Hello Sailor founding member Harry Lyon’s solo debut is a raw, relevant rocker.
The central verse to the opening title track of Harry Lyon’s debut album, To the Sea, conjures up the glorious rock’n’roll excesses of his early Hello Sailor days, rocketing across Australia fuelled by booze and blow.
It might have taken him the best part of four decades to commit these memories to an album, but this punchy, raw rocker is exactly what you’d expect from the last surviving founding member of the Auckland band, following the deaths in recent years of Graham Brazier and Dave McArtney.
Heck, this was a man whose group helped cause a lunchtime riot at Epsom Girls’ Grammar, managed to score a product-and-cash booze-sponsorship deal for a national tour and attempted an aural assault on Los Angeles in 1978, then Australia, before returning home, defeated.
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First-world problem
Harrowing tales of migrants attempting to enter the US highlight the political failure to fully tackle the problem.
Applying intelligence to AI
I call it the 'Terminator Effect', based on the premise that thinking machines took over the world.
Nazism rears its head
Smirky Höcke, with his penchant for waving with a suspiciously straight elbow and an open palm, won't get to be boss of either state.
Staying ahead of the game
Will the brave new world of bipartisanship that seems to be on offer with an Infrastructure Commission come to fruition?
Grasping the nettle
Broccoli is horrible. It smells, when being cooked, like cat pee.
Hangry? Eat breakfast
People who don't break their fast first thing in the morning report the least life satisfaction.
Chemical reaction
Nitrates in processed meats are well known to cause harm, but consumed from plant sources, their effect is quite different.
Me and my guitar
Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp sticks to the familiar for her Dunedin concerts.
Time is on my side
Age does not weary some of our much-loved musicians but what keeps them on the road?
The kids are not alright
Nuanced account details how China's blessed generation has been replaced by one consumed by fear and hopelessness.
