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John Encarnação John Encarnação i(20279053 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Portuguese ; Romanian ; Polish ; Austrian
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1 The Boy from Wang John Encarnação , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2021;
— Review of Boy on Fire : The Young Nick Cave Mark Mordue , 2020 single work biography

'A friend and I are fans of Nick Cave’s iconoclastic band of the early 1980s The Birthday Party. Part of our enjoyment is that we find Cave’s vocal and lyrical posturing hilarious at times. In songs like ‘Release The Bats’ and ‘Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)’ his shrieks are both terrifying and absurd. At such moments, my friend will occasionally address the stereo with something like, ‘you’re not fooling anyone Nick, we know you’re a good private schoolboy!’' (Introduction)
1 One Tank Of Gas John Encarnação , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2016;
— Review of Grant and I : Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens Robert Forster , 2016 single work autobiography
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