The Great Big Cheese in the Sky

Since the first big talent/singing tv show hit my world, which for me was not Young Talent Time (for the kiddies playing at home, it existed even before I was born), or even really ‘Hey Hey, it’s Saturday’, it was more like Oz Idol, in 2003; peers,...

You're a Shining Star

Tomorrow, my album winds it’s little freaky butt to a close (I pick up the Master tomorrow at 1PM!) and I get to sit back and listen once again to my songs. I get to listen closely and intently to the people who have come and played their hearts out on their...

Blues Fest Ghosts of Easter Past

oh Blues Festival… I’ve been going to you since I was 15 years old… I remember your ferris wheel and your mud swept fields of Belongil. I remember waves of mud, when I was 16, whilst volunteers tried to tie everything down with bales of hay; and my...

Womad 2012 and the Amazing Drumming Monkeys

Since nothing was getting done much around here anyway, Dan and I scooted to the 20th anniversary of the Womadelaide Festival, March 2012. Our delightful and ever heart-warming engineer, James Boundy, expressed to us that it was not a festival to be missed, and having...

Owl Eggs

We have begun. It was begun long ago, but, as far as the Owl, this project has begun. A dear new and wonderful friend of mine, Melissa Main, was double booked in two Melbourne venues last week, and I was delighted to be able to take one of the gigs off her hands while...