Paul Kelly

Something for the weekend: Paul Kelly “Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy”

April 5, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new video from arguably the greatest singer-songwriter Australia has ever produced (with the possible exception of Barry Humphries). ‘Hello Melancholy, […]

Interview: Paul Kelly on the eternal present and the attraction of opposites

January 23, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

Kelly has got the fever (longing still). ‘Back to the Future’ is one of a dozen songs on Paul Kelly’s “Fever Longing Still,” which could just as easily been titled “Back to Basics,” for that is […]

Something for the weekend: Paul Kelly “How to Make Gravy”

December 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another weekend dear reader. As those of you who have ever had much to do with Australia may know (and hey we have some Aussie readers, morning comrades), 21st December is Gravy […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s Top 20 songs of 2024: Part One, 20-11

December 16, 2024 Mark Whitfield 6

As I often remark these days, or these years, where once my musical life was all about albums, I along with apparently everyone under the age of 65 now have the attention span of a goldfish […]

artwork for Paul Kelly album "Fever Longing Still"

Paul Kelly “Fever Longing Still”

November 7, 2024 Graeme Tait 6

Creative fire still burns for Australia’s finest songsmith with first album release of the decade. With “Fever Longing Still”, his 29th studio album, and first solo release of self-penned songs since 2018’s “Nature”, Paul Kelly has […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers