Vin Maskell Bedroom, Williamstown, 11.30pm, 2007To listen to Feelings Of Grief is to swim out beyond the buoys, where the water is too deep and the shore too distant.
Paul Kelly 2006I asked Richard if it would be better if I resigned and he got someone else, someone who could orchestrate properly.
Kath Presdee The Hume Highway, NSW, various Sunday nights, 1997 - 1998My tape version will always stick in my memory. It was incomplete, with Paul Kelly rudely cut off mid-phrase. No swelling final lines, no plaintive recollections. Just a whirr.
John Harms Murtoa, winter, 2014A huge cold front is whipping through and the sideways rain is hitting the windows and the roof. It’s the night they’ve turned the new ground lights on.
Tony Kelly Meredith Music Festival, December 2008Snug in my carousel I rose above the din and lights and looked out over the gloaming. I swung back down towards the crowd and the squalor and then back up again. It was hypnotic.