January, 2007

Turramurra Music Camp

Submitted by Slim on Mon, 22/01/2007 - 12:13.

I've just returned from the 24th annual Turramurra Folk Music camp with more than five hours of recording from the Sunday concert.

Hopefully I'll have a chance to write up something more substantial, but in the meantime I'll be slicing and dicing the recording for the State Library archives and making them available to those who want a copy.

I'll put some podcast highlights as they come to hand.

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Slim's Soap Box makes it to the OzPolitics Blogroll

Submitted by Slim on Sat, 13/01/2007 - 14:36.

Slim moved his Soap Box blog over to a Wordpress site back in October.

His occasional rantings have slowly attracted some passing trade as he lurks around the Australian political scene.

Slim's blog was today added to the Ozpolitics Blog Feed visited by thousands of people every day. Go Slim! It's a bit like starting out with folk club blackboard concerts and moving onto to a gig at a national festival.

For some perverse inspiration, Slim has renamed the blog to The Dog's Bollocks (it's a blog thing). Not really knowing what the term meant, he discovered that it means 'excellent – the absolute apex'.

What Slim had in mind was this: read more »

January studio session with the Cornhuskers

Submitted by Slim on Tue, 09/01/2007 - 22:38.

On a hot summer's day in early January we multi-track recorded as the Cornhuskers with the brilliant assistance of Greg and a pretty impressive array of condensor mics and preamps. Sweet!

It's always a little stressful in a studio setup. You gotta sit where they tell you and you gotta be on your best behaviour. But with lunch, nibbles, cold water and cold beer we had a lot of fun and did really well I think. read more »