This Week In Music 5 September 2025
There’s more beef than a butcher’s shop this week in music news as two big names clash in an epic battle of the egos, while a pop icon is accused of being an evil genius. Elsewhere, there are momentous milestones to mark, the long-awaited return of rock royalty to celebrate and a special homegrown secret to unveil.
This week in music news, perennially bitter Pink Floyd bassist Rogers Waters may need to ‘run like hell’ after levelling an insensitive jibe against late heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath.
“Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his, whatever that state he was in his whole life, we’ll never know. Although, he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense,” Waters said in an interview on the ‘Independent Ink’ podcast on 12 August.
“The music, I have no idea, I couldn’t give a f…k. I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest in … ‘wahhhh!!” [sticks out tongue] and biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less.”
Ozzy’s son Jack Osbourne was swift and brutal in his reply: “Hey Roger Waters. F..k you. How pathetic and out of touch you’ve become. The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bullshit in the press. My father always thought you were a c..t – thanks for proving him right.”
In a separate yet equally bizarre sleight, Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee has taken aim at pop queen Taylor Swift on an episode of his own podcast. Lee branded Swift “pop’s greatest supervillain” and an “evil genius”. He was speaking with his wife Ione Skye about Swift’s highly publicised efforts to regain her catalogue from producer Scooter Braun.
“Taylor Swift to me is most interesting as a CEO. It’s not necessarily about her work as an artist; it’s about being up there with Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs … I see her as a very, very successful capitalist,” he explained.
“But she did pull off the single greatest rock and roll swindle of all time … in her quest to buy her masters back, she convinced her fans that it was a battle somehow for their benefit. She got her customers to feel like it was a cause.”
In Brisbane, community radio station 4ZZZ is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a huge programme of events. Triple Zed started broadcasting in December 1975 from the St Lucia campus of the University of Technology and is Queensland’s longest running FM radio station. The people-powered station has endured through five decades of adversity to remain an independent, radical alternative to mainstream music, news and current affairs.
Triple Zed is hosting a range of events to help celebrate, including live shows, special on-air programming, a book launch, bush walks, panel discussions, workshops, dinners and exhibitions. It all culminates in The ZED50 Market Day at Roma St Parklands (25 October) featuring headline performances from Brisbane legends Regurgitator and Melbourne’s Tropical F… Storm as well as punk icons The Saints ’73-’78.
Also marking a milestone are American pop rockers Wheatus, heading out on tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their inescapable 2000 smash hit ‘Teenage Dirtbag’. Wheatus will perform their self-titled debut album in full, bringing some noughties nostalgia to audiences at Crowbar in Brisbane on 15 January, UC Hub (Canberra) 16 January, King St Bandroom (Newcastle) 17 January, Blazes Showroom (Tamworth) 19 January, Manning Bar (Sydney) 20 January, 170 Russell (Melbourne) 22 January, Wrest Point (Hobart) 23 January and Freo Social (Fremantle) on 24 January. Wheatus will also be performing in New Zealand for the first time ever as part of the tour.
It’s time to turn the hearing aids up to 11 for the inevitable and long-awaited return of rock royalty Spinal Tap. 40 years after the original ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ film was released, one of the greatest rock mockumentaries ever created, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) are back on the big screen.
Acclaimed director Rob Reiner spun comedy gold as filmmaker and avid rock fan Marty Di Bergi documenting the fateful comeback of ‘70s British metal band Spinal Tap. With hilarious interviews that spawned timeless quotes (“this one goes to 11!”) and ‘on-the-road’ footage parodying life as a band, the film remains an unquestionable classic. What the next, ostensibly final, chapter of the band holds remains to be seen in ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’, released in Australian cinemas on 25 September.
Last week, we teased a special something coming from a MADCAP Global Entertainment favourite. It is with immense pride and excitement that we announce the release of a new album by The Daisycutters. ‘Perfume & Cigarettes’ is a unique collection of demos, B sides and rarities encompassing more than 30 years of the band’s songwriting.
Frontman of The Daisycutters Cameron Wilson describes putting the album together as a cathartic experience that allowed him to comprehensively revisit their earliest work.
“I’m really happy because there’s not a lyric or a line in a song in all those years that I cringe at. I’m really quite pleased at how lyrically and musically the quality is still there,” he says. ‘Perfume and Cigarettes’ is available now on Spotify.
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