READ IT IN BOOKS by ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Story by Maria Majsa
I confess it was more than just clothes that drew me back to Hyper Hyper on those rainy afternoons. There was music. And The Boy. Perched behind the counter, nose in a book, he seemed to exist in some other world, one with particularly rarified air - it was all over him like a scent.
Reading Cohen on Christmas morning. Poem by Vin M
Reading Cohen on Christmas morning/Poems of love and loss and yearning
REASONS by JOHN FARNHAM Apologia by Bianca Simpson
I defy anyone to label the following two truisms my subjective opinions: 1. John Farnham is deeply cheesy. 2. John Farnham has a beautiful voice.
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL (Pt 3) by IAN DURY and THE BLOCKHEADS. Story by Scott Hoffman.
Punk’s rising tide lifted a lot of boats, not all of them worthy but once all the Pistols marketing hoo-ha had drained back out we were, as I now heard, left with some gems. XTC, The Jam, Elvis Costello and The Clash were all great but no one, as I discovered, was quite like Ian Drury.
Record store pilgrim (Old Records Never Die by Ian Hunter)
Vin Maskell Record store, Melbourne, 2011 All of us are revealing a little of our non-work selves, latching onto something invisible — a riff, a chord, a chorus; holding onto something intangible — a melody, a key change, a lyric.
RECYCLE AND REUSE by LUKE DAVIES. Story by Luke Davies.
I had been making instruments from reclaimed objects for a few years by then and came up with the mad idea of getting a band together to play them. I had to make a few more instruments often with bits sourced from op shops and garage sales.