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  • paul kelly coupePaul Kelly: The Man, The Music And The Life In Between (Hachette Australia)
    
By Stuart Coupe

    “I hear you like music. Do you like Paul Kelly? I’ve just been reading his autobiography, "How to Make Gravy". I love his music. Always have.”

    It was an innocuous and inoffensive simple conversation starter one Sunday afternoon, uttered by a friend of my wife’s. To the extent there was question in there, it was almost opaque, and more likely rhetorical. Everyone likes Paul Kelly. How could anyone not like Paul Kelly? As it was, I fumbled around for an answer, and mumbled something about not having had the chance to listen to any of his music for a while.

    It wasn’t as if I didn’t like Paul Kelly’s music. I’d first heard and seen him back in the early 1980s on Countdown with his then-band, The Dots. A few years later Kelly appeared again, this time with a new band, the Coloured Girls, and a batch of songs that would become staples of commercial radio playlists: "To Her Door", "Darling It Hurts", "From St Kilda to King’s Cross" and "Before Too Long".

  • sports dont throw stonesreckless coverThere’s too much here to consume in one sitting or even two. Reanimator To The Stars (by Royal Appointment), Sir David Laing, has packed these deluxe editions of The Sports’ first two albums with enough bonus material to weigh down a Melbourne Cup certainty

    For the uninitiated or the downright forgetful, The Sports sprang out of Melbourne’s fertile Carlton Scene in 1976 and petered out in 1981, but only after a run of four albums that spawned a slew of catchy Australian chart singles.

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I-94 Bar presents
"You Only Think Twice
An Afternoon With Kit Identity"
Kit Identity 
(Bruce Warner ex-Thought Criminals) 
+ Rubber Necker 
(playing middle set)
Wiz & The Trailler Trash Boys
MoshPit Bar, Enmore, NSW
- May 26
(2-5pm)

I-94 Bar presents
Psychotic Turnbuckles 
“40 Years Undefeated”
+ Starcrazy + The Vibrajets
The Tote, Melbourne
- June 29
Tix
+ The Fadeaways (JPN)
+ Bahne Super-Flex 
+ The Strike-Outs
The Crowbar, Sydney
- July 13
Tix
+ The Dangermen
+ The Busymen
The Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
- Sept 7
Tix


Radio Birdman
“Birdman 5-O!”
JUNE
+ Civic
21 – Croxton Bandroom, VIC
22 – Croxton Bandroom, VIC
23 – The Gov, Adelaide
+ TBA
28 – The Triffid, Brisbane
29 – The Triffid, Brisbane
+ HITS
JULY
5 – Manning Bar, Sydney  - SOLD OUT
6 – Manning Bar, Sydney  - SOLD OUT
7 – Manning Bar, Sydney
+ Hard-Ons

The Fadeaways
Australian Tour
JULY
Thu 11- Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. VIC
Fri 12 – The Tote, Collingwood, VIC
Sat 13 – The Crowbar, Leichhardt, NSW
(w/ Psychotic Turnbuckles) 
Sun 14 – MoshPit Bar, Enmore, NSW
(+ Jupiter 5)

The Stems
40th Anniversary Australian Tour
AUG
+ The Prize
23 - Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. VIC
+ The Prize
24 – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
+ Romana Ashton & The Reeds
25 – The Gov, Adelaide
+ Ups & Downs
30 – Mansfield Tavern, Brisbane
+ New Christs
31 – Manning Bar, Sydney
SEP 
+ The Rhinehearts
+ Vancool
5 – Freo Social, Fremantle
Tickets here

Buzzocks Australian Tour
OCT
25 - Brisbane - The Triffid
26 - Adelaide - The Gov
27 - Fremantle - Metropolis
31 - Newcastle - King St Bandroom
NOV
1 - Sydney - Metro Theatre
2 - Melb - Northcote Theatre
3 - Lorne - Lorne Theatre
4 – Castlemaine - Theatre Royal
Tix

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