth, Leonard Ottone graduated to prison as a young man and eventually ended up in PentridgePrison (affectionately known by some as the college of knowledge).
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  • David Hockney interrogates space and time

    David Hockney interrogates space and time

    Installation view of David Hockney: Current at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.© David Hockney Inc.

    When a living treasure like David Hockney visits our shores, it might be tempting to hold a blockbuster retrospective. Instead, the NGV, in collaboration with Hockney’s studio, has chosen to comprehensively explore Hockney’s works of the past decade.
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  • See, Field and Mason: Down Under the Covers - A Review

    See, Field and Mason: Down Under the Covers - A Review

    "The music is fantastic and the on-stage entertainment and fun and humour as well as crowd rapport, have all been wonderfully captured on this live album"

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    am See, Lindsay Field and Glyn Mason have between them over 130 years experience on stage playing before audiences.
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  • Cream of The Crate: Album # 200 - Australian Compilation: The Complete Havoc Singles (1971 - 1973]

    "A really stunning & great looking digi-pack from Aztec Records, compiling all the singles from the Australian Havoc Records label in the 70's." (Record Heaven)
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    An excellent collection of early 70's Australian Rock / Pop/."
    (Rock On Vinyl)
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    Aztec Music prides itself on preserving Australia's rich music history and with this release, they do it with class and style."
    (This review)




    This is album review number Two Hundred in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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  • Cream of The Crate: Album # 199 - Lightning Hopkins: The Gold Star Series Vol 1

    "The blues is born with you. When you born in this world, you were born with the blues. (Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1967)
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    Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins, one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players." (New York Times Obituary, Feb 1, 1982 )
    "These are not necessarily the best known Lightnin' Hopkins tracks, but in many ways that makes this CD even more valuable."
    (This review)



    This is album review number One Hundred and Ninety Nine in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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  • A Sojourn to Seminyak: Part 2 - the best was yet to come

    A Sojourn to Seminyak: Part 2 - the best was yet to come

    We thoroughly enjoyed our first four days in Bali as we ate and drank ourselves silly, trying many of the great restaurants in the area and as we got two free cocktails every evening at our hotel - we worked our way through them determined to try as many as possible. Between all that and a late afternoon visit to Andy Bar on the beach, we thought that maybe this was as good as it could get.

    Wow, were we wrong!
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  • Cream of The Crate: Album # 198 - John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

    Cream of The Crate: Album # 198 - John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

    "The reality of Plastic Ono Band is that it contains eleven of Lennon’s most accessible and gorgeous melodies and riffs." (Gerry Mullholand - BBC review 2010)
    "An album that will be as much analysed as Sgt. Pepper over the years." (Billboard - 1971)
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    It remains one of the most audacious, iconoclastic albums in all of rock and roll." (Guitar World 2016)
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    The album certainly shows that he had yet to work through many unresolved matters, and that he still had much anger in him. However he was a brilliant man and knew how to channel these elements in such a way to create some brilliant, memorable and haunting tracks." (This review)


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  • A Sojourn to Seminyak

    A Sojourn to Seminyak

    Bali has for the past four years become the choice of destination when I need to get away from the cold of Melbourne.
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  • Cream of The Crate: Album # 197 - Sam and Dave: The Best Of

    Cream of The Crate: Album # 197 - Sam and Dave: The Best Of

    "Sam Moore and Dave Prater's string of soul and pop hits made them the '60s' most successful black vocal duo." (The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
    "Sam & Dave created some of their century's most enduring music in the pop form." (Stylus Magazine January 2007)
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    There can be no argument that as a duo, Sam and Dave introduced the previously successful sound of the black church music, so successfully to pop music." (This review)



    This is album review number One Hundred and Ninety Seven in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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  • Rebellious Daughters – book review by Lisa Romeo

    Rebellious Daughters – book review by Lisa Romeo



    Edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman. Published by Ventura Press.

    Rebellious Daughters is a delightful read, composed of 17 true stories written by premium Australian female writers. The stories capture a period of time in the authors lives that reflects on the development of their characters, shaping and greatly influencing who they have become as adults today.
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  • Author Interview – Felicity Banks

    Author Interview – Felicity Banks

    I’m delighted to welcome to my blog, Steampunk author Felicity Banks whose debut Heart of Brass is released today! Happy Publication Day!!



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  • Cream of The Crate: Album # 196 - Ma Rainey: Ma Rainey

    Cream of The Crate: Album # 196 - Ma Rainey: Ma Rainey

    "Her deep, almost-vibratoless contralto sounded rough and unsophisticated compared to other commercial blueswomen but she projected a great depth of feeling and was adored by audiences." (US Library of Congress
    "Ma Rainey was one of the first singers to popularize the style (the blues)." (Joe McGasko - Bio May 2015)
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    When we listen to Ma Rainey, the recordings are very crude, but even so the power and mesmerism of her voice shows that pure talent and commitment to an audience makes Ma Rainey stand out even more today.
    " (This review)



    This is album review number One Hundred and Ninety Six in the series of retro-reviews of both vinyl and CD albums from my collection.
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