Why do you like The Go-Betweens?
Ask a simple question… Too hard; the all too rare ability to combine talent, taste, style, and wide-ranging themes in a peerless body of work. 1. The work of lively minds. 2. A bridge between adolescence and adulthood (mine and theirs) which is open both ways… and if you stand in the middle, you can […]
R.I.P. Kim Fowley 1939-2015
I read that Kim Fowley has died. I met the brilliant, fucked-up, manipulative, thoroughly entertaining, reprehensible, inspired, inspiring producer and musician a few times during the 90s. I want to reproduce this story I wrote last year in memoriam. I have a feeling he’d have appreciated it. ——————————————————————————————- A rock symposium, Vienna, 1995 She recognises me, soon […]
