one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
folks, here are 10 of the bands from the line-up. fill in the gaps by inserting The Tearjerks, Externals and Challenger 7 where you think they fit in the narrative. sorry, it’s quite long, but it is afterall ten bands and there is some extra stuff about Dirtbag and Atmosfear for CD launch/going away reasons. … Continue reading “interview | The Big Day Out ’96 – Local Line-up”
Papua New Guinea’s former prime minister Sir Julius Chan says that if he had been allowed to continue with the infamous Sandline operation to put down the Bougainville civil war in 1997, he would have been able to bring the island under control.
The Australian government has successfully rushed through legislation that explicitly authorises offshore detention funding for Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, before a High Court challenge to its policy.
Since his ascendency to general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2012 and the presidency in March 2013, Xi Jinping has executed a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has targeted hundreds of thousands of officials at all levels of government and state-owned industry.
The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton has not just made headlines in Commonwealth countries where the prince will one day be their head-of-state.
2009-03-05 13:04:15 GMT (Reuters) * Blog-style news sites fill niche that press overlooked * Big names losing print readers follow advertisers online * Brand power on the Web helps established names * Making money online is still an unanswered question By James Mackenzie
The outspoken President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is about to head into his second presidential election with a country rife with crime, poverty and crippling corruption.
Compiled from outside sources; Adam Connors, DigiTimes.com [Friday 29 March 2002] The annual ranking by supply chain management provider iSuppli of the world’s top semiconductor companies, by sales, vividly documents the beating that the industry took in 2001, with only 27 of the 172 companies covered experiencing revenue growth.
Sue, could you check Smudge’s bass player’s name? I think it’s Adam Yeo but I’m not too certain. Ta. There exists, in your community, a widely unacknowledged subculture which is as delicate as a vegan, as opinionated as an anarchist and as stoic as a gothic purist. They are fanzine writers, and as the rustle … Continue reading “Superchunk; Smudge, Planet, November 20, 1996”
Somewhere between San Diego and Los Angeles, but about 15 million light years straight up, is the possible origin of the group known here on Planet Earth as Supernova. The three members of Supernova, on a speakerphone from their earthbase in California, claim to crave tinfoil in their otherworldly wiles. But dare I say the … Continue reading “interview | Supernova”
