The Sounds of Tomorrow As 2021 slouches towards Bethlehem, feeling like its time for another blog post given the last one was May 2020! Like most people in Melbourne, only let out weeks ago from what was apparently the world’s longest (cumulative) lockdown, still feeling shell-shocked & hard to remember[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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I read the news today, oh boy The following is an excerpt from a Phd in music proposal I wrote in Sept 2019, for consideration by several Universities in Australia. My proposal was to write and record an extended musical and narrative work entitled Canary Wharf: The Rock Opera. What[…]
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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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After four radio interviews, enthusiastic album airplay, a feature article in the local music press and an epic two set show at the superb Northcote Social Club, The Disenchanted’s February trip to Melbourne was swift but successful. Melbourne is one of the greatest music towns in the world, 3RRR is[…]
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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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Deal With Your Disenchantment is my 12th album. It is a 21st century woman’s (ie me) take on Dylan’s classic albums of the ‘60s/ early ‘70s. All the tracks are original, but they started with a specific Dylan track or genre in mind. I used the Dylan classics as inspiration,[…]
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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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