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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Making Noises
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'If you've ever wanted to make it in music, then Making Noises is your novel. Marty is a rock musician on the wrong side of thirty who needs to change his tastes in music, women and cities. Billy is fifteen, talented and in prison. The two are thrown together by the fast-talking former politician, Perce 'Perk' Harrigan, whose powerful friends have handed him the plum job of launching the Oz Rock Foundation. Oz Rock uses taxpayer dollars to promote hip bands and quietly lift the Prime Minister's youth vote. Harrigan and his sultry but fascist assistant, Ingrid, need to 'spin' Oz Rock into orbit despite the cynics. They enlist Marty's help to manipulate Billy to the top of the music charts. But their greatest enemy may not be the one publicly calling for Harrigan's head. ' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: To a young prisoner whose talent soared over the walls.
  • Author's note: From the late 1980s to the present, rock music foundations and music industry associations have been active on the Australasian music scene. During the early to mid 1990s, these organisations were at the peak of their influence domestically and at international level. The Oz Rock Foundation and the characters portrayed in this novel are composite creations which do not represent any particular individual, foundation or association. Making Noises is a work of fiction.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Kilda, Salisbury area, Salisbury - Elizabeth - Gawler area, Adelaide, South Australia,: Overdog Press , 2006 .
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      Extent: 344p.
      ISBN: 9780975797921, 0975797921
    • St. Kilda South, St Kilda, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Overdog Press , 2015 .
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      Extent: 344p.
      Edition info: Second (global) edition
      Note/s:
      • Published July 1, 2015
      ISBN: 9780975797990

Works about this Work

Untitled Richard Watts , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 59)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel
Books Fiction Merryon Ryall , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 February 2007; (p. 22)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 December 2006; (p. 34)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel ; Glass Adriana Moya Ellis , 2006 selected work short story ; Listen Kate Veitch , 2006 single work novel ; The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook Nury Vittachi , 2006 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 November 2006; (p. 25)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 November 2006; (p. 25)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 December 2006; (p. 34)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel ; Glass Adriana Moya Ellis , 2006 selected work short story ; Listen Kate Veitch , 2006 single work novel ; The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook Nury Vittachi , 2006 single work novel
Books Fiction Merryon Ryall , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 February 2007; (p. 22)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel
Untitled Richard Watts , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 59)

— Review of Making Noises Euan Mitchell , 2006 single work novel
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