Issue 387

Jeff Duff


"I'm doing a new thing at the Opera House - a musical," Jeff Duff tells me brightly. "It's a handful; I'm doing the lyrics and dialogue and for a man of my acting ability it's quite an ask."

So too is the subject, for this is an Australian musical entitled 'The Hanging Of Jane Lee'. That's a fairly morose subject - the story of the last Australian woman hanged - the year was 1954.

Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Sony/BMG

The mere fact that I can't decide whether or not Pearl Jam's eponymous eighth studio album is a concept album could well be the concept the band want us to embrace. Apart from the omnipresent peppering of fragmented truths and accusations that coexist alongside the album's heartfelt despair, there's an almost open admission that we the people have finally lost all say against the greater world powers.

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