• The Belair Lip Bombs 14 March /2026 Freo Social
When I was in primary school I used to have dreams of going really fast. In the sixties our suburban sand dunes were paved with new bitumen hot mix. We built hill trollies with old lawn mower wheels and fanged down hills until our skin was bleeding with gravel rash.
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There is a bucket list for rock ’n’ roll. When I compare notes I realise I have been in some parallel musical bucketverse.
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It doesn’t seem that long ago I’d prepare for an upcoming concert by recording songs by the artist onto a cassette. It was a kind of specialised, purposeful car tape.
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• At Astor Theatre Photo by Les Everett
I haven’t listened to this song since deciding to write about it. It’s been a while and I’m missing it so here goes.
I wanted to accurately bracket the first time I heard Not Pretty Enough and the last time.
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• Emily Barker in Merredin. All photos by Les Everett.
Canadian singer-songwriter Charlie A’Court spoke of synchronicity when he took to the stage in Merredin for The Festival of Small Halls. The small halls concept started in Canada, he told us, Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island to be exact. He mentioned too that he lived now in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Back to that later.
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In early 1993 I drove from Carnarvon to Melbourne ostensibly to see my beloved Fitzroy play some footy. The great unfenced lunatic asylum that is the North West was eating my soul.
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For all of my life I have riled against it labeled as the Californian Dream. For two years I lived the life of an English git (and failed) and for a short period even tried to be Italian (and failed) I accepted that I was West Australian after all. But living the Californian Dream?
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In 1982 I, like Napoleon, was the self proclaimed emperor of the dance floor. The Red Parrot in Northbridge was my Fontainebleau. Indeep’s song Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was my go to song. How little did I know that 40 years later those improbable lyrics would come to pass during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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If you were alive in the 50s you remember where you were when Betty Cuthbert won the 100/200 sprint double at the Melbourne Olympics. Similarly for the 60s when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and the 70s when Mohammed Ali beat George Foreman in Zaire to reclaim his world heavyweight boxing crown. In the 80’s ??? – maybe you don’t remember anything let alone where you were but if you lived through the 90s you would remember the exact time and place you were when you saw the first episode of Twin Peaks. It changed the relationship between cinema and TV forever, but more importantly it would change your perspective on “normality” and change the way you view the motivation of others and the imbalance in how society values achievement over mythology.
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Every scoreboard tells a story
With the first dog chosen in the AFL Canine Draft
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