History

“What do I call him? I can’t just call him Porkchops.”
“That’s what everybody calls him,” I was told.

Midnight Oil are the 29th act to throw support behind Support Act’s Roadies Fund through the Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA)’s awesome Desk Tape Series

Dave, like many other roadies, were the glue that kept the Aussie live music industry together at the very start.

And whilst the office drinking culture was in decline, if not taboo by the end of the 20th century, journalists were exempt.

“Looking back maybe we should have tried a bit harder. But we were having too much fun!”

“It’s amazing what they can do these days isn’t it?” Paul McCartney marvelling at the rhythm box 1975.

Witnessing a waitress fleeing in tears after two off-duty Manila cops dumped bullets as payment on her serving tray was a stark reminder that I was working in a country with a gun control problem

WOMADelaide is the most extraordinary live music environment I have ever experienced. It’s so fitting that this is the first major festival back as pandemic restrictions fade

They built it, and they came; all 36,000 live music deprived souls. Sadly, just three weeks later, Foo’s beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins would pass away