• #throwbackthursday to when I wrote "Limbo", track 4 on the B-sides EP which you can listen to at the link in my bio 🎸🎸🎸... It's a rare straight out rock shredder in my backcatalogue - let me know what you reckon of it... This is my old alt-country-folk-indie-rock quartet with @templehaze @pii_napples @stefanbregenzer ... We were oddly named, "WreckHeads", which was a name that Temple and I chose, based on a song written by our friend Natty, and I guess, because we kinda amped up the idea that we'd frequently get wrecked on and off stage, or playing together in the street 🤣🤣🤣.. That's where it all started, busking together on the street down by the wall, Oberbaumbrücke, Hackerschermarkt, Mauerpark, Warschauerstr, wherever we found ourselves. Soon we met Hal, bonding over and playing classics by The Band. We then became a proper band with Anton on drums for the first few gigs, even had a manager for a while, and eventually got Stefan into the line-up. About a year in, we recorded our debut 11-track album, including 5 songs each from Temple and me, plus a Hal Strewe ditty. We recorded it all over 2 days in an abandoned tomato sauce factory in Werder, just outside of Berlin. It was a cold and dark dungeon-like place, but we got the goods, all tracked live together. Tobias Either was our engineer/mixer, who originally convinced us to record and he did an amazing job, was really patient and really believed in our music. Long story short, we never released that album, as we didn't booked anymore gigs as that line-up, effectively disbanding and going different directions (perhaps it was doomed to go down like that from the start). Listening back to it not so long ago, I still think it was a great album for where we were all at at the time, and I still feel really bad for Tobias, who put so much of his time and effort into it. Perhaps one day it will get released, maybe we'll play a 10 year reunion gig in 2024 or something 🤣... (continue reading in comments)
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    #throwbackthursday to when I wrote "Limbo", track 4 on the B-sides EP which you can listen to at the link in my bio 🎸🎸🎸... It's a rare straight out rock shredder in my backcatalogue - let me know what you reckon of it... This is my old alt-country-folk-indie-rock quartet with @templehaze @pii_napples @stefanbregenzer ... We were oddly named, "WreckHeads", which was a name that Temple and I chose, based on a song written by our friend Natty, and I guess, because we kinda amped up the idea that we'd frequently get wrecked on and off stage, or playing together in the street 🤣🤣🤣.. That's where it all started, busking together on the street down by the wall, Oberbaumbrücke, Hackerschermarkt, Mauerpark, Warschauerstr, wherever we found ourselves. Soon we met Hal, bonding over and playing classics by The Band. We then became a proper band with Anton on drums for the first few gigs, even had a manager for a while, and eventually got Stefan into the line-up. About a year in, we recorded our debut 11-track album, including 5 songs each from Temple and me, plus a Hal Strewe ditty. We recorded it all over 2 days in an abandoned tomato sauce factory in Werder, just outside of Berlin. It was a cold and dark dungeon-like place, but we got the goods, all tracked live together. Tobias Either was our engineer/mixer, who originally convinced us to record and he did an amazing job, was really patient and really believed in our music. Long story short, we never released that album, as we didn't booked anymore gigs as that line-up, effectively disbanding and going different directions (perhaps it was doomed to go down like that from the start). Listening back to it not so long ago, I still think it was a great album for where we were all at at the time, and I still feel really bad for Tobias, who put so much of his time and effort into it. Perhaps one day it will get released, maybe we'll play a 10 year reunion gig in 2024 or something 🤣... (continue reading in comments)
  • My impression of me on a Monday trying to get my shit together after another wild weekend 🤣🤣🤣... Kaleidoscope sunglasses don't help 🤣🤣🤣.. To listen to an EP of B-sides from the Wasted Wonder sessions, click the link in my bio 😘... This gem was taken by @conorcunninghams at Liepnitzsee less than a month ago before the weather got proper cold 🥶.. Have a wonderful week! ❤ . . . . . . . #kaleidoscopic #sunglasses #kaleidoscope #sunnies #avocadodream #thethinker #tryingtogetmyshittogether #gettingmyshittogether #ihatemondays #mondaymadness #lakelife #liepnitzsee #berlin #lakeday #summerthrowback #openshirt #lakevibes #tryingtomakesenseofitall #bsides #newep #theroadyears #hawaiianshirt #mesmerized #lovingnature #mesmerizedbynature #morningavocado #wakingup #lakesideview #unfilterednature #whereismymind
