Emma Kelly AKA Happy Axe
We hear from Emma Kelly who performs as Happy Axe and has been playing around Canberra for years in various bands such as Dahahoo, The Ellis Collective, Mr Fibby and Burrows. Her album, released last year, is called Dream Punching. We compare music school notes, how she got signed to her label and how she should play support for Björk.
Emma's music recommendation is r beny.
Other artists we talked about in the podcast:
Björk
Goldfrapp
Portishead
Silverchair
Radiohead
Debussy
Ravel
Holly Throsby
Emma mentioned a study about men and women applying for jobs - that women tend to only apply for a job or promotion only if they feel 100% qualified, whereas for men, they only need to feel partially qualified to have a crack. It came from a Hewlett Packard internal report apparently. This article has some info.
At one point in the episode I mention a story I heard about Charlie Parker - I looked it up afterwards and this is what I found. It's not really the same story, but it's kinda the same gist.