Mess+Noise Icons

• Icons: The Moodists

  Thursday, Apr 18 2013|by Patrick Emery

  

  Dave Graney, Clare Moore and Mick Turner in one band? Yes, The Moodists had it all! PATRICK EMERY looks back with Graney and Moore at the cult ’80s post-punk band that spanned both Melbourne and London (with roots firmly in late-’70s Adelaide) and later included two members of Orange Juice. Long before there was Dave Graney, musician, King of Pop, raconteur, iconoclast and the housewif…

• Icons: Archie Roach

  Wednesday, Jan 23 2013|by Matt Shea

  

  As resilient as they come, singer-songwriter Archie Roach has only been strengthened by the intense hardships in his life. Leading up to a full performance of his latest album at Sydney Festival, he meditates on years past as well as the here and now with MATT SHEA. Life hasn’t been kind to Archie Roach in recent years. In early 2010, Ruby Hunter, his partner in both music and life, di…

• Icons: The Sunnyboys

  Wednesday, Dec 5 2012|by Patrick Emery

  

  After a big first album, Sydney’s power-pop greats struggled with label pressure and an increasingly erratic frontman for their next two. Now they’re back in action, three decades after forming. PATRICK EMERY maps the unlikely trajectory with members Peter Oxley and Richard Burgman. In 1981, with a critically acclaimed debut album, a brilliant young songwriter in Jeremy Oxley and a rep…

• Icons: The Sugargliders

  Thursday, Nov 1 2012|by Doug Wallen

  

  One of only two Australian bands ever signed to England’s iconic pop label Sarah, The Sugargliders thrived for four years before Josh and Joel Meadows moved on. Thanks to a new retrospective, they look back with DOUG WALLEN. The Sugargliders never put out an album. They didn’t need to. It was all there on the 7”s: 10 of them in just four years, all stamped with the same imperfect font …

• Icons – Mia Schoen

  Friday, Jun 29 2012|by René Schaefer

  

  From her early years in Perth with Molasses to playing in Melbourne outfits Sleepy Township, Driving Past, Huon and New Estate, RENÉ SCHAEFER tracks the unique career of musician and artist Mia Schoen. Mia Schoen’s career in indie music is a long and illustrious one, but don’t call it a “career”. Mia would be the first to point out that the pursuit of fame or fortune has always been fu…

• Icons – Clag: ‘We Always Made Sure We Had One Token Boy’

  Monday, May 14 2012|by Shaun Prescott

  

  Ahead of a comeback show, Bek Moore from Brisbane’s Clag talks to SHAUN PRESCOTT about the band’s infamous live shows, reacting to male rock stereotypes, why Henry Rollins is a ‘wanker’ and the challenges of being provocative in 2012. Clag formed in early ‘90s Brisbane. The group centred around a core three-piece consisting Bek Moore on vocals, Rachael Cooke on guitar and Alison Bolger…

• Icons – The Necks: ‘We’re Not Real Big On Emotion In Music’

  Thursday, Mar 15 2012|by Aaron Curran

  

  Lloyd Swanton from The Necks tells AARON CURRAN how emotion in music is overrated, silence is golden, and each album should be a reaction to the next. Photos by JOHN TAPIA URQUIZA. Since forming in Sydney in 1987, The Necks have refined their slow-burning improvisational explorations across some 16 albums, with last year’s Mindset their most recent. Band members Chris Abrahams (piano, …

• Icons: Jim Keays/Masters Apprentices

  Wednesday, Feb 29 2012|by Aaron Curran

  

  One of Australian rock’s true gentlemen and a raconteur to boot, Jim Keays speaks to AARON CURRAN about his new album, The Masters Apprentices and other highpoints of a career characterised by few regrets. Photo of Keays by ROBERT CARBONE. There’s not a lot of precedent in Australia for someone of Jim Keays’ vintage – he’s 65 – to be making a scuzzy, snarling garage rock. But with the…

• Icons: Underground Lovers

  Wednesday, Nov 16 2011|by Darren Levin

  

  On the eve of a pair of comeback shows, The Underground Lovers’ Vince Giarrusso talks to DARREN LEVIN about their early influences, their split with Polydor, working with producer Wayne Connolly and the key to their intoxicating sound. Live photo by SAM WONG. Instinctive and pure. This is how Vince Giarrusso describes his songwriting partnership with guitarist Glenn Bennie. Together, t…

• Icons: Mark Opitz Pt 2

  Thursday, Nov 10 2011|by Doug Wallen

  

  In the final installment of a two-part Icons interview, producer Mark Opitz discusses reinventing INXS, breaking The Divinyls and turning down Guns N’ Roses with DOUG WALLEN. Part one here. INXS’ Shabooh Shoobah (1982) INXS came back to me. They’d done two albums with Deluxe that had done hardly anything. Chris sent me these demos: ‘Johnson’s Aeroplane’, ‘Black and White’ and ‘T…

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