About Me

I like people who ring me up at 3am playin' music down the phone saying 'you gotta hear this'..who make most nights out an adventurous calamity.. who put money in my account when it all goes pear..who can buy an album and play it maybe twenny times in a row.. who could die for a song..who love house parties with great hostie dj's.. and anyone who wants to sit around poking a fire with me 'til dawn.. I love sad stuff..and passionate speeches ..be they political or sporting or funerals or parties..when people talk about how great people are it could make me cry.. i am a dead set sucker for sad songs and waltzes..beautiful tattoos..banjo's.. and big tough softies.. i have a radio music show (HOT DAMN TAMALE) with my good mate on the fabulous 3cr..855 on your AM dial (a truer sound).. we are now streaming for you guys outta town at 3cr.org.au..the voice of dissent.. i am a strong supporter of the union movement.. oh and i am a footy tragic..m.f.c............................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ...................................... My folks back in 1852 passed by cape horn (above) on that dreadful journey from skye to australia..against their will..(cleared off their land )..90 days on a sickening sea..the cow was blown overboard and the cook was murdered..but she saved the spinning wheel.

My Interests

music,art, drinking, rolling anything up and smoking it and ramblin' on 'til all hours on your front porch...

Music:

well well well i better make a start...headbelly buzzard and all the great sessions that happen around melb...freakwater...calexico..the handsome family..the band..rick danko..sandilands..pigrim bros...tom waits..springsteen..the be good tanyas..lanegan...blacky ranchette..fiddlers convention..saltwater band...g love...chet baker...flaco jiminez..langford and timms...warumpi band...guilford banjo jamboree..fallen angels..hula wonder..Lloyd cole...kim salmon..t bones...alison krauss..dancehall rackateers..dolly..fred neil..w.p.a...eddie cochran...low..truckstop honeymoon..ryan..nina simone..supersuckers..tartan hearts..tbwktm..the blackeyed susans..nick...carter family..that earl fella..trailerbride...meat puppets and purveyors..cake..gillian and dave..los lobos. bodeans..knitters...in fact all the bands that were on the slash label...whiskeytown...augie march..woody...gourds..jayhawks..lowell george..lucinda..emmylou...southern culture on the skids..professor longhair..harddrive..maurice frawley..guy clark..townes...jimmy dale gilmour...scuds..jc..bessie smith..ted hawkins...kris kristofferson..paul robeson...clifton chenier..morphine..lyle lovett..louis prima..warren zevon..i'll get back to ya....

Movies:

just watched 'no country for old men' with my cardigan over my head for a lot of it..but awesome dialogue and the handsomest old men... the last waltz is my fave musical doc ...the triplets of belleville i think is the loveliest 'little' film i've seen and billy elliot charmed the tears out of me........my own super 8's are fun and i can set the projector up and watch em all by myself and be happy and having movie nights with my other wacky home movie homeys is also a treat................. the scene in wild at heart were nic pulls two marlboro's out of the pack and lights both..gold!....go down the shop and get 'the magician'..oz brilliance!

Television:

spotted this at our local banjo jamboree.."can't afford one so i made one"..he said..love it.

Books:

.all things cormac..just finished the road a week ago and me ol' eyes are still puffy and comin apart at the seams...'the moon wandered like a grieving mother with a lamp'

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Heroes:

firemen and ambo's first and the mighty SEA SHEPERD CREW... all the union boys and girls from the docks to the desks and all the great sad writers of books and songs i have ever read or heard.....

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playlist for wed..28th may

Opened with Harry Dean Stantons 8min track (i knew these people) from Paris Texas.Dave Evans with TBWKTM....on my own.Warren Zevon....please stay.Fred Neil....little bit of rain.Tom Waits..picture in ...
Posted by kate reid on Wed, 28 May 2008 05:25:00 PST

13th feb 2008 in melbourne

i stood in federation square today from 9 am..with 10,000 of my fellow townsfolk..listening to our new political leader attempt to ease a great pain..can i say i've very rarely in my life been proud o...
Posted by kate reid on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:11:00 PST

FUCKIN’ SHIT UP ON THE RADIO TODAY!

we are playin tunes today that hopefully will inspire you to fuck shit up!bush and his fellow world cronies are in sydney today to talk about how they can further ruin your lives!..they want to fuck y...
Posted by kate reid on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:38:00 PST

grrrrr...

....hi folksone of my very,very favourite cd's has packed it in..i really needed to hear it the other day and could not believe it when right at the point which had become so personal and i was so pos...
Posted by kate reid on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:37:00 PST

WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE!

folks....don't know if you have been following the trial of the queensland cop Chris Hurley who is the first police officer to face criminal charges over the death of an aboriginal person in his custo...
Posted by kate reid on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:09:00 PST

sunday didn't start all that differently&

one mushroom..two old spring onions and a cuppla eggs in the fridge..scraped the last bidda budda off the ol' western star paper..into the pan and away we went..reheated the pot of tea from the night ...
Posted by kate reid on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:03:00 PST

our 100TH show next wednesday 13TH JUNE and...

it's radiothon time again!i know a lot of you don't/can't listen to our show but if you did..you would fuckin' love it..i swear..tip top music, loads of laughs, buckets of heart, live bandsand the mos...
Posted by kate reid on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:02:00 PST

reckless hearts..

it's all about the heart...The heart being ripped out of things we hold dear..our bars/venues are becoming shitty little boxes to house those wealthy folk who wanna watch the freak show and passing pa...
Posted by kate reid on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:16:00 PST

it's the little things..

....like the crackin' dinner i made last night that was devoured with smiles through stuffed mouths and no leftovers..simple..like working out that song you've loved forever ('must be gettin' soft'..t...
Posted by kate reid on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:40:00 PST

playlist from todays show..

We were sick of all the negative and hyporcritical crap in the media re:our football players taking illicit drugs and being hounded into rehab.with their names splattered from asshole to breakfast tim...
Posted by kate reid on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:47:00 PST