22 Dreams

Our illustrious editor and SSA stalwart Gavin Fitzgerald has come out with ‘ Another ’.   Another what?   Another album, named, ‘Another’!   ‘Another’ follows on from his debut solo album ‘ Just ’ of 2008, the album that broke away from many years of playing and recording with his band, Velvet Road. ‘Just’ and ‘Another’ are in many ways a complementary pair of albums, not unlike the two Syd Barrett solo albums recorded after Barrett’s absconsion from Pink Floyd in the late 1960s.   Compared to ‘Just’, ‘Another’ is stylistically more varied, and introduces to the mix a wider variety of guest musicians.   On ‘Another’, James Englund makes a special guest star appearance on saxophone for a couple of tracks.    Ross plays bass on most of the 16 tracks, with Marc Mittag playing bass on four songs and Gav on one.   Backing vocals were shared by Megan Albany and Ross, who also adds some ukulele to one track.   Peter Thompson adds djemb...

Malcolm Turnbull is the re-Constituted Andrew Peacock of our generation of asper-ant Aussies.  Malcolm's a hell of a lot smarter than Andrew.  He's quick-witted, illumined, and not at all unlikable.  But he shares that same insouciant smarmy Liberal-ness of Peacock, albeit in a Sydney Point Piper kind of way, compared with Andrew's Melbourne Toorak-ness.  Malcolm is also monumentally narcissistic.  His narcissism is better-contained than Andrew's because he's so much more intelligent and channels his emperor tendencies into work and occupational achievement.  Peacock was a fop by comparison who could never rise above the criticisms foisted on him by the Labor opposition and by his own party (including his biggest enemy, little johnny howard). Turnbull the name is a somewhat imperious one.  Even his head is shaped like some post-AD Roman emperor.  His brand of narcissism is shared with Bob Hawke's, who Paul Keating compared hi...