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And To Think Some People Complain About Australian Commercial Radio!

9:30AM Jess McGuire | Ladies and gentlemen, here are the songs that were flogged to death on the wireless during the last financial year, according to the adorable sounding Phonographic Performance Company Of Australia, a group I like to imagine is run by a guy who looks like this. Anyway. Let’s see what was rockin’ our radios during the 07/08 financial year, yo! More »

Bernard Fanning And Daniel Johns Talk All Things Music

3:25PM Jess McGuire | They’ll be tour buddies soon enough, but for now Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns and Powderfinger head honcho Bernard Fanning are content to just sit down and shoot the shit with Paddy Donovan from The Age. Johns wears army pants, an emerald-green suit coat over a white T-shirt, a pink scarf and black Blundstones. His eyes are smeared with blue-green eye shadow, his chin adorned with a manicured goatee. Note that Donovan manages to avoid using the word “bloodshot” in the above description, and resists the temptation to point out the bottle of Murine, the Mount Franklin bottle with a piece of garden hose jutting out of it, and the Midnight Oil album all clearly visible in Johns’ backpack. This is called journalism, people! WE KID, LAWYERS! More »