and Why Music Inspires For the past 2 years I’ve made the pilgrimage to Byron Bay Bluesfest for a dose of good, filthy delta blues and rock. Bluesfests 30th anniversary was not to be missed. Held each Easter in Byron Bay, Northern NSW, Australia. Bluesfest is one of the worlds top festivals An overdose of […]
Short Stories
I’ve been having some fun entering the monthly Furious Fiction competition which is run by the Australian Writers Centre. They give away 500 bucks every month so it’s worth a shot. For some inexplicable reason I keep not winning but fuck it all, seems a waste to leave them on the hard drive so I’ll […]
The Loneliness of the Writer
Writing is supposedly a glamorous occupation. When I tell people I write for a living the first response is usually ‘Oh! What do you write?’. If the answer to the age old question is ‘I’m an electrician’, who among us would enthusiastically follow up with ‘Oh! What do you specialise in? Control wiring, data cabling? […]
US and Them
And after all, we’re only ordinary men… Well, that’s how the old Pink Floyd/Roger Water’s song goes but after watching Jordan Peele’s extraordinary horror SF movie US, I’d say Peele has succeeded writing nothing less than a stark allegory of the rise of modern fascism in America. Where to start? The depiction of the horror […]
Lets get this show on the road…
I’ve been banging on a lot lately about how important it is for writers to build a platform. It shames me – just a little because I’m generally shameless – that I haven’t got one myself. If I can be an example to others I shall be. Fellow writers, here’s the news. If you want […]