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To celebrate the choice for humanity and peace that is before the world in 2025 we have produced our first piece of ‘Minute to Midnight’ MERCH! This is a top quality tea towel that puts the call to action right in your hands as you go about your daily life. The lyric comes from Pete’s song Coat of Many Colours in which he asks us all to acknowledge our shared humanity at a time of global trauma. It challenges us to decide what it means to be human.. what does it look like.. how should we behave to each other.. what is truly important as we make our way through these times?

BIG NEWS: My big Christmas present was a visit from our old friend and music legend Brendan Gallagher to embed himself in the house for three days while we laid nine bed tracks for my next album, the fifth and first in 26 years. We fought of corellas, dogs, trucks, children and the coffee machine to set the foundations for a release in April all being well. Watch this space

Never been to Humph Hall before this event.. the night after the Leonard Cohen event in Canberra. Arrived to find an old Uniting Church that had been converted into a rehearsal/concert space and a private home.. just terrific. Went on to do a good long show with a wonderful audience which included the hosts, Wayne and Gial and a group of members of 'Loosely Woven', an a cappella choir based at the Hall. This is Wayne, Gial and me after the event.. I'm the boring one in the middle.

If you’ve got a special place in your musical heart for Leonard Cohen you'll understand the excitement about this event. The wonderful Mikelangelo (Michael Simic) masterminded a Celebration of the Life and Music of this legendary singer-songwriter, poet and novelist at The Vault in Fyshwick on November 8th, 2024. With a fabulous backing band known as the Band of Mercy, and a collection of great artists such as Fred Smith, Shortis and Simpson, Alice Cottee, Tom Woodward and others including yours truly, Mikelangelo sung and danced and audience of over 450 to the end of a wonderful night. Here we are performing Cohen's ANTHEM.