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There’s an instant logistical problem to lunching with ABC Radio Sydney veteran James Valentine: he’s been unfamiliar with the concept for nearly 25 years, ever since he first started hosting the afternoon slot - 12.30pm to 3.30pm daily − on what was then called 2BL.
“No one’s interviewed me for years”; ABC Radio Sydney broadcaster James Valentine.
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“We used to eat lunch, before digital stations,” Valentine, 59, recalls wistfully. “When the cricket was on, we wouldn’t be required − unless it started raining in Adelaide. But now we stay on a digital station, even when the cricket’s on. I haven’t had lunch for a very long time.”
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MICHAEL SOLOMON GUDINSKI: 1952-2021
By 1974, the yardstick for album sales by a local act in this country was the 60,00O or so achieved by the first Daddy Cool effort three years before. Nobody was presuming that it could go much higher. Apart, that is, from Michael Gudinski.
At the age of 22, this powerhouse of Russian Jewish descent, an alumni of Mt Scopus College and a former teenage dance promoter and band roadie, had established in 1970 the Consolidated Rock artist agency with Michael Browning (who would become the first AC/DC manager), the pair later founding the short-lived music magazine
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AUSTRALIAN MADE â â â ½
Documentaries on music festivals capture a moment in time, but our perceptions of that snapshot keep changing: relevance becomes a revival, urgency a memorial. First released in 1987,
Australian Made depicts the series of outdoor gigs that played the countryâs six state capitals between December 26, 1986 (Hobart) and January 26, 1987 (Sydney).
The day-long bill featured INXS, Jimmy Barnes, The Divinyls, The Models, and more. Many of the acts were at their peak, yet most would be eclipsed, whether in prominence or purpose, within five years by the advent of alternative rock.
Jimmy Barnes and Michael Hutchence on stage in Richard Lowenstein s documentary Australian Made.