CRAIC

As It Happened

John Foy

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11 June 2025

Music

An Australian’s journey from the suburbs to original punk-era Sydney and beyond. Operating record labels, designing and 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.

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 ran two prominent independent record labels during Australian music’s particularly golden era in the 1980s and ’90s. He’s now a citizen of the world with no fixed address as he expands his interests in writing.

Praise for 'SNAPS CRACK POP!':

"The (Snaps Crack Pop!) book is really great." – Henry Rollins

"It is terrific! My 20 year old son has not put it down since I got home. It will have pride of place on the book shelf." – Dare Jennings

“Lest anyone cry, ‘Too much information!’, Snaps Crack Pop! is an invaluable book, because of the story it tells, and tells so well, in such rich and unsparing detail” – Clinton Walker

"The poster images and record covers that John Foy created define my generation. This book explains it all" – Stuart Coupe

By: John Foy
ISBN: 9780648227366
ISBN 10: 0648227367
Publication Date: 11 June 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Foy is a former graphic designer and poster artist who ran two prominent independent record labels during Australian music’s particularly golden era in the 1980s and ’90s. 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.