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Shane Pinnegar - writer, rock n' roll journalist and more Music and pop culture journalist & author, living & writing in Boorloo | Perth, Western Australia.
I am also a chef/caterer under the name Chef Shane, live with my wife Lady Boomboom and two demanding canine overlords
15/06/2026
Huge night at Ice Cream Factory for The Southern River Band 's biggest headlining show to date, also featuring Cosmic Psychos , Dallas Crane and GRUB
Review by Tia Louise and Shane Pinnegar, Writer and pics from Perth Photographer for 100% ROCK MAGAZINE at the link!
https://100percentrock.com/2026/06/live-southern-river-band-perth-boorloo-13-june-2026/
11/06/2026
hibernating in a cave for six months isn't very practical, so hopefully this sensational ramen will lift the spirit a bit
04/06/2026
pure tonic after a long, crappy day
There are good people in the world who affect great change to a wide audience, the movers and shakers of the world.
Then there's us - me and (most of?) you - who are also good people, but whose kindness and desire for positive change creates far smaller ripples in our world.
I believe what we do - sending out those tiny ripples, which may change a slight way of thinking, or make somebody's day a little bit happier, or just increase the positive vibe quotient in the world - is important. On my darker days, when things feel pretty bleak, I still resolutely clutch tightly to the hope that something I do or say matters, even if it's just to one person who needs to hear a kind word in that moment.
I wasn't always as good a person as I know myself to be now.
Perhaps kindness and grace and the like partially come through lived experience, through being hurt enough by offhand words and behaviour that we make a positive choice to not treat others the same. It's never too late to change who we are, to evolve, to be better. Even to change fundamental beliefs and attitudes and behaviours. I'll be the first to admit I got a lot wrong, said and did a lot - big and small - which I regret, which given my time again I would do differently.
There's no shame in saying "I was wrong, I shouldn't have done that: I am sorry." Even years later.
Perhaps that's what separates us from the narcissists and a-holes and abusers of the world, who will never admit - not even to themselves - that they were wrong.
18/05/2026
and were in fine musical form at The Gosnells this weekend, but you'll have had to sit through Angry's ranting to get to the good stuff. Full review and plenty more pics by at the link
https://100percentrock.com/2026/05/live-rose-tattoo-with-legs-electric-perth-boorloo-16-may-2026/
14/05/2026
On December 29th last year I was interviewed by Ben for his Invisible Ink Podcast. I find watching myself a bit cringe, but I've sat through an hour and a quarter so far and can see I was hyper, excited, oversharing and sometimes appear like I'm on something - but I really wasn't! It's a perfect example of Shane feeling he's in a safe place, (over?) enthusiastically sharing just about everything. I hope it's entertaining, even if I go all over the place with various anecdotes.
We cover a lot of ground: music obsession, music writing and my books, Dad's story, family issues, neurodivergence and how that impacts creativity and life in general. It's a lot, to be honest. Completely raw, unfiltered and honest (complete with tripping over my words a couple of times in my enthusiasm, and a couple of timeline errors due to being excited). If you want a pretty good overview about my creative life, this is a damn good place to start.
Thanks for having me Ben, it was a trip, man.
Link in the comments
12/05/2026
The good chaps of the The Invisible Ink Podcast sat me down for a big chat a short while ago and have published this episode today
We talk about travelling, music journalism, my books, autism & ADHD and, well, loads of stuff!
Have a watch, chuck 'em a like and a follow, learn more about your favourite tastefully dishevelled glorious failure, and hit Amazon up to buy my books (or msg me directly)!
Shane Pinnegar Shane Pinnegar has lived an extraordinary life...In this episode I sit down with Shane Pinnegar for a wide-ranging conversation about his life, career and pa...
04/05/2026
Thrilled to be part of the Stories Of Change exhibition for Artgold Kalgoorlie with my short story Preservation, inspired by this artwork Old House, Boulder
I'm told there's going to be a book as well!! Thanks
https://www.artgold.net.au/artist-1-1-1-3-2-1-1-2
26/04/2026
I'm having a lazy Sunday afternoon of a pleasant long weekend - hope you're enjoying it as well!
Lotta s**t going on today out there in the wild. For those further afield, today is ANZAC Day, where we remember and thankk those who have served in the Australian and New Zealand armed forces to protect our way of life and quality of life.
As a confirmed pacifist and a bit of a (heavy metal) hippy, I'm anti-war. Of course I am - everyone SHOULD be!
But there have been wars which are necessary. Which defeat the evil of horrible men (why is it almost always men, FFS?!?!) And I think the people who went to fight in those wars - ESPECIALLY the ones from years ago when times and attitudes were very different, when they didn't have a choice due to conscription or family or societal attitudes or whatever.
These people do not deserve to be booed for having done their best in impossible situations. There's a big difference between actively supporting a genocide in the middle east in 2026 and serving in WWII or Vietnam because you felt you had to or it was the right thing to do.
AND... it's 2026 so we shouldn't even have to mention the futility and obnoxious hate of racism. The sort of people who would boo a Welcome to Country are just filth. They have no respect for tradition, values, communities other than their own. The oldest continuous living culture in the world, in fact.
Shame on the haters. Doubly so when they're booing an Indigenous veteran delivering a Welcome to Country (this happened over East, I believe).
I just don't understand hatred of different groups of people - racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. We're all PEOPLE. And even if dogs are ALWAYS the best people, most of the people people deserve our support as well - at the very least in a 'live and let live' sense. Except the di*****ds out there showing complete disrespect, not only disrespect for those speaking, but also for the other attendees who are there out of respect - the exact sort of respect the haters are jealous of because they have a hole in their heart where that respect should be.
Do better, cnuts. Do a LOT better.
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