Music

  I love anyone and anything that sits outside the usual boundaries of what people consider “normal”, which if you’re conservative is pretty much anything outside the beige and the banal. Rather than decrying people who push boundaries and are exceptionally, interestingly creative, we should celebrate them, hold them high, Continue Reading

  Life is too short, way too short, to waste it on artists and songs that say nothing of any consequence. That’s not say that every song you listen should be a philosophical treatise set to music – having some mindless, go-with-the-groove fun can be good for the soul – Continue Reading

  Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of follow-the-leader music out there, bereft of distinctive identity, an assembly of parts that belies its lack of one-of-a-kind inspiration. Thankfully there are an awful lot of immensely-talented people out there creating music that is anything but beige and uniformly the same, and Continue Reading

  It’s Australia Day and while there is considerable, very much necessary debate about the validity of observing our national day on a date seen as Invasion Day by indigenous people, it is still a good day to reflect on what makes this country great. (For the record, I think Continue Reading

  I love listening to music. (If you haven’t figured that out yet, then clearly you haven’t been paying attention.) But more than that, I need the music to say something meaningful to me, to dig into the marrow of life and really think about what makes it tick, what Continue Reading

  I remain, as always, a devotee of all things Scandinavian. It started as a child with books and TV shows – obviously at that age I had no idea they were Scandinavian; I simply loved the quirk and storytelling idiosyncrasies of the material – and continued on with ABBA Continue Reading

  Music powers my life. Every last part of it in fact. Whether I’m commuting, exercising, sitting and working – but not when I’m writing alas; I’m one of those people who must write in monastic silence or the worlds will not flow – or simply sitting and watching the Continue Reading