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Stuart Coupe
Stuart Coupe is an Australian music journalist, author, band manager, promoter, publicist and music label founder. A renowned rock music writer, Coupe is best known for his work with Roadrunner, Rock Australia Magazine, The Sun-Herald, and Dolly; the music labels, GREEN Records and Laughing Outlaw; and the author of books including The Promoters, Gudinski, Roadies, and Paul Kelly.
Coupe is a former manager of the Australian bands Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly and is currently a presenter on Sydney radio stations 2SER and FBI Radio. He is also known for his writing as a reviewer of crime fiction for the Sydney Morning Herald and for founding the Australian crime fiction magazine, Mean Streets.
Stuart Coupe was born in Launceston, Tasmania on the 11th of September 1956.
He attended Scotch Oakburn College Launceston and Launceston College, Tasmania. During his school years, he developed a passion for music and writing, and had an interest in film, screening films supplied by the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative to Launceston audiences.[citation needed]
On completing high school, he studied to be an English speech and drama teacher in Launceston in 1975, and then moved to Adelaide, South Australia, and enrolled in an arts degree Flinders University at the beginning of 1976. He did not complete the degree, dropping out of uni to move to Sydney for a writing job in 1978.
Coupe started music writing in high school, publishing one issue of a school newspaper, Labyrinth, at the age of 15. In 1977 he was one of the editors of Empire Times, Flinders University's student newspaper.[citation needed] In 1977 he started a punk rock fanzine, Street Fever, with Donald Robertson, which folded after one issue.[citation needed] In early 1978 he co-founded the Adelaide what's-on guide, Preview, with Dennis Atkins, Kim Krummel, Terry Plane, and Phillip White.[citation needed]
In 1978, together with Donald Robertson and others, he co-founded the Adelaide-based music magazine, Roadrunner. After co-editing and writing for the first five issues of Roadrunner, Coupe moved to Sydney to join RAM (Rock Australia Magazine), where he worked as a staff writer for 18 months.[citation needed]
In 1980 he was Sydney editor of TAGG (The Alternative Gig Guide), and a year later started writing the Rockbeat column for The Sun-Herald, which continued through to 1991.[citation needed] During the eighties and nineties, Coupe was also a freelance music writer for The Age, The Canberra Times, Rolling Stone Australia, Vox (Melbourne), Nation Review, Australian Playboy, Sydney Shout, On the Street, and Drum Media (now known as The Music. He was also the first editor of Triple J radio network's JMag.[citation needed]
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Stuart Coupe
Stuart Coupe is an Australian music journalist, author, band manager, promoter, publicist and music label founder. A renowned rock music writer, Coupe is best known for his work with Roadrunner, Rock Australia Magazine, The Sun-Herald, and Dolly; the music labels, GREEN Records and Laughing Outlaw; and the author of books including The Promoters, Gudinski, Roadies, and Paul Kelly.
Coupe is a former manager of the Australian bands Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly and is currently a presenter on Sydney radio stations 2SER and FBI Radio. He is also known for his writing as a reviewer of crime fiction for the Sydney Morning Herald and for founding the Australian crime fiction magazine, Mean Streets.
Stuart Coupe was born in Launceston, Tasmania on the 11th of September 1956.
He attended Scotch Oakburn College Launceston and Launceston College, Tasmania. During his school years, he developed a passion for music and writing, and had an interest in film, screening films supplied by the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative to Launceston audiences.[citation needed]
On completing high school, he studied to be an English speech and drama teacher in Launceston in 1975, and then moved to Adelaide, South Australia, and enrolled in an arts degree Flinders University at the beginning of 1976. He did not complete the degree, dropping out of uni to move to Sydney for a writing job in 1978.
Coupe started music writing in high school, publishing one issue of a school newspaper, Labyrinth, at the age of 15. In 1977 he was one of the editors of Empire Times, Flinders University's student newspaper.[citation needed] In 1977 he started a punk rock fanzine, Street Fever, with Donald Robertson, which folded after one issue.[citation needed] In early 1978 he co-founded the Adelaide what's-on guide, Preview, with Dennis Atkins, Kim Krummel, Terry Plane, and Phillip White.[citation needed]
In 1978, together with Donald Robertson and others, he co-founded the Adelaide-based music magazine, Roadrunner. After co-editing and writing for the first five issues of Roadrunner, Coupe moved to Sydney to join RAM (Rock Australia Magazine), where he worked as a staff writer for 18 months.[citation needed]
In 1980 he was Sydney editor of TAGG (The Alternative Gig Guide), and a year later started writing the Rockbeat column for The Sun-Herald, which continued through to 1991.[citation needed] During the eighties and nineties, Coupe was also a freelance music writer for The Age, The Canberra Times, Rolling Stone Australia, Vox (Melbourne), Nation Review, Australian Playboy, Sydney Shout, On the Street, and Drum Media (now known as The Music. He was also the first editor of Triple J radio network's JMag.[citation needed]