Ben Winch

writer / rocker

Blog

With These Tools?

Sending out an S.O.S.

November 6th 2018

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Crash Landing

A sort of homecoming

October 22nd 2018

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Embrace Shambolism

Wig out with Cottage Industry Recordings, 2003-6

October 13th 2018

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Going Home

You will never go to the same river twice

December 27th 2017

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Protect the Men on Manus Island

An open letter to whoever’s listening in Australian politics

November 3rd 2017

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High Times

This feels “once in a lifetime”. But really, what isn’t?

October 27th 2017

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A Straight Plantation

Heat #2, NYC Midnight flash fiction

September 25th 2017

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Slow and Steady

From little things big things grow

July 31st 2017

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48 Hours and 1000 Words

Report on the NYC Midnight flash fiction contest

July 21st 2017

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Change of Place, Change of Paradigm

If music doesn’t sell I’ll sell myself

June 30th 2017

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Shadows Cast, No Repeal

Ed Kuepper’s Lost Cities is late career gold

June 28th 2017

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I Don’t Wait for Inspiration

The long aftermath of a creative explosion

Dec 17th 2016

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Canons and Canon Fodder

There are no “must read” books

Dec 9th 2016

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Cure Tour 2016 by a Malcontent

Why a live re-run of Disintegration leaves me cold

July 31st 2016

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Does Safety Equal Fascism?

Isolation, Brexit, asylum seekers, Australia

June 25th 2016

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The Long Way Round

Melbourne and the road not taken, 1998-2000

May 9th 2016

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Party Like It’s 1980 (in 1990)

New wave, shoegaze and my first band Movement

Feb 16th 2016

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Put Your Raygun to my Head

Life in the shadow of David Bowie

Jan 14th 2016

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Paris and the Charge of Eurocentrism

Why I’m sick of being told how to grieve for Paris

Nov 16th 2015

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