Warwick Mcfadyen
Love, love me loo? Hey, you've got to hide your lav away
Warwick McFadyen An artist's tools are legitimate objects of desire, but where's the fascination in the apparatus used to dispose of an artist's stools?
A poetic voice from Victorian England on women and power
Warwick McFadyen Whimsical musings on the people and themes in the federal election lead to an elusive fable written nearly 150 years ago.
When the sofa of stupor calls, it's time to put down that iPad
Warwick McFadyen Ennui has had a bad rap over the years, but there's much to be said for turning off the gizmos and listening to your cogs whirring.
There's the boss. And there's The Boss
Warwick McFadyen Now that the blood has dried on the executioner's floor and the new prime minister has slightly recast her team it's time to visit an issue of utmost importance to the nation.
Music in translation
Warwick McFadyen In the days that Australia has reshaped its political landscape, this writer has been listening to an album that reshapes how he thinks about music.
The power of music to sustain the spirit
Warwick McFadyen Few songs take their title from that of a historical event, the occasional mining disaster aside.
Rock opera formula: keep it simple - and loud
Warwick McFadyen They started out on punk street and ended up on Broadway. Green Day, the power trio from California, basked in the lights of the latter this week when the musical of their rock opera, American Idiot,...
Something revisited this way comes, as a first love is undone
Warwick McFadyen You know the tide has turned when beloved books of the past are no longer the bewitching page-turners that animated a childhood.
The (unsung) voice of the people
Warwick McFadyen Lena Meyer-Landrut, 19, won the lottery of pop at the weekend — Eurovision. Lena is German, and the Germans are going crazy with delight. It's the country's second win (the first was in 1982).
Dio stayed true to Peter Pan's parallel universe
Warwick McFadyen Many of his most memorable songs revolved around the struggle between good and evil, including his signature tune Heaven And Hell.
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Warwick McFadyen It was a dark and stormy night, and there was a fly in the ointment. It was sink or swim, I thought. Now or never. I could grasp the nettle with both hands or I could cry over spilt milk later.
Working families of Australia arise
Warwick McFadyen Some phrases make you angry, some make you cringe and some make you despair. But some make you what you are not. Thank you Kevin Rudd.
Joni’s Ballad in Plain Dumb
Warwick McFadyen Joni, Joni, Joni. If you are going to bash Bob Dylan at least use a heavy hammer, one with some weight in it. And swing from the shoulders and rotate through the curve.
Grains of universal truth are made real with sands of time
Warwick McFadyen The Ukrainian version of You've Got Talent is one of the unlikeliest places to find the truth of Anzac Day.
This Twain keeps on rolling
Warwick McFadyen The news of Mark Twain's death may have been greatly, and famously, exaggerated, but come Wednesday, April 21, the news of his death will be that it was 100 years ago that day.
Rebuilding the Wall
Warwick McFadyen Roger Waters is to bring his child out into the light. Now an adult, Waters’ creation — its meaning, definition and bearing — casts a different shape and, to him, throws off more varied shadows than...
It's time to stop stewing over the four Swedes
Warwick McFadyen Yes, I was wrong. All those years ago, I made a decision that I thought was irrefutable, unarguable, without weakness. Yes, dear reader, I thought Abba were rubbish.
What a suite suite success
Warwick McFadyen In a ruling in the High Court late last week, Sir Andrew Morritt found for Pink Floyd in the band’s battle against record company EMI over the selling online of individual tracks from their albums.
Money, money, money
Warwick McFadyen Money, it's a gas Grab that cash with both hands And make a stash New car, caviar, four-star day dream Think I'll buy me a football team Money, it's a hit . . . It surely is, Pink, it surely is.
Attack of the killer mutant bees
Warwick McFadyen How many albums do you have stored away gathering the dust of neglect? It's not so much that they're unloved, just forgotten, and lost in the flood of new material.
