Mark Neilsen, Journalist

Features / Music

Of Expanding Time And Fellow Tall Creatures

"You want to have a positive impact in whatever you do, but you don't get to spend all of your time being an activist, because you have to continue to maintain the thing that you do do."

Richie Sambora & Orianthi On Criticised 2016 NRL GF Set: 'What Was Wrong With That?'

We sat down with the musicians ahead of their Australian tour.

Features / Music

On Everything From Smaller Digestion Periods To Positivity And Unity

"This is a whole new thing and we're really enjoying what we're doing and we lay it all down with every show we play and we hope people like it."

Features / Music

The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Mark Neilsen

Features / Music

Grinspoon's Guide To 'Guide To Better Living'

"He liked to try weird stuff... so did we"

We Remember 5 Non-Soundgarden Musical Highlights From Chris Cornell

(And definitely aren't from that 2009 solo album Scream that he did with hip hop producer Timbaland)

Chris Cornell Was The True Frontman Of The Grunge Movement

"For a whole generation of teenagers it was a musical awakening that shook up the musical world in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s."

Features / Music

The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Mark Neilsen

Features / Arts

How John Cleese Semi-Humorously Considers Basil Fawlty Akin To Hamlet

"I don't want it to be a rip off. I want it to be really good on its own terms."

Features / Music

Band Of Horses' Determined Show In Sydney Last Night Might Not Have Been The Best Call

"It was not Ben Bridwell’s night."

Features / Arts

Why John Cleese And Eric Idle Get "Weird Confidence" Together

"Some things will go wrong in this kind of show - and that's what the audience seems to want."

John Cleese Reveals Exclusive Details Behind Fawlty Towers Stage Show

It's all coming together.

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