FAREWELL GLEN CAMPBELL ON WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
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...
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BERNARD ZUEL
MUSIC JOURNALIST
Aug 8, 2017
NEIL YOUNG IN THE ARCHIVES: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
This week Neil Young announced the impending release of the “lost” Hitchhiker album, recorded in 1976 but never released. It’s the latest...
Aug 1, 2017
ELVIS COSTELLO, 40 YEARS AND COUNTING: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
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....
Jul 25, 2017
SCOTT SPEAKS: SCOTT WALKER IN WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
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...
Jul 18, 2017
WIGGING OUT THE VEGANS: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY AND QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Ahead of their Sydney show (which I won't be seeing .... sigh), and a Splendour appearance, Wind Back Wednesday is the ghost of meals...
Jul 4, 2017
LISA MILLER – MORNING IN THE BOWL OF NIGHT: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
One of the greatest Australian albums revisited, a decade on - because grief and joy and loss and memories, like this record, are...
Jun 27, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - JOSH PYKE IS JUST A LITTLE INTENSE
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...
Jun 20, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - BECOMING DARREN HAYES
Darren Hayes these days is outspoken, political and wholly engaged. It wasn’t always the case. Wind Back Wednesday skips back to 2006,...
Jun 13, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: DANCING CHEEK TO CHEEK
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?...
Jun 6, 2017
CHER AND CHER ALIKE: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY RIDES THE SEQUIN ELEPHANT
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...
May 30, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN JULIE DELPY
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...
May 23, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY TURNS THE DIALS ON HARRY VANDA
Being on the set of a coming bio-pic of The Easybeats put me in mind of meeting one half of their second great writing team, and one half...
May 16, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY MEETS (A YOUNGER) HARRY STYLES
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...
May 9, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: YOU SEXY LITTLE SWINE
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...
May 2, 2017
SEX FROM A BAD SEED: WIND BACK WEDNESDAY IN A SWEAT WITH NICK CAVE
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...
Apr 18, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - SEX, LOVE AND ABASEMENT: ABBE MAY'S TRIPLE THREAT
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...
Apr 11, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: MIDNIGHT OIL: THE REGENERATION GENERATION
More than 20 years since they last played Selinas, Midnight Oil return on Thursday to that Coogee beer barn. Wind Back Wednesday takes in...
Apr 4, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY PUTS PEDAL TO THE METAL WITH THE DATSUNS
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...
Mar 28, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER
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...
Mar 21, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: DYLAN
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...
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