by KM | Feb 23, 2025 | music
Dirty Three – Enmore Theatre 20.6.24 As you know, I’m rarely at a loss for words – but last week I had an experience that is almost indescribable. I’ll try The Dirty Three strolled onto the Enmore Theatre stage to the sound of Boz Scagg’s Lido. What followed was a...
by KM | Nov 19, 2022 | music, politics, Writing
1977, a sweaty night at the Royal Antler Hotel – a big, brawling sweaty pub on the Northern Beaches of Sydney – long gone now, but in its heyday the site of many a legendary gig. I was underage and had perfected the art of flirting my way into gigs – the...
by KM | Apr 8, 2019 | music, politics
Click to play video Links Perry Keyes Nina Young Photographer As the 70’s slogan goes – ‘the personal is political’ – and to my mind, music is the perfect way to bring us back to this essential truth. Protest songs are a rich and wonderful seam, but I’d like to...
by KM | May 6, 2010 | music, New York, travel
Along with the gentrification and creeping hipness comes that wonderful NY thing which we so sadly lack in Sydney, little neighbourhood bars. We didn’t get to enough of them, and I say we, because the majority allow children accompanied by adults. Barbes, in...
by KM | Aug 7, 2009 | getting older, music
Always my constant companion, music of all kinds has sustained me when people and life in general have fallen short. Live music, at its best, can be transforming and life affirming but with a child, work, study and other people’s problems to juggle I went without late...
