So I know this guy Ollie Hayes, and he’s designed and created album covers and posters for Fun Machine and also Smoky Seas and I love not only his style but also him. I asked him to create something for me, and he asked me what my ideas were. I said I wanted something outside   Read More …

I’m going to be joining the hallowed ranks of Canberra geniuses on Sunday afternoon at 5pm, somewhere north-side, for the Local Gold concert series. It’s a guerilla gig, and it’s hosted people like Hashemoto and Julia & the Deep Sea Sirens (!) in the past, so I’m pretty chuffed. They announce the location on the morning   Read More …

Well, I was locked out of this website for a really long time. I’m back in, thanks entirely to Radu Suciu of McGill University, Montreal. He is a wonderful person, may the love of the universe rain upon him endlessly. I’m going to change the format of this site as soon as I am able,   Read More …

Last night was Hashemoto’s last gig in Canberra for a while, and they asked some people to read poetry. I was one of those readers, and this is one of the poems I read for the crowd:   The Baker   Every night I bring the moon along the hall Into the room where she   Read More …

It’d been a long time since I felt excitement  as a stomach-oriented thing. I spent all of  yesterday toeing the line of giddiness, and then last night alongside a glass of (free!) red and a few poetry readings it all came up good: I’m now a published author in a literary journal! It’s only a   Read More …

Two new shows in the upcoming shows list, which is pretty great because I was worried for a week there; the first week in years where I haven’t had a gig in the immediate future. finding that feeling not to my liking, I obtained a pair of music opportunities: May On Wednesday the 23rd I’m   Read More …

          Food Reviews   Grape: A sack of colourless fluid that exudes a sweet smell. Once opened with the teeth or the fingernails, some fleshy pulp and (in certain varieties) a bitter seed will be felt upon the tongue. The tearing sound heard within the head as the fruit’s skin is   Read More …

I’m going through my internet-life and fixing up the broken boards, the loose change, the leaking joists, and fixing up a nice bed for the possums. This means a couple of things: – this website will change soon, which is exciting for everyone except people who aren’t me. – I have finally fixed my mailing   Read More …

Wow. Filling in on bass for Fun Machine has been an excellent way to survive the absence of the inimitable Ramsay Nuthall, friend of mine par excellence and FM’s usual bottom-ender. The Beresford Upstairs hosted us and Myth and Tropics We played the launch night for the ACT’s new ‘peak music authority’, MusicACT on the deck (The Deck) at   Read More …

This week, a review of mine has been published in BMA that is overloaded with unusual words. I make no apology. Reviews of events that, having ended, can’t be attended by the reader tend to bore me. Writing one, I thought I’d just go crazy on the vocabulary and let likeminded folks go dictionary-hopping. Here’s   Read More …