If there is anyone who demonstrates the number of hats a person is required to wear to be successful in the dance music industry, it's Gillie. Whether it be through his DJing in clubs, bars and on radio, or his year as one half of Freshdisko Promotions , or simply as a  fellow clubber, Gillie is for many Tasmanians the reason they first stepped onto the dance floor, and more importantly, the reason they keep coming back. The experience Gillie can lay claim to is all too often overlooked and taken for granted.

Born in Scotland, his life has been one dominated by a wide and all encompassing obsession for dance music. His work with one of the biggest companies promoting raves in the early 90's, Obsession , embedded in him the business skills and tricks of the trade he would employ in later years with his own promotions company, as well as musical knowledge, no doubt part of which is responsible for him becoming one of the most versatile and adaptable DJs on the scene.

Australia has been Gillie's home since ’95, and following his arrival, he was quickly grasped by the growing Tasmanian dance music community. Building his reputation through MCing and later as part of the seminal house music night MN2S, it wasn't long before his name appearing on an event flyer was of more importance to local clubbers than the name of the headliner, a fact other local promoters begrudgingly, yet openly admit.

For a clubbing scene the size of Tasmania's, Gillie's DJing commitments are surprisingly hectic. Despite holding the #1 residency at Syrup , he is often called upon to play guest slots at many of Hobart’s nightspots, as well as regular Sunday sessions at The Metz. Gillie is also favoured for guest appearances at other venues all over Tasmania, and high-profile clubs in the Mainland including Chinese Laundry and Moulin Rouge. Arguably, it is his support slots at every major and minor Tasmanian event, which fully demonstrates his ability to complement the best DJs Australia and the world has to offer. Gillie also recently hosted a weekly Saturday night radio show on Edge Radio , which was recently voted Australia's best community station! On top of this, Gillie is looking to be working with Australian online radio http://www.novafm.com.au/ to secure a weekly show to be broadcast online.

Ever the professional, the number of times Gillie has outshone a headline act with a sublime warm up set or a driving closing set, is too numerous to establish. This is a very big statement, considering he has supported talents such as Funk D Void, Funkagenda, Mike Monday, Moguai, Ewan Pearson, Dave Seaman, Fergie, Hybrid, James Holden, Steve Gerrard, Kid Kenobi, Chris Fraser, Mark Dynamix, Infusion, Sean Quinn, Kasey Taylor, Ben Korbel, John Ferris, Groove Terminator, Pee Wee Ferris, Andy Van, and Jason Midro to name but only a few. This selection of peers is a testament not only to Gillie's capability to skillfully play everything from funky House through to driving, peak-time Progressive, but also to the unwavering abilities as a DJ.

Never one for arrogance and attitude, (which is unfortunately commonplace in this industry), Gillie is a DJ who is all about ‘the people and the party.’ More concerned with building the atmosphere of the night, ‘reading’ the dance floor, and connecting with than crowd, rather than self-importance and ego trips, Gillie’s Primary goal after some 14 years in the industry, has always remained the same... …to keep that smile on the face of every clubber, long after his last tune has been played.

Winterbone is doom country, death roots, post-apocalyptic americana and alternative folk blues.. A 21st Century Digital vagabond settled into the hills of Northumberland.
Winterbone is a traveller, poet, musician, painting music with the colours of the world. Winterbone went hither and thither across deserts and rocks, over wide savannah and red dirt.. across misty moors, dry creeks, raging rivers and gaping holes. Lived in trees alive and dead, walked and talked with the spirits of ancestors. Winterbone listened to the old ones.  He is pointing the Bone at the destroyers of Souls. Dark, droning, twanging, mournful music dedicated to the beating breath of the Mother Earth.

The songs that belong to The Freeloaders and are here as a tribute to the memory of Guy Lucas- musical luminary, inspiration, wit, and a dynamic and propulsive force on the Australian independent music scene, bursting out of the garage in a veritable paint-cannon spray of psychedelic sounds and left to an an undeserved obscurity. 
He has left us way too soon.
 All of the songs of mine were recorded using Audacity, the free, open-source, cross-platform, sound editing program and were all, in them main, constructed from guitar parts which I recorded at home on an XP windows pc..
Where samples have been used i have made an effort to credit their origins.
   I decided to start to try and create 'songs' when i suffered an illness that left me visually impaired for a year or so, during which time i realised fairly early on that my future hopes as a successful visual artist weren't looking too good at that point and perhaps i should try to find success in some other field equally as difficult and nigh on impossible to succeed in as a way of receiving public notoriety and in making a living.
   It is impossible for any artist to create a truly great piece of work unless they are creating it solely for their own personal satisfaction with no regard for the reception it might have amongst others. 
    This is what makes the artist so often seem 'weird' and 'crazy' to people who do not understand the process of artistic creation and what inevitably must lie at its fundamentalist core, the dismissal of  the value for praise and esteem in the eyes of the society within which the artist finds their self living, and because of this indelible notion this is so often their source of the artists' isolation and alienation.
    The genius of the artists work is inevitable, since they are catering to their own tastes and so, when successful at this, they cannot fail to create a masterpiece.
   It was Gustav Flaubert who wrote that if a writer were to approach the act of writing of a novel with absolute and complete honesty then it would be impossible for that writer to fail and to not create a masterpiece.
The true artist, therefore, is born, not made. The true artist can fall into a puddle of mud and will walk away having created a work of Art., and though the skills of the artist must be honed and refined by the ongoing practice of those abilities, they may lie dormant (even if needs be, for years) and yet will always resurface undiminished. Sometimes they will be even greater for their fresh approach, unrestrained by what has perhaps become to them 'de rigeur' and a threat to thread what is repetitive, unoriginal and stale into their work.
   These inherent qualities,which make the true artist what they are, exist in the exact opposite, and often in greater proportions in what the sociopathic, fame-seeker and the 'wannabe' exhibit as their work and through it quite obviously hold so dear. 
   A single moment of observation exposes the evidence in it that a desire to be  greatly esteemed , honoured, (to the pint of being worshiped) and remunerated to a far greater extent than is fair and  just sadly, screams with the howling chorus barks of rabid dogs through the narcissism in their work so very obviously.displays.
This is not Art.
   In the field of artistic creation, my personal motto  is this:
'If you're going to try and go for the impossible, then you might as well set your sights on everything!'

Please head to my Bandcamp to listen to the rest of my music =)
https://zoezac.bandcamp.com

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