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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nbhdpaper.com | David M. Perkins |Kirsten Krauth |Mark Mordue
The red storm that threatened Sydney has passed, leaving only a tightness of breath, a fine veneer of dust over everything, and a vague taste of dirt on the tongue and in the back of your throat. Micro-particles swept off the drought-stricken surface of the Murray Darling Basin and carried citywards over the Blue Mountains by dry powerful winds; nature’s own dose of toxicity reminding us it is always there to be felt.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nbhdpaper.com | John Dale |Cameron Williams |Mark Mordue
I appeared to be standing in the midst of a mass grave. The endless rows of cold, grey, concrete steles resemble a procession of coffins waiting to be tucked under their national flags. It was winter, and the melting snow left tear streaks down the sides of their faces. Some stood defiantly upright like sentries awaiting orders; others seem to have succumbed to their fate of being swallowed by the earth.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
neighborhoodpaper.com | Alex Tighe |Lauren Harris |Mark Mordue |Jen Barratt
Town Hall swims. Thousands of students from across Sydney rage on in and take the stairs, the streets, washing over and around this bullshit city’s roadworks and ‘developments’, filling the sky with sound. “The youth are rising. No more compromising.”The chant breaks and remakes itself. Parents lead infants with placards of animals and fish drawn with hope. ‘Nanas Knitting for….’ move too fast to catch their slogan! Anti Adani feeling is rife, unmistakeable.
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May 23, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Mark Mordue
OpinionBy Mark Mordue May 24, 2024 — 5.55am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Conversations around the nature of stalking have reached a new, if temporary high thanks to the Netflix series Baby Reindeer.
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May 23, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Mark Mordue
Conversations around the nature of stalking have reached a new, if temporary high thanks to the Netflix series Baby Reindeer. It has been the streaming channel's top program for the last month in more than 70 countries and the sensational prod for a plethora of news stories, not least the Piers Morgan Uncensored interview with the alleged real-life female stalker depicted in the series.
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May 9, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Mark Mordue
by MARK MORDUEBeloved Skid Row FM community radio announcer and former local councillor Colin Hesse is retiring from the city. Mark Mordue speaks with him about his life in the Inner West and the future ahead. +Yesterday Colin Hesse finished his last episode for Close to Home for Radio Skid Row. He’s not just “leaving the station after ten years and four months”, he’s leaving Sydney altogether and returning to live in his home town of Nowra. Hesse is a rare beast and will be much missed.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Mark Mordue |Christian Eede
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced a tour of the UK and Europe in support of forthcoming album Wild God. Marking their first headline tour of the regions since 2017, they will play 27 shows across 17 countries through September, October and November. The run of shows will kick off on September 24 at Oberhausen’s Rudolf Weber-ARENA and draw to a close on November 17 at the Accor Arena in Paris.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
spin.com | Mark Mordue
The first time I ever spoke to Nick Cave was in a phone interview to promote his second solo album, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), an ominous, blues-affected work that sanctified the birth of Elvis Presley and thereby rock ’n’ roll itself in quasi-religious, apocalyptic terms. Our conversation around the recording was as dry as spinifex, so slow and spacious it sometimes ceased to exist. As if Cave could not be less interested in what I was asking or saying and never would be.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
yahoo.com | Mark Mordue
Mark Mordue’s best-selling, internationally published biography of Nick Cave, Boy on Fire, spans the singer’s infancy through to him landing in London in 1980 as a young wrecking ball with the notorious Birthday Party, dubbed the most violent band in the world and now the subject of acclaimed documentary Mutiny in Heaven.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
markmordue.substack.com | Mark Mordue
Louis Tillet always seemed to be sailing somewhere. His songs, his voice, the sound of his keyboards manifesting a sea journey at night: sometimes stormy, sometimes wild, sometimes dream-like. Funnily enough his name was only one initial away from ‘tiller’ (the helmsman of a boat). As his career developed you definitely felt he had kinship with Charon, the ferryman who took souls across the waters to Hades. Death’s antiquity. Charon meaning “keen gaze”, a spirit guide to the underworld.
