Barnaby Smith
@abarnabyms.bsky.social
Writing about music, literature, art and cinema. Sometimes poems. 33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-houses-together-alone-9798765105153/. Album released in 2020: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/itch-factor
Very sad to hear about Sam Neill. His documentary about New Zealand cinema is wonderful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtj... And his performance in Possession (1981) is spectacular, in that brilliantly bizarre film.
Sam Neill on 'New Zealand Cinema'
YouTube video by filmSCHOOLarchive
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Many thanks to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for publishing this poem.
Amsterdam Review@amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo."It takes a short afternoon / to drown with you in decades of / superstitious junk" A poem by 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 @abarnabyms.bsky.social in the Spring issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity
Happy birthday Neil Finn. Thank you for making Together Alone. www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-h...
Crowded House's Together Alone
Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…
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A new Brigadoon album is forthcoming: Everyone & No One is out July 3, with a small run of CDs available via Bandcamp come release. A "single", if you can call it that, is out now: "Maya Sleeps & Dreams": Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/45q96p... Bandcamp: brigadoon.bandcamp.com/track/maya-s...
Maya Sleeps & Dreams, by Brigadoon
track by Brigadoon
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Poem in the new issue of Cordite, with thanks to editor Emilie Collyer: cordite.org.au/poetry/fit/a...
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1 the hovering phone tower whirr finds aliens nightly over the antipodes, coded as cinema & fighting for clicks 2 there is no direction, direction is not. the highway weighs on the mind: freedo…
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Saw Bob Weir's Ratdog for the first and only time at the final version of the tiny festival Canterbury Fayre in Kent in 2003, also on the bill: Arthur Lee and Love, Incredible String Band (Mike H and friends), Roy Harper, Robert Plant, Alasdair Roberts, Buzzcocks. RIP.
Thanks to @dougwallen.bsky.social for this generous piece for Broadsheet about the Together Alone book: www.broadsheet.com.au/national/ent...
Crowded House’s Moodiest Album Is the Subject of a New Book
Blending elements of scholarship, criticism and travelogue, Crowded House’s Together Alone is a fresh look at one of Australia’s most beloved bands.
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Restored version of the video for "Sweet Dreams", a Judd original from Split Enz. An opus that never fails to dazzle me ("seldom wrong but never correct"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cR...
Split Enz - Sweet Dreams (Official Video)
YouTube video by Split Enz
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Sad about a musician again. This demo version of 'Africa' by D'Angelo is just marvellous: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmm...
D'Angelo - Africa (Acoustic outtake)
YouTube video by Wry Fawkes
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All things must pass: on Penrith's NRL reign being over, for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...
Penrith’s long NRL reign is over. Even as a Panthers fan, I feel a little relieved | Barnaby Smith
The success was dazzling but it became almost awkward. We can now celebrate the achievements and see another team lift the trophy
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RIP Danny Thompson, a kind and lovely man and an unparalleled musician. Fond memory of spending two hours interviewing him about his work with Tim Buckley in a Cafe Nero in Rickmansworth in 2009.
Two poems, 'hearing things' and 'Tangiers rumbles', just published by Pamenar Press, with thanks to the editors: www.pamenarpress.com/post/barnaby... @pamenarpress.bsky.social
Barnaby Smith
Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician living on Darug and Gundungurra land in New South Wales, Australia. Recent work has appeared in journals or anthologies such as Stand, Blackbox...
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"I've been to a town, Del". My favourite Redford film: Jeremiah Johnson (1972). clip.cafe/jeremiah-joh...
Neil Finn signed my 33 1/3 book on Together Alone yesterday, bless him (with thanks to my sister who accosted him with it at the Infinity Sessions gig at Roundhead Studios in Auckland). @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @crowdedhouse.com
Here is an essay I wrote for the journal Axon: Creative Explorations, on music, memory, biography and writing, based on Robyn Hitchcock's 2024 memoir 1967: axonjournal.com.au/issues/15-1/...
