Added on November 8, 2013
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Andrew Stafford , Brisbane , Crikey , Music criticism , The Daily Review , web 2.0
I have been doing this too long to be in it for the tickets.
Added on February 6, 2012
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31 Songs , Andrew Stafford , Berlin , Here Before , Joy Division , Lou Reed , Nick Hornby , Suicide , Teenage Fanclub , The Feelies
In Hornby’s view, rock critics are a pretty sheltered lot. It is, he points out, a young person’s game.
Added on January 10, 2012
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Andrew Stafford , Daddy Cool , Eddy Current Suppression Ring , God , Icehouse , INXS , Kylie Minogue , Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds , Radio Birdman , The Avalanches , The Great Australian Songbook , Yothu Yindi
It’s considered traditional at the University of Queensland to drop your daks when it’s played on the local campus bars
Added on December 29, 2011
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Andrew Stafford , Cosmic Psychos , Dave Graney And The Coral Snakes , Do Re Mi , Mental as anything , Regurgitator , Severed Heads , The Cruel Sea , The Divinyls , The Great Australian Songbook , The Laughing Clowns , The Scientists
Rock music doesn’t get much more moving than this.
Added on October 21, 2011
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Andrew Stafford , grunge , Nevermind , Nirvana , Pixies , Smells Like Teen Spirit , Violent Femmes
I was a little underwhelmed. It was so clean, to start with. What was with all those pop hooks?
Added on October 6, 2010
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Andrew Stafford , Pig City , Songs about Brisbane , That Striped Sunlight Sound , The Parameters , The Saints , Tony Kneipp
[Day 2 in our ‘Songs about Brisbane’ series comes from renowned local author Andrew Stafford, whose book of a few years back, ‘Pig City’, helped re-galvanise interest in the city’s alternative music scene, albeit retrospectively. Appropriately enough, he has chosen to write about the classic Brisbane protest song ‘Pig City’ – Ed.] ‘Pig City’ isn’t […]
