[click on the image for a bigger size!] The Ugly/Sexy Factor: Bon Scott & Fashion Thursday 12 June, 8pm Fly By Night Club, Fremantle. $10 entry This Thursday night, if you’re on the west coast of Australia, there’s no excuse to miss The Ugly Sexy Factor. It’s kinda like a cabaret discussion night thingummy, but… Continue reading The Ugly Sexy Factor
Category: Correspondence
(Not) Peter Russell Clarke
At ABC Radio National, Jasmin, Cecilia and I sat for a radio interview with Amanda Smith. It was broadcast yesterday, and here is a podcast of it! Personally, I don’t think I come across as particularly entertaining in this one. I dunno, maybe all my energy was consumed by the pint-size ocker chef we had… Continue reading (Not) Peter Russell Clarke
Bon Scott Blog Highlights
If you’ve only just tuned in, the Bon Scott Blog might seem a bit overwhelming. Where do you start? How do you find what you’re looking for? Which are the best bits? So I’ve created this here HIGHLIGHTS page to help you navigate your way through the project with ease! A Readers’ Digest version, if… Continue reading Bon Scott Blog Highlights
Bon Bon Media Frenzy!
An article has come out in an Australian art magazine about the Bon Scott Project, which describes my blog pretty well, I reckon: One strand of that conversation has been realised in artist Lucas Ihlein’s popular Bon Scott Blog. Ihlein writes in his introduction, “Lucas was not a fan of AC/DC. You can read about… Continue reading Bon Bon Media Frenzy!
Butt-head Science
By now, “graphical representations of pop songs” like the one above have probably already weaseled their way past your spam filter and into your inbox, together with viagra and fake rolex watches and whatnot. I was sent a half a dozen or so of them from my friend Chris-O, who is obviously spending a few… Continue reading Butt-head Science
Bon’s Web Walk
I’ve got one more story to post from Melbourne – about a trip to visit Bon’s loyal roadie Darcy in the Yarra Valley. It’s just in with the experts for “fact checking” before it goes live, but while we wait, lets think a little about writing technologies, shall we? Bon wrote a shitload of letters.… Continue reading Bon’s Web Walk
Bon Radio Shenanigans…
[Ardent fans pose for a photo by Bec Dagnell in the Billie Weston Pool Hall, Scarborough Beach, WA…] Word just in… tomorrow morning (Tuesday the 11th of March) I’ll be speaking on the JJJ breakfast show about the life and legacy of Bon, his bronze statue, and my own “relationship” with Bon. Rumour has it… Continue reading Bon Radio Shenanigans…
Franck’s Brush with Bon
The imminent erection of the Bon Scott Bronze Statue in Fremantle is drawing fans from around the world. Because of the distance, many international Bon-lovers won’t be able to make it on the 24th of February, but they seem to be following the events from afar with fascination. Franck, a passionate fan from Paris, contacted… Continue reading Franck’s Brush with Bon
Reyes Del Sonido Metalico
(Above: a scan from Hana’s 1983 Mexican Heavy Metal zine…) AC/DC actually can put me in this kind of mood…say if im feeling down or whatever, I can put some of these classic Bon Scott albums on and then I get in that kind of hyperactive mood. Something about it takes me back to being… Continue reading Reyes Del Sonido Metalico
Meeting Clinton Walker
(Clinton Walker looking over the Bon Scott timeline he constructed while writing his book…) It just so happens that one of Bon Scott’s biggest fans lives in Dulwich Hill, only fifteen minutes walk from my house. Last Thursday Katie and I popped around for a cup of tea with him. He took us out to… Continue reading Meeting Clinton Walker