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Almanac Music – Harvest Rock: Beck’s Chicken Curry and the Celebrated Drumsticks of Christmas

It’s the time for festivals in the most festive of states and Mickey Randall and his Family Band were on hand to witness some musical delight at Harvest Rock.

Almanac Music: ‘Now and Then’ – Why the world has shed a tear

Like many, Richard Griffiths is enthralled with the release of ‘Now and Then’ by The Beatles, as his wonderful review so clearly states.

Almanac Music: Songs About Mail

In his ongoing series about popular music themes, KD writes about songs involving mail – letters, posties, mail in general…

Almanac (Legal) Music: A broken record ‘Down Under’

Good friend of the Footy Almanac, lawyer Paul Noonan reflects opon the issues surrounding the copyright law in relation to the ‘Kookaburra’ and ‘Down Under’ case.

Almanac Music: Favourite Album Cover Art

Having recently moved to Ballarat Ian Wilson and his partner Lynda created collages of favourite album covers to decorate walls in their home as Ian explains.

Almanac Books and Music: ‘Full Coverage: A History of Rock Journalism in Australia’ by Samuel J Fell.

‘Full Coverage: A history of rock journalism in Australia’ by Samuel J Fell is an in-depth look at music journalism since the 1960s in Australia and is reviewed by Vin Maskell.

Almanac Life: Melbourne’s resurgence

Ian Wilson compares the wellbeing of Melbourne’s social night life with the earlier days of the covid pandemic and can’t help but feel buoyed, while two of the biggest names in the last 70 years of music feature too.

Almanac Music: Gary Shearston – Australian Folk Legend

Wayne Matthews thanks Miss Mathieson, his music teacher from Form 3 in 1964, for introducing him to the music of Australian Folk Legend Gary Shearston. Wayne would like to introduce the music of Gary Shearston to readers.

Almanac Music: KISS End Of The World Tour –

The Sydney concert of the KISS ‘End Of The World Tour’ was an enjoyable extravaganza for Richard Griffiths as he recounts in his review of the musical and visual spectacular presented by the band.

Almanac Music: Songs about Trains

In this Friday’s music piece, KD discusses songs about trains and, as usual, warmly welcomes reader contributions.