Creative, musical, positive, freethinking, love a challenge, to experience new things and foods and cultures, meeting new people, have been freelance for 15+yrs and have travelled a bit, and toured and worked all over Australia. I've been a bass player for a long time and played in blues, funk, groove, swing, reggae, indie, grunge, pop, acoustic, ensembles, rockabilly and had a lot of fun, playing, touring, releasing music, and almost all have been originals bands. I also picked up a bit of rockabilly dancing, but Lindy Hop Swing dancing is my passion...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm a freelancing creative that is traveling again on a big musical trip to see lots of the places and cities in the world that are the birthplaces of music that I love to play, and listen to. Rather than go more theoretical about enhancing my music, I thought I would visit places musical, and meet new people and musicians, jam and just see why people are who they are. I've been a touring muso so am used to less luxuries on tour, and I figured if I want to feel the cities that I am in, it would be better to actually meet real people too... wah-lah! couch surfing!

Interests

• culture
• music festivals
• swing dancing
• music
• live music
• lindy hop
• creative

Music, Movies, and Books

Funk, Groove, Soul, Ragga, Go Go, Swing, Big Band, Jazz, Trip Hop, Electronica, Breakbeats, Hip Hop, Indie, Rock, Metal... broad I know... Hi Fidelity, Almost Famous, A Knights Tale, The Breakfast Club, Bad Boy Bubby, Brick, Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind, Kung Fu Hustle, The Professional (Leon), Matrix 1, Napoleon Dynamite, Pitch Black, Romper Stomper, Sin City, Tank Girl, The Wrestler ... Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, and the artist Leonardo Da Vinci who said "let experience be my mistress"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I fire twirled in front of 14,000 people at Crusty Demons of Dirt (Motobike Dirt Jumping etc) as part of a fire troupe called FireArtFanatics at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I work in video, photography, lighting, editing, computing, social media, music, stage managing, events, facilitating and workshopping, anything that is arty and creative. Happy to skill share, have social discussions about skills and work and the world, or be apart of a process or project! I also can teach you to swing dance

What I Can Share with Hosts

Any of the above skills, I am also pretty house trained so can do the dishes... ha ha

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia