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I recall he managed to kick goals against us...hopefully he can kick a few for us.

I've not seen a single episode.

I actually saw them back then (I think at an ANU union night in Canberra in the 70's) when they were known as The Keystone Angels. I thought they were great... wasn't so keen on the Angels though, I have to admit. I'm pretty sure one of the former Angels (can't recall which one) has been working in the indigenous communities assisting with raising money for dialysis machines etc.

I seriously believe that AC/DC should have gone completely away from tired old "rockers" (Brian Johnson was bad enough in my opinion) and gone down the route of someone like Nikki Hill... (and her husband is no slouch on the guitar either)... I saw them at Bluefest 2014 and they took the roof off the place! (they were so impressive that Bluesfest had them back again the following year in 2015)

If you love Primus, check out the Residents documentary "Theory of Obscurity",,, they were a massive influence on Primus and members of Primus feature during the documentary.

I agree with what you're saying Macca... I was more expressing my personal disappointment :-) However, if you want brass at its finest in a rock n roll context, try this on for size...

The first Chicago Transit Authority album was brilliant... they were a real contrast to Blood Sweat and Tears who were a very smooth sounding outfit... CTA at that time had a guitarist who was more influenced by Hendrix than any jazz greats and consequently the sound had a real edge to it. It was a shame what they became though.

"The Revenant" I liked, but to be honest, I much preferred his last film "Birdman"... the bear scene was extremely well done; exhausting to watch in the same way that Deliverance was exhausting to watch when it first appeared. Other than that, I just found some of the scenes a little too contrived and I was a little disappointed when the director used the "meteor" in one scene... it must be some sort of metaphor that he has become attached to as he also used it in "Birdman". In recent times, the films I have given repeat viewings are "Birdman" and "St Vincent"... both excellent vehicles for their aging stars in Keaton and Murray respectively. Another film I thoroughly recommend is from the French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) called "The Extraordinary Voyage of the Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivett; completely unheralded but an absolutely brilliant film! I just can't stop watching it over and over. Also, last night I watched one of the better music BluRays I have seen for a long long time in Elvis Costello's Detour... he is performing for the most part solo to a smallish audience in an opera house in Liverpool and recounting stories regarding how he came up with particular songs, his family life, his father and grandfathers influence on him musically speaking etc etc. He also brings on two guests in Rebecca and Megan Lovell (on mandolin and lap steel guitar respectively, as well as vocal harmonies) from the band Larkin Poe; together they combine to turn out some of the best versions of EC's songs I have ever heard... uplifting to say the very least.

I missed that concert... I went to the first Sunbury in January 1972... interesting sums it up best, I think. Some great music, but lots of drunk yobbos beating the crap out of each other and lots of stoners who didn't seem to know where they were.

Certainly a far cry from Sunbury where they were all but run out of town :-)

To my mind, Murder Ballads is one of the greatest albums recorded... however, I'm afraid Queen have never done it for me... in fact, I would go so far as to say their supposed masterpiece Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the most pompous pieces of crap ever committed to vinyl/CD.

If you already bought tickets, I'm pretty sure you should be able to negotiate with your bank for the refund and they will chase it up from the promoters. At least, this is what I heard in a radio discussion regarding this matter today (the agency was saying they will refund customers as soon as the promoters return the ticket sales money to them, so the bank refund might be the fastest and safest option).

This year's seems like a disorganised mess... http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/soundwave-music-festival-cancelled-20151217-glpwbn.html and then there's this: http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/heres-much-money-soundwave-2015-acts-owed/#/slide/1

Judging by Knightmare's review, the midfield may well become Oliver's Army; let's hope they're here to stay.

It wasn't really a snide comment... it was more about his kicking skills and was a failed attempt at a humorous response to an earlier post.

Yes, but he's gone to Essendon, so he should be twice the size by season's start.

Hopefully the similarities begin and end with the hair colour.

As far as I am concerned that is NOT Fleetwood Mac... the moment Peter Green walked out of the door was the moment Fleetwood Mac ceased to exist.

And "This Week in Britain".

A couple more from that era...

I actually don't have any thoughts about him one way of the other... if we take him, fine... if we don't take him, fine. I know he has performed quite well against us in the past and I would not be at all surprised if he was on the radar of other clubs (that's something both you and I have no knowledge of). I suppose we will know more over the coming weeks.

Well, we have had experience with Hogan and Petracca who sat out a year before playing for the Dees... maybe they see a benefit in securing him now rather than risk his going elsewhere?

I recommend almost anything and everything by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, but in particular "Kafka on the Shore" and "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle". He has also written a brilliant piece on the sarin gassing in the Tokyo subway called "Underground" in which he interviewed and told the stories of both victims and perpertrators.

Well, I had better not write it in that case :-)

No... should I? ;-)