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Mark Mordue

Mark Mordue

Mark Mordue is an Australian-based writer, journalist and editor published internationally. He first made an impact as a writer in the Sydney post-punk music scene of the 1980s before going on to a diverse career. Mark was awarded a 1992 Human Rights Media Award for his journalism and was the 2001 Asialink writer-in-residence at Beijing University. His first book, a collection of integrated travel stories entitled Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip was published in Australia in 2001 and the USA in 2004. Film director Wim Wenders acclaimed it as the first take of its kind to take the road genre "into the 21st century". He is currently completing a novel.

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Henry Rollins: The Bright Stuff

Interview by Mark Mordue, Juice, April 1993

As American as Apple Pie, saluting the flag, street violence, psychopaths, racism, guns, incest, overdoses, police brutality, urban decay and spiritual horror. Mark Mordue goes ...

Hank Williams: On The Lost Highway: Hank Williams

Retrospective by Mark Mordue, Australian, The, October 2011

DAMNED cold. An ice storm over Nashville has closed down flights across the state of Tennessee. ...

You Am I in NYC

Report and Interview by Mark Mordue, Sydney Morning Herald, December 1998

KENNETH BRANAGH at a You Am I gig?! I had to look twice. It turned out to be an ostrich-like version, but that's New York ...

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The Electrified Journalist

Essay by Mark Mordue, markmordue.com, May 2008

WHEN I THINK ABOUT rock 'n' roll and my life trying to write about it, my trying to get inside rock 'n' roll through words ...

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