25 Things about Neil Wedd

What do you do for a living?  Duration?

Venue booker, promoter, band manager. 30 years

What made you choose this role?

Fate. 

Do you have a website? If so supply link.

www.indieinitiative.com

Submit your favourite photo of yourself and describe why it is your favourite?

Nice moody study of me at BDO when Neil Young played.

Having fun with Zelda at a party. FunBoyOne mode.

Tell me a bit about yourself.

I love music. I talk in songs sometimes. I can't play an instrument, but I can organise a gig and make people happy. Nothing better than feeling you are part of a great show.

Do you have a belief you are passionate about?

That Tony Abbott is a complete tool.

What kind of student were you at school?

Pretty good, but a little lazy. Knew enough to get by.

If you could learn to do something, what would it be?

Cooking cakes.

What do you like to do in your spare time, hobbies etc?

Read books, wander around checking things out. Record shopping, spending time with my partner Jan.

What is your favourite food?

Chinese food, seafood.

What makes you laugh?

Clever jokes. I groan at shaggy dog stories.

What makes you cry?

Lots of things. I tear up easily.

What pisses you off?

Injustice. Record companies who have sowed the seeds of destruction of value in the music business. Musicians who whinge about not getting a break. Theres usually a reason for that.

What is your most embarrassing moment?

When the music stops when I'm DJing.

If you could have a super power what would it be and why?

The ability to change things over time. Right a few wrongs. Could interfere with the time space continuum.

What chore do you hate doing?

Cleaning up other peoples mess.

If you could swap your life with someone else who would it be and why?

I would like to be Dizzy Gillespie or Gough Whitlam. People who have principles and stand up for them.

What would you like people to remember about you?

I helped people realise their ambitions

What do you find attractive about a person?

Smile, the way they treat people.

What is your best feature?

Long eyelashes.

What’s on your bucket list?

A holiday.

What is the one thing you’d like to achieve in your life?

Own my own venue.

If the world was about to come to an end, how would you spend your last hour?

Crayfish, smoked salmon, champagne, oysters and Jan Doyle.

What’s your favourite possession?

Stereo.

Who is Lorinda Jane?

A wonderful woman, who is only just beginning to understand how great she is. (awww what a lovely thing to say Neil. LJ)

Thank you Neil for taking the time to answer 25 questions.

Neil Wedd is currently booking the Thornbury Theatre.  Melbourne

25 Things about Warwick Brown

What do you do for a living?  Duration? 

I buy and sell records and cd,s in my record store (Greville Records)..and have done so for about 27 years....

What made you choose this role?

mmm I've  been a music lover since I was real small, and spent as much time as possible visiting Melbourne record stores and collecting records..so when the opportunity came along I took it...

       Do you have a website?

I should have a website I know it..but there just aren't the hours in the day..and I can’t seem to find the headspace required to get it done.

Submit your favourite photo of yourself and describe why it is your favourite?

It’s a photo of me at 8 years of age..in New Guinea, wearing a easy rider t shirt and swinging a baseball bat and smiling..a time when the world was a wide open book and all I needed was a daydream to get by..

Warwick Brown age 8

Tell me a bit about yourself.

Well I’m nearly 50..life's had its ups and its very downs too..but I can say I'm happier, more content than I've ever been..I'm a single dad with an incredible son..I'm in the best relationship I've ever been in with a beautiful Indian/English girl..My youth was spent in Mt Elize/New Guinea and then Torquay..
I see the world as a big miracle that I'm very glad, and kinda astonished, to be part of.

Do you have a belief you are passionate about?

Music mainly..but always have a book on the go..love film as well..I love afl football...love finding the time to just sit and feel the sun and the breeze..to watch nature do its thing...

What kind of student were you at school?

I was a terrible student in many ways...I seemed to spend my entire time trying to impress the many girls I seemed to have crushes on at any one time...

If you could learn to do something, what would it be?

Float in outer space.

What do you like to do in your spare time, hobbies etc?

In my spare time..I read a lot..listen to a lot of records..play my guitars....watch dvd,s...hang out with my son...take the dogs down the beach and walk for hours on end.

What is your favourite food?

My girlfriend and I like to pick a new suburb and a restaurant in it and try it out..I have my favourite Indian, Mexican and Vegetarian restaurants...love cooking a big vegie sausage/gravy and vegie mush....

What makes you laugh?

Great jokes.....Richmond victories.

