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.
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