Ukulele Mekulele: Living large and little
Ukulele. Double Bass. Gorilla. Behind the magic. I ripped off my Backseat Drivers costume and dashed out of the performing arts complex and down to the next gig. A hot tent […]
Ukulele. Double Bass. Gorilla. Behind the magic. I ripped off my Backseat Drivers costume and dashed out of the performing arts complex and down to the next gig. A hot tent […]
Most of us have had a moment or two with David Bowie. He came into my lounge room in 1980 via the orange, blasted video for Ashes to Ashes, saturated […]
Three chords and a thesaurus. Two guitars and a cello. The cops stop a video shoot. Come into My Garden. I started writing songs that were OK in the early […]
The best singer you never heard of: a star. To navigate by. Like many, I first came across Al’s music through Dennis Potter’s Pennies from Heaven, watching it on telly as […]
Cliff Richard. Ukulele music. The back seat of a Valiant. Elvis writes my soundtrack. A good Korea move. In 1997 I’d made a show called Toast for the Brisbane Fringe Festival. […]
The ukulele is experiencing an enormous wave of popularity. There’s historical precedent for this fad, going back to other waves of the ‘20’s and ‘50’s. I’ve often been asked why […]
Drunk on Goon, sitting in some messy room. Out in Wulguru. A little record player. My friend DB beside me. Going through records. Teenagers. Then DB’s brother gets home from […]