Reckoning

Matt Swayne & Captain Kirk onstage at Adelaide Big Day Out 1996.

Thanks to Vicky Gouthas for the pic!

Ha ha – the day the Reckoning Rip It Up cover story hit the streets I was on such an ego high. I remember walking up Rundle St, peeking at all the fresh piles of magazines in the shops, getting a new buzz of butterflies in my belly for each stack as I sauntered past, [...]

On Dit was (is?) the Adelaide University magazine, and I am pretty sure these two articles are from there. Thanks to Jane Sykes for sending them in. Click on the images to read them all big like.

I think this Reckoning article was in the Advertiser again … dunno can’t remember …
My least fave thing about this article – the horrible pull quote – yeeesh!
My fave thing about this photo? Hmmm … I think it has to be the t-shirt I bought on the way to the photo session from one of [...]

I think this was in the Sunday Mail anyway… could be wrong. Click on it to see a readable version.

How’s that head of hair on Pete! Grrrow! What a lion! And of course this provides proof to the rumour that I was, in my youth, silly enough to wear pigtails. For some reason the girls [...]

I am quite happy to report that this website has managed to bring in a fair bit of goodwill and memorabilia of the old Reckoning days, so much so that I have felt a little overwhelmed about what to post first, but in the spirit of random action – here we go (goes off to [...]

Me (Seamus) and Peter Owen go in to the studio with a couple of other lads to start jamming/recording this weekend. Very excited about this; the true beginning of the first serious work we have done together since reckoning days (although we’ve done a few casual gigs and jam here and there together over the [...]

These shots of reckoning back in the 90s at the Adelaide Uni Bar were recently discovered by one Nick Lambert, formerly of the Undecided. Seems he kept his fave pics of Peter Owen for himself

Reckoning Newsletter
Back in the land before time, we used to take names and snail mail addresses and send out a sporadic photocopied newsletter. I have but one of these in my possession, coffee-stained and yellow. Here ’tis

Hint: don’t use that email address, we never even learned how to retrieve those emails, try info@reckoning.com.au – especially [...]

Reckoning Postcard

This is a postcard of Reckoning that we had printed early on (before long hair happened). Probably in 1994 but that’s a guess. We used it to promote gigs.
It’s a photo we took behind the shops in Goodwood, just off Rosa St, which is where all of us lived at one time.
Once somebody met [...]