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'If you've ever wanted to make it in music, then Making Noises is your novel. Marty is a rock musician on the wrong side of thirty who needs to change his tastes in music, women and cities. Billy is fifteen, talented and in prison. The two are thrown together by the fast-talking former politician, Perce 'Perk' Harrigan, whose powerful friends have handed him the plum job of launching the Oz Rock Foundation. Oz Rock uses taxpayer dollars to promote hip bands and quietly lift the Prime Minister's youth vote. Harrigan and his sultry but fascist assistant, Ingrid, need to 'spin' Oz Rock into orbit despite the cynics. They enlist Marty's help to manipulate Billy to the top of the music charts. But their greatest enemy may not be the one publicly calling for Harrigan's head. ' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: To a young prisoner whose talent soared over the walls.
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Author's note: From the late 1980s to the present, rock music foundations and music industry associations have been active on the Australasian music scene. During the early to mid 1990s, these organisations were at the peak of their influence domestically and at international level. The Oz Rock Foundation and the characters portrayed in this novel are composite creations which do not represent any particular individual, foundation or association. Making Noises is a work of fiction.
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 59)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel -
Books Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 February 2007; (p. 22)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 December 2006; (p. 34)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel ; Glass 2006 selected work short story ; Listen 2006 single work novel ; The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook 2006 single work novel -
Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 November 2006; (p. 25)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel
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Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 November 2006; (p. 25)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 December 2006; (p. 34)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel ; Glass 2006 selected work short story ; Listen 2006 single work novel ; The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook 2006 single work novel -
Books Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 February 2007; (p. 22)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 59)
— Review of Making Noises 2006 single work novel
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1990s