My Giddy Aunt and her sister comedians by Sharon Connolly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A vivid and original account of the age of vaudeville in Australia and the eccentric women who gave it life. Whip-smart and fabulously funny, the women of vaudeville entertained Australia and challenged ideas of how women should behave. Opening a forgotten case of photographs, Sharon Connolly begins a ...Show more
KING: Life, Death and Hip Hop by Hau Latukefu, Christopher Riley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Rap pioneer, ARIA-winner, radio presenter, taste-maker, producer, label-owner, mentor - Hau Latukefu recounts his journey from Queanbeyan, aka 'Struggle Town', to the top of Australian hip hop in this inspiring memoir about the meaning of family, the art of the grind and what it takes to spark a music r ...Show more
Regurgitator's Unit 33 1/3 by Lauren Lachlan; Istvandity Goold
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
Regurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, including Album of the Year. The album's success is indicative ...Show more
Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In time for Scorsese's 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese's journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven SpielbergFew filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made o ...Show more
Nirvana's In Utero 33 1/3 by Gaar Gillian
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Though "Nevermind" was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, "In Utero" has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. This work tells the story behind t ...Show more
Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
$41.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic."--Hilton Als Ac ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Music Icons: from Abba to the Who Hb - Music Icons by Michael Putland; PUTLAND
$99.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From rockstars, pop icons, soul singers to jazz musicians Michael Putland has photographed them all. Over his 50 year-long career, he has captured some of the world's most famous singers and bands. Now he brings them all together in one fulminant photographic anthology. Here, pictures of action-packed c ...Show more
The Pat Metheny Interviews by Richard Niles
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Pat Metheny is one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and musically significant artists of the last 50 years. He has not only revolutionized his instrument, but also changed the face of jazz itself. In 2007, composer, arranger, and performer Richard Niles wrote and produced a thr ...Show more
No Fixed Address: The story of Australia’s trailblazing Aboriginal rock’n’reggae band by Robertson Donald
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
No Fixed Address appeared on the Australian rock circuit in the early 1980s with a set of songs that gave voice to the truths of their own lives. While everyone grooved to their reggae beat, whites were often stunned by their power and pride while Indigenous people whispered, ‘Can they say that?’ Juggli ...Show more
Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriterSinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of ...Show more
I Am NOT Fine, Thanks by Wil Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Good sense, good jokes, and good WIL- a book about enduring turbulent times with humour, community and just a dash of apple cider vinegar. How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the tradition was to reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' Then you would ask how they were ...Show more