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I’ve seen a lot of live football games in the fifty years I’ve been following Aussie Rules, probably north of 800.  Over those the best players I’ve seen ‘live” have been Barry Cable, Brian Peake […]

Hi any of you Suburban Soldiers still out there, I am planning a few gigs this year and would love to see you. Firstly on Friday May 31 at Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney I […]

Thursday night I had the privilege of seeing Tony Durant’s Fuchsia at the Greenroom in Newtown. Tony was in the original Suburbs and will be playing with me later this year (August) in Perth and […]

CHINA TOWN   Here’s one of my favourite little songs I wrote in Brixton circa 1976 when I would dine at the Hot Pot restaurants.  We played this a lot on the early days and […]

The most skilful, exciting game of football I’ve ever seen was an early 1980s State of Origin game between WA and Victoria at Subiaco Oval. The game was simply at another level to an ordinary […]

I really don’t want to get up tomorrow. I might just lay there with the blankets pulled up over my head. I doubt I’ll cry but it’s not impossible. No, I’m not waiting for the […]

Around 1987 Martin Cilia and I started working on a number of country style songs as I loved the then “modern” country of Garth Brooks et al.  I think we came up with a number of […]

A few years ago I was invited to speak at the Elizabeth Jolley Forum at Curtin University in Perth on the above topic. Below is an edited version of my talk. Maybe it might stimulate a […]

So I’m walking down my suburb yesterday and it’s verge cleanup day. The title is different from state to state and country to country but it’s that time of the year where you put the […]