I’ll Take the Treehouse
October 15, 2016
New track from Lorin Elizabeth, recorded for Going Down Swinging.
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New track from Lorin Elizabeth, recorded for Going Down Swinging.
Continue readingPresenting the winners for the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word, in partnership with Queensland Poetry Festival.
Continue readingRemember when Scott Wings convinced an entire audience they were dinosaurs?
Continue readingCanadian word-wizard Tom Joyce captivated audiences at the Lithuanian Club in 2015.
Continue readingWe’re honoured to have captured Australian poetry stalwart Judith Rodriguez.
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Recordings from Derrick Brown, Eleanor Jackson, Felix Nobis, and Sean M Whelan and the Mime Set
Continue readingRelive the grandeur, the humour, and the sneaky tears from Derrick Brown at One Night Wonders.
Continue readingEnjoy two more tracks from Eleanor Jackson at One Night Wonders.
Continue readingMore tracks from that special night where a group of friends reformed for one magical gig.
Continue readingGet inside the long, rolling tales of Felix Nobis right here.
Continue reading“This Friday night something very special is happening and it will never happen again.” That’s how the frontman put it. Through the mid-2000s, Sean Whelan & The Mime Set made a collaborative sound all their own, layering strange and beautiful stories through built-up cycles…
Continue readingFelix Nobis brings a warmth and robust humour to his storytelling that wins over every audience: long, rolling tales in the epic tradition but filled with Australian vernacular and characters. His show at One Night Wonders was epic in itself, the…
Continue readingEleanor Jackson’s show deserves to be called a tour de force. Just over an hour of material, all from memory, pieces flowing into the next, or pausing for enough talk to keep us grounded. She channelled the chapel surrounds, tying together…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. “Across the stars and space and black, a…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. ‘When the Bed Is Burning’ has nothing at…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. No Surprises is a classic O’Sullivan piece: a…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. Anthony’s Poem for the Anthem for a Generation…
Continue readingDerrick Brown’s live album is ready for release, and we’ve never been prouder of anything. The first One Night Wonders record by Going Down Swinging is audio mahogany with no illegal logging. It’s fire in your hearing-holes. It’s a work of…
Continue readingThere is something about Anis Mojgani that makes you like him as soon as he starts talking. The legendary American poet will pull this trick in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney in the next few days. Partly you’ll like him because…
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging was in Newcastle at the beginning of the October doing some recordings for the National Young Writers’ Festival Press Room. Because we like sharing, we thought we’d make the best of these available to our online readers….
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging was in Newcastle at the beginning of the month doing some recordings for the National Young Writers’ Festival Press Room. Because we like sharing, we thought we’d make the best of these available to our online readers….
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging was in Newcastle at the beginning of the month doing some recordings for the National Young Writers’ Festival Press Room. Because we like sharing, we thought we’d make the best of these available to our online readers….
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How does one of the most exciting new musical acts in the country, a soul duo from Darwin, end up on a Melbourne spoken word CD? Sietta deserve that description, by the way. They broke through in a big way…
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Subscribe in iTunes here Welcome to our first ever podcast. This episode was recorded at the launch of Edition No. 32 at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2011 and features Brooklyn slam poet Jive Poetic and Sydney short story writer…
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