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Warwick Mcfadyen

Warwick Mcfadyen

Brisbane Times

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When tragedy strikes the world slips off its axis. But there are small consolations

Most of the time you go about your daily life, travel through the streets of habit and knowability without a thought. You’ve walked this path so...

01.11.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

The MSO knew what its pianist was playing. So why did it shoot the messenger?

In recent days we have seen a shooting in Melbourne. Not fatal, but wounding just the same. It occurred when the medium and the message appeared on...

19.08.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

The supreme influencer: A bluesman who shaped rock legends

Damn right I’ve got the blues. John Mayall has left this earthly stage. The godfather of British blues and a legend both sides of the Atlantic and,...

26.07.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

A moment for pause, and paws

In recent days The Age has been home to readers’ conversations on God and dog. This fire of observations was sparked by a column last week that...

13.07.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

Spinning out, a mere arm’s length from a terrible fate

Newcastle Morning Herald: Four teenagers died in a horrific car crash last night, a few kilometres from their homes and one kilometre from their high...

29.06.2024 20

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

A moment of joy as a song and its star reunite

Tracy Chapman is the unhurried river. The currents run deep and at their own pace. As an artist, this is the definition of faith. Chapman has released...

17.02.2024 7

WA Today

Warwick Mcfadyen

A moment of joy as a song and its star reunite

Tracy Chapman is the unhurried river. The currents run deep and at their own pace. As an artist, this is the definition of faith. Chapman has released...

17.02.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Warwick Mcfadyen

A moment of joy as a song and its star reunite

Tracy Chapman is the unhurried river. The currents run deep and at their own pace. As an artist, this is the definition of faith. Chapman has released...

17.02.2024 7

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

A moment of joy as a song and its star reunite

Tracy Chapman is the unhurried river. The currents run deep and at their own pace. As an artist, this is the definition of faith. Chapman has released...

17.02.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Warwick Mcfadyen

Body in a car park: Death has no dominion, but a life remembered does

The morning had begun as all other work days. Log on, check messages, begin reading and tapping the keys. This was the rhythm of routine, a comfort in...

27.01.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

Weathering the grey and humid: when Irish skies aren’t smiling and Melbourne is a sauna

It was March in Ireland. I was living in a little corner of the south-west of the country. In county Kerry, in one of the fingers of land stretching...

13.01.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

With this speed of change, can the centre hold?

The year is 2124 and the clocks have struck 13. No, that’s unlikely, so 1984. It’s 2124 and the time thrums from the skin on your wrist. Call it...

06.01.2024 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

When music stays with you: Neil Young’s On the Beach struck a chord in 1974, and still rings true

So the year turns to 2024. And while screeds are written on the past year or what the year to come will bring, I’ve taken the contrarian view,...

31.12.2023 20

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

The wonder in a child’s eyes

Some see a star from 2000 years ago. Some see others far deeper in space and time. But there is a closer star shining. You don’t need to look into...

13.12.2023 10

The Age

Warwick Mcfadyen

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