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Opinions | Jan. 2023

Why I can’t bear to part with my CDs

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Music | Aug. 2021

Strictly Fresh ‘n’ Funky Business: tribute to the Empire Hotel Moon Bar

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Fiction | Feb. 2021

Sights and sounds from ‘The Drop’ launch parties

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Ground Zero

A Marrickville Parable

Opinions January 13, 2015 Tags: Marrickville No Comments

The story of the time I went for an afternoon jog and learned how wars start.

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NRL Crowds

I am what’s wrong with NRL crowds (The Roar)

Opinions September 16, 2014 Tags: Rugby League, The Roar No Comments

When the little fire symbol pops up next to one of your pieces on ‘The Roar’, you know you’ve struck a chord.

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Newtown Jets

On the Henson Park hill with the Newtown Jets (The Roar)

Features August 5, 2014 Tags: Newtown Jets, Rugby League No Comments

Lang Park is my favourite place in Brisbane. Henson Park is my favourite place in Sydney. I’ve only played on one of them.

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Ivan Gough

Flashback to 2002: Ivan Gough and Melbourne prog (inthemix)

Features April 30, 2014 Tags: inthemix, Ivan Gough, Music No Comments

Legendary DJ/producer Ivan Gough digs deep into the memory banks for the story behind Zero Tolerance Recordings and Melbourne’s dark prog sound.

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Phnom Penh Street Soccer

Wrestling with Cambodia’s past

Travel March 27, 2014 Tags: Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Travel No Comments

“That the country has recovered from Pol Pot and his miscreants from the Khmer Rouge slaughtering a quarter of the population between 1975-79 is achievement enough; that its people are so full of hope and humour seems nothing short of a miracle.”

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The story of The Story Of The Drum That Never Was

Music March 13, 2014 Tags: D-Ko, Making Music No Comments

How a New Year’s Eve tribal jam in the Woodford Festival Chai Tent inspired one of the best tunes I ever wrote.

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Rainbow Serpent

Rainbow Serpent: 72 hours lost in the doof (inthemix)

Features February 6, 2014 Tags: inthemix, Music, Rainbow Serpent No Comments

I set out to write the best story about Rainbow Serpent ever written. I think I succeeded.

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Strawberry Fields 1994

Strawberry Fields: Queensland’s iconic 1994 outdoor rave (inthemix)

Features January 28, 2014 Tags: inthemix, Music, Strawberry Fields 3 Comments

The inside story of Queensland dance music’s Woodstock, as told by the major players.

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Flume, KLP, Oisima

Investigating the ‘Australian Sound’ of 2013-14 (inthemix)

Features January 21, 2014 Tags: Australian Sound, inthemix, Music No Comments

A deep-dive into the so-called ‘Australian Sound’ phenomenon featuring Kilter, Oisima, KLP and Dizz1 but not Flume.

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Going Postal In Harlem

Going postal in Harlem

Travel January 13, 2014 Tags: Harlem, New York City, US Postal Service No Comments

I walked into a post office in Harlem to send some trinkets home to Australia. I emerged 75 minutes later after a close encounter with the ‘real’ America.

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About Me

Kris Swales

I’m an Australian writer, editor and lapsed musician, currently based in Sydney after three-and-a-bit years in my adopted second home of Delhi.

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