Rants
Living Without Regret
It is far better to regret something that didn’t work out as expected, than regret never having attempted it in the first place.
Read MoreWhy I like the live entertainment biz
Rarely do other jobs offer such a reliable endorphin surge as you get when it’s showtime.
Read MoreWhen things go pear shaped
What do you do when the project you’re working on just refuses to come together?
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Fifty Ways To Lose Your Agent
My first band gig was with a 17-year-old bass player who refused to wear shoes, and a stand-in drummer who’d drank half a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and took a loaded weapon into the venue.
Read MoreListen Here: Omicron Versus The Omnichord
With the name of the recent Covid variant being so close in name to one of the instruments I’m playing at gigs, I may be banned from the stage regardless! “I’m playing Omnichord, you idiots; I don’t have Omicron!”
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Puttin’ on the Glitz
To some, it might have been as much fun as a funnel web spider, but for me it was a fitting finale to go out amidst the glitz, glamour and complexity of cabaret in the Starlight Room at Wenty Leagues
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Castaway with karaoke
I hadn’t even heard of karaoke when I made the tragic mistake of abandoning my hard fought one-man-band agency gigs to do a residency in the Whitsunday Islands on the now commercially abandoned Brampton Island
Read MoreListen Here: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It
Andy Stewart deatils his journey to upgrade his studio computer from Mac to The Dark Side: PC. “While the switch might seem brave, or even foolhardy beforehand, in truth it’s an economically rational, technically superior choice that you won’t regret.”
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Support act to the meat raffle
Every musician and technician has at least one support act disaster story, but you know you’ve hit rock bottom when you’ve become the support act to the meat raffle
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: A Dag on the Green
Call me a late bloomer, but I was still winding film onto camera sprockets in the early 2000s, and I didn’t shoot my first digital concert for CX until 2011—one year before Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012.
Read MoreWhen government reports make the reading list
My greatest hope is that we can find some common ground and organise for our own good. I know efforts have been made in the past but what better time to try than now?
Read MoreWhat’s In A Name?
I’ve often wondered if it is the industry that attracts such outsized characters, or that it just makes them weirder. Maybe it is part of the road life that scars our souls, and leaves names inked like a nominal tattoo, as titular legacies for later folklore
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