Ninety Nine Album

I was lucky enough to be asked by Ninety Nine to mix their latest record.
It was a lot of fun, lots of work and now we are finally at the end. Hopefully you've been hearing the first single, Broken Hands on the radio.

The final stage is getting it mastered and this is going to be done by the one and only Kramer, the man who discovered Galaxie 500 and Low and has produced some of the best albums ever made. Very excited about that.

We celebrated by going to see AC/DC at Etihad Stadium. Best album celebration ever.

Wordless - Vivian Cooper Smith

how does it feel
to be on your own
like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone

Bob Dylan

Wordless examines a life without anchors, without precedents and without hope in eternity. It examines life in the dark, without the illumination of understanding and description. It is a meditation on losing a faith and unbelieving in God.

Wordless - Vivian Cooper Smith
Now Showing at C3 Gallery at Abbotsford Convent
3-21 February

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Check out Vivian's latest exhibition. A challenging and uplifting response to the questions we all think about.

I wrote an essay to accompany the show. It's on the stories page if you would like to have a read.

First published January 2010 in The Lifted Brow Volume 6
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