The beginning of our annual look back, your lists and essays are welcome dear readers…
Comrades, a year of great upheaval- disruption – as they say. But, was it really? Is the new normal the new normal? In a time when mediocrity abounds we look forward to a 2016 where the tortoise will be able to lay down with the lamb, and the forces of darkness shall be weakened incrementally. Continue reading
In my best of 2014 https://australianrules.com.au/2014/12/22/literally-the-best-of-2014-in-no-particular-order-by-nick-gye/ I made a startlingly omission. I had acquired an album late in 2014 and hadn’t listened to it when I put the list together. I now have to put matters right. I am referring to Soused. Continue reading
A look at Love & Mercy (M)…
we like to take sides. take perth afl fans for example they are either dockers or eagles. so it has been with music across the decades. british is better than american. or so it was in the 60s some say. was there a time when american was better than british? what about the 90s. british bands oasis, blur and radiohead pushed the dial towards briton but then singlehandedly pavement swung the dial back to america as their 5 albums of that decade defined indi rock. Continue reading
CASTLEMAINE’S historic old Theatre Royale was the setting this weekend for the first Victorian performance outside their native Cuba of the island nation’s outstanding traditional band. Continue reading
2014 – Great year for film and music. Continue reading
Crikey – it wasn’t until I started to compile this list of my favourite Australian albums of 2014 that I realised what a really good year it has been. Continue reading
Teacher Education, Sport, Australian Rules Football,
Every scoreboard tells a story
With the first dog chosen in the AFL Canine Draft
escape to the Vasse idyll
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