Almanac Music: ‘Gimme a Head with Hair’ – Songs about Hair

April 12, 2024 by 163 Comments

Yeah yeah! This week, the theme is hair in Kevin Densley’s long-running series focusing upon popular song.

Almanac Music: Angels, Devils and Flawed Humanity – Part 2: Ten Songs About Devils

April 14, 2023 by 39 Comments

‘Part 2: Ten Songs About Devils’ is the second article in a three-part piece for The Footy Almanac, to appear over successive weeks. The focus is upon songs which are closely connected to devils in some way. Almanac readers are warmly welcomed to add to Kevin Densley’s list.

Almanac Music: Richard Clapton and I

July 31, 2020 by 13 Comments

Kevin Densley recalls the time his band supported Richard Clapton at The Waurn Ponds Hotel in 1980.

Almanac Music – Aussie album review: INXS “Shabooh Shoobah”

October 16, 2018 by 9 Comments

Smokie returns to share the seventh in his occasional series of Australian album reviews- this time “Shabooh Shoobah” by INXS.

How the AFL Can Get Back Our Newly Rugby-Leagued Continent

October 8, 2015 by 2 Comments

One funny kick and Rugby League finds itself at the top of the Australian sports entertainment industry. The AFL needs to act. Patrick O’Brien has the answer. It all starts with Gillon buying his daughter a Chisel CD….

AFL Round 16 – Port Adelaide v Essendon: Never Tear Us Apart

July 8, 2014 by 2 Comments

Andrew Else relishes the Bombers win over Port Adelaide. He reckons Kenny Hinkley has more to worry about now than the Adelaide Oval soundtrack.

That’s Entertainment?

August 31, 2012 by 2 Comments

Predicting who will grace the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the 29 September has stretched the capacity of even the sharpest frontal lobes this season, and others such as Luke Darcy. But only now has the picture become clearer, since the AFL brains trust returned from their London Olympic Games reccy.  One place has actually been decided [Read more]