Australia's Folk-Punk Troubadour
Friday, 31 July 2020 It was 3 years ago now that my management advised me to continue My Life On The Road by writing about ‘All The Little Things’ that I had to do prior to hitting the road on my 91 day European tour, August to November 2017. The amount of prep needed for a venture of that kind,
Friday, 7 July 2017 I was last at Rebellion Festival in 2013. I was fresh off the boat from Australia, and had been in London for about 3 months, during which time – in typical backpacker fashion – I’d somehow managed to spend whatever money I’d arrived with. The last thing I did before leaving the Big Smoke was spend
View on YouTube JULY 2015 — Debut official music video released. In May 2015, I was back home in Mandurah, Western Australia, preparing for my third U.K. tour – the biggest one to date by a long shot – when I decided more-or-less on a whim to contact director Steve Correia (Zulu Media Australia), whom I’d worked with years earlier on Project Mayhem’s
View on YouTube Saturday 23 May 2015 — first day of shooting for the Mindless Greg The Media Consumer video. Director Steve Correia and I had very basic plan in mind: we would drive around Perth for the day, I’d go busking and he’d film what happened. By lunch time we had plenty of footage of me being chased off pitches by enthusiastic security guards and transit
Download Or Stream Here In May 2015 I sat down with my buddies Stefan and Wheels at Brianiac Studios in Yokine, Western Australia, to have a chat for their Reverb. podcast series. It was stacks of fun. The result is a really, really extensive interview that covers my formative years in The Hydey punk scene; playing in bands like zxspecky and Project Mayhem, and running Blazing
CDs Available On Bandcamp Mindless Greg The Media Consumer was recorded on a whim. I’d landed a sweet deal for an afternoon’s recording at Spirit Recording Studios in SW11, on the south bank of the Thames, London. At the time I still had it in my head that my earlier demo recordings would comprise an album, so I wanted to do
iTunes • Rdio • SoundCloud • Spotify • Triple J Unearthed • YouTube Written in Leederville W.A. in mid-2012, the tune came to me instantly, but it had some rather bollocks lyrics. “My name is Ben and I’m bored and enraged…” – I guess I was finishing up one era of my life and beginning a new one. But it was never a serious matter. Meanwhile I’d developed this idea of