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3rd September

G’day folks,

Just back from tropical Castlemaine and the glorious environs of Lot 19, AND the news is very good dear friends.

Mark Anstey, my friend and co-founder of the Castlemaine Acoustic Music Festival has been driving around the state buying (highly roadworthy) caravans and driving them back to the block (coincidentally in the middle of the night) to build what is arguably the cutest artists' quarters in the southern hemisphere, all this in preparation for our third event on lot 19 in late March of next year.

The next one is an afternoon and night of some of the finest acoustic music in the country in a truly unique environment. Lot 19 looks out across the car wreckers to the tip, Mark Anstey describes the property as “ugsalvat”. Coz it's kinda like Monsalvat crossed with Mad Max (1 and perhaps 2 but definitely not 3. Whilst we would accept an application to play from Tina Turner, we'd prefer one from Dolly Parton) so if you have commercial festival fatigue, hang out for music at Lot 19... and watch this space.

... you can take breaks though.

Look’in forward to the band at the Gem tonight, finishing the song Clare Bowditch recorded at my joint last week. Coz she has a lot to teach cucumbers about cool) AND more sunny days.

Bye for now.
Nuge

 
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27th August

Hullo & Good Bye,




Tonight at the Gem bar, Dining Room, Pool Hall and Tax Haven I will be sittting on
the stool beside the piano playin some songs solo for the last of an eighteen month
Wednesday night residency.8.30.
August 27.Free.

However...

Next Wednesday Night I will be joined at said Bar,Dining Room,Pool Hall and Tax Haven by  killers,Steve Hesketh,Garrett Costigan,Roger Bergodaz and Amos Sheehen to really shake the dust out of the old joint one last time.8.30.September 3. Free.


   

Tune into JVG Radio Method on RRR this Sunday To SUBSCRIBE and hear me return
to my new romantic roots just a little after 2pm.

 

CHOOSE YOUR POISON!

Nuge

Ps If you listen real hard you can hear my harmonica playing on the sound track for Alive and Kicking on SBS tonight



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20th August

Hullo the world,





When I used to live above my mother's second hand clothes shop as an early teen,
(try not to picture it) I would sit on the roof and look down at the people coming
and going.I made a model of the crashed plane on the cover of Beastie Boys “Licensed
to Ill” by melting a plastic plane and to this day it is probably up there on that
roof.

Now ,with the help of some particularly bright sparks ( me excluded) I have
opened my very own shop right here.The good folks living in this century (that's
you) tell me it isn't rocket science to jump in to Sime's Store and grab a user name
and password then then shop till you drop! Or just check it out for now till Live at
the East goes up in a coupla weeks.

Wilson Pickers played Melbourne this weekend just passed. Thanks particularly to
anyone who joined us at The Gem to make it such a rip snorter. Pickers will be back
in late October to launch “Land of the Powerful Owl” at the Tote. In other news I'll
be doing a solo show with Jay from the Panics and Whitley at the Northcote Social
Club on Thursday September 18. AND! Finishing a duet I've been working on with Clare
Bowditch
next week.

Complete this sentence:
As parocial as a .....
That's right... Olympics broadcast.

Cheers,


Nuge
   
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13th August

Greetings folks,

THREE AUSTRALIAN MUSICS I LIKE AN AWFUL LOT. CHAPTER JUAN. Call me unaustralian... I will now extrapolate about Aussie “heart of gold”, golden battlers who are making some of the most golden interesting gold contributions to this this wide golden brown veranda we call 'Sraya. Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Grollo Gold Gold Gold Groin Gold Gold.

The Drones. When I first saw the Drones at the Corner a few years back it was like an invention was happening. Gareth Liddiard has a knack of grasping such a volume of space in his words. I find the songs so arresting because of the sharp focus of the detail over such vast distances. It does funny things to the back of the eye balls. I am a fan. 

C.W.Stoneking. Once on a tour with C.W. I was very lucky to get out of Adelaide alive. (Read more in 2030) We didn't say a word for six hours. He only smiled when I spent our last forty bucks on an oversized Tamborine.He said “ I'm gonna get the smallest person in the crowd up to play it.”Here is a photo of  of the smallest person he could find at the Castlemaine Acoustic Music Festival.(and that other guy is Jeff Lang who IS sitting down)



There is very little difference between the man and the myth of C.W. and I think he likes it that way. Apparently his new album is off the wall ( no it's not Michael Jackson covers, smart arse ) C.W does deserve his own principality. Till he declares his rule over the Kingdom of Hokem we should be very proud . And confused.

Jordie Lane. There is a man named Jodie Lane who I saw play last weekend who is writing some of the most right on songs I have heard for a while. Watch out for him. He is very worth putting yourself in front of. 

AND I'LL TELL YOU ANOTHER THING FOR FREE! This weekend catch my side band The Wilson Pickers in glorious four piece mode on Friday at the Gem, on Saturday at the Footy and on Sunday at the Retreat. Gold Gold Gold Gold Gaol Gold !

Cheers,

Sime

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6th August

Greetings folks,




I listen to four track tapes backwards to relax at home. Sometimes I play them at half speed as a real antidote to everything outside the front door. Once I was listening to one of these backwards four track tapes when the melody jumped out as something unique, and you guessed it... the opposite to what I would normally write.

As I listened further into the tape bits of words and phases of a letter to George W Bush started to jump out. There were no hallucinogens involved. There may or may not have been that coffeed tunnel vision that the U.S. Military depend on though.

The song 'Your Words Deny' from the album 'Broke and Banned' is written entirely phonetically off the backwards version of 'The Undertow' from the album of the same name. Something I've neglected to mention until now.

So…

Track One is “The Undertow”

The Undertow



Track Two is “Your words deny”

Your Words Deny



Track Three “The Undertow” in reverse

The Undertow in Reverse



Track Four is them being played together

Played Together




Cheers,


Sime