A brief recap first... I started a band with a schoolfriend back in 1983, when we were in our senior years at high school. Inspired by artists like Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen & by the 70s-80s industrial bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, SPK & the wonderfully named Throbbing Gristle, not to mention Australia's own Severed Heads, ( Read more... )

Being 'flu-ridden at home means more time to process photos...

All from the March-April roadtrip


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A rainy start to the weekend, so the perfect weather to head to the Southern Highlands - about 2 hours south of Sydney - for the Robertson Potato Festival, in a small town L-SP & I have passed through often, mostly for its cheese shop, 2nd-hand Bazaar & the better of its 2 pie shops, on our way to other places. We had noticed the giant rusty metal ( Read more... )

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Apparently, if not for some espionage & subterfuge, Australia's European settlers could have come from France & not Britain...The British colonising fleet arrived in Botany Bay only a few days before 2 French ships turned up with the same idea. They had been delayed looking for some fabled 'treasure' islands that featured on a map of the South ( Read more... )

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From the recent road trip through New South Wales & Victoria...


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This appeals to my inner, suppressed revhead... I'd love to drive on the Autobahn...

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Well, she's done it. Just a couple of days ago, I said the only political foot-in-mouth cliché Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves hadn't used, was a reference to the Nazis...

In another new reference to the Holocaust, Ms Deves suggested those that fail to fight the move towards gender fluidity are no different to those that watched ( Read more... )