Category: culture

Travels with a Tele or why Australia is not America

I love my Thinline Fender Telecaster guitar. It goes wherever I go. Over the years I’ve learned that the way airport security deal with musical equipment says a lot about the country. Will they let you take it in the cabin, store it in Business for you, charge you extra, roll out the red carpet

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Easter in Melbourne

Crowds, comedy, chocolate, Footie, fashion, foodie, Street show, street art, streetcar, Lygon, latte, laneway, Brunswick, beards, band, Flinders, Fed Square, flat white, Grungy, gallery, G and T Pie Face, Pony Fish, photography Market, mall, Myki, Train, tram, Tim Tam Collins, cooler, colder. Four seasons surprise Photography by Kathryn McClintock

OMG it’s OMG (open mic Glenelg)

A late summer early evening, the sun sinking into St Vincent’s Gulf, its rays washing over everyone and everything with liquid gold, the carefree chatter of friends around you, the thrum of acoustic guitars and melodic voices. Sometimes it’s possible to believe that Moseley Square in Glenelg is the most beautiful location on earth. Especially

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