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Good To See The Courier Mail Are On The Pulse
9:33AM Clem Bastow | Last week we alerted you to Everett True’s Guardian-enabled whining about how much Australia’s music press sucks and blah blah Silverchair blah, and you reacted accordingly (”I’m surprised he’s still kicking” – Born D). Well, the trickle down effect has finally made it to the offices of the Courier Mail some five days later, where all sorts of outrage and indignation is being thrown about:
Queensland’s music press has hit back, with one editor of a local music newspaper dismissing the British music guru as “irrelevent”.
“It’s a really poor piece of journalism from a music writer who once had relevance and influence, but now he’s living in Australia, he doesn’t really have the knowledge or experience of the local industry to back up his opinions,” said the industry source.
More » The Australian Local Music Press
1:41PM Jess McGuire | My beloved chum Dave the Scot alerted me to this astoundingly rubbish assessment of the Australian music press, as penned for The Guardian by UK rock critic Everett True who has moved to Brisbane and found himself bitterly disappointed by the local street press. Now, I’m not saying we have the greatest music rags in the world, but the following opening paragraph is just complete shit.
Australians don’t have much respect for the music press – it runs counter to their culture. Australian rock is all about “Good on ya, mate – well done for getting up on stage and switching that amplifier on”. The idea of anyone actually daring to criticise musicians for the sound they make is almost heresy. Everyone is treated equally, which means no knocking anyone back, however great the temptation. (That’ll be why Australian rock is best known to the outside world for such musical abominations as Silverchair, the Vines and Savage Garden.) Sport is the predominant culture here, and music is similarly viewed as a leisure activity – it’s all about “work rate”, “dedication” and “goals scored”. Unsurprisingly, Australians get the music press they deserve.
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