“Tyres Through The Bend” emerges from my experience of Tailem Bend, a small town just over an hour from Adelaide on one of the main highways that travellers take to head to eastern Australia. After chatting with my former 5MU…

The West End Brewery closure hit Adelaide like losing a familiar friend. Not because the beer was brilliant, but because it was ours. For decades, that Thebarton chimney tower served as our unofficial scoreboard. Each year they’d paint the top…

There’s a new song to share, inspired by the vast outback north of Coober Pedy, and the myth that people only move there if they’re running from something. I wrote half of this song while in the back seat of…

In my collected, handwritten lyrics book, this one is wedged between two, sprawling, double-page-spread streams of consciousness, which gives you a sense of the ecosystem from which it emerged. This song, written in May of 1992, captures my angry dissolution…

This song rips my heart out every time. I wrote it in early 1991, after hearing from my then girlfriend that she was leaving with a one way ticket to travel Europe to “find herself”. It was a heady mix…

This is another song written in March of 1992 in Budapest. I don’t know what was in the water but the grey skies and the realisation of being on the other side of the world must have been acting as…

Of all the songs I’ve uploaded to music streaming services, this one is my guilty pleasure. It was written by a very young me in the early 90s but brought to life by my virtual session band. I still can…

This is a very personal song that got out some thoughts that were proving difficult to put into words. To me, this is the innate value of songwriting. It imposes a framework and mindset that helps you find different connections.…

In life, we are likely to encounter at least one crook or a$$hole who takes advantage of us. For me, there’s really only been a handful but the worst one was a greedy, narcissistic business consultant who I worked for…

There were a number of posts about the hidden cost to society of parents who have lost children, especially through stillbirth, keeping quiet about it. The concept is that when traumatic events are kept held down beneath the surface, there…