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Vagabond Holes & Beautiful Waste

Show

Breakfast with Barr,

Presenter

Patrick Pittman

Published

Monday 14th September

Last week, two new books about the great Perth songwriter David McComb were published by Fremantle Press.

Never needing much of an excuse to talk at length about his belief that McComb’s genius is unparalleled in WA music history, and that you really ought to listen to the Triffids on repeat until you agree with him, Patrick Pittman, a couple of local poets in tow, grabbed the two men behind the books and hit play on the stereo…