Whilst in Cairns last week (was it only a week ago!?) I was invited to co-present Plum Jam Sessions on CairnsFM 93.1 with DJ Yun mei.  The show is all about exploring new electronic music on an experimental tip. Being Yun Mei's last ever show I was honoured to be present and select tunes for the occasion. Plum Jam Sessions will continue in Cairns, and you can hear the show streamed at straightup.com.au

Once again Miss Memory struts her digital stuff in Cairns for the Backdrop Festival on Saturday 26th August. If you are in Cairns, please do drop by and say hello. A big plug for Plum Industries, Cairn's digital hub of electronic and interesting new music, soon to be relocating to Sydney. 

Featured artists include Spoonbill (Melb), Sofie Loizou aka Miss Memory (Syd), Vinyl Slingers (Bris), The Optimen (Bris), Simulcast (Bris), plus much much more

where: Tanks Art Centre, 46 Collins Ave, Edge Hill, Cairns
when: 11am - midnight
cost: $30 / $25 concession
also: food @ bar available 

My science-fiction alter ego, Miss Memory, will be spinning her hard drives in Brisbane this week. Here are the details if you feel like coming along. It will be a strange and wonderful evening of music.

SOOBERCISE SATURDAY 19 AUGUST, 8pm
SOOB Festival Club, 610 Ann Street, Valley

featuring:
Kevin Blechdom (Berlin)
Naked On The Vague (Sydney)
The Fancy Boys (France)
Molliger
Miss Memory (Sydney)
Anal Cookie
4 Layers of 9 (Melbourne)
Black Fag DJs
‘DJ Junk’ (choreographed by Claire Marshall)

Tickets $12
http://www.straightoutofbrisbane.com

Having spent most of my life in and out of concert halls as a patron (thanks to my parents, grandparents and their season tickets to the SSO), I am proud to say that I will be on the stage, in the orchestra, performing synthesiser parts for my first full orchestral composition on Tuesday 18th July at the City Recital Hall in Angel Place, Sydney. The piece is being performed as part of a charity concert for the Royal Flying Doctors.

The piece, described as a "tone poem", is called "Dawn Spree" and inspiration for it was derived from some music i heard in a dream.  I have many dreams about flying , and in this one I was flying over a typically Australian outback landscape, as the sun was making its first appearance on the horizon.  As the Royal Flying Doctors spend a lot of time in the air, i thought it was a befitting piece to perform at the Concert.