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Set your taste-buds on fire as you embark on a thrilling gastronomic rollercoaster ride that takes you from the pulsating dark heart of Dark Mofo’s spectacular Winter Feast, to the midnight banquets, seductive supper clubs and dark dinners unearthed in ‘The Dark Fringe’ created in honour of Tasmania’s iconic festival of darkness.ĭescend into ‘Dante’s Inferno’ to resurrect your corpses with a cornucopia of cocktails created by Tasmania’s most celebrated distilleries and bars, before indulging your sweetest cravings with a banquet of dark and delectable delights. Immerse yourself in deepest darkest Winter with this sumptuous tome celebrating our coolest season!

I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand.