CURRENT MISSION

Move to Prince Edward Island, Canada and get a rental and a job and research/learn fiddle music on the island for at least 2 years.

ABOUT ME

From Melbourne, worked in construction most of my life, played music for all my life, playing the fiddle quasi-religiously at the moment. Very friendly, house trained, not a weirdo.

I gig a fare bit, playing traditional Australian music (ballads on the guitar, tunes on the fiddle and accordion) and also some Scottish tunes, mostly from Atlantic Canada (mainly PEI, a little Cape Breton stuff).

I have a girlfriend who is studying composition in Rochester NY for the next 2 years and am chasing a dream I've had for a few years of moving to Prince Edward Island (despite knowing literally no one on the island) to learn more fiddle music.

Have worked in carpentry, stone masonry, with cranes, in warehouses, kitchens, pubs, a bottle-o, as a musician, and as a teacher.

Have lived in at least 10 different sharehouses and apartments.

Learning Chinese (mandarin) because my girlfriend, despite being a bogan from the western suburbs, is originally from there and fluent in it.

PHILOSOPHY

Arm the poor soughta thing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Need a place to crash and people to meet when I land in Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown.

Am happy to have people stay with me once I've found my feet and have a place of my own.

Interests

traditional/folk music, punk rock, lefty politics shit, books, stuff like that.

• books
• politics
• traveling
• music
• folk music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books - Many, many, many many many many
Movies - Stand by me, Two Hands, Withnail and I.
Music - Paul Kelly, Marley (and Tosh and Decker and Cliff and Perry), Dylan, The Bushwackers, The Drones, Wu Tang Clan, Victor Jara, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Libertines, The Clash, The Pistols, Nick Cave.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helped organise a school strike for refugee rights in Hamburg. We got 5,000 people on the streets and it kicked off a national strike wave.

Teach, Learn, Share

I wanna learn Chinese so bad, but it's fucking hard.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have some mad one liner jokes..

Aside from that I can teach you guitar, fiddle, accordion, harmonica and A LOT of old folk songs if you like.

Not bad at fixing things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hong Kong, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Spain, Timor-Leste (East Timor), United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany