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hello and welcome...

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 I get to despotic 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, enjoy; link further to the standalone BURIED COUNTRY site too…

News 

JULY 2021: With the good response to the new Stranded (Expanded) continuing apace - see a great review from Rhythms magazine here - and with the gofundme campaign to publish the GoldenTone edition of my all-new new Suburban Songbook having hit the minimum required to go to print, the book is indeed now being manufactured! and should be available as of September 1. You can still subscribe to pre-order a copy here.