2005 Archives You'll see in the archives section above that 2005 is missing. That's some glitch that will hopefully rectify itself eventually. But in the meantime if you want to find my posts from this period they are below:
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In today's Feral, Julia Baird rails against the wowsers who didn't like the, er, "new" version of our national anthem.
But much of the criticism of it wasn't from fusty, crusty old farts who found it too "irreverent". A lot of people (myself included) didn't like it because it was crap.
If anything, the, er, conservative indignation came from the fluffs, who wheeled out all the old gripes about how Australia is stuck in the fifties, can't accept anything new, etc.
But if Clover Moore and Co wanted a musical form that's "young, and free" and now, why choose one that's synonomous with the bloody seventies?
What's slated for next year? Will Human League be asked to do a version?