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Major Articles,quotes
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City South News Feb 10 2010
Phil's Soulful Jaunt |
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Green Left Weekly 26 July 2009
More than songs for the dispossessed
Phil Monsour is a singer/songwriter based in Brisbane. His songs reflect a passionate commitment to the struggles of ordinary people. But Monsour does more than just sing about the world. As part of a broader political engagement, he deploys his music as an organising tool.(complete article) |
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Limelight (ABC music arts entertainment) January 2009
review shorts
Australian troubadour who sings songs of hope, humanity, invasion and occupations. Five stars |
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The
Courier Mail Saturday August 23 2008
Eastern experience shapes writer's vision
"Phil Monsour has delivered the most passionate album of his career.....The Empire's New Clothes shows traces of his interest in folk and world music but also rocks with amp-rattling intensity on songs like the blazing One Step and the anthemic Sing Your Song"
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The Empire's New Clothes CD Introduction March 2008
In The Empire’s New Clothes Phil Monsour creates a breathing space [nafas]…inside a specific
sense of ‘Arabness’ in Australia. It’s about our experience. It’s about our memory. It's about
our identity and all the contradictions in between. It’s about the politics of love. Alissar Chidiac (complete article) |
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Rave
Magazine August 19 2008
Empire Records(complete article) |
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SBS World View program Mon, June 02 2008
World View highlights Monday
(pod cast) |
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Green
Left Weekly May 31 2008
Substituting anger for despair
(complete
article) |
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Time
off May 21 2008
CD release the empire's new clothes
(complete
article) |
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City South News May 22 2008
CD release the empire's new clothes |
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The
Courier Mail Thursday June 8 2006
Monsour
Back on song about peace |
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Green
Left Weekly May 5 2004
Singing
through the silence
(complete
article |
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Weekend
The Courier Mail Saturday December 4 1999
Sounds |
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Scene
Magazine 01-12-1999
Popproperly Still Poppin’ back and forth
“1998 saw the band returning to Holland, Belgium and Germany to perform
at a range of festivals and clubs and promote Faint Blue Glow, which sold
out by the end of the tour.” |
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Rave
Magazine December 1st – 7th 1999
The Ice Men And Women Cometh
“There’s also a strong sense of the much maligned classic
“Brisbane “ acoustic sound, a pop sensibility filtered of
the genre’s more extreme inanities, with a focus on effecting lyrics.” |
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Time
off Nov 10 – 16 1999
Taking Brisbane to the World
“Popproperly’s sound is a melding of styles that sees rock elements
coming face to face with more traditional folk styling's.” |
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Pulse
The Courier Mail Friday November 5 1999
“Black and white Rainbow, for instance is a fine tune that would have
done credit to the late Go Betweens.” |
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