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RESEARCH NOTES 6 – A CONVERSATION ABOUT AUSTRALIAN BLUES MUSIC: LIFE BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM

Blues for Lost Souls* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCoEv9X2tU Downhome Duo - "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" Instrumental Gospel music represents “hope”.   Hope for a better life to come, hope...

Listen To Older Voices: Pasquale Colodonato – Part 3

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of the story of Pasquale Colodonato. Born in a small rural Italian village in 1935, Pasquale survived...

Sunday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece

Germaine Greer at The Chelsea Hotel in 1972. AAP Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in...

Sunday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?

A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man, based on the author’s interpretation. Timothy Ide, Author provided In 1765, a young, peasant woman...

A-lop-bam-boom: Little Richard’s saucy style underpins today’s hits

Robbie Drexhage/Wikimedia Little Richard was washing dishes at a Greyhound bus station in Macon, Georgia when he wrote Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall...

Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors

Though her brave acts were acknowledged after her death, Wauba Debar’s grave was later robbed in the name of “science”. Tirin/Wikimedia Aboriginal and Torres...

The Odd Friday Lunch Simon Madden, Fri 13

Simon Madden was one of the greatest ruckman to play AFL and is one of Essendon's greats Born 30/12/57, he played for Essendon between ’74...

Vale Clive James – a marvellous low voice whose gracious good humour let others shine

An unlikely television star, Clive James shone a light on absurdity but let us make up our own minds about it. Image: Alan Porritt/AAP Australian...

Sunday essay: the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin

Whitlanders in the 1940s. Established in 1941 near the base of Victoria’s Mount Buffalo, this Catholic community celebrated the ‘dignity of manual labour’...

Sunday essay: Barry Humphries’ humour is now history – that’s the fate of topical, satirical comedy

Dame Edna Everage at Melbourne Town Hall in 2006 after being presented with the Key to the City. Simon Mossman/AAP Let’s face it, Thursday...
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MEMO MUSIC HALL Friday 10 May, 2024 TWIST & SHOUT A SALUTE TO 50's & 60's ROCK n ROLL An International Tribute Celebrating The Hits of The Rock n...

Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.