Bilgola beach, on Sydneys north shore
Sunday, woke up couldn’t resist checking the score from previous days Chelsea Hull city game, nil nil, unreal more than worthy of a viewing. After popping out for coffee, settled down to watch a recording of the game. Bloody enthralling it was too, possibilities to steal it. The straw that [...]

Even with the knowledge that ropes are strong and that Shane our guide had a GCSE or Australian equivalent in rock climbing, there is still something more than mildly counter intuitive about standing at the top of a 30 metre rock face, shuffling back a bit,  shuffling back a bit more, then leaning backwards over that sheer rock edge. [...]

Missed this exhibition when this was on at the Tate a while back, or at least presuming it’s the same exhibition traveling about a bit. Turned up early on a saturday morning and had pretty much the whole place to myself. Faves from the show, difficult to choose, but i really enjoyed the formula 1 [...]

I copied an album from James in November, he told me it was incredible, it probably still sits somewhere on my old laptop, I didn’t listen to it. Going over the line up for the Sydney Festival i noticed the band was playing. I Listened to a couple of tracks on youtube, bought tickets [...]

Silver Apples Turbine hall All Tomorrow Parties sydney
I feared the worst, arriving at circular key for my scheduled 12.50am ferry, the queue looped seemingly half way around sydney, dark memories of the queue fest that was atp 2006 when seemingly more time was spent queuing for bands than watching them. It wasn’t to be, a [...]

Afrirampo oxford arts factory sydney
Right I’m going to have to come back to Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road and Spritualized. This gig was killer. After sweating all day in 40 degree plus heat (i’ll never tire of dropping temperatures in) in swept a southerly change to cool things off a bit, making activities such as catching [...]

Finally got round to seeing In the Shadow of the Moon  at free moonlight screening put on as part of the Sydney Festival in the Sydney Olympic Park. I know my fingers not exactly on the pulse here, the film probably came out a couple of years ago, but great to see this incredible documentary with a [...]

Fuck buttons at primavera 2008
An ecstatic peace poll requesting the top live performances of 2008 sent me trawling back through the diary, here’s my top 10 
1)my bloody valentine - roundhouse london
2)why - scala london (us election night)
3)shellac - primavera festival barcelona
4)scout niblett - primavera festival barcelona
5)times new viking - camden london, or bardens.
6)black dice - [...]