Friends of the Armchair Traveller

  As I mentioned in my previous posting, and as I also mentioned when I spoke at Nigel's Memorial last week, Nigel had a lifelong passion for music of many genres.  I could list thousands of numbers he sent me, but in this blog I will present just a sample of the sorts of musical items which he sent to me. TEE-SET  "Ma Belle Amie"  Alela Diane, "The Rifle" The Waifs, "London Still" Gerry Humphrys & The Loved Ones,  "Blueberry Hill" Big Bill Bissonnette & Sammy Rimington, "Porter's Love Song" Mae West,  "My Old Flame" The Red Onions,    " Miss Hannah" Woody Allen,  "In The Evenin' " Harry Dean Stanton,  "Cancion Mixteca" Annette Hanshaw "That's Just My Way Of Forgetting You" Leon Redbone & Robert Gordon  "Melancholy Baby" Lazy Ade Monsbourgh,  "Ragtime Dance" Alela Diana,  "The Pirate's Gospel" Tuba Skinny "What's ...

Our friend Nigel Buesst. A friendship of so many years, 62 years since we first met. Plenty of water under the bridge. Nigel at home with his minder, Jedda  photo by Ivan Gaal I was just starting out in my life as a filmmaker, working at the State Film Centre in the library section. One day I was on counter duties, receiving films returning from borrowers and handing out films to other borrowers. In walked Nigel with a bundle of films under his arm, returning them from a film society he was involved with at the time. I think it was the CSIRO film group and Nigel was collecting another bundle which they would run in an upcoming programme. A short conversation of a few minutes at the counter established that we were both interested in making films and soon enough we became close friends. Nigel was about to shoot “Fun Radio” which was a real buzz for me. He asked me to shoot a few shots from his fancy sports car so I got to operate his new Bolex camera for a tracking shot or two as ...