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Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Today on what is, once again, a new version of exactly the same podcast, I spoke to Berlin-based Australian Dave Adams. Dave is a professional composer and musician who writes music for Chinese commercials - and I don't mean jingles, I mean actual music - from his office in Berlin. We had a chat about that. A great chat, actually, while smoking cigarettes in his lounge room. Oh, if it was all that simple.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Today on the pod I found some rough looking table in the front area of some commission flats in Berlin to record in. Five minutes before the end of the pod a security guard came and told me to get out, and he scared the shit out of me. My moment of cowardice can be heard at the end of this week's pod, and in the 40 minutes previous I talk about Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, and everything that happened there.
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Well that was fucken weird. Twenty minutes of pod in a bar in Edinburgh, the bartender doesn't want customers, and I feel weird even being here. Not an enjoyable experience at all if I'm honest hahaha.
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
This week I went on a two-hour mission to a cafe in Bangkok and had a horribly stunted conversation with a barista who barely spoke English, but it was fantastic. I'm starting to understand a little more about why I decided to do this stupid podcast in the first place, and in understanding that, I'm able to make it work better. Paris has been great, the coffee culture here is in a very interesting moment in its history right now, and this week I spoke to Channa Galhenage, owner of Loustic Cafe, who was kind enough to take the time to sit down with me and explain a bit of it. Next week is London, any recommendations are of course so very, very welcome. It's a bit of an overwhelming prospect, to be honest.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Yesterday I spent the day on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand driving motorbikes around the jungle. Most of this week I've been in Bangkok trying to get my bearings in this insane city. This tour has been incredible, and exhausting, and in two days it'll be done. I need a coffee right now.
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
This week I went to Yangon in Myanmar and had a bar conversation with a private security contractor about the horrific conflicts in the North of that country. I had coffee in seemingly the country's only speciality coffee shop, and marveled at the symbolic beginning of globalisation and coffee culture in this isolated city. Then I came to Singapore, where the city is awasg with speciality coffee and Western culture to such an extent that the local coffee traditions are quickly being pushed out. I visited a cafe that used to be a front for illegal gambling but has had to abandon its former premises of almost 100 years because gentrification. Gentrification that I, and this podcast, are absolutely a part of. Makes ya think, I guess. Not laugh, really. But think, sure.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Huge week in Kuala Lumpur, headlining at the Crackhouse Comedy Club and scouring the city for nice spots. Some barista sent me on a mission out to this roastery in the suburbs, and I walked for 45 minutes in the sweaty heat to get there. It's still sweaty and hot, but I'm in a hotel in Phuket now, not a hostel in KL, so things are looking up.
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Oh my god my voice is so dead, what an incredible week in Madrid!! I realised as soon as I got here that my book of cafes doesn't have ANYTHING for Madrid hahahaha... great. So I had to do some searching myself, and also some thinking about what it means for a city's culture to have this wave of Antipodean/English style coffee shops turn up and change the vibe. I'm still pretty wrecked from the week, hanging on by a thread.
Wednesday May 29, 2019
Wednesday May 29, 2019
And I'm off! Four months of travel began with some old lady farting next to my face in the airport in Singapore, damn that shit was funny. Also the Melatonin pills my doctor gave me didn't work great for sleep, but they were AMAZING for killing the jetlag. My god, I honestly feel incredible. This week I talk about Carolina in Brunswick East (Melbourne, Australia) and that amazing feeling of finding a place all your own, and the little moment of pride when you get to show it to someone new. Also busy vs quiet cafes, the eternal trade-off.
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 21, 2019
In a huge week for fashion I've both dyed my shoes, and finally had the three watches I ordered off Instagram turn up at my door after weeks of excited waiting. They suck so bad, it's actually hilarious and I love it. Next week I'll be recording from an airport on the way to Madrid for the Champions League Final!! This week's cafe is Everyday Coffee in Collingwood. (Melbourne, Australia)