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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