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Peter Farnan

Music, News & Commentary, Recorded

Triple J’s Hottest 100: Back to the Future?

Peter Farnan

If Triple J’s Hottest 100 is anything to go by, pop is ‘having a moment’ in culture writes musician Peter Farnan  The …

Music, Recorded, Reviews, Screen, TV

Friday on my Mind TV review: an immigrant story

Peter Farnan

The second half of Friday On My Mind: The Easybeats Story airs on ABC TV on Sunday night. Peter Farnan …

Live, Music, News & Commentary, Recorded

Midnight Oil’s Great Circle tour: The Power and the Passion

Peter Farnan

Midnight Oil completed their Great Circle world tour with a concert in Sydney’s Domain on Friday night. Peter Farnan and …

News & Commentary

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Kanye and the merging of literature and popular music

Peter Farnan

In 1987 I used key lines from TS Eliot’s The Hollow Men as the basis of the chorus for an …

Live, Music, News & Commentary, Recorded, Stage, Theatre

Perfect pop forged in Tim Finn and Dorothy Porter’s fiery maze

Peter Farnan

Good songs are both clear and complex. Musician and composer Peter Farnan reflects on this after seeing The Fiery Maze at …

Live, Music, News & Commentary, Recorded

Slave to the rhythm – cracking the secret to the song code

Peter Farnan

Peter Farnan, songwriter and founding member of Boom, Crash, Opera, asks if the century-long shift towards tech-enhanced sound production in popular music has …

Live, Music, News & Commentary, Recorded

What do Paul McCartney, Nancy Sinatra and Kurt Cobain have in common?

Peter Farnan

Melody. But is it a girl thing, or a boy thing? It goes up (The Beatles), it goes down (Nick Cave), …

News & Commentary

How a songwriter (and ex-minor rock star) made an album with no lead singer, identifiable sound, image, or act

Peter Farnan

Eighteen months ago songwriter, producer and former Boom Crash Opera band member, Peter Farnan, embarked on a new recording project where 12 …

Music, News & Commentary, Recorded

Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2015: this is how it feels

Peter Farnan

There’s the stats and then there’s the texture. Statistically this is how Triple J’s Hottest 100 compares with last year’s: …

Music, News & Commentary

David Bowie (1947 – 2016): where are we now?

Peter Farnan

David Bowie, who died yesterday aged 69, took conventional notions of identity in pop and rock, already long-haired and drug-addled …

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A legal approach to the decline and fall of the United States

Kevin Brianton

Music, Reviews

Sleaford Mods ‘All That Glue’ review: a necessary album for fans and newcomers alike

Benjamin Woods

Books, Reviews

‘The Shifting Landscape’ review: Western Victoria crime novel showcases joy in storytelling

Rosemary Sorensen

News & Commentary

How did we get here? Why artists became so dispensable

Neil Pigot

Books, Music, Reviews

Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge: a fascinating read for fans and newcomers alike

Tony Thompson

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