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    "THUMP 2020"
    Perdition + The Toss + Fear and Loathing
    + Chainsaw Preachers + Lumpsucker
    + The Rip Offs + Surfer Rosa
    The Gov, Adelaide
    Saturday, September 26, 2020

    It's probably bad for me, but lately I've been thinking a bit. 

    Mostly about the continuous nature of rock'n'roll. Sure, the stupidvirus has thrown a spanner in the works, but spanners were surely forged with the express intent of being chucked into the smooth-running of rock'n'roll. 

    I put on Little Richard's very first album (on CD) as I drive toward Port Adelaide; I realise that his extraordinarily-controlled shrieks and vocalising are the origin of so much we hold dear, from the Beatles to the Stones to Smokin' Bones to  whatever new shit you just heard.