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Duck.i.am trying to get Telstra reception at Yamba, SA, Australia
Duck.i.am trying to get Telstra reception at Yamba, SA, Australia

Bill Quinn

Phone: 0405 651 681 (Optus)

Phone: 0492 34 44 93 (Telstra) 

International callers: +61 4 92 34 44 93  

Email (personal): bill.fj.quinn@gmail.com 

Email (business/music/radio/writing): OverheardProductionsAU@gmail.com

Snail mail:

The Big Cheesy
Overheard Productions
PO Box 4069
HAWKER ACT 2614
AUSTRALIA

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In order, my communication preferences are:

  1. Face to face
  2. Phone calls (voice)
  3. Email
  4. Any other form of text-based communications

I do not have Facetime and I am allergic to Zoom and Teams.

If I call and you’re driving, LEAVE IT.

If you’re driving and I call, do NOT answer. If I ask are you driving and you say yes, you don’t even need my safe word.

Just. Drive. Make/receive your phone calls when you reach your stop point. NO! NOT AT THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS! I DON’T CARE IF IT’S LEGAL.

Get your hand off it. Please.

And yes, I was hit by a Range Rover when I was 11yo, and yes, I don’t walk so straight. Yes, I need help to turn around aisle ends at supermarkets. I was only a kid, but you do you.


WhatsApp I tried and gave up after a week. In my worlds, it’s the weapon of choice for people who would rather play texty-text tennis at home than meet someone down the street for a coffee and a night out. Same as sadly, there’s still a pandemic of Netflix + Uber Eats/Doordash instead of let’s go to the eatery then go to the pub for a nightcap.* Ugh.

It’s also (in my experience only) the preserve of helicopter parents who hover over their very adult children needing to know where they are, what they’re doing, who they’re doing it with, etc.* Ugh ugh.

* Ts&Cs apply. Many have very legitimate reasons for doing this, but as the father of two 30-somethings, playing puppermaster to adults who should be able to run their own lives? Ugh ugh ugh.

I better get this soap-box back to the patchouli and melaleuca balm co-op.

Facebook Messenger

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE – JUST DON’T.

Any messages sent there may take over a day or three or more to get to me. It may take months or years before I see them. It’s a very unreliable communication channel, I avoid it like the plague, and it is disabled on all my Facebook pages.

That is all. Thanks.

Bill Quinn
Updated: Wednesday 1 July 2026, 14:56h ACST

Pic: Bill Quinn (left) and John Schumann (right, Redgum, John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew), Woodford Folk Festival, December 2007

ENDS

King Kwin 96 and Duck.i.am in a club I was a big supporter of aged 9yo (they had a big win in the NSWRFL that year) but then in September 2024, not long after this photograph was taken, they alleged wrote to me at one of Overheard Productions's then three (3) postal boxes and informed me that on the night of Saturday 2? September 2024, in their club, I had broken the unwritten rules but what that rule is or was or may have intended to be, they were NOT going to tell me. You are hencefore banished from this and all clubs in our empire until or after the day ye shall die, whichever comes first. Sounds like a bad Monty Python style skit, and I wish I was making it up, but Rob Brydon, that was [pause for effect then presses the green button] the truth. WTAF, Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club. Who hurt you? And can you show us on this duck?
King Kwin 96 and Duck.i.am in a club I was a big supporter of aged 9yo (they had a big win in the NSWRFL that year) but then in September 2024, not long after this photograph was taken, they alleged wrote to me at one of Overheard Productions’s then three (3) postal boxes and informed me that on the night of Saturday 2? September 2024, in their club, I had broken the unwritten rules but what that rule is or was or may have intended to be, they were NOT going to tell me. You are hencefore banished from this and all clubs in our empire until or after the day ye shall die, whichever comes first. Sounds like a bad Monty Python style skit, and I wish I was making it up, but Rob Brydon, that was [pause for effect then presses the green button] the truth. WTAF, Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club. Who hurt you? And can you show us on this duck?