The peoples’ blog of Matt Hayward

Today I blog to you sore, hung over and all Rockabillied out. It seems someone forgot to tell the Australian Kingswood Factory that loud, local Rock and Roll is dead. I tell you this much, not on their watch.
Last night Melbourne’s Arthouse Hotel was nicely packed out with quiff hair styles and hot rod heels [...]

Well right now here in Melbourne, we’re having major bush fires. Some of the worst ever in fact. Frankly the response and generosity from the public is heart warming and overwhelming. The human suffering is unimaginable, but it’s even more saddening to think refugees suffer permanently. Usually from acts of war rather than god.

Acrassicauda are [...]

Ed Roman is a ‘guitar shop to the stars’ kind of guy. He is based in Vegas and appears to have been dealing with rock star types since god started designing dirt. And his rant here proves it.
I stumbled upon his celebrity guitars web site the other day and have been reading through his ‘celebrity [...]

So you’re walking down the street and you see a garage sale sign. Normally you might think “meh it’s probably just junk”. But wait till you see the car this garage sale sign was on! Yes only in Prahran in Melbourne will you find a Lamborghini owner having a garage sale. Sure LA is full [...]

Saw the boys last night at the Westernport Hotel in San Remo gig. Absolutely mind-numbingly fantastic. It sounds like the boys have really been rehearsing for months, hard. They’ve also tarted themselves up with some new suits and lighting so it all looks great too. Davey Lane’s even bought himself a new Epiphone Casino guitar, [...]

I’ve just seen the NGV art deco exhibition and it’s an absolute corker. Probably not the normal abjective you hear for art shows but who cares, it really is.
Before seeing this, I thought art deco was funky, old solid apartment buildings in South Yarra and St Kilda in Melbourne. But this exhibition shows that it [...]

Found this Airbourne music video with Lemmy today. It came up on a Facebook alert so it has to be reasonably fresh. Lemmy Kilmister should officially be in everything. He’d make Desperate Housewives a lot more interesting anyway. But for now we’ll have to content ourselves with Lemm’ as a trucker driving Airbourne on a [...]

Well I’m flabbergasted. The Melbourne Motorshow was actually bloody fantastic! A little something for everyone. If you want a highlight, it has to be the Bolwell Nagari. Why? Because it’s an Aussie kit car with true heritage and unlike the Evo Rex brigade, it may not be around for long. It has absolute classic potential. [...]

Well fuck me if the Convulsions just aren’t getting tighter and tighter. You’d need a micrometer just to measure the tightness between these guys now. They’re so tight musically you could throw a keg load of beer on stage and never see amber liquid hit the ground. OK, dodgey metaphors aside, the guys kicked Melbourne [...]

Saw this show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival the other week. Let me just tell you, there’s NEVER been more thruth in advertising than in this show. It had levels of nudity that would make the likes of Iggy Pop blush. And while there’s a point to the racism angle which I won’t spoil, [...]