The Birthday Party were my first favourite band. I kept going with the Bad Seeds for a long time. On 5 January 1984, I attended the first “Nick Cave: Man or Myth” concert in Sydney at the Musicians Club. Nick Cave Collector’s Hell is a great […]
Joyce set Ulysses in Dublin. The River Liffey runs right through its guts. It is his symbol for life’s “riverrun” (that’s the first word of Finnegans Wake). I set Telemachus in Sydney. I could have chosen our famous harbour or beaches as my life symbol. But […]