We started off talking shop but it quickly sprawled out into a number of topics including yoga, meditation, mental health and a variety of other social themes. While it might seem off topic, these all branch back into the core of what drives a successful musician in one of Australia's most popular rock/metal bands. Whether

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It's safe to say that Frankie's Pizza by the Slice is Sydney's hot spot for live music. Attracting the best live acts in the country, Frankie's is also a hub for many celebrity drop in's from Priscilla Presley to Slipknot. Jordan is the man who runs the entertainment and makes sure those beer kegs are kept full.

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Video store clerk and male model by day, metal road warrior by night. Mick Jeffery is best know for his dashing good looks and riffing abilities in both Aversions Crown and Widow the Sea. We speak about the crap load of touring that he's been doing over the last 12 months, and the professional approach

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Part 2 of Month to Month with Milton is now up! Lot's of chatter around the Avantasia tour that Milton is involved with. We touch on our soon to be regular crazy people and band recommendation segments, reflect on some brief thoughts on the 70,000 tons festival and also paying our respects to Piotr Grundzinski of Riverside who

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Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31, except for February, which has 28 days clear and 29 in each leap year. It only happens every four years, so to celebrate February 29th, I've put together a bunch of ramblings about this special date and some background behind the leap

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It would be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn't either been directly or at least known of someone who has been impacted by a road tragedy. On a daily basis, a large majority of us put our lives in ours and others hands as we step into cars and venture onto the road. We

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Anwar Rizk has been a notable part of the Australian metal scene and in particular in Melbourne for quite a number of years. Running the Metal Obsession website, Anwar has a big focus on highlighting and pushing amazing Australian artists, playing heavy music. In addition to that, Anwar also has built up a reputation as

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Mindfulness. I recently discovered the wonders of this practice through a book entitled 'Mindfulness for Life'. From this book I've discovered that many of my day to day habits were carried out in auto-pilot without any thought. Many of these habits were in fact of the bad variety which caused a large amount of stress

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In this episode I discuss the challenges surrounding learning another language and my desire to become multilingual (as you will learn, the desire isn't terribly great at the moment, but here's to that improving!). I've set myself a challenge for a full month of using the Duolingo app on my iphone and learning a little

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On the back of the success from our previous podcast episode (listen here), I have decided to do a monthly check in episode with Milton Mendonca to talk about all things music industry and whatever else we feel like chatting about! In this particular episode, Milton runs through his do's and don't's of being in a

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