Psycho in the City

Leslie explains the love handles gig report The Wild Thyme Café and The Shearing Shed 30.4.07 – I rang Allan at the Wild Thyme to make sure we weren’t playing outside this time – we enjoy the rain on principle, but draw the line on having to perform in it. No worries as it turned…

Record company endorsed file-sharing company launches at MIDEM 28.1.08 – Some of you may not even realise there’s a whole section on this site dealing with the issue of file sharing – but there it is. I even played a minor part in this particular company’s development a couple of years ago – you can…

Crap! Is this the end of life as we know it? 26.3.11 – I don’t blame Ted (Lethborg) for not getting in touch really, but the first I heard of it was last week when my publisher, Gus McNeil, rang me saying he’d heard that Aztec Music had gone. Then Daryl (Roberts) rang me this…

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…

You get more of an idea of the unique Spiegeltent ambience with the bigger picture

1) Mick Newman’s pic catches the band hard at work in the first set gig report St Andrews Hotel Sun. 28.6.09 The St Andrews pub rocks on.. 29.6.09 – Any concerns about numbers being down at the St Andrews pub due to talk of a recession were emphatically dispelled yesterday arvo when the full-sized version…