(PRE-ORDER) Release date: 27-5-2025
An Australian’s journey from the suburbs to original punk-era Sydney and beyond.
Operating record labels, designing & printing rock posters, running amok with fireworks
into the night – all to the soundtrack of some of the region’s best-ever contemporary
music. In pursuit of even more, he evolved into a Global traveller and World Citizen of no
fixed address.
Within ‘CRAIC as it happened’ you will find discourses on: Radio Birdman / Lou Reed /
The Saints / The Birthday Party / Television / Lydia Lunch / Bob Dylan / Neil Young /
Kraftwerk / Iggy Pop / Punk-Era Sydney / White Light Records / Phantom Records / Red Eye Records / Beasts of Bourbon / The Crystal Set / Mixed Relations / The Cruel Sea / Steve Kilbey / Killing Time / The Clouds / Buying Toys / Selling Antiques / Dealing in Art / Living in Paris / Living in New York / Visiting Cuba / Ralph Records / Polydor Records & PolyGram / Designing Posters / Making Records / Buying & Selling Collectable Records /
Bands Seen / Books to Read / Being a Kid / Becoming a Teenager / Friends, Lawyers &
Lovers. Loads of observations, laughs and pictures - all as it happened.
John Foy is a former graphic designer and poster artist who also ran two prominent
independent record labels during Australian music’s particularly golden era in the 1980’s
& 90’s. He has an engaging Cuban ex-wife in the USA and brilliant young son and
extended family in Cuba itself. He’s now a citizen of the World with no fixed address as he expands his interests in writing.
