It's my favourite time of year. The time when all the local households take things they no longer need and put them out on the street. It's a strange aspect of Australia culture, officially known as 'hard rubbish', but every council area I've lived in for the last twelve years has embraced it wholeheartedly. My…Read more On My Favourite Time of Year
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On Mess
The backyard is a mess, all pot plants lined up in rows with good intentions, lovingly planted and then abandoned at the first sight of some other distraction. I garden like I do everything else in life: in short sprints, tackled over a week of high motivation and high spirits. Then a day off in…Read more On Mess
On Lucy
New Music, this Friday... Link here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nathanpower/lucy Lucy inhabits a weird corner of my mind. She officially started life on April 8th, 2019 as an abstraction called ‘Empty Bar Blues’. She wasn’t a ‘blues song’ in any of the standard definitions (12 bar form, melody borrowed from the blues scale, call and response etc), but…Read more On Lucy
On Birthdays
Before you read on, I'd love you pre-save my new single Lucy. It's out on Feb 28th. Pre-saving literally means Spotify will let you know when its out. That's it! No money. No time. Just a chance to hear my new song as soon as it's released. Link: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nathanpower/lucy .... I'm experiencing existential dread. It's…Read more On Birthdays
On Newstead
There's an urgency in the air. A poignant warmth of energy amongst the streaming crowds that waft across each street, holding back the traffic, criss-crossing in groups that intersect and divide and combine as mothers push prams and kids beg fathers for ice-cream money and people accost friends they haven't seen since the last festival.…Read more On Newstead
On India
I’m in India. Coughing my lungs out. I came down with something on the flight out of Melbourne and its been two days of searing headache, overheating body and gut-wracking coughs. Luckily we’re booked in to the second fanciest hotel in Cochin so I’ve spent the last 48 hours lying in the direct spray of…Read more On India
On Sunsets
It’s been a year of pretty sunsets, spread across a hundred different places. I’d love to say I make a habit of taking time to watch the sun set, pausing as it dips below the horizon, but the reality is that the only times I catch it in the act are when someone else points…Read more On Sunsets
On Life Balance
The year pulls into its last couple of stops with a screech and a scream of brakes. I’ve felt a build up of pressure, beginning somewhere around March and building building building non-stop till now. It’s been a frantic year of juggling a million commitments and a billion other things that I’ve wanted to do…Read more On Life Balance
On Tour Stories (part 2)
I’ve been thinking a bit more on stories I’ve gathered from the road. There’s been a lot of them. I’ve been touring seriously since around 2014, across a heap of different bands. I generally play around a hundred shows a year, some years more, some years less, but nearly every show has some sort of…Read more On Tour Stories (part 2)
On Tour Stories
It’s day three of this two week solo tour and everything starts to gain clarity. It’s been a hectic start to the tour with three shows and around fifteen hours of driving. I’m feeling great emotionally, just tired and its starting to show in my daily routine, where every activity includes a little time for…Read more On Tour Stories
