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Category: Reviews
Books, music, international literary movements.
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My (northern) summer reads for 2024
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9 min read
One of the first things I do whenever I move to a new place (trust me, I’ve lived in enough cities, towns and villages to know what I’m talking about here) is to visit — and join — the local library. There’s something comforting and consistent about libraries the world over that grounds me. Growing…
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Preoccupations @ Petit Bain, Paris
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13 min read
A story at the interface between Australian cricket and Canadian doom rock.
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Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…
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Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
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10 min read
“No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources.”
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Eurovision 2015: Ah, Vienna!
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5 min read
Having watched the 2015 Eurovision final in its entirety, I would agree with the general observation that the entrants this time around were mostly lacking in the somewhat indescribable pizazz that is compulsory if you want to win.
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“Out of petrol”: Kraftwerk på Cirkus
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9 min read
After taking an eternity to write my review of Animal Collective live in concert, I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf and get snappy. So, without further ado, some words and pictures from last week’s Kraftwerk gig at Cirkus in Stockholm.
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Animal Collective live in Leuven and Stockholm
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12 min read
Documenting my Animal Collective journey, from 2008 to 2012.
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Chris de Burgh: Crusader (1979)
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5 min read
Eagle-eyed readers would already be aware of my previous tutorial, wherein I demonstrated the art of writing a one hundie, two hundie, three hundie and therefore five hundie record review. In this tutorial, using the ‘find and replace’ function, I show how this template can be used to write a review of any other band…
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Adam Fieled: When You Bit
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2 min read
I read this book while travelling first class on a train from Stockholm to Gavle in Sweden last month but that’s another story. At seventy-odd pages, When You Bit (OTOLITHS, 2008) is a good hour’s read, if you pace yourself properly.
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LOL: Issue 1 and the Internet Post-Avant
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3 min read
Well, that was interesting!
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Lee Ranaldo: Hello from the American Desert
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11 min read
How can a book review capture a live concert experience?
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Chris de Burgh: At the End of a Perfect Day (1977)
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11 min read
I’ve been flat out digging through the online archives of the Chris de Burgh website, in particular the vast wealth of information contained within the Man On the Line (MotL) section, wherein Chris personally responds to questions and queries. While, unfortunately, the MoTL section has now been deleted from the website, thanks to the wonderful…
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Remembering Shelton Lea
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2 min read
My review of Diana Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel, a biography of Melbourne poet and raconteur Shelton Lea, has been published in the latest issue of Overland (#190). Interestingly, the editors have decided to put most (if not all) of the contents of the issue online, so you can now read the review in its entirety! Here’s…
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Thomas Pynchon: “Against the Day”
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14 min read
There was a time when I read books voraciously. In fact for most of my life I have read at least one book per month, if not week, meaning that if I was to enter a fund-raising read-a-thon I would most most likely send all of my sponsors broke (assuming, of course, that I didn’t…
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A little-known fact about this collection is that it was banned in South Africa at the time, due to mentions of the ‘devil’ in the title poem.