Who?
Andrew McMillen is a Brisbane-based freelance writer for Rolling Stone, jmag, The Music Network and Mess+Noise.
Between July and October 2009, Andrew edited and coordinated content for One Movement Word, the official blog of One Movement For Music, a Perth-based music event that ran October 16-18. One Movement featured a music showcase festival, industry panel discussions, street performances, and nighttime private delegate showcases. As the first Australian blog built around around a significant music event, the content on One Movement Word consisted of a series of exclusive music blogger guest posts, interviews - both long and short - with showcase bands and conference delegates, and post-event coverage.
When not writing, Andrew works for Native Digital, an online services agency. He also co-manages Brisbane indietronic act Hunz.
Find Andrew on: Twitter / Facebook / Last.FM / YouTube / Flickr / Delicious
[Everything below was written in April 2009]
Andrew McMillen writes for Rave Magazine (a weekly Brisbane music street press), Mess+Noise (an Australian music site), FourThousand (a weekly guide to Brisbane’s subcultures) and his blog (you’re on it). He also writes a column for The Music Network (a magazine for Australian music industry-types), and he formerly contributed irregularly to FasterLouder (another Australian music website).
Did you pick the theme yet?
Andrew is fanatical about good music, and he’s now ditching the third-person perspective.
Instead of describing good music, I’ll use this Josh Homme quote from Rolling Stone to illustrate my point.
…now I realize I don’t have to listen to crap I don’t like. I’m not in the music police. “Do you know why I stopped you? For excessive shittiness.” That’s not my job. Now I just throw bad CDs really far away and say, “Where’s Bjork’s greatest hits? Where’s the new Tomahawk? Where’s the good stuff, man?“
And instead of relying on a quote to illustrate my point, you can just click this goddamn link to my Last.FM profile to see everything I’ve listened to since October 2004. Note that I was 16 in October 2004, so my overall artist chart lists a lot of bullshit I’ve since thrown really far away. My live music reviews are also conveniently attached to my Last.FM profile.
I write because I admire the ability to transcribe cohesive, engaging stories above all else. When writing, I value creativity and originality, and I despise cliché.
I’ve studied Communication at the University of Queensland since 2006. It can be neatly and near-accurately summarised as comprising half journalism, half media studies. I completely accept that come July 2009, I will graduate with a degree that will show little more than my ability to attend the occasional class and competently address assignment criteria.
I spent a year working in the web development industry as a project manager between March 2008 and 2009. This was a cool experience which I loved earnestly, until freelance writing became a more attractive option.
I appreciate that I can sit in my room and send data that will be translated by computers and read by other people sitting in rooms. I’m super appreciative that you’ve taken the time to read about me, because there’s a lot of other people who you could be reading about right now instead. Thanks, it means a lot. Email me and tell me why you’re reading.
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