Creative writing, music, art
… OR PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC#4 My sister's next request was familiar to me. 'The Luckiest', by Ben Folds from his 2001 solo album 'Rockin' the Suburbs' is a beautiful, if not slightly left-field love song to his wife. Now, this one I knew quite well as that album gets a regular bashing when Kathy and I [...]
… or Pandemic Schmandemic#2 This post follows Pandemic Schmandemic#1 (check the link if you want to know what happened before). Once upon a time several decades ago, my sister told me of an early childhood memory of me playing the theme tune to a children’s television show on my brother’s guitar (Pat had set it [...]
While my musical space was elsewhere during the 1980's, I remained aware of bands of the time, with their big hair, big shoulders and baggy pants. Despite being a dedicated prog rock / classical guitar aficionado, much of that charting music resonated and instilled itself into the soundtrack to my life. The Police, Ultravox, INXS [...]
The earliest memory I've been able to drag from the rusting vault is one of me sitting on a bare concrete floor, lit by angled sunlight, while my father painted 'Cannon' on the lid of a small, green, moulded-cardboard suitcase. In my twenties (perhaps thirties — I don't remember ;-D), I related the scene to [...]
After many years thinking about it I've finally gotten myself into the routine of regular live appearances (well, at least more than once a year). The Spirit Bar Tasmania offered me a spot some weeks ago and I've been invited back a couple of times, I'd assumed to apologise but it seems there are some [...]
Tiger Dreaming 