Actually, bugger that - cross lanes, mix metaphors, play songs. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Find more multi-discipline musical athletics like this playlist under my name at Spotify.

Gentlemen and players: (l-r) David Milne, Dougles Lee Robertson, Charles Jenkins, Derek Smiley and Marcus Goodwin SHALL WE BLOW OUT the candle together? Who booked the stripper? In a relatively bare-walled room in his Melbourne home, or at least the part of the room visible from his desk, Charles Jenkins has a gig poster from a favourite Melbourne venue on one side and a Beatles one from Help  on another. Core principles you might say for a member of a very very fine pop band

ROSALIA Lux (Sony)   THIS ALBUM IS NUTS. Properly, completely, outrageously, wonderfully nuts. It goes to places, so many places, places that are unlikely to have ever been thought of in the same suburb let alone the same mind before. There’s drama, beatific moments and spiky balls that cut; religious intensity, dance and abandonment; florid waves, songs that are cursed with love, and others that want nothing more than to hurt hard. Instrumentally and sonically it is both ana

Kasey Chambers wondering the same thing you are. Photo by Stuart Spence Here we have the next instalment in What Comes To Mind, a new occasional series in the Wind Back Wednesday space, based on the work of the brilliant photographer Stuart Spence. Each time, he will dig out a photo out from his archives going back almost 50 years and challenge me to respond with what comes to mind when I look at that image. It might be serious or ridiculous, personal or historical. It might

THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS Again (Third Man Records) TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS Glory (Community Music)   SOME PRELIMINARY, not exactly about the music but not not about the music observations. Every so often – let’s be honest, any day since about 1957 – you’ll hear some prematurely old fart muttering under his breath about how all the good band names have been done and look at the stupidities we have now. And this was mostly before King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard appeared.

Cons to the left of us, clowns to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you. Let these songs then be an antidote for us. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN As clown time is never over - Elvis Costello got that wrong - find more antidote playlists by me at the home of evil, Spotify.

TRISTEN Unpopular Music (Pupsnake Records)   WELL IT ISN’T. Or if it is unpopular somewhere with someone, I don’t want to go there or know them. Unpopular Music  is a title that like much of the work of Tristen Gaspadarek is playful but not without a sly prod at herself or us, and often enough both. After all, while these are incredibly pretty pop songs, Gaspadarek works in a tricky zone where gentleness is genuine but also disguising a sharp line in observations, and songs f

And so it’s come to pass that broadcaster and bully, poet and sexist, ad man and antediluvian, trucking songs singer and fan of The Princess, John Laws, has turned off the golden microphone and been sent to hell or heaven by the usual wave of high praise, and a few voices looking to correct the gushing record. Here at the home of Wind Back Wednesday the closest we came to this giant of radio – from the days when big egos, big ad revenue and big audiences didn’t require you al

Sure, it may blow any second, but for listening for 80 minutes, you'll be hotter AND cooler than the best lava lamp. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN No need to crack a toe or two to find more playlists like this by me at the burning moral hell that is Spotify.