A Life in Music: Shake Some Action by Stuart Coupe
Stuart Coupe + Andrew Stafford
slq The Studio
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Duration: 60 minutes
A music memoir of epic proportions, Shake Some Action chronicles Stuart Coupe’s career across every facet of the music industry: as a reviewer, record label founder and manager for luminaries such as Paul Kelly. Above all, it’s a love letter to a lifelong obsession, an ode to a mad passion turned brilliant career.
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Stuart Coupe
Stuart Coupe is an Australian music journalist, author, band manager, promoter, publicist and music label founder. A renowned rock music writer, Coupe is best known for his work with Roadrunner, Rock Australia Magazine (RAM), The Sun-Herald, and Dolly; the music labels, GREEN Records and Laughing Outlaw; and the author of books including The Promoters, Gudinski, Roadies, Paul Kelly and Shake Some Action. Coupe is a former manager of the Australian bands Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly and is currently a presenter on Sydney radio stations 2SER and FBI Radio. He is also known for his writing as a reviewer of crime fiction for the Sydney Morning Herald and for founding the Australian crime fiction magazine, Mean Streets.
Andrew Stafford
Andrew Stafford is a freelance journalist and the author of Pig City, a book about Brisbane, and Something to Believe In, a music memoir. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review and more.
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