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Record Reviews

One Step Forward – Retrospective

Review published 2015 in Folk Rag (folkrag.org) One Step Forward, the (mainly) a cappella group of Maree Robertson, Ann Bermingham and John Thompson were a Brisbane based folk ensemble from 1990 to 1995. Focused on powerful three part vocal harmony arrangements of songs both personally and globally polemical and political, they proved that it was possible to be passionate and […]

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Mini Commute to Work Reviews

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Beppe Gambetta & Tony McManus – Round Trip

31 March, 2016 Today's commute to work soundtrack (half the album got me home last night from the gorgeous performance by Tony McManus & Beppe Gambetta at The Danish Cub, Brisbane!!) I've seen Tony in various guises, solo & in duo…
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January 21, 2021
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Mini Reviews

Sadie & Jay – Curious

3 March, 2016 The soundtrack to my commute to work  this week - "Curious" by the extraordinarily talented Sadie & Jay (Sadie Gwynn Jones and David "Jay" Penman). I bought the album after mixing their performance at the first Folk…
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January 20, 2021
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Mini Reviews

Kate Heart (Self-titled EP)

The soundtrack to my commute this morning (5 November, 2015). Kate Heart's eponymous 5 track EP (I got to hear it twice in the 40 minute drive!!) Big drums, jangly guitars (electric & acoustic), lovely songwriting, and a gorgeous voice…
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January 19, 2021
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The Casuarinas - Into The Clearing review
Mini Reviews

The Casuarinas – Into The Clearing

Mini Review by Ian Dearden The soundtrack to my commute to work today - the mini-LP "Into The Clearing" by Brisbane group The Casuarinas. Proudly recorded AAA (multitrack tape, mixed to a master tape, mastered to a lacquer & pressed to…
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Interviews

Glenn Cardier – Trad & Now Interview

August 6, 2017/0 Comments/by Ian Dearden

Interview by Ian Dearden for Trad & Now, Vol. 11 No. 9  When I mentioned to a friend of similar vintage to me that I was about to interview Glenn Cardier, the friends reaction was instantaneous “He’s dead, isn’t he?”. Well I’m here to report that not only are the rumours of Glenn’s demise exaggerated, […]

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Glenn Cardier – Audio Technology Interview

December 19, 2012/0 Comments/by Ian Dearden

Interview by Ian Dearden for Audio Technology magazine Issue #91 (December 2012) Glenn Cardier is a working class lad from Brisbane, who after appearing in Hoadley’s Battle of the Sounds, and on Channel 9’s New Faces, entered into a national songwriting competition on Bandstand. Glenn didn’t win the competition, but he did score a major […]

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