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‘Proem’: How it works
‘Proem’ opens Freehand, so it ain’t new; it was the first piece written for the album, commenced shortly after the invitation to record it was issued. That was 2001. The manuscripts for Freehand reside...
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September is so the last twenty-nine days
I’ve not written here for about a month, so I’m going to make up for lost time with something of a rave. If you stick with it, you’re an idiot you might find it all ties up nicely, but I can’t make any...
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Two favourite intros
I know what I said but I’ll have just one That tastes good Okay then let’s go let’s get this over with only afterwards don’t anyone stand close to an open window – Raymond Carver, ‘You don’t know what...
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Mid ’90s
What’s happening here is that I’m dredging back a whopping eighteen years into the recesses of my collection, to a performance given on October 23, 1995. This was my twenty-fourth birthday, and the...
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The record is out
It’s fun putting records out. Never will I tire of the feeling one gets when holding the finished physical product in one’s hands for the first time, and seeing – however ridiculously, indefensibly,...
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They changed me
‘Morning, listeners. Bit late starting. Sorry. Here’s the Flaming Groovies.’ – Helen Garner, ‘Did he pay?’ from Postcards from Surfers As an incurable romantic, and a sort of delusional lazybones, my...
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Memory, nostalgia, sentimentality
What do you think when you hear Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings? Driving back and forth across Philip Island, on a break to celebrate your brother’s birthday, having it running on the cassette...
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Telling the truth
Last evening, I gave a truly awful performance. I was playing solo piano at the Jazzlab, and the gig was important to me because I had organised it in order to play alongside Meg Morley, whom many...
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Early plans for the year
Obviously we’ve been here before, pledging all kinds of nonsense in the hope that a new year will bring the genuine novelty we reckon is indicated. (Love that word, ‘indicated’. I take it from the med...
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The album is a journey
I know you own a copy of Kind of blue. Hopefully it’s placed alphabetically under D for Davis, and you’ll be able to find it quickly. Go on, locate it and pop it in the CD player, or on the turntable,...
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