Craig Kirchner takes us to the drug store corner of his teenage years in Baltimore.
Here's a preview of one of the songs we'll be performing at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick on Saturday 30 November.
Returning to Melbourne always felt like a slow deflation, but I had Paddy and our photos and stories and reminiscences to keep me going through the school term. I longed for open skies and mountains, physical work and companionship, stars and weather and cold.
Albury, New South Wales, 14 September, 2024. Gemma Keating It is always a privilege, and a joy, to perform at the Write Around the Murray festival (WAM) in Albury, as we have done for seven years now, going back to 2016. We never take any show, or any audience, for granted. We [...]
Photo courtesy of Queenscliffe Literary Festival. When Indigenous author and Voice referendum campaigner Thomas Mayo concluded his story at our show last Saturday night the 300-strong audience broke into sustained applause that very, very quickly became a standing ovation. Mayo’s story, ultimately one of hope, was what the Kev Carmody/Paul Kelly song [...]
Few people, myself included, gave quite as much thought to the third astronaut of Apollo 11, Michael Collins, the muggins who circled the moon alone before picking up the hitchhikers for the return trip. A year after the event,
We chatted with strangers who became friends, parading with the Indians and being part of some highly ritualised meetings with other gangs, where the Big Chiefs would decide who had the “prettiest suit” through dance and rhyming trash-talk – one would eventually step back and bow to the other.
Fishing, though, was what brought most of us lads to the dam in the first place. Going out with our fathers and uncles back in the days when fishing was more about catching and eating, catfish and even carp.
Here's a fine piece by Matt Zurbo that covers a lot of ground: work, ambition, festival sabotage, a funeral...
The first band were doing their first ever gig. But all three were very experienced musicians and two of them were people I had known for years.