She Who Dies Having Had The Most Fun.. Wins.

TLDR: I’ve got terminal cancer & the best medicine is to make art. Wanna help?

I’ve had to figure out a lot of unpleasant puzzles since being diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer earlier this year.

Forget “How long do I have to live, doc?”.

Google will tell you the median is four years. The pain under your ribs will tell you, oh, coupla days. Your friends will tell you about the person they know who is fifteen years in and still going strong. Others will say yeah, she found out and then six weeks later she was dead.

Obviously, priority number one is to hang out with my kid and show him everything I know about how to fuck with The Man and get away with it, while being a total badarse community-minded citizen of the world.

Priority number two, which is not in any way mutually exclusive to priority number one, is to win at life, or what’s left of it, because my motto has long been She Who Dies Having Had The Most Fun Wins and I am DEADLY serious about it. Get out your electric stone inscribers fossicked from the bargain bin at ALDI people, that shit is going down and going down hard on my tombstones. Yes plural. Bits of me will be going to a whole lotta fun places after the ghost has done a runner.

I’ve had seriously ridiculous amounts of support and generosity sent my direction this year, everything from donations to see me fly all the way to Amsterdam to attend the Septimius Awards for which I was nominated for best Oceanic Actress; to people spending hours of their time, sharing their ridiculous skills and energy to keep me afloat, rolling and.. most importantly, to keep me making music.

After a few months of floating in the nothingness of not being well enough to do anything, I soon realised that the best medicine, the only medicine that was working was, to be making and collaborating again.

So this is why you’re here. To help me make it happen.

As a fully independent artist, who’s currently unable to work, I am completely reliant on donations, generosity and kindness to keep things moving & to support the support crew around me.

Diversity is the key here. A lot of you have supported me in lots of different ways.. so to reflect that back to you, there’s lots of ways we can make it happen.

If you’re up for the “buy me a coffee/beer/margherita/dinner at a fancy resturaunt” in exchange for exclusive content, first to know info and rambling blogs.. there’s a patreon which will be music focussed or a Substack that’s following a super nerdy science residency project I’m currently undertaking.

If you’re more into a one off donation that directly funds projects and write it off as a tax donation I’ve got the support of the incredible Topology team to accept tax deductible donations that will support a new recording project, The Last of the Human Troubadours which is a new collaboration with Robert Davidson and Black Square Quartet. Read more about this project here..

I’ve also got TWO albums coming out on vinyl very soon - you can pre-order them from the legends at Suitcase Records right now. If you’re more into the digital downloads, of course there’s trusty bandcamp which will soon have the remastered goodness there. Or hey, look. I’m no big fan of royalty rip offs but give me a follow on spotify if that’s all ya got. I totally respect and understand the lack of finances to throw in any direction at this time of year, month, life.

Failing all that, if you just want the gossip directly delivered to your inbox, join up to the mailing list that will remind you about how to support me when and if the time comes that you can, as well as what other fun things are about to land..