To mark his death today, an extra Wind Back Wednesday: a 2008 interview with Glen Campbell on what was thought to be his last tour of...

This week Neil Young announced the impending release of the “lost” Hitchhiker album, recorded in 1976 but never released. It’s the latest...

It is 40 years since Elvis Costello released his first album, My Aim Is True. It did well, he did well, and he’s done a bit since then....

This week a concert will be held in London celebrating the songs from the pivotal and brilliant first four albums Scott Walker made. It's...

Ahead of their Sydney show (which I won't be seeing .... sigh), and a Splendour appearance, Wind Back Wednesday is the ghost of meals...

One of the greatest Australian albums revisited, a decade on - because grief and joy and loss and memories, like this record, are...

He now has his first rarities/b-sides compilation, he’s touring a bit of a history tour, so let’s dip into some Josh Pyke history. This...

Darren Hayes these days is outspoken, political and wholly engaged. It wasn’t always the case. Wind Back Wednesday skips back to 2006,...

Lionel Richie is here later this year. He will offer an old school show. But will it have the golden moment of this show a decade ago?...

What can you say as a reviewer when the star of the show emerges from the bum of a giant pachyderm? Never forget? A night in 2005 with...

In a week when a young Frenchman resisted the call to “kiss the ass” of a bluff American, Wind Back Wednesday sojourns to 2004 and a...

Oh look, Harry Styles is all growed up Ma, with a big boy’s pants album out right now. But what was it like when he first flashed that...

It’s only three years but in a bleak week, in a grim year – for some of us anyway – a jolt of happiness from a pretty fabulous night with...

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Enmore Theatre, December 3, 2003 It was a dark and stormy night with thunderclaps that rocked you on your...

With a new single built from slowed R&B and overheated imaginations, Abbe May may be teasing out a new album but she's got a plan. She's...

More than 20 years since they last played Selinas, Midnight Oil return on Thursday to that Coogee beer barn. Wind Back Wednesday takes in...

THE DATSUNS The Metro, April 29 2003 Ah yes, old school values. It was still 15 minutes away from the scheduled stage time, in a town...

With Bill Callahan due back in two months, Wind Back Wednesday takes a short step back, to the last time he passed through and left me...

There’s a triple disc Bob Dylan set out in a week. It will antagonise as many as it charms. Same as it ever was. Wind Back Wednesday dips...

With Adele laying waste to all before her in terms of crowd numbers, merch sales, profit and even reviews. Wind Back Wednesday goes back...