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• Last year I went to town on the Northcote ten year anniversary. Do peruse the cultural essay of fun fax if you haven’t. 
• It’s good to see myspace practicing social media distancing. I was on there and could not see anyone around for miles. 
• Bearded and gifted colleague Twinkle Digitz is a whirligig of 80s popfreak oddities and gutterfuzz originals. He’s single handedly kickstarting Melbourne’s live music scene tonight (SAT FEB 20) at Thornbury Local from 8:30. Check out his FB page feat. covers of Ween, Beck & Bowie et al. 
• Lost-lost single Leaving My Hairdresser is kicking on Bandcamp. I also made there be a Tennille (live) single on bandcamp. It includes the gem-clanger love song about love called love song. 

• I quite like this sleeper hit from Brown & Orange. I wrote about my love for synths. Meanwhile, I rescued my 86 Tram track by track rundown from the defunct Mess+Noise site. Oh, the injustice.  

The British flag of my childhood is at half mast. 🇬🇧

I got to see The Goodies perform live in Sydney in 2005. The best bit was when they came out in three wheelchairs linked together. The show would air on ABC primetime around 5:30pm. I found Tim’s impassioned monologues praising the monarchy baffling as a kid. This is a devastating break in the Goodies bike chain of colour, magic, silliness and brilliance.  

#hottest100 #music

• Hot off press – I’ve completed my own negotiated study / home-school project on the sub-cultural / social ramifications of Northcote (So Hungover). Coppa load of these Fun Fax. (#1 with a bullet point.)
• Good lord, an exclusive interview with the elusive Badroom Philosopher guy. 
• Vote for Northcote in Triple J’s Hottest 100 of the decade. Help to cement the legacy of a cultural icon (Connex). Fire up the iphone 3 and help me become flavour of the decade. Please post the hashtag #northcote2020 to your myspace (pictured). 🍌

• Check it out – director Craig Melville has cut together the original animatic (rolling storyboards) over the Northcote music clip. Enjoy the craft origins of this cinematic marvel while also gaining some insight into how the video might appear to dogs or unwell children. 

• Apparently this is a novelty song parodying hipsters. Thing is, I always thought it was a short play about the music scene. Anywho, please take four mins out of your hectic day to revisit the ‘Kath & Kim for Gen Y’ / American Apparel anxiety dream of rifftastic pundemonium. Directed by Craig Melville. Promotional consideration by Soundpark.

• Check the latest episode of my new web series PUP! There are new episodes Tuesdays at 2:22.

• I wrote a song once about my first girlfriend in grade 6. I like to think Darren Hanlon would dig it.

I have a new web series – PUP!
New eps will appear Tuesdays at 2:22.
Subscrube to my channel.

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• Northcote (So Hungover) has been honoured with inclusion in The Music Network’s Best Australian Songs of the Decade. Nothing sez crushing it like coming 97th on a list.

God I’m relevant (less so than the veronicas)

• My Top 5 ‘Ice-creams of the Decade’
  5. Connoisseur Belgian Chocolate Fudge With Hazelnut (4 pack)
  4. Cadbury Picnic Cone
  3. Connoisseur Cookies & Cream (4 pack)
  2. Drumstick X Messina Roasted Hazelnut 
  1. Peters Drumstick Ice Cream Chocolate Mega Milkshake

• Northcote still #1 baby!

• I’ll make a cameo at the Mental Health Week Comedy Roadshow Oct 11 at the Hobart Brewing Company.
• Lyrics to In My Day (Nan) were published in the spoken word anthology Solid Air alongside Courtney Barnett and Quan Yeomans. I would recommend the book but I can’t stand poetry.

• On Spotify, Party In My Head the ‘could have been a single’ from diffident second album Brown & Orange shoots up five places to number 3, usurping long-time bronze medal holder Golden Gaytime. Meanwhile,Tram Inspector and sleeper instrumental Song To Nod Off To are battling it out for a place in the final five.
• I mean apart from that, there are some rare CD copies of In Bed With My Doona on Ebay at the moment. I’ve been trying to bid them up as an exercise, but sometimes it backfires and I end up paying $50 for my own album.
  (A metaphor for the music business).
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• My sleeper hit Song To Nod Off To (#5 on my Spotify with a bullet) has been used as the soundtrack to a lovely lil’ meditation on walking by Darby Hudson. He’s like Australia’s David Shrigley, funny and poignant and well worth sussing out. 

https://www.facebook.com/victoriawalks/videos/2622914014401171/

• Meanwhile, I discovered a glowingly harsh review of the instrumental from Songs From The 86 Tram, on some bloody website rateyourmusic.com:  

“Song to Nod Off To’ causes some surprise, out of left field, a genuinely gorgeous acoustic instrumental like a 1977 improvised Alex Lifeson piece, richly deserving a more loving home than these limited often painful attempts at belly laughs big city observations, people they are aimed at are probably the only ones buying.”

• I will be wearing colourful trousers while performing light to moderate comedy at The Local tomorrow eve June 10. Perhaps I will play Weird Dream or Megan The Vegan, which has no doubt aged really well. (The Local, St Kilda, doors 8:30, $15/$12.) 
• Perhaps you’re sad that Labes didn’t get in or that Ric Ocasek’s Emotion In Motion isn’t on Spotify. If it’s cos you’re not part of my Ezine cool club, then rectify the premise. Past issues are kickin on this link where you can also subscribe.
• Somehow spoken word sleeper hit Man On a Tram, not even a song (Interlewd) & obscure maxi-single b-side Marjory have busted into my Top 5 tracks on Spotify. The latter (entirely improvised in Albury after a gig in the mid 2000s) is particularly satisfying. It’s never been mentioned by anyone except Simone Page Jones. 
• Dude – it’s Schizophrenia Awareness Week. Give this puzzling disorder some colourful contemplation by taking part in interactive quiz. 
   

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🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 oy oy oy. I’m performing under the theme of ‘progress’ at Smokestack at Monash Uni ELECTION EVE mate. May recreate ‘A.I.’ in ten minutes, summoning the best non-blinking comedy since Elliot Goblet. Or, just bang a tune of this ilk:

Meet your new Minister for Nostalgia (courtesy of Fitzroy Writers Festival).

• I made up a hand gesture for the summer Smith Journal. (illo by Indigo O’Rourke).
  
• Here is a piece I wrote about phone boxes for the Good Weekend. 

• I played Harry Potter in the Wheeler Centre event Harry Who? The True Heroes of Hogwarts October 25 at the Athenaeum Theatre. I used to get called ‘Harry’ when I worked at the Canberra Labor Club. I was the only bloke with mid-length hair and glasses serving glasses of mid-strength.

• Is this the worst offer ever on Ebay?