Over the Christmas break i spent time with my bees. Here are some of my hives, my 4yo daughter helped paint one of them (we did it before the bees were in it). I have had bees for nearly 9 years but i only feel like i am beginning to get the hang of it … Read more
Bec Sandridge first stuck me as out of the ordinary when I heard her unique voice — a kind of seashell soft croon that has both a warm force and an ease, winging at airy heights — and her early songs allied this naturally with a sweet acoustic guitar. But as her music has developed, … Read more
Here are some songs I have been working on over the last year or so. This is an unfinished song I am working on with a strange time signature; bars of 5, 5, 5 & 6 beats add up to 21, so it also makes three bars of 7, which is the rhythm of the ‘john’ … Read more
After the Herculean task that is preparing for and sitting an Ancient Greek exam, my normal life seems easy and plain. But I am at last able to turn to other interests, things like tumblr, pieces of silver, marshmallows, and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Lately, whenever I try to introduce the Brian Jonestown Massacre to my … Read more
Originally published in BMA Connoisseurs of the Canberra music scene will have at some point found themselves grooved by the intimate and experimental folk triptet Hashemoto, or may have got to know them in their previous incarnation Trouser Trouser. The core of that outfit Damo Flanagan (guitar) and Potsy Webber (double bass) have in recent … Read more
Originally Published in BMA Tame Impala swept a Canberra crowd with psychedelic viscera on Saturday October 9, as part of their current Australian tour in support of their first full album, Innerspeaker, released in May this year. Having recently completed a significant European tour, the band is riding a wave of complimentary reviews, many of … Read more
Originally Published in SX Magazine, September 2002 Damien Rice took to the stage in fine form last tuesday night to an audience of loyal fans who had come from far and wide to hear his subtle blend of Irish folk/rock and turtle juice, touched with deeply textured thoughtful guitarwork and maidens singing. The transition from … Read more
Originally published in SX Magazine, August 2002 They came from the bottom of the fruit bowl and taught us how to be bad and cooky. Perhaps they ate their parents. Who knows how exactly it was that these theatrical satanist misfits came to be over here, but it was largely the work of Ryan Gentles, … Read more