This one was written for the new Brisbane Indie blog. http://www.collapseboard.com/ Most of my post’s will go there first. 30 ways to make your band underground 1. Get your band to rehearse in separate houses over Skype and use the delay between lines as an effect. 2. Sample yourself sampling yourself on a sampler with [...]
1. I’m going to buy all television stations and put on dead air. 2. I’m going to bribe AFL and Rugby League to make the half time show a lecturer on Russian constructivism. 3. I’m going to buy nova, and then blow it up in a blaze of glory like in V is for Vendetta. [...]
1. Pick your favorite overseas act and copy them exactly, give yourself a similar name, about put in your bio “Australia’s answer to” 2. Tell people you are all under 18. 3. Use “tokyo, russia, euro,” in your band name, make sure on paper your band name means nothing. 4. Sign to the first label [...]
1. No one has ever offered you a lay after your show. 2. No one has ever offered to get you high before a show 3. No one has ever asked you to play one of your songs to them in the privacy of their home. 4. No one that you aren’t already friends with [...]
I’ve been exercising a new form of meditation being present and being in the now. I go for a walk and listen to a tape and then stop, and continue my walk. The aim of the game is to be in the present moment for as long as possible without thinking about the future or [...]
‘Two battleships were at sea in heavy weather for several days on training manoeuvres. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with thick fog, so the Captain remained on the bridge to keep an eye on everything. Shortly after dark, as [...]
Dearest —— Before you get started I know you wanted a letter in handwriting, but I want to write a long letter so you have to put up with the typed version of events. I’m a terrible “writer” if you get my meaning so I hope you can forgive my digitalness. — just got back [...]
I have a BA in Creative Industries. In my last year I decided to buckle down hard. I didn’t party very hard and was saving money. There was an option to do your last semester of University in New York. I signed up for the opportunity . It was my first trip overseas without Mummy [...]
I invented the most popular school game of all time. If I got $1 for every time someone yelled Penis out in class I’d be a milionare. It all started back in 1999 when I was in year 10. I was bored shitless and decided I would formulate a game. The aim of the game [...]
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