being a good Sport about it.
I'm overwhelmed by incredulity. The EG is celebrating its 21st birthday.
It can't be so. How time flies when you are self-employed and living on your wits. The editor invited me to say something simple and meaningful about this august event, presumably because of my longevity as a musician.
Obviously, I was flattered; artists are needy and like to feel wanted. What follows are my remembrances. I can't vouch for their accuracy; 30 years standing airports blurs the brain.
From memory, the raw material of the section was a succession of lists of happenings in the city, everything from flower shows to fetes to movies, craft markets and a couple of pages of features on music, theatre and related arts.
fanatic, Guilliatt championed edgy music in the paper. I recall him hands and demanding that I play it immediately - evidently, it was life-changing, according to Richard.
A succession of fellow music buffs followed, including the likes of Richard Plunkett, Shaun Carney, Thomas Taylor, Andrew Masterson, Jo Roberts, Patrick Donovan and Everett True - do you remember him? His style was a little condescending. Admittedly, he did introduce newspaper.
OK. So, each of these journalists had a distinctive barrow to push and was quick to spot a trend.
The EG was hip and cool and, by inference, its readers were hip and cool too.
(OK, OK. I am lying!) The mid-1980s were the golden years of the magazine boom.
There was the Face, Smash Hits and The NME and a hundred others, and the the aforementioned crew. Cultural critics rapidly became one of the fashionable things to be. Philippa Hawker's contributions to this career for the readers.
For musicians and artists the paper filled a need, providing gig, film, comedy and theatre listings, and it was the listings that became an essential tool and ritual for Melburnians. They guide.
Today, everything that's ever been or about to happen is instantly available via your computer or mobile phone, but 20 years ago this wasn't the case.
The arrival of EG provided a boost to the In the pursuit of magnificence, there have been a few slip-ups. increase sales of the newspaper. This proved to be something of a waste of time.
a new Beatles album, Dolls House. Inside, the real story there were to be a new Beatles album, what it might sound like. John Lennon came out of it extremely well.
Over the 21 years that EG has existed, I have been on the cover once. One, as we know is the loneliest number.
comfortable groove, primarily dealing with film and music.
All styles and genres are covered. There are more stories and talking about write the album and film reviews. As a habitual fete attendee, I'm happy to report that the lists are intact.
For inexplicable reasons, the Naked Man cartoon still gets a run.
What more can I say, but wish the contributors and editors past and present a happy 21st.
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