Clem Bastow is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and music critic.
She wrote her first review in 2001 and has since written for the Age, Stylus Magazine, Inpress, jmag, Sunday Age and many others. She is the music editor of the Big Issue and senior contributor at Inpress.
She produced and presented two seasons of a music criticism panel show, Dancing About Architecture, for C31 in 2008/2009. In addition, she presents a weekly program on 3RRR, Transference. When she’s not writing, Clem spends far too much time on YouTube looking at funny videos of cats.
Neil Gaiman explores love and death, the tyranny of genre, sneezing baby pandas and red daleks with Clem Bastow.
Lawrie Zion, Chris Johnston, Clem Bastow and Mikey Cahill discuss the state of music criticism.
