Past Lives – Backseat Mafia

News: Rob Hirst Tribute 03.09.1955 – 20.01.2026

Australian music fans, and indeed, the world over are mourning the tragic loss of Rob Hirst, the musician best known as the powerhouse drummer of iconic Australian rock band, Midnight…

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Live Review & Gallery: The Victims w/ Chimers and Hellebores, Crowbar Sydney 021223

Before he became a Hoodoo Guru, Dave Faulkner founded seminal Perth punk outfit, The Victims back in 1977 in his hometown of Perth. After over 40 years of on again…

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Obituary: Bill Withers

“It matters not where I come from in relation to the world, as long as the world and I arrive at a common point at a common time”. So say…

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Obituary: David Berman from Purple Mountains/Silver Jews dies.

It was only last month that Backseat Mafia reviewed the great new album from David Berman’s Purple Mountains project, saying it was: a beautiful album from beginning to end –…

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Obituary: Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke dies at 67

And so the so-called classic trio is no more. The last remaining member of iconic heavy metal band Motörhead best known line up, ‘fast’ Eddie Clarke has died, aged 67.…

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Obituary: Tom Petty

Of all the luminaries of pop music that we have lost in the last couple of years, it is the music of Tom Petty which I have had the longest…

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OBITUARY : HOLGER CZUKAY 1938 – 2017

“We completely refuse to make a judgement about what is beautiful and what isn’t. We make something, that’s all, and the scope of possible sounds is immense. We’re not musicians,…

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Past Lives: Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon 1954 – 2017

Tuxedomoon (originally consisting of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger ), were part of the late 70’s San Francisco ‘Freak Scene’, which also included The Residents, Chrome and Flipper. Their underground sound,…

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past lives: George A. Romero, February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017

Film-maker, George A. Romero, died on July 16th, 2017, after a losing a brief aggressive battle with lung cancer. His name is synonymous with the zombie movie, a genre he…

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Past lives: 1959 – 2016. Pete Burns – A Tribute

Liverpool singer Pete Burns died of a heart attack on Sunday. He was 57. I first encountered Pete Burns around 1978. Me and my schoolmates would catch the bus to…

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