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    My impression of me on a Monday trying to get my shit together after another wild weekend 🤣🤣🤣... Kaleidoscope sunglasses don't help 🤣🤣🤣.. To listen to an EP of B-sides from the Wasted Wonder sessions, click the link in my bio 😘... This gem was taken by @conorcunninghams at Liepnitzsee less than a month ago before the weather got proper cold 🥶.. Have a wonderful week! ❤ . . . . . . . #kaleidoscopic #sunglasses #kaleidoscope #sunnies #avocadodream #thethinker #tryingtogetmyshittogether #gettingmyshittogether #ihatemondays #mondaymadness #lakelife #liepnitzsee #berlin #lakeday #summerthrowback #openshirt #lakevibes #tryingtomakesenseofitall #bsides #newep #theroadyears #hawaiianshirt #mesmerized #lovingnature #mesmerizedbynature #morningavocado #wakingup #lakesideview #unfilterednature #whereismymind
  • Have you given the B-Sides EP a listen? Check it out at the link in my bio, might be good to fall asleep to on a lazy Sunday night 🤣🤣🤣... "Emily, I hope you can see, you were meant to be so happy, like when i was five and you were three, playing in the backyard, we were so free"... It was my sisso @emilywasik 's birthday yesterday. My mum @perriercamille sent me a few cute kid photos of us back in the day, before @alexbrinkworth made it the classic sibling trio 🥰🥰🥰.. Track 3 from the EP, "Em's Song", was written on my sister's 24th birthday, now several years ago, and I ended up singing it with my mate Natty on her wedding day with @mathiaswasik about a month later. At the time, I was in limbo, used to being on the road never in one place for that long for several years and hadn't yet called Berlin home-base. Living off busking, without an amp, I was quite broke and couldn't afford a present, but instead this song wrote itself in a flash, reflecting on growing up together and our adventures in the States 10 years ago. Neil Young's line "24 and so much more" from "Old Man" seemed appropriate and fair game to paraphrase and cap off the story. I already knew back then that I was reflecting on a special moment in time and phase of our lives that we'll never live again in quite the same way, only in memory, and it seemed quite symbolic that we ended up singing it at Em and Mathias' wedding, closing a chapter and beginning another. Em of course cried when I played her the song, and I actually didn't think I would seriously perform it again (let alone release it as a recording!). But over the years, in our fleeting moments when we have caught up, Em always requests it at gigs and jams, and it became a bit of a favourite amongst my family and several close friends. At some point, I showed it to my bandmates and they also thought it was worth arranging and recording, so it became one of the 20-odd songs we recorded during the Wasted Wonder album sessions. Figured it was appropriate to release it now 10 years on. Of course it's quite a personal one, but hopefully other siblings can relate to it. I never thought I'd put this out, but here we are now I guess! 🤣
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    Have you given the B-Sides EP a listen? Check it out at the link in my bio, might be good to fall asleep to on a lazy Sunday night 🤣🤣🤣... "Emily, I hope you can see, you were meant to be so happy, like when i was five and you were three, playing in the backyard, we were so free"... It was my sisso @emilywasik 's birthday yesterday. My mum @perriercamille sent me a few cute kid photos of us back in the day, before @alexbrinkworth made it the classic sibling trio 🥰🥰🥰.. Track 3 from the EP, "Em's Song", was written on my sister's 24th birthday, now several years ago, and I ended up singing it with my mate Natty on her wedding day with @mathiaswasik about a month later. At the time, I was in limbo, used to being on the road never in one place for that long for several years and hadn't yet called Berlin home-base. Living off busking, without an amp, I was quite broke and couldn't afford a present, but instead this song wrote itself in a flash, reflecting on growing up together and our adventures in the States 10 years ago. Neil Young's line "24 and so much more" from "Old Man" seemed appropriate and fair game to paraphrase and cap off the story. I already knew back then that I was reflecting on a special