What makes you cry?

Don't cry much..but I do get quite emotional over a beautiful song..or movie, or piece of writing....The new Bill Fay albums and his whole story had a big effect on me this week....
I get very affected about bad things that happen to children and animals.

What pisses you off?

I try to be tolerant..But the way animals are treated can piss me off....Bad umpiring at the footy.. The delivery man being late when I'm waiting for a shipment of a new release cd I'm dying to hear..(watch out if the new Bob Dylan arrives late)....

What is your most embarrassing moment?

Nothing springs to mind.

If you could have a super power what would it be and why?

A superpower.. I'd love to wave a wand so there was nothing but bliss and inner and outer peace throughout the world..and that everyone became a vegetarian.

What chore do you hate doing?

Hate doing bookkeeping for the shop...

If you could swap your life with someone else who would it be and why?

mmmm I wouldn't mind swapping with an Astronaut for  a few days...and I wouldn’t mind being a Monk who can astral travel whilst meditating..I'd like to be able to go back to various times in history for a day or two...but I'd basically like to be me.

What would you like people to remember about you?

A great father...

What do you find attractive about a person?

Passionate about music, film books, travel..compassionate..peaceful..inspiring..have their shit together...and has that twinkle in their eye.

What is your best feature?

At 50 I still have a full head of curly hair..

What’s on your bucket list?

Keep traveling each year to a new country with my son..enjoying the simple things everyday..and then making sure I do the big things I wanna do too...

What is the one thing you’d like to achieve in your life?

I'd like to grow old with grace and dignity.and to keep discovering new music and books and films....I wanna achieve inner peace.

If the world was about to come to an end, how would you spend your last hour?

I'd get in touch with everyone who meant something to me and tell so..and thank them...I'd spend it with my son...and in the last 5 minutes..lie down fold my arms and thank the world for letting me be a part of it all.

What’s your favourite possession?

Myself.....then my guitars..my records and books...my old 1951 Windsor Newport car too.

Who is Lorinda Jane?

She is the one who will correct all my grammar mistakes on this..  (haha I gave it a shot)

Thank you Warwick for taking the time to answer the 25 questions. LJ xx

If you are ever in Greville St, pop into Greville Records and check out the amazing collection of stock.

Barry Adamson (UK) Australian Tour Sept 2012

Super cool, super sophisticated, Barry Adamson returns to Australia for the first time in four years to tour his new album I Will Set You Free.  Certainly a tour not to miss.

34 years on from the first album he played on, the seminal Magazine's post-punk classic 'Real Life', comes an album that touches on the sonic stepping stones he's used year by year to pave his way to now, his coruscating new album, I Will Set You Free.

The memories and experience from performing and taking his work across the world with Magazine, the Bad Seeds, Iggy Pop, The Gun Club, writing for David Lynch, Danny Boyle, being nominated for the Mercury Prize, scoring an Olivier award-winning ballet, scooping the Best Short Story gong at Italy's Piemonte Noir festival for his debut work of fiction and writing, directing and editing a movie whilst simultaneously heading back to grace the stage with a reformed Magazine during their triumphant 2009 tour... All of which has directly informed this album, colouring it with a steady, sure-handed experience that emanates from the swagger and fingertip fire of rock numbers Get Your Mind Right, Destination & The Sun and The Sea, to the emotive, yearning noir ballads of If You Love Her and Looking To Love Somebody and the new wave inflicted power pop of Turnaround and Stand In.

Barry has ultimately channelled himself to make an album that is unmistakably Barry Adamson, gravitating finally to the core of who he is and revealing his findings to startling results.  Adamson as an artist and an auteur has firmly hit a new peak in his creative stride and, finally free of the shackles of mute obsequiousness, he has created both the album of his career and an album for the year.

