Monday June 3 2024 In the later weeks of May a tidal surge of insert flooded into the wet tropics of Far North Queensland, and steaming through the swell was ‘A Boat With No Name’. The little movie that keeps on keeping on.  It’s premiere FNQ screenings were at the Silkwood Hotel, Silkwood and the Bootleg […]

BAND: Mr Chrisy Mertas ALBUM: Cookers Paradise RELEASE DATE: 22/02/2024 Sometimes reviewing albums can be an onerous task, listening to music that just isn’t hitting your triggers, but you desperately try to mine for the positive treasures. Sometimes, and this is very rarely, it’s a task where you find yourself thinking…’fuck this, I’d much rather […]

AUSTRALIA’S MUSICAL HOTSPOT IN THE MIDDLE OF TROPICAL NOWHERE! WHAT IS EAST ARNHEM LIVE?!? 1000 kilometres by dirt road to Darwin, East Arnhem Land might be isolated geographically, but is a total musical hotspot. Home to King Stingray and Yothu Yindi, East Arnhem Land is now host to a 100% FREE 4-day music festival. Yolŋu […]

Bill Mousoulis The Boat with No Name(Australia, 2022, 95 mins, dir: Phil O’Brien & Jeffery Baxter) “You know, people think money is the currency, but, time is the real currency, because you only get so much of it, and you gotta spend it wisely.” – dialogue in The Boat with No Name The Boat with No Name is […]

An Album review of sorts.  Music, it should be acknowledged, has an indeterminate uphill battle in objectivity.  The shit that shakes my derrière may not come remotely close to eliciting a modest jiggle of cellulite wiggle from your posterior! It’s a problematic issue for a lot of musos who would for examples sake love their […]