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Michael Dwyer

Melbourne

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist at The Age

Music-arts-culture journalist-lecturer & Bowie-ukulele accident @theage @smh @brisbanetimes @WAtoday @collarts @thinwhiteukes @guardian

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  • 2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Michael Dwyer

    Exponential Interactive, Inc d/b/a VDX.tvCookie duration: 90 (days). Data collected and processed: IP addresses, Device identifiers, Probabilistic identifiers, Browsing and interaction data, Non-precise location data, Users’ profiles, Privacy choicesmoreCookie duration resets each session. View details | Storage details | Privacy policyConsentCookie duration: 30 (days).

  • 2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Michael Dwyer

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dean Lukin was a household name in 1984. Paul Kelly not so much. In August that year, in a share flat in Sydney, the rising songwriter was cheering at the TV as the fisherman from Port Lincoln won Olympic gold for weightlifting in Los Angeles. Fast-forward 40 years and Dan Kelly finds a dusty cassette in his uncle’s back shed in St Kilda.

  • 2 weeks ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Michael Dwyer

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dean Lukin was a household name in 1984. Paul Kelly not so much. In August that year, in a share flat in Sydney, the rising songwriter was cheering at the TV as the fisherman from Port Lincoln won Olympic gold for weightlifting in Los Angeles. Fast-forward 40 years and Dan Kelly finds a dusty cassette in his uncle’s back shed in St Kilda.

  • 2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Michael Dwyer

    Joni Mitchell’s Jeremy, one of her classic intimate profiles on a hissing home tape, proved she was already there years before some bloke deemed her studio-ready. A song’s return can feel eerily well-timed. Bob Dylan’s extraordinary Blind Willie McTell, recorded during the Reagan years and held dry until Clinton’s, was a deep southern gothic origin story that made such changes seem cosmetic.

  • 2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Michael Dwyer

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MYSTERYMr BlankDean ManningPuncher & Wattmann, $34.99Turning true detective was not on Dean Manning’s creative agenda in 2017. The Sydney artist, musician and composer of the hit Even When I’m Sleeping was simply out on a drizzly morning stroll when a vintage green suitcase abandoned for council collection diverted eight years of his life.

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Michael Dwyer
Michael Dwyer @mdwriterguy
15 Jul 22

Been interviewing @JodiPhillis for 30+ years. just got her story. Rock journalists. So lazy. https://t.co/WCJLrcVcNC

Michael Dwyer
Michael Dwyer @mdwriterguy
27 Mar 21

RT @muckrack: Today's featured journalist is @mdwriterguy, a freelancer based in Melbourne who covers music, art and culture. Michael has b…

Michael Dwyer
Michael Dwyer @mdwriterguy
24 Sep 20

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