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What future the arts in the Top End?

The Darwin Festival has failed local visual artists. Spending money on a roving class of interstate creatives and acts is capital that gets drained out of the local culture making economy. There is no substantial quota for local engagement, there is no compulsion that local creatives get engaged and employed. The current festival model fails to connect with and engage the local culture makers. Even the influx of DF production crew in August are like carnies - here for the month then off again to fleece another community with their generic arts festival business model.

By Bob Gosford|2017-06-22T07:35:21+09:30June 22nd, 2017|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Art, Australian politics, Music, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, NT local government, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Law, The Northern Myth|1 Comment

My life as a roadie, Part 1: For those gone to the great bump-out in the sky.

The recent call by the Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA)—including this piece on the ABC by Guy Stayner that highlights the appalling suicide rates in the live music industry—gave me pause to reflect on my previous career in music, mainly working as a roadie (doing FoH sound in the main) with rock ‘n roll bands [...]

By Bob Gosford|2016-11-20T23:15:57+09:30November 20th, 2016|Art, Crime, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|2 Comments

Willie “Po’ Monkey” Seaberry – a Delta life lived large

Clearly built without the aid of an architect, Po' Monkey's Lounge crazy structure sat in the middle of a cotton field — a mile and a half off Highway 61.

By Bob Gosford|2023-11-13T20:51:02+09:30July 16th, 2016|Mississippi, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Rayella and the Australian Opera Chamber Orchestra, Tennant Creek 1 July 2016

A few pics from this evening’s gig at Tennant Creek with Rayella (Raymond Dixon and daughter Eleanor) and the Opera Australia Chamber Orchestra put on by Barkly Arts and the crew from the Winanjjikari Music Centre. More to come … […]

By Bob Gosford|2016-07-16T12:06:34+09:30July 1st, 2016|Aboriginal & Islander Art, Fun stuff, Music, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

That incessant noise … King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. From Darwin to the Billboard charts

Our son's band, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard--named in a fit of fun when they were all playing in other bands and thought they'd be getting together only once to play a friend's party--are in the middle of their fifth US tour.

By Bob Gosford|2016-05-16T23:15:44+09:30May 16th, 2016|Art, Fun stuff, Music, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Broken English: Best Heavy Metal Band in the Country

This is a guest post by author Greg Barron that was first published at his website in October 2015. This is the store at Ngukurr (pronounced Nooker) Community on the banks of the Roper River in the NT. This settlement, home to around 900 people, was the origin of a rock band that Andrew McMillan [...]

By Bob Gosford|2016-02-23T20:44:18+09:30February 23rd, 2016|Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

“We don’t do that shit … we just play rock and roll.” Vale Mr Thompson

What was it about a style of music which migrated from the Delta to the South Side of Chicago and beyond in the forties and fifties, that enabled it to capture the hearts and minds of young men in locations as disparate as Canvey Island and Ngukurr throughout the rest of the century?

By Bob Gosford|2016-02-23T20:10:24+09:30February 23rd, 2016|Fun stuff, Music, The Arts, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

David Bowie and all the young Darwin dudes, summer 1972

Back in Darwin during Christmas holidays 1972 my friend Fred McCue had returned from London holidays with his family early and we hung around in the blessed aircon and smoked pot. On the first morning back from London he walked out of his bedroom and threw some albums on the table. “These are big in London,” he said. They were Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Man Who Sold the World and Space Oddity

By Bob Gosford|2016-01-13T22:01:54+09:30January 13th, 2016|Art, Fun stuff, Music, Some places I've been, The Arts, The Northern Myth, Writing and writers|1 Comment

Straight outta Darwin. The Spangeld Drongoes, live at Bonehead’s (updated)

If you need to ask you don't deserve to know ... or as NC says, "I've lived in this town for thirty years ... and I put new bullets in my gun, chamber after chamber ... oh, my God, oh, my God."

By Bob Gosford|2015-09-07T21:37:46+09:30August 23rd, 2015|Music, Roadkill|0 Comments

Getting hot, sweaty and happy at the Rayella Band album launch at Elliott, NT

Mark Raymond is a deserved legend in these parts. He is an ex-copper and lead singer of the great and sadly retired Kulumindini Band, who made three great albums (one with the best title - "You're Not Useless" - I've heard in a while) in the late eighties and mid-nineties. Kulumindini gave us a long "tuning-up-song" intro and then launched into their greatest hits and more. The crowd, as they say, went wild.

By Bob Gosford|2026-03-30T12:20:59+09:30March 20th, 2015|Art, Music, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Photography, Some places I've been, The Arts, The NT Intervention|0 Comments