Ivanyi (James Norbert Ivanyi) is finally back for a short east coast run in December! I haven’t played live (or at all since they are in Sydney and I’m in Adelaide) with James and bass player Liam Horgan since 2019 so it’s an exciting prospect to be back playing James’ extremely difficult instrumental tunes live again! We’ll be playing two tracks from one of the 3 albums he has put out in the last couple of years called Omen Faustum which are 2 of the most difficult pieces of music I’ve ever had to learn. Check out the playthrough I did for one of these tracks below. Joining us on this tour is Stephen Taranto who is an absolutely mind blowing guitarist also out of Sydney.

Freedom of Fear are finally releasing their new album next month featuring the legendary Hannes Grossman on drums! It’s a pretty cool feeling to be playing Hannes’ parts live since he has been such an influential drummer playing in bands like Necrophagist and Obscura. The first single and video which I was in was released a couple of weeks ago. We’ll be touring in late Nov/early Dec in support of the new album! Looking forward to lots of blast beats.

Finally, following the departure of our previous bass player, Neil from my main band Dyssidia has joined my funk rock/alt rock band Cliff Racer! Neil is one of my favourite songwriters, so it’s exciting to have him on board writing new songs with Byron and myself. Our first show with Neil will be at The Exeter on the 28th of October.

Songwriting/rehearsing for the new Dyssidia album is nearing completion which is exciting! Aiming to record the drums in January at this stage.

Cheers!