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Whiz, bang, wallop what a picture! 1) Spectrum had the luxury of Enza for company at St Andrews 2) Darryl Cotton and Boyz at the Carols in Mordialloc 3) Chris (right) and the Vermont St crew enjoy the ambience at St Andrews 4) Hugh did a great job on the cover art gig report A…

1) Bill shows off his Tigers’ tankard 2) Dick says ‘No photos!’ Post Chrissie, cross-country jog blog.. 28.12.06 – While I’m playing host to my son Chris, it’s impossible to maintain my regular self-indulgent routine, and I feel compelled to go for drives during the day to keep him entertained. Yesterday was a case in…

A weekend of contrast 1) A swan glides past the Rainforest Room 2) Robbo eats his last de-tox lunch during the load in at the Boat Shed 3) Joanne and Greg Blunt pose with Spectrum (see large shots) 4) The view from the back door of the shed 5) Greg with his daughter Tenille before…

1) Sam waits for some intelligible words 2) Rick applies the blow torch 3) Vics vote for no change 4) Chris relaxes in a Brave New World 5) This way Mr Rudd.. The week that was.. 27.11.06 – One can delude oneself that nothing much goes on in one’s life when one is a feckless…

TOMORROW IS TODAY, AUSTRALIA IN THE PSYCHEDELIC ERA, 1966-70 MELBOURNE FESTIVAL- FINAL WEEKEND Community Radio 3CR’s Tomorrow Is Today festival comes to a close this coming weekend with a number of events beginning with an exhibition at Dante’s Upstairs Gallery (150-156 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy). Running from Friday October 27 to Sunday October 29 and open…

Mike plays another mystery chord for Daz’s entertainment* gig report Sunday double revives the ’70s 30.10.06 – The shock of the old has me wasted still. The double from bucolic St Andrews to the Bar Open in Fitzroy was always going to be testing, but a couple of ’70s-style stuff-ups actually helped us make through…

James the PC Doctor Dell boy back on track and other trivia 21.10.06 – I’d noticed some time ago that my principal PC, other than the music computer of course, was getting slower and slower, and while I don’t know much about the technical side of computers, I’d diagnosed that I was wildly short on…

Mary Doumany and Jeremy Alsop invoke salon music par excellence Alsop and Doumany shine on a bleak Sunday arvo 25.9.06 – Outside Jeremy Alsop and Mary Doumany’s Middle Park home the unwelcome Antarctic wind whistled and chopped the bay into a unbecoming British racing green and dirty white foam. With half-a-dozen other guests (including the…

Trevor and Aimée at Moravia Life is but a dream – part infinity 19.9.06 – It’s a regrettable fact, but I have to push myself to get out and mingle on a day to day basis. It’s a shame, because I happen to know some awfully nice people, and I neglect them at my peril….

Lobby’s Benefit goes off! 1) Colin Burgess and Jim Keays in stereo 2) Brenden Mason, Bill, Paul Wheeler’s partner Kerrry Ritson and Paul 3) Spectrum’s Daryl Roberts and Chain’s Dirk Dubious 4) Matt Taylor leans to the right 5) Jimmy Barnes beams 6) Lobby’s daughter Frances and guitarist Duncan 7) Someday I’ll have..* 8) Wild…

1) Cheerful Sophie Stevens and maudlin Mike 2) Mike cops a bunch of freesias That’s yer bloomin’ lot.. 24.8.06 – So, here I am, sewage backing up ominously, wearily sizing up the detritus accrued over decades with a view to disposing of most of it, checking out the rental market with a growing sense of…

Weekend flurry of gigs 1) Rob Judd strikes the pose 2) Ron (left) Di and Vince prop up Mike at St Andrews gig report Nighthawk Blues and St Andrews 31.7.06 – There’s no doubt we create uncertainty in the minds of the average Saturday night crowd at the Nighthawk Most of them come to dance…

The Last Hurrah 1) The line on the red carpet 2) Mike, Jimmy Sloggett, Kevin Borich and Mark Kennedy 3) Joe Hiltz, Bones, Mal Logan and Roger McLaughlin 4) Ken Murdoch gets a request 5) Brian Cadd, Mike and Fleur Thiemeyer consider a ménage à trois 6) The Last Hurrah commemorative badge The Last Hurrah…

Top Notch gesture 30.5.06 – I was surprised when I went to the post office box today – there was a bulky envelope addressed to SPTB care of me. I thought initially that maybe one of us had left something at the motel, but when I opened it over my morning jasmine tea, I discovered…

1) Sunday reading at the Gusto Bakery 2) Falun Gongers maintain a slow motion protest Off cuts 24.5.06 – The people at the Gusto Bakery are getting used to me popping in for a jasmine tea and a bit of a read of the Age. If you look carefully at the first photo you’ll see…

Check out a larger view My Camberwell 30.5.07 – It seems aeons ago that I did a gratuitous and rather notorious photographic survey of public toilets in my precinct of Camberwell. (Is precinct right? It sounds so American. Or even Japanese). With my pretty high quality phone camera in hand I feel that it’s incumbent…