moment in time and phase of our lives that we'll never live again in quite the same way, only in memory, and it seemed quite symbolic that we ended up singing it at Em and Mathias' wedding, closing a chapter and beginning another. Em of course cried when I played her the song, and I actually didn't think I would seriously perform it again (let alone release it as a recording!). But over the years, in our fleeting moments when we have caught up, Em always requests it at gigs and jams, and it became a bit of a favourite amongst my family and several close friends. At some point, I showed it to my bandmates and they also thought it was worth arranging and recording, so it became one of the 20-odd songs we recorded during the Wasted Wonder album sessions. Figured it was appropriate to release it now 10 years on. Of course it's quite a personal one, but hopefully other siblings can relate to it. I never thought I'd put this out, but here we are now I guess! 🤣
  • The 'B-Sides' EP is out now everywhere!!! 🥳... #linkinmybio 😘 When you have a moment, please give it a listen and let me know what you reckon 🙏🥰... If you're into it, save it and share it around too, cheers 😘 I already talked a bit about the whole EP last week for its Bandcamp release, so now I'll write a bit about each song. Let's start with the opener, "Lost Boys"... This photo is from 11 years ago, almost to the day, taken by @nicholasshaunphillips on my crappy 3.2 megapixel Kodak digital camera (remember those?), back when we just had gumby Nokia phones (or if you were fancy, a flip-phone 🤣) that you used just for calls or SMS texts that would involve pressing the same number often 3 times to get the letter you wanted... ah, those were the days! 🤣🤣🤣... I digress! Along with Nick, from left to right, that's Mikey, Paul, Drew and myself. The 5 of us were living in a magical share house slash couchsurfer's paradise "The Forest" down by the Uni of QLD in Brissie, along with a fluctuating village worth of travellers, artists, students and positively unemployed crazies - a lot went down there, a thousand characters from all over the shop with their own unique story - you could write a book about the place but you'd still have a hard time to grasping the spirit of it all without having been there. Mikey (Little Doward) had come the whole way round the world only to arrive as a couchsurfer on his first day downunder and hardly even leave for his next 8 month stay - why would you need to when the world could come to you in this beautiful mess?! This photo captures one of the few times he did leave 🤣🤣🤣, when we drove up to Rainbow Beach spontaneously in Drew's minibus, packed some supplies, camping gear and other essential like guitar and surfboard, and went hiking into the night, spending a couple of days vaguely making it along the 20km stretch of pristine almost deserted beach up to Double Island Point. We had everything, muesli, tuna, goon etc, besides water 🤣🤣🤣... it ended up feeling like a "Bourke & Wills"-esque journey 🤣, but made it back alright on day 3, hitch-hiking with some 4WDers back to civilization..(continued in comments)
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    The 'B-Sides' EP is out now everywhere!!! 🥳... #linkinmybio 😘 When you have a moment, please give it a listen and let me know what you reckon 🙏🥰... If you're into it, save it and share it around too, cheers 😘 I already talked a bit about the whole EP last week for its Bandcamp release, so now I'll write a bit about each song. Let's start with the opener, "Lost Boys"... This photo is from 11 years ago, almost to the day, taken by @nicholasshaunphillips on my crappy 3.2 megapixel Kodak digital camera (remember those?), back when we just had gumby Nokia phones (or if you were fancy, a flip-phone 🤣) that you used just for calls or SMS texts that would involve pressing the same number often 3 times to get the letter you wanted... ah, those were the days! 