I miss when you'd just go straight to the bad hold musak, instead of getting the full five minute trauma download from Ms Robot
Andrew Stafford
@andrewstafford.bsky.social
Author (Pig City, Something to Believe In), journalist. Views own. Content: music, wildlife/biodiversity, AFL, cats. patreon.com/andrewstafford
This is a long read - longer than usual for a Graun profile - and I can only assume they let it run on because Mr T is f***ing magnificent interview talent, and because Simon Hattenstone does such a bang-up job. Just wonderful, 💯 recommend. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Neo-right media grifting remains the easiest refuge for deeply mediocre people www.thecarpet.com.au/p/portrait-o...
Portrait of a grifter
The making of Lisa Jane Spencer
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Oo-mow-moo-mow-mow, ooh mow-moo-mow-mow, ooh-mow-moo-mow-mow, ooh-mow-moo-mow-mow #johnnyyoung
It's a profound self-awareness fail when a journalist in the employ of Murdoch accuses a band (Massive Attack, in this case) of distributing propaganda
Six years ago was getting shaved down in a cardiac ward awaiting open heart surgery the next morning. I remember the night before more than the day itself, apart from wheeling into theatre! Anyway, every second is still a second chance ❤️🙏
Glenn A Baker might have looked like a caricature of a music nerd, but he took Australian music seriously when very few others did, and remained a champion of it. We all owe him a debt for that
This is for Jennifer Finch of L7, one of the greatest bands to ever stalk this earth. www.patreon.com/andrewstaffo...
A Song For You: Everglade | Andrew Stafford
How do you measure an artist's influence? By the number of wind-up soundalikes they inspire? The number of cover versions? In this era, by t
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Aussie people: Might be a good idea to pop the bird flu hotline number into your contacts list. Emergency Animal Disease Hotline: 1800 675 888
A review of Even the Good Girls Will Cry, the excellent memoir by ex-Hole/Smashing Pumpkins' bass player Melissa Auf der Maur. I don't push my own page as often as I should, probably, but I'm still churning out my stuff here from as little as US$1/month www.patreon.com/andrewstaffo...
Just Because: Even The Good Girls Will Cry | Andrew Stafford
Put yourself, for a moment, in the shoes of Melissa Auf der Maur. You’re an eager and intelligent young artist, barely into your 20s. You ha
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This is a really good piece by @catrionamp.bsky.social on the state of Australian publishing (I've got stories, none of which I'm sure she hasn't heard) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out
Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately
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"No journalist asked the obvious question of whether she [or Joyce] would be standing for the HoR now One Nation is vying for government ... there is a surprising indifference in the commentariat about this hardly trivial matter" - @frankbongiorno.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/once-a-liber...
Once a Liberal • Frank Bongiorno
Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech provided plenty of ammunition for at least some of her opponents
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This might be the funniest Red Hand File I've read since Nick was asked why Nocturama sucked so bad www.theredhandfiles.com/really-old-r...
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #369 - What’s the worst thing about having become a really old rockstar?
Dear Daffo, This morning I wake feeling great. I’ve had a good night’s sleep, which is rare when you’re on tour. I leap out of bed, fling...
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I can't think of another industry that hands out as many awards to itself as journalism, nor one with a glassier set of jaws
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3mo agoPosted at 1:56pm, got an email at 3:03pm from Jane Norman cancelling my membership of the press gallery
Always a good day when you see one of these, let alone this close
Who remembers this? I took a photo for posterity. It lasted about five minutes, of course. October 2021.
Me (unbylined) on Split Enz. They were magnificent in Wellington. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Split Enz tease new album ahead of first tour in 17 years: ‘We’d make a really good record now’
Always one step ahead, the new wave innovators are not done yet – and their hair is bigger than ever
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The cost of 53 investigations and a defence inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan is being misrepresented as the bill for the probe into Ben Roberts-Smith alone. https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/social-media-claims-misrepresent-cost-of-roberts-smith-investigation/
Social media claims misrepresent cost of Roberts-Smith investigation
The cost of 53 investigations and a defence inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan is being misrepresented as the bill for the probe into Ben Roberts-Smith alone.
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My favourite Australian band of all time. And a brilliant album. "On stage, they could be a mess or transcendent, sometimes in the same show." YES. BackInTheDay wisdom was if they played 2 shows - get to both, bc 1 will end in fisticuffs & stormings-off, 1 will be greatest gig you've ever seen.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 5mo agoDied Pretty’s Doughboy Hollow: can Australia’s most overlooked album finally find the audience it deserves?
In remembrance of this great album and the brilliant Ron Peno, give this a read. And thanks @andrewstafford.bsky.social , there goes my working Monday as instead I lapse into a reverie of DP back catalogue bangers 🖤
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 5mo agoDied Pretty’s Doughboy Hollow: can Australia’s most overlooked album finally find the audience it deserves?
Haha, I enjoyed @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social’s bemused rebuttal of the vitriol aimed inaccurately in his direction by Michael Gawenda
Journalism in decline: a response to Michael Gawenda - Overland literary journal
As the author of a jeremiad about media ethics, Gawenda must, at some stage, have stumbled across point twelve in the MEAA code. It reads: “do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors”. I awai...
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Ch9 morning tv nailing the significance and sombre remembrance of Anzac Day: crossing from a live piece at Canberra’s war memorial straight to a real estate talking head spruiking astronomic property prices on Sydney’s north shore. Respectfully driving home what Aussie diggers fought and died for 😔
What do I hear when Barbados comes on the radio? That sax break. James Valentine touched people in lots of ways, besides that sweet, comforting voice
I think the main problem with mainstream political journalism these days is the credibility given to clearly preposterous people
It's impressive that so many major outlets are still managing to sanewash what's happening. The linguistic gymnastics are Olympian. It's also sad as hell they're still doing it.