How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising. Our host Amanda Tattersall reads a memoir that she wrote for the Griffith Review in their August edition entitled Hey Utopia.

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Scaling Change - Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small

Way back in 1993, an alt-rock three-piece called Regurgitator began life as a side project in the Brisbane suburbs. By 1995, they’d signed with Warner Music Group, and their debut album, Tu-Plang, was released the following year. But it was 1997’s Unit – featuring the mega-hits ‘I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff’ and ‘Polyester Girl’, among others – that lodged Regurgitator firmly in Australia’s popular music consciousness, positioning them as a band able to fuse musical styles and influences without taking any of it too seriously. In this wide-ranging conversation – which has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity – 4ZZZ Programming Co-ordinator Ian Powne talks art, authenticity and mashed potato with two of the band’s founding members, Quan Yeomans and Ben Ely.

For more from Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture, head to https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/counterfeit-culture/

Regurgitator and Ian Powne in conversation for Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture

Griffith Review

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