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🧑 Joe Hardy (he/him) 📍 Eora

👇 writing and photography, mostly about music and culture

For work, I help teams be amazing. You can hire me.
I'm also the creator and co-founder of SydneyMusic.net

Interests: music, community, how people think, photography, social and environmental impact of tech

Dulwich Hill Experimental Music Series "Ms. Kitteridge & Bok Choy"

29 January 2024 @ 18:46

It's phenomenal to see that this Dully improvisational jazz and experimental music series is continuing into 2024.

Ms. Kitteridge & Bok Choy is a series of shows run by Living Room Theatre and their latest line-up of shows is an absolute belter.

Check the full line-up here - includes the likes of Laurence Pike's absolutely brilliant quartet BELIEVE, the sublime Microfiche, Monica Brooks [this Wednesday, don't snooze], and a quartet that has members of Microfiche as well as The Buoys' Hilary Geddes - there's heaps more, go take a look.

World-class stuff in in Sydney's suburbs on an ordinary Wednesday. We love to see it.

If this sort of stuff floats your boat, don't sleep on Monday Night Confessions at Church St Studios in Camperdown as well.


Three Lads

28 January 2024 @ 17:43
ARSE at Psyched As AE-1 / Fujifilm 400

Ever think about how we got from Dan Cunningham's soaring, angelic vocals of Parades or Light Giant's Waste of Wine to our present day in the space of a decade? Now that's artistic evolution.


Psyched As. Fest 2024

28 January 2024 @ 13:39
Crowd at Psyched As. Fest 2024 Sydney Portugal Community Club, 28/01/24. Shot on AE-1 and Fujifilm 400.

Fun day yesterday at Psyched As! Perfect crowd, perfect location, solid production, ran largely on time, excellent pizza, top marks. Nice one team 👍


Caitlin At Lazy Thinking Live 22/01/24

28 January 2024 @ 09:06
Caitlin Shot on AE-1 and Kodak TMax 400 pushed +1

Love what Lazy Thinking are doing in Dulwich Hill. This photo was taken at the second show of their first season of Lazy Thinking Live (go check it out) in 2024 featuring TRAUMASQUAD, Eko Atari, LILPIXIE and Devaura. Super fun afternoon.

Unfortunately low light in the space with intensely bright backlighting from through the front window meant I don't have much worth sharing from the performances, but this pic of Caitlin is cute.


Chrome DevTools Doesn't Stop Turning Up Surprises

23 January 2024 @ 09:06
"Capture node screenshot" in Chrome DevTools

Discovering this feature sped up production of SydneyMusic's daily Instagram stories to an insane degree. Wonder what other life-saving hacks are buried in there.

We're also using the Stylebot browser extension to reformat the guide to the story presentation format.