Happy New Year to the faithful & the unfaithful, to the movers & the shakers, the sad & lonely, to those who get it done & those who want it done. May you appreciate this is all a gift that one day is taken away and passed on like a baton in a relay that you wish could be held onto just a little bit longer. xx
From 1999 a rarity called Happy New Year. By the time New Year rolled around in 1999/2000 we were in hospital with a one day old baby girl, our third. We briefly wished each other a happy one and then went back to our dreaming.
From Paul Kelly’s self-described ‘mongrel memoir’ ‘How To Make Gravy’ pg 139-140
"Everybody Wants To Touch Me’ is sometimes read as a riff on celebrity. That seems to be Sydney cabaret singer Paul Capsis’s take on it on his album of the same name. Medusa-haired Deborah Conway, Melbourne singer-songwriter and mother of three, knows a little about celebrity and pregnancy both. She fronted a band called Do-Re-Mi in the eighties and had a big hit with a song called ‘Man Overboard’, featuring the memorable lines ‘Your pubic hairs on my pillow, your stubble rings the sink.’ Her shapely posterior was also famous, full-framed and proudly bare on big Bluegrass Jeans billboards nationwide, with the tagline ‘Get yours into Bluegrass’.
Do-Re-Mi functioned as a collective - a shaky construct in pop music at the best of times - and used language such as ‘ideologically unsound’ (the predecessor of ‘politically incorrect’) in their band meetings. Deborah, with her ...
Your performance at Camelot tonight was perfection. Absolutely loved it! And the new tracks are so good - can’t wait for the new album. You guys just keep on delivering. 🙏
Thrilled to be shortlisted for the 2024 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. There is also a publicly voted award which you can access here https://haveyoursay.waverley.nsw.gov.au/nib-peoples-choice-prize
As they say -Vote early, vote often!
I love baked goods & I had been meaning for a long time to try out Zelda’s Bakery https://www.instagram.com/stories/z_e_l_d_a_bakery/3429100459686607415?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=eGNtcHg1emdmM2du
but every time I was in the Ripponlea area Zelda was closed. And then i heard on the grapevine that Zelda Bakery had made a playlist of local musicians work & was handing over a cinnamon sugar scroll to any of us who turned up. I turned up & it was so worth the detour. Incredibly delicious baked goods are definitely my bag baby. But if you’re planning a trip keep in mind Maaryasha opens her store on Wednesdays & Fridays only. Bon appetite
