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The Making of “Sweden” – Future Memories
Ever since my second Space March album, I’ve always included a “geo-romantic” track where I incorporate a country reference into the lyrics and song title. To date we’ve had “Canadian Girls”, “American Girl”, “Norway” [...]
The Making of “Time Is Elastic” – Future Memories
Physics is not common subject matter for a song. You certainly don’t hear pop divas trying to sexualise the Second Law of Thermodynamics! In the geeky world of synthpop, however, it’s not unheard of. [...]
The Making of “Fly a Pony” – Future Memories
Believe it or not, this song started out as a trippy, Beatlesque song with a 12/8 time signature! But of course, this didn’t fit with the Synthwave stylings of the album. So I started messing [...]
The Making of “Icarus” – Future Memories
As a child, a large, semi-abstract painting hung inside our front door. It was called "Icarus" and was painted by my mother at art school. Mum explained the story of Icarus to me which [...]
The Making of “Forever” – Future Memories
Typically pop albums start with a bang! An up-tempo, catchy number to pull people into the album. Not so here. I chose the second slowest song on the album, clocking just 90 BPM and with [...]
2017 in Review
2017 has been a tough year for me with more lows than highs. Grieving the loss of a loved one, along with family, business and health challenges – the stuff life is made of! Still, the [...]
New Order Live – Vivid 2016
I’ve seen New Order perform several times before, but when I read that they were headlining Sydney's Vivid Festival and performing at the Sydney Opera House with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), I knew this [...]
Making Saturn’s Sun
For me, the most interesting part of making music is taking that germ of an idea and turning it into a song. In the early stages, a song can be anything – it [...]
The Five Year Song
Whilst the creative spark for a song often only takes minutes, finishing it can sometimes take years. Looked at another way, the spark is really just establishing the creative problem. Sometimes the solution comes easily, [...]
It Must Be Obvious – Final Tracklisting
I'm happy to announce the final track selection for my covers album - 'It Must Be Obvious'. The album will be mastered by Robin Schmidt on April 9th. Robin mastered the 'Mountain King' album and [...]