17/12/2022
Tune in on Sunday night at 9:00pm on Lofty 88.9FM or lofty.org.au for this weeks 'Sitting in a Bar in Adelaide'. Michael Pursche's guest is Aussie Rock Journalist royalty Ian McFarlane whose best known publication is the Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop.
Sitting in a Bar in Adelaide
"As a journalist he started in 1984 with Juke, a rock music newspaper. During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide, The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 1976–1980 (1992). He followed with two fanzines, Freedom Train and Prehistoric Sounds, both issued during 1994 to 1996. McFarlane's The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop is described by the Australian Music Guide as "the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards". Subsequently, he was a writer for The Australian and worked for Raven Records, a reissue specialist label, preparing compilations, writing liner notes and providing research. He fulfilled a similar role at Aztec Music from 2004 to March 2012. From July 2013 he has been a contributor to Addicted to Noise, writing a column.
We chat about a couple of Adelaide icons.
In the first hour we look back into all the Adelaide band that contributed to The Little River Band - Alison Gros, Mississippi etc.
In the second hour we take a look at Greasy Pop records, the SA iconic punk rock record label.
Sunday at 9:00 Lofty 88.9FM"
