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BERNARD ZUEL
MUSIC JOURNALIST
Mar 14, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: ADELE FROM 19 TO 25
With Adele laying waste to all before her in terms of crowd numbers, merch sales, profit and even reviews. Wind Back Wednesday goes back...
Mar 7, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: A TAP AT LAURA MARLING’S WINDOW
A few days before the arrival of Laura Marling’s sixth album – review right here - Wind Back Wednesday returns to the beginning of this...
Feb 28, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY SAYS MAKE LOVE NOT JOKES ABOUT JULIO IGLESIAS
Since interviewing Mr Iglesias some years before this concert I have received a Christmas card every year, without fail. It always...
Feb 21, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: SHOUTING DARKER DARKER DARKER
With April shows now announced for Underworld, Wind Back Wednesday takes a step away from their euphoric moments to get to the dark pit...
Feb 7, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - A HAZY SHADE OF EXCELLENCE
As Elbow have a wonderful new album out now (read the review here Wind Back Wednesday looks back to their first tour of Australia in 2004...
Jan 31, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: IT’S NEVER JUST BRUCE, IT’S ALWAYS US. ALL OF US
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Allphones Arena, February 19, 2014 It’s a communal thing. A two-way street. A give and you shall...
Jan 24, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - I'M HEADING OUT TO THE BIG DAY OUT. I COULD BE A WHILE.
Not that long - or was it a lifetime? - ago, this time of year was all about planning for, indulging in and getting through the Big Day...
Jan 17, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - FLICKING THE SWITCH
It was 21 years ago that one messy, scrappy, yappy bloke, the front of a power duo (with a rope-in on keys) was the dominant figure in...
Jan 10, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - WHINE WOMEN AND SONG
This weekend, as I have for 13 years in different forms, I join 15 other judges in reducing the Australian Music Prize longlist to the...
Jan 3, 2017
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - BORN TO TRY, BUILT TO SUCCEED
Wind Back Wednesday takes advantage of a new Delta Goodrem single – another reinvention - to go back to her first moments in the...
Dec 20, 2016
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY - A RIGHT PAIN IN THE ARTS
Wind Back Wednesday jumps 15 years to a time when newspapers, and for that matter all media, were being asked if they took arts seriously...
Dec 13, 2016
WINDBACK WEDNESDAY - WHEN NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST. AND AREN'T SURE WHY.
When he formed Coldplay Chris Martin wanted to be known but not necessarily famous. Famous was for better looking or faster talking, more...
Dec 7, 2016
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
This is the time of year for retrospectives and retro-fitted attempts to make sense of it all. Since Wind Back Wednesday is nothing but...
Nov 29, 2016
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
Ryan Adams is playing a one-off gig on Tuesday (sorry Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart and Dapto) and that's good enough...
Nov 22, 2016
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
Wind Back Wednesday was delayed due to technical difficulties (i.e. everything blew up and now there is only ruins and tears) but it is...
Nov 15, 2016
WIND BACK WEDNESDAY: ADELE
With Adele's first tour of Australia announced this week, Wind Back Wednesday goes back to the days around the release of her debut...
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