New Music: Gold Class – Get Yours
In Australia, the term ‘Gold Class’ is synonymous with an upmarket cinema brand where you can recline in a smaller theatre and be fed morsels as you watch the movie.…
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Arun Kendall
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Writer/ Senior Editor for Backseat Mafia (UK) and Backseat Downunder (Australia and New Zealand). Singer/guitarist/songwriter with Australian band The Hadron Colliders.
Album Review: tunnel traffic – MEESH
Adam Hachey writes under the name tunnel traffic but we’ve met him before playing as part of a band called Meesh – enthusiastically reviewed by Backseat Mafia a few years…
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Track: Anna Of The North – Someone, plus news
Anna Of The North is Anna Lotterud from Norway with Brady Daniell-Smith from New Zealand. They first met in Australia where they began writing together and the diverse geographical influences…
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Track: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – The Punishment of Luxury, plus album news
One of the best synth bands of the eighties, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), are back with a new single and video “The Punishment of Luxury” in anticipation of…
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News: Fazerdaze announce more dates in Europe and Australia
In March, Backseat Mafia waxed lyrical about the astonishingly brilliant album ‘Morningside” from New Zealand’s Fazerdaze (still on high rotation on this writer’s turntable), and the band had a very…
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New Video: Saint Etienne – Magpie Eyes
There is a particular Danish word “hygge’ – pronounced as ‘hooga’ – that best translates into English as “cosiness” or creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in…
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New Track and Tour News: The Church – Another Century
One of Australia’s living legends and Backseat Mafia’s favourite antipodean exports, The Church, have just released their new single “Another Century”. This follows very closely (in relative terms) their much…
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Live: Einstürzende Neubauten – Dark Mofo Festival , Hobart, Tasmania, 17 June 2017
The last time I saw Blixa Bargeld, the lead singer of Einstürzende Neubauten (literal translation “Falling New Buildings), he was moonlighting with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He was…
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Track: Hatchie -Try
A gorgeous portion of shimmering, melancholic summer has just come out of Brisbane, Australia in the form of “Try, the debut single from local Hatchie, the project of Harriette Pilbeam.…
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EP and Interview: Stingy Brim
One of Backseat Mafia’s favourite bands from New Zealand is Modern Chair– a collaboration between two veterans of the NZ music scene, Andrew Thorne and Wayne Bell. Modern Chair can…
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