Hi all, would love your input here. Can you tell me what your memories are of seeing DC&WZ live?
I'm Autistic and I've got tickets to an upcoming show in Sydney in July. My art therapist and OT are helping me prepare, by exploring different strategies that can help me. Usually if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar I look at the venue online, and I have emailed them too asking for info about how they host live gigs, where would be less busy for me to be seated and so on, but I haven't heard back.
I'm really wanting to be as ready and relaxed as possible because it's the first time I'm seeing DC live. I don't want to get scared and overwhelmed and back out of this. I need to do this for me.
If you can share your experiences, memories, tips, encouragement... I've been to live gigs before but with covid I'm out of practice and I'm just overwhelmed with what to expect.
Image is a sculpture I've been working on in art therapy. It's hyperbolic crocheted coral, mounted on a foam head. The words are about water and the ocean.
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 ...
Anybody out there want to come on a holiday with us? We are going to Antarctica in November. We will need a few of you to huddle with us to keep warm. Details here: https://www.chimuadventures.com/en-au/boa-pristine-wilderness-deborah-conway-oe
If you're interested in the article on us on the front page of today's Australian but can't access it because it's behind a paywall, here is a link to get you there. https://archive.md/HY7T2
The controversy over my appearance at the Perth Writers Festival weekend https://xpressmag.com.au/review-deborah-conway-and-willy-zygier-at-state-library-of-western-australia/
