Jenny Valentish
Hurtling headfirst into the fanzine world aged 16 brought Jenny some sweet relief from the pain of living in Slough (although proved a nuisance to every early-’90s indie band heading through the Thames Valley region) and led to a first job in music publicity. For a time she hawked the wares of Swans, Cat Power, The Afghan Whigs, The KLF and hundreds of American college bands nobody's heard of now and didn't want to hear about then.
In between stints at dubious men’s magazines, Jenny has freelanced for the NME, Sydney Morning Herald, Rock Sound, Tank Girl, Australian Guitar, Men’s Style, Frankie, Cleo, Chik and Inpress, as well as dropping anchor at Guitar & Bass, RALPH and now triple j radio’s magazine, jmag– which she edits in Melbourne.
22 articles
List of articles in the library
Steriogram: Territorial Pissings
Profile and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Rip It Up (New Zealand), 2004
Having successfully become America's Most Wanted, Steriogram have moved on to the toughest nut to crack: the UK. In an abrupt departure from full-on rock ...
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Drum Media, 2005
As a rash of homegrown bands start to make waves overseas, Jenny Valentish looks at the long and bloody history of Australian bands and the ...
Juliette Lewis and the Licks: Natural Born Triller: Juliette Lewis
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Frankie, May 2005
THE BACON BROTHERS were critically acclaimed in the Kevin Bacon household, we hear. Bruce Willis and the Accelerators went down a storm at the private ...
The Alarm, The Birthday Party, Flesh For Lulu, Sisters of Mercy: Goth: Back to the Batcave
Overview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, October 2005
"WE HATED BEING called goth," muses the impeccably suave Flesh For Lulu frontman Nick Marsh. "If they called you a goth then you couldn't be ...
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, 2006
Convicts is a chewy knuckle of an album, straight out of the bar rooms and into your ears. Jenny Valentish prods the guts, nuts and ...
Freebass: Big Bottoms: Freebass
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, January 2006
One harebrained scheme, two dozen pints, three legendary Mancunian bassists and a love of Spinal Tap = one very drunk bass supergroup. Jenny Valentish gets ...
Richard Hell: CBGB: The Venue from Hell
Retrospective and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, January 2006
It seems like every other prepubescent has a CBGB T-shirt these days, but over in New York, the old guard are fighting a losing battle ...
The Raveonettes: Rock 'N' Rollmop: The Raveonettes
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, March 2006
QUITE APART from the bitter chill, Denmark's not a happy place to be right now. But this slightly bewildered, historically neutral nation (their coins even ...
The Birthday Party, Rowland S. Howard: Rowland S Howard: Storm Und Twang – The Prophet Of St Kilda
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, May 2006
From icy reverb to noirish twang, Jenny Valentish pays tribute to Australia's most influential guitar fiend, Rowland S Howard... ...
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, May 2006
WE'RE AT ONE of those post-modern hotels you could only find in the most pretentious corner of London, with perplexing paintings and an oval lounge ...
The Triffids: Day Of The Triffids
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
Legendary perth band The Triffids are being hauled out of retirement by rabid fans. Guitarist Graham Lee tells Jenny Valentish how he's "lying awake at ...
The Sleepy Jackson: Divine Intervention: The Sleepy Jackson
Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
LUKE STEELE LEAPS from the stage and hits the dance floor running, executing some neat Prince slides and spins and grinning at the assembled journos ...
The Church: High Priests Of The Old Order: The Church
Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
"MY BIGGEST FEAR in the world would be if I lost my Australian citizenship and had to live in England forever," Steve Kilbey shudders. Despite ...
Paul Kelly (singer-songwriter): Paul Kelly: Folklore and Fervour
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
Under numerous guises Paul Kelly has been releasing albums for the last three decades, and is now over here for an intimate acoustic set. Jenny ...
Dirty Pretty Things, The Libertines: The Liberation Of Carl Barat: Dirty Pretty Things
Report and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Inpress, June 2006
IT'S LIKE THE dressing room of the Ziegfield Follies in here. Members of Dirty Pretty Things are shimmying around the photo studio, trying on jackets, ...
Radio Birdman: Blood Brothers: The Return Of Radio Birdman
Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, 15 August 2006
Radio Birdman guitarist Deniz Tek always had chiselled good looks, but over the last few years he's become the James Bond of garage rock. He ...
The Triffids: Still Growing Strong
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, September 2006
Evil Graham Lee brought a ripe swoon to The Triffids' music with his pedal steel guitar. Now, seventeen years after their split, he's witnessing a ...
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Time Out Melbourne, 9 September 2013
From mumbling at Dave Grohl to yelling at reality TV, it's been an interesting writing process for Joan Jett this time around ...
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Time Out Melbourne, 23 July 2014
Ferreira returns to Australia to show why the night time is her time ...
A-ha: The Highs and Lows of being a-ha
Retrospective and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Financial Times, 18 March 2016
How many farewell tours can one band have? Magne Furuholmen talks about stardom, group therapy — and why his music is more than just fluff. ...
Sampa the Great: After the Australian Music Prize, Sampa the Great wants to set her story straight
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 5 April 2018
SAMPA THE GREAT didn't get the memo that artists should be of the tortured persuasion. She peppers her speech with gales of laughter. She wants ...
Courtney Barnett on coping with fame, homophobia – and thinking she still sucks
Profile and Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Guardian, 17 May 2018
The Australian musician has gone from indie darling to global star, but she's still uneasy in the limelight and wracked with self-doubt – even self-hate. ...
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