Tracee

I'm a columnist with the Saturday Age, the Melbourne broadsheet newspaper. And I have a weekly radio show, 'the word' on 3RRR, where I talk about the world a bit and try to keep my sense of humour. I play songs in between the talking bits. It lightens the mood. Sometimes I am on the telly with James Reyne presenting a music show on ABC2 called 'DIG TV'. I am also the woman Lou Reed said "I love you" to on the 7.30 Report (ABC TV) - too weird to explain but it's true... A pop band from Perth called The Chevelles wrote a song about me called 'Tracee Lee' which can be found on 'The Kids Ain't Hip' EP (1991). And my dear friend Louis Tillett wrote 'From Me to You' (from 'A Cast of Aspersions' 1990), for those nights we spent talking gently on the phone when I was doing the late night radio shift at the Jays in Sydney in the late 1980's. Bless you Louie.****************************************************** ******** A while back I wrote a book about Australian music called 'Your Name's on the Door' (1992/ABC Books) based on a radio series I did at Triplejay in 1990. It's not a bad read though you can only get it on Amazon these days for about $100(US). I also put together a rock and roll cookbook called 'Rock Chefs for Mirabel' (2002/self-published) - for a charity that takes care of kids who've lost parents to drug abuse called the Mirabel Foundation. Another cookbook, 'Laughing Stock:Comedy Chefs for Mirabel' - also a fundraiser for the Mirabel kids - came out in April 2007 through Hardie Grant.