August 2021

Beer, bass notes and the Bee Gees

Music / August 18, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

I am sitting on the edge of a crowd of several thousand people gathered at Riverstage in Brisbane, and suddenly I’m feeling very nervous. I am about to be part of the latest (and, so far, biggest ever) live rendition of Pub Choir, and the legendary Barry Gibb, the sole survivor of the Bee Gees – who […]

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Nature Boy

Music / August 18, 2021 / 16 minutes of reading

This story is based on an interview I conducted with Kamahl in March 2009, hitherto untold. It’s been a long time coming. I hope it puts his life, his perspective and the events of recent weeks into greater context. Kandiah Kamalesvaran was seven years old when the Imperial Japanese Army completed their conquest of Malaysia

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