I finally got to meet Pete Townshend in person, backstage at The Who concert, in Brighton last weekend. During lockdown, June 2020, Pete had graciously agreed to speak to me about my idea to write a rock opera about London’s finance industry. He also expressed a keen interest in what[…]
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of chatting to London based artist-activist and filmmaker Dan Edelstyn about the making of Canary Wharf: the Rock Opera. Dan and Hilary Powell’s previous project Bank Job was a huge influence on Canary Wharf. Their current project Power (as of 2023) is equally[…]
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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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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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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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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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So lets imagine the Queen, a teenage war time ambulance driver and mechanic, this year decides to ditch her carefully crafted annual Xmas address to the nation and instead reflect upon the history and meaning of ambulance services. We’d switch on the TV, ‘A Message from the Queen’ in important[…]
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So next week, my temporary contract with the Barts Centre For Trauma Sciences winds up. And how many times can you say that your job has changed your life? Here are some experiences/ images that I will take with me to my grave. 1) Shooting a video, with fellow Australian[…]
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“Who has a why to live can bear most any how” Neitzsche Freedom House In July, I stopped over in Pittsburgh, caught up with some of my dear friends there, and made a remarkable discovery. In the late 1960s, a bunch of Pittsburgh doctors and civil rights activists set up[…]
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On Sunday afternoon, May 19, I caught the overground back to East Dulwich after spending the night in Islington with Sarah, watching the Eurovision song contest on TV with her gay friends, all of us curled up in groaning, snickering balls on the couch. Already hungover, I took a short[…]
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