Toast: crunch time
The Brisbane fringe festival was coming up and I wanted to make something new, something cheap and easily realisable. Since my first taste with TN!, I’d subsequently taken gigs in […]
The Brisbane fringe festival was coming up and I wanted to make something new, something cheap and easily realisable. Since my first taste with TN!, I’d subsequently taken gigs in […]
If you’ve seen or read about The Empty City, stage adaptation of the picture book (illustrated by Jonathon Oxlade) that opened in mid 2013 at the Brisbane Powerhouse (The Human Company/MAPS […]
In my first few years of performance practice, inbetween paid gigs, I made my own stuff. I didn’t label it as anything at the time. The word independent might have […]
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Can’t sleep? Count Sheep. Lily Can’t Sleep In 2006 Bridget Boyle and Liz Skitch from Debase asked me to be part of the team putting together a…
This is about country and folk. Both genres have a wealth of idioms for a writer or performer to draw from, and draw they do. Their canon of traditional structures […]
This is a story about how we turned some songs into a setlist (which made us write more songs) which we transformed into a show. The complete soundtrack is now […]
I like strings in things. From 1930’s dance bands to 1950’s pop, the singing of of strings in a song adds a texture that I like running my ears over. One […]