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3 days ago | noise11.com | Paul Cashmere

Kimble Rendall, a founding member of Hoodoo Gurus and before that XL Capris, has died. Kimble was also a movie director. He worked on ‘The Matrix Reloaded’, ‘The Matrix Revolutions’, ‘I, Robot’, ‘Casanova’ and ‘Ghost Writer’. He was a music video director who worked with The Angels, Cold Chisel, Boom Crash Opera, Rockmelons, Mental As Anything, Peter Blakely, and Hoodoo Gurus and XL Capris. Kendall, Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott formed XL Capris in Sydney in 1978.

6 days ago | noise11.com | Paul Cashmere

Daryl Hannah’s Neil Young ‘Coastal’ movie is beautiful and rare behind the scenes insight into Neil’s first live shows after four years in 2023 in California. For ‘Coastal’, Hannah is a perfect balance of off stage, backstage and performances. The first 10 minutes is the ultimate reality show. Neil and tour bus driver Jerry Don Bordon (JD) are seen driving to the Hollywood gig down the Pacific Coast Highway and just talking shit. Neil talks about how glad he is to have been born before AI.

1 week ago | noise11.com | Paul Cashmere

Dominic ‘Mick’ Mazzone of Mighty Management, manager of the Hoodoo Gurus and formerly Ian Moss, has died after an illness. Mick was a loved member of the Australian music industry. He was a tour manager, a production manager, an artist manager and for 37 years ran his company Mighty Management. He worked at one point for Frontier Touring and tour managed the Australian end of Live Aid. He was also a one-time stage manager for the APRA Music Awards.

1 week ago | noise11.com | Paul Cashmere

Roger McLachlan, the New Zealand born bass player and co-founder of Little River Band, has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. Roger played on the first two Little River Band albums, ‘Little River Band’ (1975) and ‘After Hours’ (1976). His bass drives the hit songs ‘It’s a Long Way There’, ‘Curiosity (Killed The Cat)’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Everyday of My Life’. ‘It’s a Long Way There’ became Little River Band’s first US hit reaching number 31 in 1976.

1 week ago | noise11.com | Paul Cashmere

The infamous Fyre Festival take 2 has been postponed. The disastrous music festival that never happened the first time around and landed founder Billy McFarland in jail for four years has ended before it even began. Fyre Festival 2 (and why would you use the same name on such a damaged brand) was due to start in Mexico on 30 May. The location this time was meant to be Playa del Carmen, a Mexican resort. The local government in the area said “no way, José’.