On 22 April, I launched Canary Wharf: the Rock Opera at Thornbury Picture House, Melbourne via two screenings (one sold out) to very enthusiastic audience responses. Each screening was followed by a Q&A which allowed myself and movie co-producer Dr Bill Garrett to elaborate on what motivated me to try[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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Prologue Hello! After a long absence I am now going to start blogging again, every week in fact. I’ll be using this blog to document my creative process in writing and composing my practice-led Phd in music which I have just started (Feb 2020). As part of my research, I[…]
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London update It’s been a unexpectedly busy year music-wise, with gigs every 6 weeks in London – all at small but famous venues. Always a thrill to play places which have a rich music history where my idols have performed, such as the Water Rats in Kings Cross – the[…]
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I was fortunate enough to be asked by Australia’s most popular indie radio station 2JJ to do two mixes of Australian ’90s electronica plus write liner notes for a retrospective they have just broadcast about that golden era. Transcript plus links below. Hope you enjoy listening to these sounds (again)[…]
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June Was the End of May The last few weeks have been victorious ones for Skeltys’ campaigns. I type this as Tory leader Theresa May is swiftly doing a deal with the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), a divisive far right wing party of women and gay haters founded by[…]
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I could be wrong, but I think I have released 11 albums so far. Maybe 12 if I include all my extremely odd Stoner Classix vinyl, which are currently enjoying a resurgence of interest. Regardless, I choose to regard the album I am currently working on – Deal With Your Disenchantment –[…]
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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence So how many childhood heroes did I lose in 2016? Bowie, Prince, Cohen, Gene Wilder, Greg Lake (from Emerson, Lake and Palmer), Ronnie Corbett, are the headlines. But the lesser known newly dead were also fond companions on my ‘growing up’ television – Andrew Sachs (Manuel[…]
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Lets get this first bit over with quickly… You might think that because I haven’t posted a blog for a year, I might have nothing to say. Not been up to much. 9.00 – 5.00 office worker, nose pressed flat against someone’s shoulder in the District Line crush to and from the Royal[…]
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Sex and Death A London Ambulance Service union official commented to me a few months ago that the very nature of emergency services work is that front-line staff have to “rush into situations from which human instinct tells everyone else to RUN AWAY”. Perhaps the medical situation that most people[…]
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The Fight to Save One of the World’s Greatest Wonders: The NHS In October last year, I was inspired by Ken Loach’s film ‘The Spirit of 45’ to blog about the NHS , and remark that it was a world historic achievement in organised human compassion. I’m not the only[…]
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