Under the Radar

Letter From The Editor

Kirin J Callinan is four from hours the road late. , The Australian musician has been giving us updates from the road, as he is travelling in his tour van from Philadelphia, but is seemingly no closer than his last update. He’s past due at Washington DC’s Black Cat venue, where my wife/co-publisher Wendy and I are waiting to do a photo-shoot with him for a feature in this issue. It’s the last night of , it’s certainly not the first time we’ve been kept waiting backstage by a musician, but the photo-shoot locations we have lined up will soon close and Callinan’s soundcheck and set time also loom. Plus Wendy and I have our four-and-a-half-year-old daughter Rose and my mother in tow and the dark and dirty backstage of a rock club is not the ideal environment for them to spend four hours in (then again, it’s pouring with rain outside).

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