The Age

Chris Bailey, The Saints: Chris Bailey: Saint in Search of Earthiness

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 25 November 1983

CHRIS BAILEY — troubador. That may be a new tag to stick on the Saints' front-man, but it's a reasonably accurate one, at least at ...

Laughing Clowns: Neo-Realism and the Zeitgeist

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 1984

IT'S AN OLD ADAGE that worthwhile art only arises out of conflict. Friction, after all, is what generates the sparks that light the fire. ...

The Triffids: Self-Sufficient and Surviving

Profile and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 6 January 1984

THE TITLE of the Triffids' debut album, Treeless Plain, refers, of course, to the Nullarbor. That it also suggests the mood of the album itself, ...

INXS — a Group in Search of Identity

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 13 January 1984

IF AUSTRALIAN pop music really equals that anywhere in the world, it must follow that that it can be equally as bad. ...

The Triffids: Triffids: Year of the Triffids

Profile and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 27 April 1984

GROWING UP IN PUBLIC was the title of a Lou Reed album a few years back, and although this is a dictum that can be ...

The Hoodoo Gurus: Hoodoo Gurus, Beating the Trodden Path

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 8 June 1984

THE HOODOO Gurus don't beat around the bush. Right from the very outset, with the first track on their debut album, Stoneage Romeos, they stake ...

The Flaming Hands: Don't try to keep yonder Flaming Hands to yourself: they're too good

Profile by Clinton Walker, The Age, 10 August 1984

IN A PARTNERSHIP lasting over four years, singer extraordinaire Julie Mostyn and guitarist /songwriter Jeff Sullivan have made the name Flaming Hands synonymous with a ...

Sam & Dave: Hold On, They're Coming

Profile and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 15 February 1985

THE READERS of Smash Hits may not know it, but it's a fact that so many of their idols — today's transient pin-up popsters, Wham, ...

The Hoodoo Gurus: Hoodoo Gurus: Surprise For The Gurus

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 19 July 1985

SURELY THE most surprising result at the recent "Countdown" awards was for the best debut album of last year, which went to the Hoodoo Gurus, ...

Nico: The Girl With The Faraway Eyes

Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 21 February 1986

THERE IS PERHAPS no world quite so cruel as rock and roll, where youth is everything, and with age comes not maturity but redundancy. Unless ...

The Flamin' Groovies: Flamin’ Groovies: Groove with another flamin’ cult band

Retrospective and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 11 July 1986

THE FLAMIN’ Groovies are one of those bands that seems to have had the word "legendary" permanently affixed to the front of their name. So ...

Radiohead: Hail to the 'Head

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Age, April 2004

EVERY GENERATION produces a band that fiercely divides critical and public opinion, and nobody has carried that torch higher in the 21st century than Radiohead. ...