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I’m a Sydney-based Australian writer who since the late 70s has built up a long list across (ten) books, television, journalism, CD productions, all sorts of stuff, mainly on local music, popular culture and social history. This old-skool site is a guide through that stuff – a combination storefront/archive/laboratory, with a NEWS feed as close as it gets to social media. The archival BACKPAGES and RE-MIXED sections amount to a veritable database going even deeper into (mainly Australian) music (history). I’m too old to be an enfant terrible, but with the way I still seem to be able to court controversy, I must be some sort of loose cannon! Have a look around; link further to the standalone BURIED COUNTRY site too…

News 

9/2/2019: ... and so bringing on the new year: With the Buried Country LP now out and about and getting some nice little notices in the Guardian here and the Australian here, I am looking forward to the imminent publication, during the winter, of my eleventh tome, The Suburban Songbook, through Starman. It's looking great! and I'm stoked to be getting back in the ring. Meantime, after the triumphant success of the inaugural AODisco at Marrickville Bowlo in January, the night returns again on February 15. More here.