2024 right here right now 2024

Travel: I’m in and out of the country this year, at this very moment I’m updating my website from beautiful Dalat in Vietnam.

Art: My live radio show DEAD AIR (Mondays 10-11 am AEST 94.9MainFM) has been receiving some accolades which makes me very happy :) and I am humbly sponsored by - Trash Cult; Purveyors of Unpopular Culture which is THE best venue in the Burra of Eaglehawk!

All current episodes have their own page on this website yay: DEAD AIR episodes If you’d like to revisit or listen to earlier DEAD AIR episodes you can find all past episodes (1-48) on my MixCloud page here - DEAD AIR episodes 1-48.

DEAD AIR was runner-up for ‘Best New Show’ at the MainFM Rogies (Radio Logies) in 2021 after only 5 episodes in, and runner-up for ‘Best Chat Show’ at the 2022 Rogies. The Rogies are sadly no more… but DEAD AIR was also a finalist in the 2022 CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) Award for ‘Best New Show’ and in 2023 as a finalist in the ‘Excellence in Innovative Programming and Content’ category. Overall in 2023, MainFM had seven finalists and won two awards - not bad for a small country town community radio station!

Presentations: On 19 November I presented my talk - ‘DEAD AIR: Art, Death and Community Radio’ at the fabulous Lifting the Lid International Festival of Death and Dying coordinated by the tireless Jo Dagless & Victoria Keen from the UK. It was an amazing three days of non-stop deathie action, what a treat to be involved this year.

Music: Seeing live music is one of my joys, and our little town (population 9000) has so many incredible venues we’re so lucky to have such a vibrant music scene in Castlemaine. If you’re ever here, check out who’s playing at the Bridge Hotel, Theatre Royal, Taproom (Shedshaker Brewery), Red Hill Hotel, and of course Trash Cult in Bendigo. Live music in country Vic woop! You can support Australian artists by buying their music on Bandcamp, especially my fave Castlemaine bands K5 and DEAD x