Mike, Over the years whenever I’ve met someone in the music business from Australia I always ask if they know you. It finally paid off. Glad to hear you and Bill are still at it. John and I have fond memories of our adventures down under with Spectrum & T.I.Murtceps. That was the last tour…

1) There’s always somebody.. 2) Flinders Station in mid-arvo The week that still is.. 25.1.07 – There’s so little happening by way of gigs lately that I wonder if it’s really worth inventing things for myself to do, but I get up each morning and gamely make up a list anyway. On Tuesday I’d organised…

Deakin TV’s Kim, Tam and Miranda at the Caffeine Café Deakin TV to do Breathing Space clip 30.1.07 – Bill put the definitive bass line on Breathing Space contender Don’t Hurt No More yesterday, and the song is finally starting to take shape and warrant its inclusion on the new album. (See The week that…

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…

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) 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…