🤣🤣🤣... I digress! Along with Nick, from left to right, that's Mikey, Paul, Drew and myself. The 5 of us were living in a magical share house slash couchsurfer's paradise "The Forest" down by the Uni of QLD in Brissie, along with a fluctuating village worth of travellers, artists, students and positively unemployed crazies - a lot went down there, a thousand characters from all over the shop with their own unique story - you could write a book about the place but you'd still have a hard time to grasping the spirit of it all without having been there. Mikey (Little Doward) had come the whole way round the world only to arrive as a couchsurfer on his first day downunder and hardly even leave for his next 8 month stay - why would you need to when the world could come to you in this beautiful mess?! This photo captures one of the few times he did leave 🤣🤣🤣, when we drove up to Rainbow Beach spontaneously in Drew's minibus, packed some supplies, camping gear and other essential like guitar and surfboard, and went hiking into the night, spending a couple of days vaguely making it along the 20km stretch of pristine almost deserted beach up to Double Island Point. We had everything, muesli, tuna, goon etc, besides water 🤣🤣🤣... it ended up feeling like a "Bourke & Wills"-esque journey 🤣, but made it back alright on day 3, hitch-hiking with some 4WDers back to civilization..(continued in comments)
  • Pre-save link in my bio! 😘 This B-sides EP drops at midday everywhere - please take a second to click the link in my bio to give it a pre-save before to help it reach more ears upon release 🙏🥰 This is an excerpt from the first verse of the opening track, Lost Boys. I'll talk about that song in my next post when the EP is out. Til then, pre-save away, cheers! ❤ Cover photo by @paultobinphotography . . . . . #newmusicfriday #bsides #newep #theroadyears #lostboys #opener #droppingsoon #oldsongs #unreleasedmusic #originalmusic #originalsong #blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #coverart #newmusicalert #troubadour #troubadourblues #eastsidemall #berlinfolk #berlinsingersongwriter #berlin #lookingforwardlookingback
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    Pre-save link in my bio! 😘 This B-sides EP drops at midday everywhere - please take a second to click the link in my bio to give it a pre-save before to help it reach more ears upon release 🙏🥰 This is an excerpt from the first verse of the opening track, Lost Boys. I'll talk about that song in my next post when the EP is out. Til then, pre-save away, cheers! ❤ Cover photo by @paultobinphotography . . . . . #newmusicfriday #bsides #newep #theroadyears #lostboys #opener #droppingsoon #oldsongs #unreleasedmusic #originalmusic #originalsong #blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #coverart #newmusicalert #troubadour #troubadourblues #eastsidemall #berlinfolk #berlinsingersongwriter #berlin #lookingforwardlookingback
  • Last night at @800aberlin was full of brand new songs from the 3 of us, but here's some clips of a more familiar one from a post-online show audience request filmed by @seenatali_ I was surprised @jessiemonkmusic was smashing all the words too, it became a spontaneous duet! I guess I gotta accept that this one is my biggest banger so far 🤣 #modest ...speaking of bangers, my EP of "4 Non Bangers" 🤣 is gonna be dropping on @spotify at midday tomorrow - figured I should post something to keep the good old algorithm going 🤣🤣🤣... I'll talk about each of those songs more in my next post... Anyway, wow, despite the technical difficulties with the online stream, last night was a beauty! I loved playing alongside and listening to Jessie Monk and @kilkellymusic and the vibes we were getting from our socially distanced yet intimate live audience made it all the more memorable - thanks for coming down and thanks for watching!!! ❤❤❤ . . . . . . . #goodoldfeeling #duet #spontaneousduet #intimateconcert #livestreamconcert #800a #wedding #berlinfolk #berlin #biggestbanger #banger #mostpopularsong #redcurtain #australiansingersongwriter #postshow #audiencerequest #encore #unpluggedconcert #newep #newmusicrelease #spotify #tomorrow #presave
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    Last night at @800aberlin was full of brand new songs from the 3 of us, but here's some clips of a more familiar one from a post-online show audience request filmed by @seenatali_ I was surprised @jessiemonkmusic was smashing all the words too, it became a spontaneous duet! I guess I gotta accept that this one is my biggest banger so far 🤣 #modest ...speaking of bangers, my EP of "4 Non Bangers" 🤣 is gonna be dropping on @spotify at midday tomorrow - figured I should post something to keep the good old algorithm going 🤣🤣🤣... I'll talk about each of those songs more in my next post... Anyway, wow, despite the technical difficulties with the online stream, last night was a beauty! I loved playing alongside and listening to Jessie Monk and @kilkellymusic and the vibes we were getting from our socially distanced yet intimate live audience made it all the more memorable - thanks for coming down and thanks for watching!!! ❤❤❤ . . . . . . . #goodoldfeeling #duet #spontaneousduet #intimateconcert #livestreamconcert #800a #wedding #berlinfolk #berlin #biggestbanger #banger #mostpopularsong #redcurtain #australiansingersongwriter #postshow #audiencerequest #encore #unpluggedconcert #newep #newmusicrelease #spotify #tomorrow #presave
