A spectacular gathering of the remaining members of cult Australian heroes The Triffids, together with a star cast of guest musicians and vocalists including Stuart Staples(Tindersticks), Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion), Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds/Birthday Party), Warren Ellis (Bad Seeds / Dirty Three) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) to showcase and celebrate the songwriting genius of their leader Da

New vice -- Burgers.
Briefly overtaking learning and performing Magic Tricks, the brief vegetarianism of last year is a thing of the past, the binge eating section was fun, but too many packs of skittles left me with inability to sweat, Pizza? I still love you, I appreciate you being there for me, see you when i'm back home in BK. I hadn't eaten beef for what must have been for ten years, no real reason.. just always preferr

I've just awoken with a pretty brutal headache. I'm on my (Blood Orange) producer (Ariel)'s couch right now. It's really sunny outside.. again, my head really hurts. I got pretty drunk I guess, it's been a while and the medication is obviously not helping, urghh. Last night after recording I went back to the place I'm subletting here whilst i'm in L.A..
I put the key into the door, but before I could turn it to unlock I hear

Available now in selected book stores is my short fiction story collection. Featuring five stories, three published throughout last year in various publications and book collections, and two unreleas

This very second I am laying on top of my surrogate bed in L.A writhing with pain.. dosing up on an insane amount of meds whilst the sun is slowly ticking through the corner of the shaded windows. I'm by myself and I have listened to the same song over and over and over again. Although "listen" isn't right... it's more just trying to distract from the pain, I don't think i've listened to it once since I first begun this "song cyc

Solange Knowles stopped by the studio in L.A to put some touches to some of the new Theophilus London music I've been working on. Ariel Rechtshaid (who's been producing my

Believe. The video was shot last week in Recession Studios in London, England and directed by visionary director Ferry Gouw. Changing the music video wor

Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You, the second Lightspeed Champion long player, is an unassumingly epic collection of 12 pop songs, two instrumental intermissions, and one piano étude. Lightspeed’s early leaning towards American country dressin

Check out Va$htie's Blog to watch an exclusive behind the scenes video with me in the studio with Theophilus London. Also you can listen to a sneak peak of one of the new songs we've been working on. Believe!

Last weekend saw the airing of my special on NPR with host Liane Hansen. I speak in detail about influences as well as the writing and recording process for the new album "Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You." You can listen to the feature by visiting the

Filling a hole is a tumultuous journey. There are a million (and one) ways to go about it. Obviously, this is nothing new, and you could argue that this is something we've all been doing since the day we were born.

Sometimes we trick ourselves, into thinking we have filled a void when really we haven't at all. But the question is, in doing so, surely you then

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First part of article written by Dr Leah Kelly from The Rockefeller University from a discussion we had based on the subject of Synesthesia.

“I do a lot at the same time “.This is a massive understatement coming from Devonté Hynes. The 23 year old, probably best known as musical artist Lightspeed Champion also vents his talents by writing short stories, comics and other musical side projects, the latest of which