About
www.heyheymymy.com.au is a contemporary on-line destination for Australian and international audiences interested in local and international music and the current activities of the most interesting and important musical artists of the past 40 years, as well as new music that deserves to be heard by discerning audiences.
The only real criteria for inclusion is that the artists have a body of work that is substantial, enduring and high quality or that they have the potential to create such a body of work. The website is probably better defined by what is not likely to be found here: bad cheesy pop, lightweight dance music, forgettable one hit wonders, completely contrived chart toppers and other music that’s just plain bad, soulless or the product of reality tv shows!
Which still leaves a lot of great music to cover.
www.heyheymymy.com.au is a project of Andrew Watt’s Ravens Nest Consulting Pty Ltd. (www.ravensnestconsulting.com.au). This blog/website was started in 2008, as a vehicle for Andrew’s self-indulgent writing on music, which had become an itch that needed to be scratched. Andrew had spent nine years as the publisher of InPress magazine, a weekly Melbourne street press publication where he interviewed just about every significant artist of the era including REM, Robbie Robertson, Prince, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Jon Bon Jovi, Johnny Thunders, Henry Rollins, Midnight Oil, Warren Zevon, Paul Kelly, Stevie Nicks, INXS, David Lee Roth, John Lydon, Guns N’ Roses and literally hundreds of others, some famous and many obscure but equally interesting artists. Prior to InPress, Andrew had been a freelance writer for legendary music publications such as RAM and a music feature writer for The Age and concert reviewer for the Sun.
At other stages in his life Andrew was a music industry lawyer representing clients such as Mental As Anything, Divinyls, Men At Work, a music publisher with a writers roster including the Rolling Stones and James Reyne, a venue operator who hosted acts such as Bon Jovi, Living Colour, Steve Earle and Billy Thorpe, an artist and tour manager representing artists in Australia and America.
In recent years Andrew has been executive producer on a ten part television series charting the life and work of Australian roadies, called Rock Soldiers and in 2011 was asked to join the judging panel for the Australian Music Prize (“The AMP”) which he was very pleased to do – finding this era to be an exciting time in music, with great new music emerging from all sorts of nooks and crannies. In many ways, a full circle has been turned.
www.heyheymymy.com.au welcomes and encourages comment and debate about any item in these pages (and there is an easy method for you to do that) although we do draw the line and personal abuse, defamatory remarks and anything that could be deemed racist, sexist or intolerant.
In recent times the site has grown substantially and has attracted the attention of advertisers. Some advertising will be accepted in the interests of recovering the costs of maintaining and hosting the website, however we will be selective in the form and content of that advertising.