IAN McFARLANE
Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999). As a journalist he started in 1984 with Juke, a rock music newspaper. During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide, The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 1976–1980 (1992). McFarlane’s The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop is described by the Australian Music Guide as “the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards”. (More from Wikipedia)
Hunters & Collectors, Ghost Nation – I liked this 1989 album so much (their sixth) that I have picked up another couple of albums by this fine Australian band that came along when movies and rock bands alike from Australia were finding audiences around the world. Hunters & Collectors were opening for Midnight Oil at one point but were struggling to find success in this country. Allmusic was not impressed, giving the album only 2 stars; but Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane called Ghost Nation “perhaps the band’s finest album to date”, and Rolling Stone Australia named them Australian Band of the Year in 1990.
(December 2015)
