They changed me

June 20, 2017

‘Morning, listeners. Bit late starting. Sorry. Here’s the Flaming Groovies.’ – Helen Garner, ‘Did he pay?’ from Postcards from Surfers As an incurable romantic, and a sort of delusional lazybones, my Read the full article…

The 6×3 notes

January 19, 2015

Dear reader, I wrote these notes for the Origin re-release of Browne, Costello & Grabowsky’s landmark album 6×3. I submitted them and asked to see the proofs before they were Read the full article…

The death of Isabella Dunn Sangster

November 28, 2013

John Sangster (1928-1995) was a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose origins in the traditional jazz community in Melbourne during the 1940s were later effectively eclipsed by his involvement in a wide Read the full article…

From the archive

September 30, 2013

I was reminded of this paper, and I mentioned it, so I’ve dug it out and here it is. I’ve read but not revised it, and it’s as it was Read the full article…

Groupie-dom

April 21, 2013

So who else caught Metropolis? To be honest, I only heard two concerts, the first and the last of the three with Thomas Adès, and I missed the one in Read the full article…