NEW DIMENSIONS – THE HAMSTER WHEEL & THE LOOKING GLASS Little PLanet GO Pro 360 Melbourne City Scape from Federation square Victoria

NEW DIMENSIONS – THE HAMSTER WHEEL & THE LOOKING GLASS (Part 2)

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VIEW OF MELBOURNE CITY SKYLINE FROM FEDERATION SQUARE

 

THE STORY SO FAR - NEW DIMENSIONS – THE HAMSTER WHEEL & THE LOOKING GLASS (Part 1)

 

NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST.

KIERAN WICKS ARRIVING AT MELBOURNE AIRPORT TO TOUR VICTORIA WITH HIS COLE CLARK GUITAR
ARRIVING AT MELBOURNE AIRPORT TO TOUR VICTORIA WITH MY TRUSTY COLE CLARK GUITAR
People watching in the big city is an interesting experience within itself.
Everyone busy in their own little worlds.
You can tell the locals, head down, on a mission, confidence in their stride to get to some place for that next thing.
The tourists also easy to spot, wandering around, head swiveling from side to side in constant wonder, shock and awe, pointing at things like a small child does when pointing at a puppy or passing fire truck.
The full city experience is a sensory one.
The smells, the sounds, the sights, the colours, the faces, the dreams, the nightmare, co-existing as the lifeforce of a breathing, evolving organism.
The city never sleeps.  

 FEDERATION SQUARE, MELBOURNE WALK THROUGH

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PALAIS THEATRE IN ST KILDA, MELBOURNE, ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S PREMIER ENTERTAINMENT VENUES.  

 

MELBOURNE; AUSTRALIA’S CULTURAL CAPITAL

Yes, most Melburnians wear their cultural participation awards proudly on their sleeves.
With regard to event attendance, Melbourne is arguably Australia’s most cultured city.
At least that’s what my peers thought, as many made the mass exodus from our coastal surf city to the Bay city in the south, with the belief that it was the answer to our cultural wilderness.
The answer to obscurity.
Make it in Melbourne then you can…. Ummm… what exactly…?

 

 ENTRANCE TO LUNA PARK, MELBOURNE. LARGE SUN FACE WITH MOUTH AS DOORWAY. ONE TOWN AT A TIME, LIVING ART LIFESTYLE. TOURIST ATTRACTION, THINGS TO DO, PLACES TO VISIT, ICONIC

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WILL SWALLOW YOU WHOLE!! 
THE ICONIC LUNA PARK ENTRANCE, MELBOURNE
 

 

LAND OF THE TALL POPPY

  • Does Australia value it’s own culture?
  • Does Australia even know it has a culture?
  • How do artists grow in the Australian cultural climate?
  • How does one gauge the success of one’s career progression and cultural contribution?
  • How do you evolve as an artist?

If it’s a sheer numbers game, then cities certainly pull larger crowds to events.
A melting pot of subcultures coexisting within a mesh on modern society. But there is also more competition professionally which ultimately makes the talent pool and culture stronger.
On the other end of the scale, those in the bush are starved of certain resources, such as entertainment, but are rich in wisdoms that can’t attained in the net of the city.
You don’t get ‘country hospitality’ in the city.

  

CROSSING THE BOLTE BRIDGE IN MELBOURNE, STEEL GIRDER BRIDGE DESIGN.
STEEL GIRDER ARCHES OF THE BOLTE BRIDGE, MELBOURNE 

 

 NOW WHAT???
Congratulations, you slogged it out in the big city for a couple of years to gain some traction and a following, selling out shows across the city.
You've started to make a name for yourself.
But have they heard of you in bumfuck nowhere?
Where they don’t give a fuck about city folk and the outside world, because more often than not, that’s how those in the corridors of power treat them.
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT HOUSEs CANBERRA, AT NIGHT, NEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN THE BACKGROUND GREEN AND GOLD LIGHTS ILLUMINATING THE BUILDING. OLD PARLIMENT HOUSE LIT UP IN WHITE LIGHT, WITH INTERNATIONAL FLAGS FLOWN IN THE FOREGROUND. ONE TOWNAT A TIME, LIVING ART LIFESTYLE, PLACE TO GO, THINGS TO DO
CAST IN THE SHADOWS OF NIGHT
AUSTRALIAN PARLIMENT HOUSES, CANBERRA

 

PERSPECTIVE CAN BE SKEWED

However if you go out and meet these people and experience their world in some small way, you become exposed to a different point of view, a different way of living, thinking and doing things.
You begin to understand  that more often than not “things aren’t that simple.
CASTLES IN THE SAND, GIANT SAND WHITE ANT NESTS IN OUTBACK AUSTRALIA NEAR NORMANTON QLD. PLACES TO VISIT, ONE TOWN AT A TIME, LIVING ART LIFESTYLE
CASTLES OF SAND, NORMANTON QUEENSLAND
THE OUTBACK IS STREWN WITH GIANT WHITE ANT NESTS
Whilst well-meaning and intentioned bureaucrats in far off lands make ill informed decisions that affect entire communities for generations to come.
You only have to drive through Australia’s interior a few hours in land from any coast to realise that the land changes do frequently it’s like each valley is it’s own country, each valley supporting a unique ecosystem.

 

It’s the same premise with each town and city.
They each have their own distinct personality.
 

THE BRUNSWICK WEST SESSIONS

On this occasion it was my old friend Luke Price that brought me to the Melbourne.
The swiss army knife of hard rock, Lukey, a fellow Novocastrian expat / exile, and I have known one another  for near 20 years.
Over the course of 5 months luke and I wrote the foundation of my third album, 12 songs in 14 days.

LUKE PRICE, TRACKING THE SOLO FOR LOUDER THAN WORDS

 

A succession of monthly long-weekends as I toured, circling wider Victoria to pass the days between recording sessions, chasing waterfalls as I chased the dream.

 But more on that another time.

GREAT OCEAN ROAD VICTORIA ENTRY SIGN ON THE HIGHWAY. PLACES TO VISIT, THINGS TO DO, TOURIST ATTRACTION, LIVING ART LIFESTYLE, ONE TOWN AT A TIME

AUSTRALIA'S ICONIC GREAT OCEAN ROAD, VICTORIA 

 

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