It is a piece of ancient wisdom that to philosophize is to learn how to die. From Socrates onwards, the philosopher is the person who has no fear of death, but accepts their fate with calm and contentment. Yet, how do philosophers themselves die? This song will explain and the answers are unexpectedly and darkly [...]

Both nights sold out at the Opera House, so hopefully we can take this show to other cities around Australia and maybe get over to london or New york? Some pics from the show . . .

My enquiries into death have lead me to some strange and often fascinating places and ideas - none more so than the idea of the death of death. . . Post-Humanists see death as avoidable, a thing that may be kept at bay indefinately, and perhaps they are right. It has been pointed out, quite [...]

Just watched a dvd on Oaxaca (southern Mexico) and the celebrations of Día de los Muertos - found a great section which had a band playing The peanut Vendor and lots of dancing with masks of the grim reaper, skeletons, ghouls etc. I’ve read several versions of what it is all about and have come up [...]

Such differences of experience on this one - seems there has been absolutely no consensus on sex education. I went to a Church of England school in North London - the boys were hearded off to the headmasters office, the girls to the headmistress, we were shown slides of mutilated genitalia - syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, [...]

I am wiriting a section of my new show (Sex, Death and Desire) on addiction to pornography - particlularly on the creation of the addiction. I have one fantastic interview with a porn addict describing the moment as an 11 (possibly as old as 13 but certainly no older) year old he was exposed to [...]

I’ve been going through my Brian Eno collection - still brings me pleasure. Under-rated as a lyricist - even on tracks like “On some faraway beach” from “Here come the warm jets” Cast up on a plateau With only one memory A single syllable Oh lie low lie low. Then there’s Apollo - even though Deep Blue Day has been [...]

As this makes up a large part of my show - I thought I’d I would source a few opinions on what desire is? He who Binds Himself to a Joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who  kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s sunrise
William Blake For most of us, the major part of our lives are [...]

We’ve finished the Sex, Death and Desire logo . . . Some information about the show is now on the Opera House Site This will be updated once I’ve decided exactly what the content will be. Comments on the logo please . . .

Just booked my flight to LA - March 7th - to see philosopher Simon Critchley who is currently at the Getty Institute. Hoping to film him gving his insights into Sex, Death and Desire, of which he has many. We are also working on some new tracks for another CD - not even a working [...]