I often dream of songs - Axon Journal
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I can't bring myself to listen to it but was on The Music Show this morning (20/7/25) talking about the Together Alone book: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Together Alone with Crowded House and talking About Ghosts with Mary Halvorson - ABC listen
Brooklyn-based jazz guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson has released a new album About Ghosts. Featuring her long-time improvisatory band Amaryllis, this time she’s also added two saxophonists into ...
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A new book out about Crowded House Together Alone 🎶🎶 It's available internationally Credit to Frenz Forum for this I wouldn't know about it otherwise 👍🎶 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/crowded-h...
Crowded House's Together Alone
Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…
bloomsbury.com
My 33 1/3 on Together Alone is published today in Australia and New Zealand: www.bloomsbury.com/au/crowded-h...
Crowded House's Together Alone
Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Au…
bloomsbury.com
Been fearing waking up to this news for some time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X76e...
Our Prayer (Remastered 2001)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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Did an interview with Happy Mag about my 33 1/3 book on Crowded House's Together Alone, which is out this week in the UK and US, and still a month away in Australia and NZ. With thanks to the editors: happymag.tv/barnaby-smit...
At the Edge of the World with Barnaby Smith: Inside the Landscape and Legacy of Crowded House’s 'Together Alone'
Barnaby Smith’s deep-dive into Together Alone by Crowded House’s is an exploration of how music and place can become profoundly inseparable.
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Poem in the recent issue of Stirring, 'Adolescence', with thanks to editors: www.stirringlit.com/vol-27-ed-2-...
Vol. 27 Ed. 2 -P- Adolescence by Barnaby Smith — Stirring: A Literary Collection
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Review of Ashley Haywood's quite stunning debut collection Polyp, for Plumwood Mountain: plumwoodmountain.com/book-review/... With thanks to editor Amanda Lucas-Frith.
Polyp (Vagabond Press) - Plumwood Mountain
About a quarter of the way through Ashley Haywood’s Polyp, a poem arrives that provides decisive illumination and clarity regarding the philosophical, ecological and existential questions, and sheer e...
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You can't celebrate Richard Chamberlain without mentioning The Slipper and the Rose: youtu.be/HKPjyZWr6OQ?...
What a Comforting Thing to Know
YouTube video by slipperandtherose
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Interview with influential Queensland photographer Glen O'Malley for Art Guide Australia: artguide.com.au/windows-to-t...
Windows to the world: a conversation with Glen O’Malley
Queenslander Glen O’Malley stands as a key figure among a generation of photographers who depicted the domestic lives of Australians in the 1970s and 1980s. In an interview with Barnaby Smith, he disc...
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Poem in the new 'Space' issue of Cordite: 'night falls over Yarramundi': cordite.org.au/poetry/space...
night falls over Yarramundi
i can see it now when the roads stiffen on descent to overlook swathes of apparently empty planet the air here is sharply breathed, where the city skyline changes shape & colour to pose new que…
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My review of A Complete Unknown for Australian Book Review. All hail the mumble: www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/...
'Electric emperor: When Bob Dylan did a Napoleon' by Barnaby Smith
he famous backlash against Bob Dylan’s switch to playing electric music in the mid-1960s is often misunderstood. It was not an objection based on musical aesthetics. Folk purists, such as the audience...
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Poem in the new issue of Ballast (@ballastjournal.bsky.social), with thanks to editors: www.ballastjournal.com/barnaby-smith & a small piece found its way into the Best Australian Poems 2024 volume: newsouthbooks.com.au/books/best-o...
Barnaby Smith — ballast
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Some poems in the new issue of Tentacular, with thanks to the editors. Nice to be among some accomplished names: www.tentacularmag.com/issue-11-c/b...
Barnaby Smith — Tentacular
Three Poems
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A few poems for the recent Issue 6 of @rangermagazine.bsky.social : www.rangermagazine.net/smith_issue6
Ranger magazine
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