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 …
