Rolling Stone Australia - May 2016

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Exploding Soho

iwanttocongratulate
youonyourrecentfeaturear-
ticleonViolentSohoinApril
2016 magazine [RS 763]. It
is good to see you have resist-
ed the urge of putting a more
popular artist in Chris Martin
on the cover and instead have
focused on promoting an Aus-
tralian band who really may
be just about to explode. Keep
up the good work.
Hayden McCarthy,
Mount Annan, NSW

Let Buckley Be

in your story on the re-
lease of the new Jeff Buck-
ley album, “You and I”, you
ask Buckley’s A&R man Steve
Berkowitz what Jeff would
make of his archives being
raided and released. Though
Berkowitz waives the question
away, I feel it’s a very perti-

Closing Time

i’ve just returned from

the Reclaim the Streets march

in Sydney, invigorated and in-

spired by being a part of such

a movement. The Baird gov-

ernment’s lock-out laws are

killing Sydney’s night life and,

by default, damaging our cul-

tural identity and live music

scene. To see the people unite

in this manner, in a peaceful

show of protest, fills me with

hope that we may get these

laws overturned. As the great

Patti Smith once said, people

have the power! Let’s open

Sydney up again.

Rob Tamothe

Newtown, NSW

nent one, and one that’s asked

far too seldom when it comes

to the matter of raiding the

vaults of artists no longer with

us.Foramanwhoagonised

overhisworkthewayJeff

Buckleydid,Ithinkhe’dbe

horrifiedtoknowthisbatch

of demos had seen the light of

day.Can’twejustlethimrest,

and enjoy the music he was

happy to release?

Therese Forde

Collingwood, Vic

Pill Problems

ishouldstatenowthat

I don’t take pills, or any drugs,

forthatmatter.ButIdothink

it ridiculous that the current

regime won’t entertain the

idea of pill testing. People are

going to take drugs at music

festivalsregardlessofthelaw;

thesadtruthisthatsomeof

these people will die a death

that could have been avoided.

We should be trying to protect

people, not stick our heads in

the sand.

Jason Hightail

West End, Q LD

Rollins Rant

h e n ry rol l i ns’ ‘a fa n’s

Notes’ is my favourite article in

Rolling Stone, and it’s usu-

ally the first page I read when

I get the new issue. It was awe-

some to read his unique opin-

ion on Australian music from

someone outside our country

[RS 763]. To be honest, I didn’t

realise anyone outside Austra-

lia gave our home-grown tal-

ent the time of day!

Crystal Russom ,

Central Mangrove, NSW

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“The lock-out laws are killing Sydney’s

night life and, by default, damaging our

cultural identity and music scene.”