Work from August, 2005

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Second iPod down

Switched on my iPod yesterday, it turned on, scanned a few tracks and froze. Now it's not responding to anything. After running down the battery and recharging it seems to be working, but then freezes mid-track again. I'm in China now, I haven't found an Apple Centre, ...

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Crashing into Oslo

Teetering on the edge of a bright red Ikea lounge-chair on a Norwegian fjord, I’m hyping up for one of the best festival line-ups this side of All Tomorrow’s Parties. Sonic Youth are up in the mountains on retreat, ...

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Makin' money or music?

Self-styled Sydney music impresario Phil Tripp and some random called Talkshow Boy give their take on the music industry in the latest issue of Sydney website/mag Mess & Noise. Obviously, Tripp's article is a plug in the leadup to his upcoming music biz conference in Sydney, ...

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Buy your music online

It's been a hectic month for music on the Internet. The guys from Big Champagne have been drumming up plenty of coverage in the magazines you find in airports across the world for their analysis of music download data, this week Chris Dahlen at Pitchfork ...

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Barry Divola on AMO

I've read plenty of Australian music journo Divola's pieces over the years in places like Drum Media, the SMH and Rolling Stone Aust, he makes a few interesting points in this interview on AMO.

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Please, be my guest

My blog's been pretty quiet of late, but I've got a reasonably good excuse: blogspot is blocked here in China. So I've set up a site using Word Press and so far I'm pretty happy. It's not so plug and play as blogspot, but that is sure to ...

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