GIG - James McCann and his band The Selfish Gene CD launch at Yah Yah’s, Melbourne. What a talent, what a presence and what a band!

DOCO - Singer-guitarist Jim White (USA) narrates the doco ’Wrong Eyed-Jesus’. I supported Jim White in Switzerland a couple of years ago. An interesting and intelligent guy and a compelling look at the Deep South and alternative country music.

GIG - The Sand Pebbles CD launch with Beaches as support at Toff in Town, Melbourne. Sean from The Spoils whips up some crazy sounds with strange looking devices on stage with The Sand Pebbles.

VENUE – Le Rad, Dolmayrac, France. Up there in my Top Ten of bars alongside Wunderbar in Lyttelton, New Zealand and The Blue Room in Tokyo.

ARTWORK - Dave Graney – “Knock Yourself Out”. Australia’s answer to Ancient Rome’s Petronius, the arbiter of elegance does it again with inimitable style.

ARTWORK - The Orbweavers – “Graphite and Diamonds” spectacular graphics from this folk noir outfit from Melbourne.

GIG - Lucinda Williams – Arts Centre, Melbourne. She covers a lot of musical territory.

GIG - Princes Chameaux (Paris, France) – at Supa Molly in Berlin. I recently supported these guys at Supa Molly, a really cool squat in Berlin with a great sound system and crew. The Princes played rockabilly punk with a twist of hip hop at a frenetic pace and all in French. I don’t think anyone could understand the lingo but you didn’t need to with all that energy. The Krauts went crazy.

GIG - Ladyboyz – Thornbury theatre. Playing all the crap that by default turned me onto punk rock, my rock’n’roll journey and my road to ruin. More entertaining than I expected – it was an experience!

TV - SALMON on Spicks’n’Specks ABC TV. Six guitars, two drummers…Kim bends ears and minds once again…

2010 - Looking forward to the release of Charlie Owen’s new solo album in 2010…