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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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Kris Swales & Tim Cahill

Interviewing Tim Cahill in New York City (Red Bull)

Features May 15, 2013 Tags: Football, Tim Cahill No Comments

A sit-down chat with Australian football great Tim Cahill on the morning his former coach David Moyes was handed the poisoned chalice at Manchester United.

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Raja Casablanca

Derby day in Casablanca (The Roar)

Travel April 30, 2013 Tags: Casablanca, Football, The Roar, Travel No Comments

The only regret of my 2013 Visionquest around the globe was losing my mobile phone at the Casablanca football derby, the most hectic sporting event I’ve ever attended.

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Metallica in Abu Dhabi

Metallica: The view from the Abu Dhabi photo pit (theMusic.com.au)

Features April 23, 2013 Tags: Metallica, Music No Comments

The story of the time I was in Abu Dhabi at the same time as Metallica, and ended up watching most of the show from side of stage.

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IPL 2013 @ Wankhede

If you can’t beat the IPL circus, join it (The Roar)

Opinions April 9, 2013 Tags: #IncredibleIndia, Cricket, IPL, The Roar No Comments

The story of the time I saw Ponting and Tendulkar open the batting together and they scored 1 run between them.

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Sky Valley

Understanding Kyuss: A love letter to my favourite band (theMusic.com.au)

Opinions February 12, 2013 Tags: Kyuss, Music, theMusic.com.au 4 Comments

Kyuss are the musical love of my life – break-ups, make-ups and all.

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Australia Day 2013

A rumination on Australia Day (theMusic.com.au)

Opinions January 29, 2013 Tags: Australia Day, theMusic.com.au No Comments

Ruminations on the meaning of Australia Day, inspired by an amazing piece of street art in Glebe.

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A Q&A with Mark Magidson, producer of ‘Baraka’/’Samsara’ (theMusic.com.au)

Features January 3, 2013 Tags: Baraka, Mark Magidson, Samsara No Comments

A long, long chat with the producer of two of my favourite films of all time.

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My Top 15 dance music albums

My rebuttal of Rolling Stone’s 30 greatest EDM albums of all time (theMusic.com.au)

Opinions August 9, 2012 Tags: EDM, Rolling Stone, theMusic.com.au No Comments

If you’re going to torpedo any chance you ever had to earn a byline in Rolling Stone, you might as well go down swinging.

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This Perspective-laden Life (The Weekend Australian)

Opinions August 4, 2012 Tags: Indigenous, Redfern, The Weekend Australian No Comments

Musings on race and class in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern, my spiritual home. A short epic in two parts.

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Finding Order in Disorder (The Big Issue)

Opinions July 17, 2012 Tags: OCD, The Big Issue No Comments

AKA ‘Eternal Roundabout Of The OCD Mind’, which skims the surface of the pros and cons of living with OCD.

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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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