Inspiration Notebook. I’ve been keeping art journals full of images I cut from magazines and all sorts of places that I find inspiring since I was a little kid. It’s something that I’ve never ‘grown out of’ nor think I ever will. It’s so handy to have collections of images that make you happy, whenever [...]

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I’ve spent a lot of my life on the Gold Coast in fact many of my favourite Australian bands/artists ever are from here! One of the first local bands I ever loved Fur were from the GC, as are other favourites including Blister (the first band I ever interviewed), Vicious, A Secret Death, Mark Duckworth (his [...]

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Last month Rave Magazine (Brisbane’s self-proclaimed ‘classiest’ street press) reached it’s 1000th issue. To celebrate they created a special edition featuring pieces written by previous editors and long-term contributors. I was asked to write a guest column for Outburst the punk and hardcore section. I’ve been contributing regularly to Rave for the past 14 years, [...]

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It caught me by surprise. I wasn’t looking for it. It kind of just snuck up on me. As the saying goes: true love comes when you least expect it. In the summer of 1994, I embarked upon one of the greatest love affairs of my life. It struck like a lightning bolt in the [...]

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