Stuart Buchanan doesn’t have an M.O for his fledgling net label New Weird Australia, but as long as it breaks the mould he’ll take it. Ahead of a showcase at this weekend’s Sound Summit festival in Newcastle, he speaks to KATE HENNESSY about NWA’s genesis, its ideology and its plans to go viral like Eazy-E.
Work Tagged ‘Profiles’
Client Earth
The Brag,
June 1, 2009
Over lunch with Coldplay, your old mate Brian Eno suggests you wing it to Australia, hop up on stage at the Opera house and pow-wow about your job for three hours. Sounds pretty awesome until you realise James Thornton’s job, CEO of legal charity Client Earth, got him listed in January as one of the Top Ten people who might change the world (for the better). Alongside Barack Obama. The pressure, no?
Earth Saving Salon
Nett Magazine,
February, 2009
A stylish cut and colour is one of life’s great indulgences. But a humming hairdressing salon uses a lot of water, energy and environmentally harmful chemicals. By taking its environmental impact as seriously as the perfect highlight, this Sydney salon is preserving both the planet and its customers peace of mind.
Turn up the tiny guitar
The Brag,
September 2008
Attach it to a distortion pedal and it sounds like a wobbly, out-of-tune bass. Pitchshift it up with a delay effect and you’ve got steel drums. The humble ukulele played by electric ukulele lady, Rose Turtle Ertler, sounds nothing like Tiny Tim.
Green meat works
Nett Magazine,
April 2008
AJ Bush & Sons is a meat rendering plant in Riverstone, NSW, with 75 staff. The company started life as a meat retailer, Bush’s Meats, nearly 100 years ago. Following its switch from coal-fired boilers to natural gas in 1999, the NSW plant has saved 9000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year from entering the atmosphere. NSW general manager Cam Wilkinson says, “We knew it was the right thing to do”.