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August 2000
SALT/JJJ COMPETITION
Kiera Lindsay of Sandringham, Victoria was chosen as the winner of the Salt/JJJ video competition. The process begins this month and I'm looking forward to seeing how the clip turns out. Kiera's treatment is quite vast, lyrical and poetic, taking in Maralinga, Leichhardt, old 1950s Australia, salt lakes and reconciliation (that doesn't do it justice but you'll see it soon enough). It was a bloody hard decision to have to make as we received about 200 treatments and it took a marathon reading session with help from Phil Wales and a bottle of duty free Isle of Islay whisky to go through them a number of times. The overall quality was so strong. About 30 of them were shortlisted as good enough to win. Some wonderfully lateral vision, a sense of space and great political ideas, a whole bunch of people with a future in film making if they so desire. I'd just like to mention some of those who could easily have won: Ilka Nelson, Mark Trevaskis, Rose Cumbage, Brett Dwyer, Anton Falls, Rick Rutjens, Brett Stephens, Sally Prideaux and Deb Symons, Joanne Clegg, Abi Cardell, Phil Brown, Lisa Hall,Michelle Meade, Cameron Solnordal, Rebecca Demary, Bronwyn McDonald, Carly Whouley, Al Bingham, Romina Vella, Claire Allen, Ian Marcovitch, Luke Dillon, Catriona Mackenzie, Danielle Greenberg, Roy Weston, Guy Kerr, Celia Kearin, and Jody Pachniuk.
Thanks to everyone who put the time and effort in to sending a treatment it is most appreciated
SECOND SINGLE
Kerosene is the next single to be released on Sept 11. It contains a Salmonella Dub very dubby Kerosene re-mix plus a second drums'n'bass Mark Brydon/Moloko mix of The Koran, The Ghan and a Yarn plus a clubby Alex Lloyd revisit of Sad which ends up being anything but.
GIGS
I'm playing the Hemispheres weekend at Centennial Park Sydney, Sept 8-10 with the same band as the recent tour; Phil Wales, Michael Barker and Chris Scallon, and playing Livid in Brisbane in October plus a national tour in November. As soon as I have specific dates I'll bung them up.
UK RELEASE
'Act of Free Choice' is to be released in the UK on EMI/Parlophone in January with Europe to follow. They're keen, I'm keen and I think they like it for the right reasons, we'll see.
Played a great gig in Barcelona with Coldplay, whose album is number #1 in the UK which is encouraging as it's far better than Britney, plus saw some fantastic Anton Gaudi architecture and shitloads of sunshine and old bars.
KUTCHA
Am producing a track for Kutcha Edward that the New Museum of Victoria has commissioned for its Koori section, which from all reports is very impressive, not to mention long overdue.
TELEK
Telek's Serious Tam CD is released on Sept 11 on Origin records. It is already out on Real World overseas. The WOMAD gigs went very well with the highlights being the big tent at Reading and The Globe Theatre in London.
Telek returns to Australia to play Hemispheres and a gig in Melbourne at the Continental Cafe on Sunday September 17.
BRYSON
Bill Bryson in his book Down Under describes John Howard: 'imagine somebody who all their life had the ambition of being a funeral director - Hold that concept and then halve it; this is the Australian prime minister.' How good is that!
In another gem he describes Harold Holt as having 'taken the swim that needs no towel'.
It's interesting being overseas and soaking in how other places view Australia. Our image overseas is pretty poor at present; there's lots of focus in the lead up to the Olympics on the stolen generation and native title and health rates in the Northern Territory.
SPORT!
Melbourne is looking good in the AFL football finishing in their highest position since 1964.Bring on the finals!! Westham with Suker and Di Canio don't look too bad either for this year.
 LISTENING
| Kraftwerk |
Trans Europe Express |
| Kutcha Edwards |
demoes (the fella who sang on The Last Great Magician) |
| Speedstar |
Fallen Star |
| Shivaree |
I oughtta give you a shot in the head |
| Aphex Twin |
selected ambient Works volume 2 |
| Telek |
Serious Tam |
| Boards of Canada |
Peel Sessions |
| Snoop Doggy Dogg |
Doggy Style (I know I shouldn't, but it's a killer record) |
Also a CD of outtakes/other recordings from Talk Talk's 'Laughing Stock' (christ knows where you can get it, but if you can it's fantastic, maybe their website)
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