Interviews

Stephen Cummings Finds “Joy” in the Songs That Shaped Him For almost five decades Stephen Cummings has been revered as one of Australia’s greatest songwriters and singers. Why the former

Sparks Are Still Chasing the Future By Sean Sennett  There are legacy acts who carefully preserve their past, and then there’s Sparks — a band still driven by curiosity, experimentation

ARC has built a strong second life out of pulling classic albums apart and putting them back together onstage. This year the Australian Rock Collective — Kram (Spiderbait), Darren Middleton

Stewart Copeland: Banging the World Into Shape Stewart Copeland has never lacked an origin story. Born into a world of geopolitics and espionage—his father a CIA operative, his mother analysing

In March 2027, international pop icon Belinda Carlisle will take one last victory lap around Australia, saluting four decades of hits on her aptly titled G’day & Goodbye Tour. One

Still Playing with Fire: Harry Vanda Lights the Fuse Again By Sean Sennett You’re never too old or too young to release your debut single. Just ask Harry Vanda. At

Ross Wilson is on a roll. The singer/songwriter is staking a claim for being the hardest working man in Australian showbiz. His current ’50 Years of Hits’ tour will see

Deborah Conway is known to a generation or two as one of Australia’s finest solo artists and singer songwriters. Starting out, Conway earned her indie-cred fronting Do-Re-Mi in the 1980’s.

It’s mid-afternoon in the Queen Street Mall and Kasey Chambers is backstage strumming her acoustic guitar. In half an hour she’ll play a short set to the assembled masses and

Steve Kilbey likes to swim. The Church frontman does a lot of thinking in the water. He’s been known to compile an album’s worth of lyrics over a few days

It’s mid-winter in Manhattan. Graham Nash is settling into a chat on Zoom and thinking about his setlist for his upcoming Australian tour. The man with an accent that slips

Almost sixty years ago Englebert Humperdinck enjoyed the biggest hit of his career with a grand tearjerker of a ballad called ‘Release Me’. In 1967 it hit #1 in eleven

  James Reyne continues to cement his spot as Australia’s hardest working man in show business. In recent years Reyne has been permanently ‘on tour’. And why wouldn’t he be?

KISS have arrived in Australia for their final tour. We’d had a dig through the Time Off archive and found some gems. KISS were no strangers to the Time Off

Nirvana bang the drum On the 27th January 1992, Nirvana played Brisbane’s Festival Hall, a day after a performance at Fisherman’s Wharf on the Gold Coast and just sixteen days

The late – great – Meat Loaf passed away this week. We rummaged through our vaults and found this classic interview done with Meat Loaf by Andrew Stafford. The interview

THE ROLLING STONES by Angela Pulvirenti The Stones have a history of rehearsing their world tours in Toronto; there’s an urban myth that the affinity was born out of Keith

Garbage have announced the details of their 20th anniversary reissue of the band’s third studio album, Beautiful Garbage. The reissue will be released on October 1st, exactly 20 years after

David Bridie’s classic Act Of Free Choice has just turned twenty-one. Here’s an interview with David from our archives, republished to celebrate a significant birthday. For the past 16 years,

In 1990 five blokes from Newcastle called The Screaming Jets took the Aussie music scene by the scruff of the neck and gave a red hot shake. Before they had

For the best part of two decades, Roz Pappalardo has been shaking things up, challenging perceptions and forging her own direction through the music landscape. There have been rock records, folk

BOB HAWKE at Woodford by Sean Sennett Hidden in the trees on the outskirts of the Woodford Folk Festival is a battalion of ancient caravans that house longtime volunteers and friends who

It’s been a busy year for Bruce Springsteen. The highpoint was the opening of his Springsteen On Broadway show – which has had its’ season extended though to June 2018.

One of the highlights of the current Lavazza Italian Film Festival is the Gianni Amelio directed, Le Tenerezza (Tenderness). One of the stars of the film is the festival’s ambassador,

Pretty much every night on his recent Australian tour Bruce Springsteen would introduce the guitarist on his right as ‘the great Nils Lofgren’. It’s a fitting description for a man

When it comes to being the ‘King of Pop’ many are called, but few are chosen. By 1978 the title belonged to John Paul Young. JPY had a terrific run

Punk. New Romantic. Sonic pioneer. Midge Ure has worn a lot of hats over the last forty years. He came to international prominence with his band Ultravox. He also co-wrote

Midge Ure had enjoyed the trappings of pop music success in the 1980’s through bands like Visage and Ultravox, then a phone call changed his life. Bob Geldof asked Midge

Tim Finn earned his stripes as the front man and co-founder of the legendary Split Enz. When the band did indeed split, Finn released a formidable body of solo albums.

  Bruce Springsteen the E Street Band are in rehearsal mode. They’re on stage in the virtually empty Perth Arena when the side doors open and twenty-odd journalists from a

“Nick is navigating a completely new world,” says Andrew Dominik of his friend Nick Cave. That world began eighteen months ago when Cave’s teenage son Arthur fell to his death.