When I looked outside my studio doors today, as a late Sunday in the suburbs dripped into evening, this is what I saw. Sunday 19 Feb 2012
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Composing cool tunes for warm people
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I may not be a Connecticut Yankee in Camelot, but shortly I will be something even stranger: an Australian raver in Nashville. A trip I have been dreaming about ever since I got to the Eastern seaboard is about to happen: an Americana music road trip through the Appalachians. An[…]
Read More »I just posted a new clip – a version of “I Walked With A Zombie” by psychedelic rock legend Roky Erickson, arranged and performed by myself and local dark rock superstar Carol Blaze. It features wild footage from Pittsburgh’s annual zombie march through Monroeville Mall, where George Romero shot his[…]
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Bob and Bing It had been my intention to devote my next posting to an exciting rendition of a planned trip to groovy Asheville, North Carolina, to help celebrate Bob Moog’s birthday. The Bob Moog Foundation, based in Bob’s home town where the original synthesizer factory and archives remain, is[…]
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For the next few ‘episodes, I am handing over my blog to interviews with people who embody inspirational aspects of Australian culture. First up, an interview with Mike Puleston, long-standing organiser in the Victorian branch of the Australian Greens. When I told Mike I wanted to interview him because I[…]
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Your gravestone epitaph competition As I remain in Melbourne recovering from surgery, I find that I miss Pittsburgh quite a lot – in a yearning sort of way. Which is a bit mysterious given I have only really just moved there. But I think I have figured out the major[…]
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How not to improve on ‘Wicked Game’ (but make it sound more like the kind of track you’d actually desperately record in your bedroom late at night) Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’ is one of those perfect songs which simply cannot be ‘improved’ upon. There are many, many tracks that can[…]
Read More »A New Country My USA permanent residency card arrived totally unannounced in the mail today. I stared at it in happy shock and amazement. I am now an American (albeit one with a funny accent). Exactly one year after Tanya and I wandered into Pittsburgh, for the first time, almost[…]
Read More »by Nicole Skeltys Week two on the set of the Warrior movie Last week, I brought down to the set of the Warrior movie a nice fat book called “Pennsylvania Spirituals” by Don Yoder (1961). I was working on Warrior as a full-time extra, my main duties consisting of cheering[…]
Read More »by Nicole Skeltys My life as an extra on an action movie ( so far) Although I haven’t actually met Nick Nolte yet, or for that matter even clapped eyes on him, I now feel closer to Nick than any other Hollywood actor I’ve never met. And thats all of[…]
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