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Clem Bastow

Clem Bastow is a cultural critic, writer, and neurodiversity consultant for film and TV. Their debut novel, Later Bloomer was published in 2021. They teach screenwriting at the University of Melbourne.

Clem Bastow reviews 'The Rock History Reader' edited by Theo Cateforis

October 2007, no. 295 01 October 2007
Attempting to theorise or intellectualise rock‘n’roll, one could argue, is to miss the point. As Almost Famous’s egomaniac Stillwater vocalist Jeff Bebe put it, ‘I don’t think anyone can really explain rock‘n’roll – [except] maybe Pete Townsend’. In which case, Bebe would probably get a kick out of editor Theo Cateforis’s lovingly composed The Rock History Reader, which, unlike ... (read more)