BARRY ADAMSON LIVE IN AUSTRALIA, SEPTEMBER 2012

9 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY – FLY BY NIGHT- 1 Holdsworth St, Fremantle WA

Tix $43.50 + bf Phone (08) 9430 5976 or online www.flybynight.org

11 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY - CORNER HOTEL - 57 Swan St, Richmond, Melbourne VIC  

Tix $45 + bf through The Corner Box Office Phone (03) 9427 9198 or online at www.cornerhotel.com

12 SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY - THE FACTORY THEATRE - 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville, Sydney NSW

Tix $45 + bf Phone (02) 9550 3666 or online at www.factorytheatre.com.au

14 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY - THE PROMETHEAN - 116 Grote St, Adelaide SA

Tix $35 + bf (08) 8212 0266 http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=56253&ref=moshtix&skin=

15 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY – BRISBANE HOTEL - 3 Brisbane St, Hobart TAS

Tix $35 + bf (03) 62348600 http://tinyurl.com/brahqr3 or $40 at the door

16 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY – THE BEETLE BAR – 350 Upper Roma St, Brisbane QLD

Tix $25 + bf through oztix http://goo.gl/vf8Pt

For more information about Barry Adamson, visit his official website http://www.barryadamson.com/centralcontrol/cc1000.html

25 Things about Terry Serio

What do you do for a living?

I am an actor, singer/songwriter, broadcaster on Fbi 94.5fm

Duration? 

All my life.. I remember making up my first song about the moon.. standing on a chair and wrapped in a towel after a bath and being kind of embarrassed about the adult sentiment of it as I waited for Mum to come and dry me off.

What made you choose this role? 

I never 'chose' anything. I have always done what feels good at the time. I drift through life occasionally saying 'yes' to the things people throw my way. I used to ride my motorcycle the same way. Just take off but have no idea where i would end up.

Do you have a website? If so supply link

www.terryserio.com.au

Submit your favourite photo of yourself.

Terry Serio

Tell me a bit about yourself?

Raised near a thousand acre lake in a place called Wongan Hills in WA. Irish convict ship (The Phoebe Dunbar) on my Mum's side and Italian, Irish, Scandinavian on my Dad's. All seafarers. Grew up listening to the music my Dad loved.. Benny Goodman, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin. Rainy sing-songs in the car with a windscreen-wiper beat. And black and white movies.

Do you have a belief you are passionate about?

I am passionate about leaving this land like we found it. I fear the people who would turn this land into a toilet probably live in their homes the same way. If they invited me over I would decline the invitation.

What kind of student were you at school?

I wasn't a good student.. but always got through. I love the education theorists who think it is insane to keep a child sitting at a desk all day. I never liked it.

If you could learn to do something, what would it be?

I would love to be able to sketch. Just be able to sit down and draw what's in my head.

What do you like to do in your spare time, hobbies etc?

I love writing songs/playing guitar.. watching long haul HBO shows or any great series on DVD.. walking the dog.

What is your favourite food?

Regional Chinese.

What makes you laugh?

Just like everybody else.. Politicians and their antics..

What makes you cry?

Politicians and their antics.. or if I'm tired.. just about anything.

What pisses you off?

Greed crimes against humanity.

What is your most embarrassing moment?

Trying to kick-start a stubborn Triumph Bonneville in front of The Coffin Cheaters clubhouse. One of those big hairy guys strode over and in one fluid movement moved me away.. took the left handgrip, swung his leg over onto the kick start lever, right hand on the throttle and kicked it into life. He got off the other way keeping one hand blipping the throttle and silently gestured like a bemused livery-man, "Your ride, Sir!" I may have muttered, "Thanks.." 

If you could have a super power what would it be and why?

Oh that's easy.. um..

What chore do you hate doing?

My tax..

If you could swap your life with someone else who would it be and why?

Seriously I could only do it for a week I'm afraid.. that's about how long I could put off having sex with his wife I reckon.. I mean before she starts getting suspicious (which is also I suspect a great compliment to the man) Barack Obama

What would you like people to remember about you?

It's arrogant to think you'll be remembered.. I mean what do we really know of Da Vinci the man. On the other hand a song will often linger and speak of you long after you're gone. A song

What do you find attractive about a person?

Beauty, Humility and Humour.

What is your best feature?

My feature rock garden with water fall.. um.. no one would agree.. my legs                    

What’s on your bucket list?

More travel.. more music.. more life.. trouble is.. the more you do the faster it goes.. eek, maybe just laze away on a beach!!

What is the one thing you’d like to achieve in your life?

I would like to live long enough to know there are 'others' out there...

If the world was about to come to an end, how would you spend your last hour?

I would like to be with friends and dogs near Leighton beach in WA WA land and watch the sun go down over the water one last time..

What’s your favourite possession?

A guitar my Dad helped me buy.

Who is Lorinda Jane?

The girl in the song: MELBOURNE BITTER TEARS

and here it is. Thanks Terry

Thank you Terry for taking the time to answer the 25 questions.  L.J xx