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Category: Non-fiction
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Eurovision 2015: Ah, Vienna!
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5 min read
Having watched the 2015 Eurovision final in its entirety, I would agree with the general observation that the entrants this time around were mostly lacking in the somewhat indescribable pizazz that is compulsory if you want to win.
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“Out of petrol”: Kraftwerk på Cirkus
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9 min read
After taking an eternity to write my review of Animal Collective live in concert, I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf and get snappy. So, without further ado, some words and pictures from last week’s Kraftwerk gig at Cirkus in Stockholm.
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Animal Collective live in Leuven and Stockholm
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12 min read
Documenting my Animal Collective journey, from 2008 to 2012.
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Poem Communities
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3 min read
Growing up in the 1980s in rural Australia, I immersed myself in two passions: reading books and playing sport. I was never much one for football or cricket, preferring instead cross-country running, endless laps of the pool and, perhaps most vitally, tennis.
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Chris de Burgh: Crusader (1979)
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5 min read
Eagle-eyed readers would already be aware of my previous tutorial, wherein I demonstrated the art of writing a one hundie, two hundie, three hundie and therefore five hundie record review. In this tutorial, using the ‘find and replace’ function, I show how this template can be used to write a review of any other band…
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Adam Fieled: When You Bit
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2 min read
I read this book while travelling first class on a train from Stockholm to Gavle in Sweden last month but that’s another story. At seventy-odd pages, When You Bit (OTOLITHS, 2008) is a good hour’s read, if you pace yourself properly.
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LOL: Issue 1 and the Internet Post-Avant
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3 min read
Well, that was interesting!
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Lee Ranaldo: Hello from the American Desert
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11 min read
How can a book review capture a live concert experience?
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Chris de Burgh: At the End of a Perfect Day (1977)
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11 min read
I’ve been flat out digging through the online archives of the Chris de Burgh website, in particular the vast wealth of information contained within the Man On the Line (MotL) section, wherein Chris personally responds to questions and queries. While, unfortunately, the MoTL section has now been deleted from the website, thanks to the wonderful…
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Remembering Shelton Lea
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2 min read
My review of Diana Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel, a biography of Melbourne poet and raconteur Shelton Lea, has been published in the latest issue of Overland (#190). Interestingly, the editors have decided to put most (if not all) of the contents of the issue online, so you can now read the review in its entirety! Here’s…
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Thomas Pynchon: “Against the Day”
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14 min read
There was a time when I read books voraciously. In fact for most of my life I have read at least one book per month, if not week, meaning that if I was to enter a fund-raising read-a-thon I would most most likely send all of my sponsors broke (assuming, of course, that I didn’t…
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A little-known fact about this collection is that it was banned in South Africa at the time, due to mentions of the ‘devil’ in the title poem.
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This ground-breaking collection of poems represents the beginning of what has turned out to be an astounding career.
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What a nerd I am.
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Thomas Pynchon: “Gravity’s Rainbow”
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3 min read
What better way to mark yesterday’s 100th anniversary of Bloomsday than to admit I have never read more than twenty pages of Ulysses, due in no small part to the Leavisite method of critical textual analysis introduced in my first days of undergraduate English. Don’t get me wrong: I respect the man, and having heard…