kd lang once said it was harder to come out as vegetarian than it was to come out as lesbian. Today in Loose Connections I wrote about weirdos, plant based diets, outrage & influence!
locarmen.substack.com/p/the-v-word
Oh my gosh. This trend keeps giving.
So happy & honoured for our new album Transatlantic Light to be on the Post To Wire Favourite Australian/NZ Albums of 2024 in such good company 👌🌹🎉https://posttowire.com/category/album-reviews/
‘When Lo hits her high notes and she is accompanied by that perfect sad piano, it makes me weak in the knees and causes the hair on my arms to stand on end.’ Grateful for such a deeply felt review from the brilliantly named Twangrila.
twangrila.com/2024/11/26/l...
I dreamt I got a snarky live review that called me ‘the Collins dictionary of the music world’ and spent the rest of the dream trying to work out if that was a compliment or an insult.
Cross-app resource here for music writer & music lovers/readers - go forth & multiply! 🎶
Abso-bloody-lutely! Huge congratulations on your new home.
Nice!
Lo Carmen - accomplished actor, songwriter, musician, all-round Renaissance Lady - is also one of the very best music writers I know; her memoir Lovers Dreamers Fighters is vivid and enviably free. Here she writes (at length) about the ongoing legacy of underground Australian music in Europe, esp
Andrew you are so kind! Thanks so much for sharing ❤️
Today I wrote about Kangaroo Rock, The Melbourne Sound & the Australian musical pioneers that set the world on fire!
open.substack.com/pub/locarmen...
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Oh my god I hadn’t noticed that 😂
Typographical error Due to a typing error, Saturday's story on local artist Jon Henninger mistakenly reported that Henninger's band mate Eric Lyday was on drugs. The story should have read that Lyday was on drums. The Sentinel regrets the error.
Well, now…
I often misread text on signs and find myself greatly amused - I just read something about audiences nabbing ‘set lists’ post gig as souvenirs but misread it as ‘sex lists’ and have a feeling that’s what I’ll be writing for my shows from here on out. (Metallica setlist for your consideration)
I just got off a plane after 35 hours travel and lost luggage and about to fall into very dead slumber indeed but this sounds very interesting!
Careering across the blue skies of Honolulu on my way home to Oz and this view felt like an appropriate way to say hey over here… flying never fails to blow my mind.