Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

Leading up to this year’s Quiet Music Festival here is a video of some highlights from last year “Much of what is a musician’s practice can be lost in performance at festivals. The nuanced, the intimate, the delicate, the very breath is obscured. The Quiet Music Festival celebrates this detail and takes a creative approach [...]

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Happy new year to you all I am currently drawing up plans for an improved podcast studio. It’s only on the drawing board at the moment but I have a budget in place for it already, so it will definitely happen – better set and lighting, a bit more space to run an occasional interview, [...]

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Garry Barker  has written a feature article in the Age GREEN GUIDE about Digital Pill and the Louie Prez CD launch. Below is some info about the new Louie Prez album with Leo Dale, Ray Pereira and Doug DeVries. Sample the first track – The Phantom – in this youtube clip Visit Louie Prez online [...]

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This week I’m celebrating the counter turning over 100,000 video views for Digital Pill. Its been great receiving emails from every corner of the globe and tracking all the interest inside and outside of Melbourne, Australia – where all these musicians are based. Thanks again to all those who have contributed. The recent video from [...]

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On Saturday November 28th 9-10.30pm Louie Prez will be launching SCAM in a global live streaming event, broadcast from the Dog Theatre in Footscray Australia as part of the Big West Festival. In conjunction with Digital Pill and supported by Maribyrnong City Council, the trio will present music from their new album. Come to the [...]

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Two new site improvements 1. Digital Pill will now be uploading video in High Definition – see the most recent post from Dave Evans. 2. There is a new page of statistics that outline the proportion of local content in the newspapers as opposed to music from elsewhere. Its updated weekly. Its is the menu [...]

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Maribyrnong City Council has now also come onboard as a backer for Digital Pill. With their help and Arts Victoria we now have the funding to produce 26 posts in the 09/10 year. The fun starts July 1st. Let me know what you want to see. Thanks Leo

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Today I received a letter telling me that Digital Pill has received some funding from ARTS VICTORIA for the 09/10 year. This means that the pilot phase of this site has now ended and I have some support to post once a fortnight beginning July 1st. The funding also includes money for an illustrator/graphic artist [...]

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Hi, this is just a short note for anyone wondering when Digital Pill will be posting any more of its ideas, lessons, concerts etc. I have a great job in the first half of the year as Co-director of the Quiet Music Festival. It takes up a lot of my time. The Festival is on [...]

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