Productions
Analysis: Does the music industry need to re-evaluate the logistics of organising live music festivals?
By Matt Innes Times have changed, but our approach to organising live music festivals has not. In the desire to return our live music industry to pre-COVID status (worth $3bn), have promoters failed to navigate the dramatically shifting landscape of staging live events in Australia? The question is being raised in the wake of…
Read MoreSWNDFEST 2022 REVIEW
With Michael Kennedy & Kaysha Louvain As festivals all over the world finally emerge from enforced hibernation, MADCAP Global SWND Music’s SWNDFEST took place recently in Wales, bringing a colourful line-up of artists to the music-loving locals of Swansea. MGS Music was approached by a UK/US record label called Sound X 3 who manage LA…
Read MoreFROM THE ARCHIVE: What Was and What Might Have Been – A Lost Interview with Brian Wilson, 1988
Written by Jeremy Gluck (@nonceptualism) and published in What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen, 1988. Read part one here. Introduction by Jeremy Gluck This, the second part of my interview with The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, comprises prime out-takes originally published online by What a Nice Way to Turn Seventeen, a ‘zine edited by…
Read MoreFROM THE ARCHIVE: Brian Wilson – Good & Bad Vibrations, 1988
Welcome, music-loving reader, to the first in a series of long-form features on major artists retrieved from the archives of esteemed music journalist and vocalist for The Barracudas, Jeremy Gluck. Jeremy is the editor of SWND Magazine and a partner-in-crime at SWND Records with a steeped history in the music industry. MADCAP Global SWND (MGS)…
Read MoreBack In The Digital Age: Q&A With Welsh Wildboys Stickman
Words: Mike Kennedy [Guest Writer – Welsh Connections/SWND Records, Director | Oystermouth Radio – Presenter] Grown up and mature. Words that we never thought we’d use when talking about legendary South Wales pop-punk pioneers Stickman – and to be fair it’s a struggle even now! Despite line-up changes and fatherhood, the Llanelli rockers still play…
Read MoreFEATURE: Rock & Roll Queen Suzi Quatro – Seventies To Seventy
Words: Jeremy Gluck Guest Writer (Director, Welsh Connections/SWND Records – Musician – Artist) Coming up comfy in the suburbs of Ottawa – at that time still loveably pocket-sized – at fifteen, haunting the deletion bins of the record stores downtown one day began a strange manifestation. Out of nowhere, usually for 99 cents each –…
Read MoreRitchie Blackmore & Candice Night Discuss Their New Album ‘Nature’s Light’ With Michael Kennedy
Words: Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night with Mike Kennedy Take an escape to nature with ‘Nature’s Light’, the new album from Blackmore’s Night. Blackmore’s Night is the musical pairing of founding Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his wife Candice Night, a talented lyricist and musician. As well as sharing a life together, they also…
Read MoreFEATURE: Mike Kennedy In Conversation With Artist Jeff ‘SKIN’ Williams
Words: Jeff Williams with Mike Kennedy Jeff Williams has been a professional artist for over 40 years, painting many of today’s iconic stars, from the world of entertainment and sport, raising thousands of pounds for charity in the process. We recently caught up with him at his home in Porthcawl to find out when it…
Read MoreIn Memory Of Guitarist Dion Hirini
Words: Matt Innes The music industry is mourning the loss of guitarist Dion Hirini, who passed away unexpectedly last week. Dion had been on tour with Row Jerry Crow band and passed away from a heart condition while travelling home from one of the shows in regional Victoria on 12 March. Born in New Zealand…
Read MoreFEATURE: A Tribute To The Late & Great Michael Gudinski
Words: Matt Innes The sudden passing of Australian music industry icon and founder of Mushroom Records Michael Gudinski has left a gaping hole in many hearts. Michael reportedly passed away peacefully in his sleep overnight [1 March], at the age of 68. To those who knew him personally, Michael was a cunning entrepreneur, earning the…
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