The Jesus and Mary Chain 170 Russell, Sunday 6 March 2016 Writer: Fiona Hile Live photo by Reuben Acciano, full gallery here. A blue nineteenth-century haze surrounds The Jesus and Mary Chain vocalist Jim Reid as he leans into the crowd on a humid Sunday night in Melbourne. A disembodied mop of curly backlit hair is all that’s visible of his brother William, the much-emulated guitarist behind the high-pitched wail of sound that way back

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Milk! Records “Good For You” Tour Howler, Saturday 5 March 2016 Writer: Fiona Hile Live photo by Reuben Acciano, full gallery here.   Blur’s “Coffee and TV” is filling out the gradually diminishing pockets of space in the capacious Howler theatre as Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher and assorted label mates ready the stage for the Melbourne instalment of the Milk! Records national tour. Oliver Mestitz (who Courtney will later refer to as ‘one of the

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