WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL OF ROGER WATERS
It’s less than a month away from Roger Waters’ Australian tour, which will include material from his full career. In 2007, as he toured...
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BERNARD ZUEL
MUSIC JOURNALIST
Dec 26, 2017
COUNTDOWN REWOUND, RESTAGED, REDRESSED: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY SPECIAL
On the heels of a run of Sunday night repackagings of the second most important music show in Australia (after Rock Around The World –...
Dec 5, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY ON THE SEMINAL AUSTRALIAN FILM THE BOYS
As the film industry gussies up and hands out some awards at the AACTAs tonight, a chance to explore the roots of, and thinking behind,...
Nov 28, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY COUNTS UP A(NOTHER) HOTTEST 100 CONTROVERSY
The ABC’s youth network being the subject of protest, ridicule and pontificating from people who never listen to it and who couldn’t find...
Nov 22, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY BONUS: DAVID CASSIDY
In 2002, David Cassidy returned to Australia for the first time in nearly 30 years. Despite the years since his teen idol moment he was...
Nov 21, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: MALCOLM YOUNG, AC/DC & A DIFFERENT AUSTRALIA
The testimonials have been written, the valedictions delivered and Malcolm Young will be formally, but privately, farewelled soon enough....
Nov 14, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: NEIL DIAMOND ALIVE AND KICKING
He’s just announced a tour of Australia in 2018, by which time he’ll be 77 and you would think nearing retirement. But he said here in...
Nov 7, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY GETS A SUGAR RUSH WITH THE POSIES
The greatest pop band of the 1990s (still going strong today incidentally – so, tour here again, already!) finally made it to Australia...
Oct 31, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY AND THE THIRD COMING OF LED ZEPPELIN part 2
In part one last week, from a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri in 1998, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant had some fun with influences,...
Oct 24, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY AND THE THIRD COMING OF LED ZEPPELIN part 1
In 1998, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page put aside Arabic strings, some enmities, and John Paul Jones again, for what was a rock’n’roll tour...
Oct 17, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE POP ROAD
With Pete Murray picking up another nomination last week for the 2017 ARIA Awards, for best adult contemporary album, and James Blunt...
Oct 10, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY – WHEN HARRY MET MILEY
A new album out now brings to mind a fine, mild day in Sydney 2014 when a controversy-magnet pop star played by the harbour for a rubbish...
Oct 4, 2017
OH CAROLE! A TAPESTRY WEAVED: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
As the musical based on her life and songs, Beautiful, opens in Sydney (watch out for the superb Chloe Zuel in a couple of roles), a jump...
Sep 26, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY FAREWELLS CHARLES BRADLEY
With the death of Charles Bradley at the weekend, Wind Back Wednesday commemorates the Screaming Eagle Of Soul by stepping back 18...
Sep 19, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY WITH MR PAUL WELLER ESQ
Wind Back Wednesday barely steps back at all - some five months - but it’s worth looking back as we look forward to Paul Weller’s shows...
Sep 12, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: MEET MEAT LOAF
It’s coming up to grand final, and therefore mostly embarrassing/borderline tragic performances, time. Yeah baby, that’s made for Wind...
Sep 5, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: ARE YOU MY MANAGER? MY MOTHER? BOTH?
In Big Sound week there are new tales of badness, madness and general strangeness being created right now in Brisbane. And some manager...
Aug 29, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: IN THE COURT OF TAYLOR SWIFT
In the week Taylor Swift re-emerges with topicality, calculation, moments of brilliance and self-absorption, Wind Back Wednesday takes a...
Aug 22, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: DOUBLE DIPPING WITH ALLISON MOORER
Wind Back Wednesday goes double dipping into the Moorer family. Allison Moorer has released a new album with sister Shelby Lynne, called...
Aug 15, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: STAND BACK, IT’S SHELBY LYNNE
After a couple of decades of some of the finest country soul/roots, as solo artists, those most excellent sisters Shelby Lynne and...
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