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  • keith claringbold 2025

    GIGS 

    The Schizophonics at the Factory Floor in Sydney
    And no, Craig, I can’t name three songs and it doesn’t matter one iota.

    The Fadeaways at Marrickville Bowlo, Sydney
    Great fun.

    Barry Adamson-Factory Theatre, Sydney.
    It was a looooooong time since I last saw Barry, playing bass for Magazinein 1980. He was great then and is great now.

  • graham steel 2025
    Another busy year in the gig circuit in 2025. Plenty of gigs were attended. Plenty of old and new bands were viewed and enjoyed. It was also a year where seven Newcastle bands took on the domestic and global radio land.

    Over the past six months Drugs in Sport, Melvic Centre, Autumn Hearts, Joint Pains, East Coast Low, Lachlan X. Morris and FÄHM ended up being played by more than 450 syndicated radio stations across 11 countries, including Cambodia and Mexico, with a total of over 2800 plays (that are known!! - most are on a regular rotation now) that consumed over 9000 minutes of airtime and made 32 Top Tens and produced four number-ones.

  •  fahm cvrA –FÄHM(Hiss and Crackle Records)

    The Blues never goes out of style, it just gets bent out of shape. This quintet from Wallsend, a suburb of Australia steel city Newcastle, applies its own stylistic panel beating and the result is a satisfyingly swampy pastiche.

    Assembling members from local bands Howlin’ Rats, The Not Nots, The Outliers and Paper Thin,FÄHM (pronounced “Fam”), mixes up the medicine in some weird and wonderful ways. The bio cites influences like feedtime, Scientists, Xand Beasts of Bourbon. The latter is obvious but for mine it’s the “Safe As Milk” era Captain Beefheartwhose shadow looms largest.