This article also appeared in the April 2024 Edition No. 162 of Trad & Now magazine.

Greetings from Tarntanya on Kaurna Lands, home of the red kangaroo dreaming. I’m Bill Quinn, the artist formerly known as the author of A Punter’s Perspective and Folk On The Road.

I published my last Trad & Now article in February 2023, and I had intended it to be about crowds and noise.

I say ‘last’, but to quote the Billy Bragg song, “[It] should have been the [second] last, but [it] was just the latest.”

Here then is the start of that latest article. I’ve gone for a title using what we call in some brands of written English, parallel structures. It was called, Thank You And Goodnight Pt 1.5.

Although if you’re the type of person who has kept every copy of Trad & Now magazine, plus most issues of its predecessor, Tapestry, and they’re sitting in the top cupboard in the spare room, or shoved under the bed where your first wain Gwenevieve slept from ages two to 22 before she graduated from Kikatinalong University and then moved to Wealabarrabac for post grad (and also that internship with the medical research group) – take a deep breath; I’m puffin – then you can search out the February 2023 edition.