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Roland Bisshop

Roland Bisshop is a music specialist at Readings Carlton.

By night, he travels the streets of Melbourne in a campervan solving crimes with the assistance of a remarkably clever labrador.

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The Terrible Event
by David Cohen

Reviewed by
Roland Bisshop, May 2023

The title story of David Cohen’s new collection chronicles the administrative preparation for the launch of a memorial – to what we are not informed, but the inference is a catastrophic incident involving the deaths of many. The launch would…

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Recent blog posts by Roland Bisshop

Music
16 Apr 2015

Resurface Noise, April 2015

Resurface Noise is a new column from our music specialist Roland Bisshop, dedicated to new vinyl reissues and first time on vinyl releases. And don’t forget that for the month of April, we’re offering 20% off vinyl. Please note, the…
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25 Jun 2013

An Album That Changed My Life: Fun House by The Stooges

My childhood was a fairly strict Catholic one and rock ‘n’ roll was frowned upon with a muscular brow. Mix-tapes were exchanged in shadowy corridors of the high school, to be auditioned privately with the aid of headphones and it…
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