kd lang once said it was harder to come out as vegetarian than it was to come out as lesbian. Today in Loose Connections I wrote about weirdos, plant based diets, outrage & influence! locarmen.substack.com/p/the-v-word

So happy & honoured for our new album Transatlantic Light to be on the Post To Wire Favourite Australian/NZ Albums of 2024 in such good company 👌🌹🎉https://posttowire.com/category/album-reviews/

‘When Lo hits her high notes and she is accompanied by that perfect sad piano, it makes me weak in the knees and causes the hair on my arms to stand on end.’ Grateful for such a deeply felt review from the brilliantly named Twangrila. twangrila.com/2024/11/26/l...

I dreamt I got a snarky live review that called me ‘the Collins dictionary of the music world’ and spent the rest of the dream trying to work out if that was a compliment or an insult.

Cross-app resource here for music writer & music lovers/readers - go forth & multiply! 🎶

Lo Carmen - accomplished actor, songwriter, musician, all-round Renaissance Lady - is also one of the very best music writers I know; her memoir Lovers Dreamers Fighters is vivid and enviably free. Here she writes (at length) about the ongoing legacy of underground Australian music in Europe, esp

Today I wrote about Kangaroo Rock, The Melbourne Sound & the Australian musical pioneers that set the world on fire! open.substack.com/pub/locarmen...

Well, now…

I often misread text on signs and find myself greatly amused - I just read something about audiences nabbing ‘set lists’ post gig as souvenirs but misread it as ‘sex lists’ and have a feeling that’s what I’ll be writing for my shows from here on out. (Metallica setlist for your consideration)

Careering across the blue skies of Honolulu on my way home to Oz and this view felt like an appropriate way to say hey over here… flying never fails to blow my mind.