  • Gig tonight!!! (Wed 7.10) 8:30pm sharp! Please DM me if you're coming 😘... I'm playing @kilkellymusic 's 'Gut & Gutter Songbook' live stream songwriter circle series at @800aberlin with the man himself and @jessiemonkmusic - both great songwriters and friends of mine, I can't wait for this one! It's gonna be special. Berliners, DM me if you want to be part of the intimate audience - there's still spaces available!!! There's gonna be some sweet originals, storytelling and @jessiemonkmusic and I will play a couple of @paulkelly songs together too.. Hope to see you there! *For everyone outside of Berlin, it will be on the event and @kilkellymusic 's FB pages... Ps. This is a sweet black and white close-up shot from a while ago was taken by the amazing @gotobednickscholey ❤ Lottsa love and looking forward to see a few of you tonight at 800a at 8:30pm - and don't forget to DM me if you are coming 😘... . . . . . . #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #closeupphotography #closeupshot #closeup #inthedark #intheweehours #nightphotography #nightphoto #filmnoirphotography #filmnoir #keepingastraightface #straightface #intothenight #portraitphotography #nighttimeportraits #berlinfolk #berlin #800a #wedding #songwritercircle #songsandstories #songbook #intimateportrait #intimateconcert #singersongwriterberlin #pressphoto #throwback #tonightsthenight #famousgoldwatch @thefamousgoldwatch
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    Gig tonight!!! (Wed 7.10) 8:30pm sharp! Please DM me if you're coming 😘... I'm playing @kilkellymusic 's 'Gut & Gutter Songbook' live stream songwriter circle series at @800aberlin with the man himself and @jessiemonkmusic - both great songwriters and friends of mine, I can't wait for this one! It's gonna be special. Berliners, DM me if you want to be part of the intimate audience - there's still spaces available!!! There's gonna be some sweet originals, storytelling and @jessiemonkmusic and I will play a couple of @paulkelly songs together too.. Hope to see you there! *For everyone outside of Berlin, it will be on the event and @kilkellymusic 's FB pages... Ps. This is a sweet black and white close-up shot from a while ago was taken by the amazing @gotobednickscholey ❤ Lottsa love and looking forward to see a few of you tonight at 800a at 8:30pm - and don't forget to DM me if you are coming 😘... . . . . . . #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #closeupphotography #closeupshot #closeup #inthedark #intheweehours #nightphotography #nightphoto #filmnoirphotography #filmnoir #keepingastraightface #straightface #intothenight #portraitphotography #nighttimeportraits #berlinfolk #berlin #800a #wedding #songwritercircle #songsandstories #songbook #intimateportrait #intimateconcert #singersongwriterberlin #pressphoto #throwback #tonightsthenight #famousgoldwatch @thefamousgoldwatch
  • Bringing back the 90s? 🤣... Jamming and fleshing out new songs with mates, gonna be doing this more often into the colder months 🤘... Featuring Pip Fluteman on electric, @bryangrayson on bass and @axeneighlou switching to drums... Happy Saturday and thanks to everyone who bought the EP and pre-ordered my album on @bandcamp yesterday - let's do it again in a month 👊... Lottsa love, Michael 😘 . . . . . . #rougharoundtheedges #jamming #fleshingitout #newsong #bandoffriends #supergroup #bringingbackthe90s #bringingbackthenineties #rehearsalroom #firstrun #hangingoutwithfriends #jammingwithfriends #igetbywithalittlehelpfrommyfriends #90svibes #ninetiesvibes #outro #weekendvibes
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    Bringing back the 90s? 🤣... Jamming and fleshing out new songs with mates, gonna be doing this more often into the colder months 🤘... Featuring Pip Fluteman on electric, @bryangrayson on bass and @axeneighlou switching to drums... Happy Saturday and thanks to everyone who bought the EP and pre-ordered my album on @bandcamp yesterday - let's do it again in a month 👊... Lottsa love, Michael 😘 . . . . . . #rougharoundtheedges #jamming #fleshingitout #newsong #bandoffriends #supergroup #bringingbackthe90s #bringingbackthenineties #rehearsalroom #firstrun #hangingoutwithfriends #jammingwithfriends #igetbywithalittlehelpfrommyfriends #90svibes #ninetiesvibes #outro #weekendvibes