Bill’s on YouTube 3.5.09 – A lot of people have asked after Bill’s well-being since the fires, and I hope everybody is aware by now that he’s safe and sound. By way of a record of the disaster and its impact on his immediate surroundings, you can now check out Bill’s visual and musical homage…

1) Boys will be boys! Their parents got their revenge with the hose later 2) Paul De Lange and sockless Mike 3) Bill shows the lads a couple of things 4) The party boys gig report Combined 50th party goes off! 30.3.09 – We’ve probably been past the Glen Forbes Rd turn off dozens of…

1) Rocky from Two Bob Millionaires 2) Alana Galea and Debonair Dom made it to Fawkner 3) Bren Mason hoons it up gig report Musicland Fawkner Trevor Young benefit 28.2.09 – I drove right past Musicland the first time – it has a non-descript frontage jammed as it is between as caryard and a furniture…

I was wrong.. Let me count the ways.. 30.1.09 – I blame the heat. I managed to send out a few hundred Spectrum monthly gig guides before Yahoo! told me I’d exceeded my daily limit. Probably just as well as it turns out. While I didn’t forget to give the Sunday Sounds gig at the…

Neil Butler goes Radio Ga Ga.. The airwaves are alive with the sounds of Spectrum! 30.12.08 – As the New Year elect waits in the wings, the old one has a few more wags in the tail. On Saturday Bill and I trekked down to the Southbank studios of the ABC for what we though…

Mike & Bill join the Art connoisseur crowd 1) Maddy Hayes 2) Tony Healey, Athol Guy, Mike and his personalised bottle o’ pinot 3) Tony Cavanagh introduces Athol Guy 4) The bottle and the lavish art program 5) The label gig report Mike & Bill at the Deutscher-Menzies Gallery 28.11.08 – My Molly Award has…

Spectrum’s inaugural ‘Rock at the Royal’ 30.10.08 – Could the Royal Park Hotel (pic) be another Lomond? Spectrum hasn’t played a gig in North Melbourne for a few years now, so it would be nice to think we could develop another inner city gig. Anyway, we’d love to see some of you there – it’s…

1) Spectrum plays de blues at de Wordleys on a Sunday arvo (Iain Ross) gig report Spectrum’s soirée at the Wordleys’ 8.10.08 – We managed to navigate the two vehicles to the Wordleys’ without any major dramas and arrived more or less bang on time. There was already a fair crowd assembled and there were…

Morning of the Earth report 29.8.08 – It’s nearly September already and I’ve just come back from a couple of days in Sydney attending a full rehearsal with (nearly) all the musicians involved with the Morning of the Earth show. You have to be impressed with the professionalism on display, and I’m sure it’s going…

Bill applies the throttle to Allan gig report A quiet riot in Warburton 27.7.08 – Just before I left for Warburton I got a call from my bro’ in-law Geoff, inviting me to join him and Syl watching the first instalment of the Bledisloe Cup series. That would’ve been a really nice thing to do,…