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Martha and the Muffins

I wasn’t expecting to be talking to Martha and the Muffins in 2010. Like just about everyone else in the western world I was enchanted by their huge hit from 1980 Echo Beach and I was aware that they had continued to be an important recording act in various parts of the world although never again reaching the commercial heights of that iconic song. They went on to record seven albums and in Canada... Read the full story

The Dingoes

Australian band The Dingoes do actually fit the meaning of the word “legendary”. Not only because they were a great band- which they were – but because in the thirty-one years since their last album they have managed to get on with their lives and let their music, all three albums, pretty much speak for themselves. Not that they have been absent from music, far from it. Broderick... Read the full story

Models’ Sean Kelly Interview

I must have seen Models about 50 times in my early gig going days and rarely did they disappoint. In recent years there has been a couple of revisitations of  Models legacy and they haven’t always been fulfilling. But in 2010 Sean Kelly has got the band back together and this time it’s the line-up that long time fans have wanted to see. Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Mark Ferrie and Barton Price... Read the full story

Ross Wilson Interview

Ross Wilson is back with anew single and album both titled I Come In Peace. It’s already being acclaimed as a work as good as anything he’s done in his storied career and it marks the beginning of yet another decade of cool for one of Australia’s rock n’ roll treasures. The album was recorded in Nashville last year, produced by Mark Moffatt and features a crack band of Nashville’s finest. HHMM:... Read the full story

Luka Bloom

Luka Bloom is one of Australia’s favorite Irishman. Fortunately the feeling is mutual. The singer- songwriter has been returning to our shores on a regular basis since 1992 and his shows are always a treat. Bloom has just released a new album, Dreams In America and it finds him re-interpreting songs from his catalogue in a acoustic and intimate way. It’s more interesting than simply a greatest... Read the full story

Hope Sandoval Speaks…sort of

Well I was warned that it wouldn’t be easy! A quick phone interview with Hope Sandoval and Colm O’Ciossag had been arranged in anticipation of their tour later this month. I’d been warned that Hope was very shy and that Colm would do most of the talking, which was fine – they are after all collaborators and Colm himself is an interesting musician being a member of My Bloody Valentine. What... Read the full story

Hoodoo Gurus

Hoodoo Gurus are back with a new album Purity Of Essence and a tour that’s taking them around the country. It’s another milestone in a career that seems to be destined to outlast most of their contemporaries and quite a few of those that trod the path the Gurus made. The always happy Brad Shepard has the last laugh HHMM : Well congratulations on Purity of Essence. How do you think it fits in the... Read the full story

James Reyne Channelling Elvis

James Reyne this week released his latest album TCB, a collection of covers of songs made famous (and some less famous) by Elvis Presley. It is an album that could have gone quite wrong (in which case we probably wouldn’t have heard it) but it didn’t. rather than try and imitate Elvis, something that no-one should do except in an ironic way, Reyne has decided just to sing the songs and try to distill... Read the full story

Chris Spedding –

If you did a survey where music fans were asked to to name the most influential bands in the history of contemporary music, The Beatles, Cream, Roxy Music, the Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols and The Who would be on a lot of people’s lists. If you asked guitarist Chris Spedding to mention some of the artists with whom he has shared the studio or the stage he could reel of the names of members... Read the full story

Colin Hay in Conversation

It’s kind of strange to think that the writer of one of the most iconic Australian songs is in fact as Scotsman who has lived in California for the last twenty years. But its true and we just have to deal with that. The song of course is Down Under and its writer is Colin Hay. And while that song has been the subject of some controversy lately it’s not the most interesting thing about Colin... Read the full story

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