Tag: The Great Gatsby

What’s on Built For Speed, Friday 7th June 2013

After our look back at our favourite tracks from the first decade of the 21st century, this week on Built For Speed we play a feast of new Australian and OS tracks including Melody’s Echo Chamber, Beaches and Savages.  It’s also time for the Built For Speed classic album and this month it’s Fishbone’s 1991 funk, punk, metal, soul masterpiece

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Film review: THE GREAT GATSBY, from Built For Speed

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby captured America amid the hedonism and chaos of the “jazz age” a time when the nation was giddy with power from its First World War economic boom. The book focused on an American upper class of wealthy white folks who, in addition to their sedate garden parties and boating regattas, regularly gathered for

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