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Bernard Zuel
@bernardzuel.bsky.social
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Writer & critic (SMH, Guardian, Rhythms & everything found at bernardzuel.net) teacher (Sydney University), podcaster, host/facilitator (anywhere you want me), media trainer (you talk, I help). Opinions definitely are those of my employer - moi.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 8h
$10 says he’ll sue them. They’ll probably pay up too.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 15h
Beautiful, sorta? Ryan Adams shows weren't always (or not only) a wreck you know. Maudlin & pure in its first half, messier, rockier, patchier in its second, but somehow still a gig worth seeing. That's how WindBackWednesday found him a few tours back. Now? Hmm.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 16h
Yep
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 20h
He can do almost anything really well, including self-sabotage.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 20h
The Man. On another road now. #morningpop #dangelo #voodoo
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 20h
Having blazed a trail of woe-is-me on this debacle of an Australian tour, Ryan Adams appears in WindBackWednesday to remind us of his 2nd tour here, when he was just contrary, patchy & brilliant at times instead of an indulgent tool & worse at times.
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COME PICK ME UP SAYS RYAN ADAMS, I’M GOING TO WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
As the detritus, such as what is left of Ryan Adams’ reputation, washes up from one of the most disastrous tours of Australia in recent times, complete with walkouts, abuse, meltdowns, threats never t...
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 1d
"This isn’t loss but it isn’t not loss; undoubted happiness blended with creeping sadness; not the end of the world but it matters. The French have a word for it, the Germans undoubtedly a longer one, but in some way or other Peter Milton Walsh would capture it."
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 1d
Well the one was the other, but the other one was taller. #morningpop #tuesdayvinyl #edkuepper #blackticketday
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 1d
Now time has proved I’m churlish and I’m rude and I find a real contentment in bad mood. And because it’s all true, there’s nothing to do. #morningpop #tuesdayvinyl #edkuepper #honeysteelsgold
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 1d
Friends who formed you then, absences that shape you now, a path between joy, hurt & need in songs "made for nights & only nights" that flower in the day as "every feeling has the corrugated texture of truth".
Taking stock of new music from The Apartments.
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THE APARTMENTS – THAT’S WHAT THE MUSIC IS FOR: REVIEW
THE APARTMENTSThat’s What The Music Is For (Talitares) “It's a casino life, but we led it anyway.”THIS PAST WEEK A FRIEND of mine braced herself for her daughter moving out of the family home the two ...
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 2d
New playlist is here. Has bits of Loretta Miller, The Apartments & Bob Vylan; Robyn Hitchcock, Allman Brothers Band & Dolly Mixture; Siouxsie+The Banshees, Peter Yorn & Bel Air Lip Bombs; The Move, Warmer & Cowboy Junkies; The Church, The Lovin Spoonful +12 more.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 2d
No phones till Friday. Far from the overkill, far from the overload. (If only Joni, if only.) #morningpop #jonimitchell #nightridehome
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 2d
Who's in this week's playlist? Have Ronnie Spector, Girlschool & Curtis Harding, with The Last Dinner Party, Emma Swift & The Valentinos; or Johnny Delaware, Tony Bennett+Bill Evans & Tristen with The Knack, Tune-yards & These New South Whales, with 14 more.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 2d
Study war no more, lay down your arms. (If only Joni, if only.) #morningpop #mondayvinyl #jonimitchell #chalkmarkinarainstorm
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 3d
Not everyone can write like you do. Not every clown can be in the circus. #morningpop #theapartments #alifefulloffarewells
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 3d
If I could, I’d put some blue sky in your head. #morningpop #theapartments #inandoutofthelight
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 4d
Makes sense, I chose it for a reason. #morningpop #blackbirdsfc #desirelines
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 4d
Same year as Watertown. Kindred spirits? #morningpop #saturdayvinyl #kriskristofferson #kristoffersen
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 4d
Gorgeous sunny spring Saturday, so naturally one asks, make me cry Uncle Frank. #morningpop #franksinatra #watertown
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 4d
Saturday read (& listen) #2. Switch on this playlist, with its Curtis Harding, Maxwell & Three Degrees with Dry Cleaning, Meg Mac & Kinks, its Lighthouse Keepers, Neko Case & Loaded Honey with Mary J Blige, Tristen & Cardigans, & then Commodores, Carlita & Warmer.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 4d
Saturday read #1. Make time for Harry Vanda. While you gear up to listen to a podcast tracing his career/Australian music since the early '60s (& you should), & a new song from his pen+guitar, WindBackWednesday dips in to a time when the devil was inside.
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HARRY VANDA LETS THE DEVIL LOOSE IN WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
One of the giants of Australian music, Harry Vanda, is old enough to know better than to release music these days. Not just because it’s a different world from when he was writing some of the biggest ...
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 5d
It's touch David, it's touch, NOT TACKLE!!!
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 5d
It’s at times such as this she’d be tempted to spit if she wasn’t so ladylike. #morningpop #elviscostello #allthisuselessbeauty
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 5d
Perfectly normal dictatorship.
Nothing to see here.
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BREAKING New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by the US Department of Justice.
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 5d
We must remember to be more careful this time. #morningpop #ronsexsmith #hangoverterrace