teenagersintokyo: Proud, Camden
Eddy Temple Morris has taken his legendary X FM indie remix radio show out of the studio and onto the dancefloors of London. The latest incarnation of his club night ‘The Remix’ is called ‘Club Remix’ and this week he invited Australian band teenagersintokyo for the inaugural night. With a press release claiming that Eddy […]
How to Run a Shit Music Festival
By Rose Callaghan My friend Katherine and I were unlucky enough to attend the LED (London Electronic Dance) festival yesterday. Unfortunately we purchased 2 day tickets so we’re going again today, although I’m asking for my money back for yesterday. 1. Don’t publish set times. Anywhere. Force your poor receptionist to answer queries about playing […]
Everett True Still Hates Australian Street Press
The Australian music industry’s least favourite expat, music journalist Everett True, has mouthed off again about local street press, how it has no future and is basically rubbish. In a blog on The Music Network’s revamped website entitled ‘The Future of Music Journalism’, he states that “the street press only exists because advertising deems it […]
GetUp Expose Tony Abbott’s Insanely Old Fashioned Views on Women
The fact that Tony Abbott could soon be running our country is something I find absolutely terrifying, both as a woman and as a human being. If you’re not yet aware that Abbott’s views on women belong in the 1800’s watch this video by Australian political activist group GetUp, which features some of his more […]
Katy Perry: Too Fat For Rolling Stone?
Katy Perry’s famous curves: everyone is hypnotised by them. Men and women, it doesn’t matter – it’s hard not to get distracted when she’s shooting whipped cream out of her boobs in the California Gurls video, or squeezing herself into a 50’s style one-sie. Well, not Rolling Stone, apparently. Katy appears on the cover of […]
Tim Burgess of The Charlatans Talks Spiders, Neighbours and New Order
This is an article I wrote for Beat magazine in September 2008 with Tim Burgess of The Charlatans. He was one of the loveliest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of interviewing and rambled on for over 45 minutes even though we were only supposed to chat for 20 or 30 minutes. This was on […]
So This is My Blog
Hello internet blog, it’s been a while. My first foray into blogging was years ago using ye olde “Livejournal” when i was 20 years old. I left Australia to work at a ski resort in California and started up the blog to keep my family and friends updated on what I was doing (this was […]