#WindBackWednesday 3/7

Feb 5, 2019

BIFF BANG POW(ER POP): ALEX TURNER AS THE BATMAN AND ROBIN OF ARCTIC MONKEYS FOR WIND BACK WEDNESDAY

Sheffield’s finest return to Australia in 17 days, showcasing the latest incarnation of a band whose members are scattered around the...

Jan 29, 2019

REASONS TO BELIEVE: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY ON THE SECOND WAVE OF LILY ALLEN

Back in Australia from this Monday, Lily Allen has an autobiography, a comeback third album, and most recently a pop chart bothering...

Jan 22, 2019

SHE IS THE COSMOS, AND SHE IS PLUGGED IN: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY WITH LISA GERRARD, ONE HALF OF DEAD CA

The most recent album from Australian duo Dead Can Dance, Dionysus was one of the best records of 2018, and longlisted for the Australian...

Jan 15, 2019

FORGET PHIL COLLINS, WIND BACK WEDNESDAY HAS THE DODGIEST 1980s

This week has been filled with debating the pros and cons of one of the ubiquitous names of the 1980s, with people reliving their glory...

Dec 11, 2018

WIND BACK WEDNESDAY ON THE YEAR OF OUR LORD … 2004

There’ll be some 2018 best-of-the-year things coming your way soon: look out in the next week for favourite albums (including links to...

Dec 4, 2018

MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING BUT GALL: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY FINDS AIR SUPPLY IN NEED

Last week, Air Supply, the Australian group with massive success in the 1970s that nobody wants to talk about because they’re not even as...

Nov 20, 2018

CAMP COPE BETTER THAN EXPECTED: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY IN THE COURT OF QUEEN AND ADAM LAMBERT

As the Freddie Mercury/Queen film Bohemian Rhapsody continues to inspire debate in households (in ours, one says shockingly bad, one says...

Nov 13, 2018

WHERE THE BOYS ARE: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY LEARNS FROM KYLIE MINOGUE

From trumpets on high and murmurings on the wind, news has come that Australia’s biggest, brightest, longest-lasting and – yes – most...

Nov 6, 2018

ALL POP FLAVOURS: ICECREAM HANDS TOUCH WIND BACK WEDNESDAY

It was announced last Friday that early next year Melbourne’s pop music heroes, Icecream Hands, will reissue – on vinyl and CD – their...

Oct 30, 2018

THE TENDER COMING: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY GREETS THE UNTHANKS

While we’re having a bit of a run at some modern folk with deep and old roots, via Lisa O’Neill’s new album and the thinking behind the...

Oct 23, 2018

NUTTY AS A FRUITBAT AT THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY ENCOUNTERS JENNY HVAL

Photo by Jamie Williams As the musical lineup for the next Sydney Festival is announced today, here’s a chance to take a brief step back...

Oct 16, 2018

A STAR IS WORN: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY PLAYS BRAD COOPER TO LADY GAGA

Photo by Danielle Smith It’s like she never left. Or is that time hasn’t changed at all? Lady Gaga continues to rake in not just box...

Oct 9, 2018

I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR, IN NUMBERS TOO BIG TO IGNORE: TAYLOR SWIFT RULES WIND BACK WEDNESDAY

Having suddenly discovered a social and political voice – though as one cynic noted, only after she had sold her American tour tickets –...

Oct 2, 2018

I SHOCK THEREFORE I AM: MARILYN MANSON EXPLAINS ALL TO WIND BACK WEDNESDAY

In the second stab of a mini Marilyn fest – check out last month's’s foray into the bowels of a MM concert here – we go further back...

Sep 18, 2018

A DARK HOLE WHERE EVEN MANLY FANS CAN BE LOVED: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY IN THE BOWELS OF A MARILYN MANSO

With his return to the studio and the stage in the past year, Marilyn Manson has reaffirmed everything you ever thought about him – good...

Sep 4, 2018

WIND BACK WEDNESDAY LOOKS UP AT ANNA CALVI

Singer, guitarist, songwriter, Anna Calvi released her new album, Hunter, last week, dealing frankly with the boundary between reality...

Aug 28, 2018

WIND BACK WEDNESDAY CHECKS PAUL SIMON FOR DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HIS SHOES

Next week Paul Simon will release In The Blue Light, an album reworking some of his songs he thought “were almost right, or were odd...

Aug 21, 2018

WIND BACK WEDNESDAY HANGS OUT IN THE TEENAGE FANCLUB

This week it was announced that Bellshill’s finest purveyors of (American and Scottish) West Coast rock/country-rock/pop-rock, Teenage...

Aug 7, 2018

COMMONWEALTH GAMES II: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY AND THE JILL BARBER SCRABBLE-OFF

Music is important, sport is important, but some things are even more important. In 2009, a year after Canadian Jill Barber had been...

Jul 31, 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE BUSH – FROM WIND BACK WEDNESDAY

The Sainted One turns 60 this week and as a devotee who was nearly near enough to touch the hem one night in London, no further excuse is...

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