You won’t get a chance to see a gig from The Smokers, but Earl O’Neill takes us back to the first, last and only time the band got together.
Almanac Memoir – The Tracks of my Tears
March 7, 2018 by 4 Comments
“I buried my face in the pages of the Football Record and I cried as frustration washed through me. If you think the disappointment of being bundled out of the finals in 2013, 14 and 15 was bad then you didn’t experience the disappointment of the last round of the 1966 season. The gut-wrenching emotion of that last game had me in tears.”
Almanac Music – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at 50: The philosophy of kaleidoscope eyes
June 29, 2017 by 12 Comments
David Wilson has a new awareness with each listen, still, all these years later, as he celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary Beatles album ‘Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
Iconic Instants in Music
May 19, 2017 by 11 Comments
Mickey Randall with some iconic moments in song by some legendary artists. The Beatles, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Radiohead. Aural intoxicants.
Almanac Music: A case for the *real* Beatles albums
January 27, 2017 by 16 Comments
Pete Zitterschlager runs through many of The Beatles’ albumless orphans, lamenting what could (or should) have been.
Almanac Music – Book Review: The Beatles I Was There
October 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Neil Drysdale reviews Richard Houghton’s new book on The Beatles. Looks like some terrific early insights emerge from interviews with those who were at the earliest gigs – and beyond.
Almanac Cinema – The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years
October 6, 2016 by 5 Comments
Peter Crossing has good things to say about Ron Howard’s Beatles movie, in fact it’s “an absolute joy”.
Round 17: The 2016 Wassily Kandinsky Cup
July 21, 2016 by 4 Comments
Earl O’Neill is a stream of consciousness sort of guy and this is more your torrent of consciousness. Worth the read. There are some gems in here. [Love the notion of transcendence – you’ve nailed that – Ed]
Almanac Music: The Beatles and me
January 18, 2016 by 28 Comments
Mickey Randall shares his passion for The Beatles and the quiet genius of George Harrison
Almanac Music: Top 10 songs that Bob has “butchered”
January 16, 2016 by 9 Comments
DAM is back and thinking controversially. If you accept the premise that Bob Dylan is a butcher – what are his 10 greatest crimes against music?
The Ashes 2015 – Second Test Preview: Dear Prudence
July 16, 2015 by 4 Comments
Are we sending echidnas to play in hedgehog conditions? So many questions leading into the Lord’s Test. A Beatles influenced E.regnans offers up some interesting thoughts ahead of the second Ashes Test.
AFL Round 7 – Adelaide v GWS: Dangerfield and the Rickenbacker guitar
May 14, 2013 by 11 Comments
Patrick Dangerfield is the opening chord of A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles.
Football writer
June 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
Apologies to Lennon/McCartney (I think it was the latter) Dear Sports Ed, won’t you read my stuff I can make a sentence, so I’m good enough Never really played much footy before Failed first-year law And now I wanna be a football writer Football writer Irony drips from my poison pen I can do cross-promos [Read more]
It was ‘A Hard Year’s Plight’
May 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
I wrote this piece last year during Richmond’s ‘winter of discontent.’ Losses to Port Adelaide and the Gold Coast had overshadowed some good early form in the season, and we were facing another lowly finish…. “It’s been a long cold lonely winter.” These words, penned by the late George Harrison, the ‘quiet’ Beatle, have been [Read more]
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