Category Archives: Tracks

music, mostly unpopular or nostalgic

moving on

Posted on April 30, 2014 by rustichello

Bruce played Darkness on the Edge of Town in its entirety back in February, at the concert I’ve already written about. I haven’t really stopped thinking about it. Helen Razer and the Melbourne crowd got Born to Run and if … Continue reading →

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Tucson to Tucumcari

Posted on January 16, 2013 by rustichello

There’s a great wave of international acts heading to Australia this year, and there were a fair few last year. The understanding of this is that the strong Aussie dollar is now able to encourage performers to make their way … Continue reading →

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Port of Morrow

Posted on June 21, 2012 by rustichello

There’s a kind of music criticism that involves reviewing an album (or a something) on the basis of everything that’s come before it in the career of those who made the album. I try not to go down this path, … Continue reading →

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scrapbooking, we’re scrapbooking

Posted on June 15, 2012 by rustichello

Going through the boxes of youthful detritus the other day I found several of my 1980s scrapbooks into which I pasted cut-out reviews and gig advertisements from newspapers and magazines. As a youth in the country the scrapbooks were a … Continue reading →

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journeymen

Posted on June 11, 2012 by rustichello

I had been worried that I’d lost the programme for Eric Clapton’s 1990 Journeyman Tour. I couldn’t remember the last time I saw it, well actually I could remember seeing it when I moved to our house up the hill … Continue reading →

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in defence of dexy’s

Posted on June 1, 2012 by rustichello

There’s a scene in Be Sharps episode of The Simpsons where Homer and the guys receive a Grammy. While being congratulated by the rest of the Simpsons on the phone a toddling Lisa notes that the Be Sharps beat out … Continue reading →

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mariachi static on my radio

Posted on May 23, 2012 by rustichello

The coolest song I’ve heard recently is a fantastic version of Warren Zevon’s ‘Carmelita’. It’s by an L.A punk band called Fidlar. I’ve played it rather a lot while waiting for things to happen at work, in the interstices between … Continue reading →

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Don

Posted on May 7, 2012 by rustichello

I had a particularly satisfying conversation in the car yesterday with Sputnik, after wandering up and down a local strip mall buying a new dishwasher, about Don Walker (to be known, forthwith, eponymously, as Don). She asked, quite reasonably, why … Continue reading →

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relictual joy

Posted on April 25, 2012 by rustichello

A couple of weeks ago I hinted at my long, and deep, affection for the Models (the new wavey, indie-ish, Sean Kelly-led pop group out of Melbourne in the early and mid eighties). For many the central charm of the … Continue reading →

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what am I expected to do? shout man overboard?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by rustichello

In 1985, as part of the Live Aid extravaganza, there were a series of concerts in Australia that took place about twelve hours before everything got underway at Wembley and Philadelphia. I didn’t see Live Aid at the time, or … Continue reading →

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