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You become somewhat of a cliché.

Someone in Jet suggesting the band became a cliché. That's funny.

BECAUSE YOU LET NICK BOOK TOO MANY BORING OLD FOGEY BANDS

Yep. Strangely, not as many 40yos with children want to spend a weekend away from home camping in the sticks as do 19yos with a goonbag.

And not just old fogey bands, but still working old fogey bands. The Saints reunited for Pig City and then toured. Robert Forster, the Dirty Three, the Primitive Calculators, RSH, the Necks all play(ed) live - if not with frequency then often enough that probably anyone who'd wanted to see them had already done so.

The Laughing Clowns, James Blood Ulmer and The Reels aren't going to draw enough punters to see them as 'exclusive' acts - especially since the Clowns played elsewhere, too.

Also, nobody cares about Silver Apples, Bridezilla or Conway Savage.

Frankly, it would have been better if Sophie Brous had booked it.

There's no single greater example of class war in the arts than this.

Melba is an internationally recognised and acclaimed quality recording brand and has put Australian musicians on the map in Europe, America and increasingly in Asia. It is irreplaceable. It used to be that the only Australian musicians who were recognised abroad were those who lived in Europe. Those who stayed in Australia remained anonymous overseas.

Let's see what happens if we substitute one name for another, shall we?

Eddy Current Suppression Ring is an internationally recognised and acclaimed quality recording brand and has put Australian musicians on the map in Europe, America and increasingly in Asia. It is irreplaceable. It used to be that the only Australian musicians who were recognised abroad were those who lived in Europe. Those who stayed in Australia remained anonymous overseas.

Right.

Get fucked.

The animal in the illustration is clearly a member of the chimpanzee family.

Chimpanzees are apes.

'Ape' is not synonymous with 'monkey'.

Fix this shit.

ruthlessly efficient at quality control

Obviously a new position, then.

I appear to be turning into MissAustralia2003. Probably better than turning into Peter, which is what happened last time I logged in more than once in a month.

Delete this forum, etc.

Robert Wyatt hasn't performed live since the 70s. I did see a tribute show that featured Annie Whitehead and Phil Manzanera in London in 1999. Robert Wyatt was there but only to watch the show and do a signing afterwards.

I was under the impression he was touring his new album. I'm not especially a fan, so wasn't watching closely, so that could be wrong.

I'm sure we can blame Brous for this fact somehow.

Shame on you, Brous!

Exactly! And how about some guitarists?

Nah, fuck those guys.

Like Hermeto Pascoal? He played in Melbourne last week... did any of you guys go?

Too broke after going to the Adelaide Festival to listen to the avant-garde stylings of Ennio Morricone vs Musique Conrete of the airport and supercars. And the Psychic TV Pink Floyd Hawkwind Revival Machine.