By Greg
You may have noticed that we have just passed the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop.
It wasn’t an anniversary that was on my radar, in fact, neither Trenna or I were big fans of hip-hop. We didn’t dislike it, it was just that there was a lot of other music around. That is until hot one afternoon in December 2013.
Each year Perth has an international festival. And each year I … Read the rest ... “Trenna & Public Enemy – 50 years of hip-hop”
By Greg
We were always going to feel a little uncomfortable in this environment. But I felt it was something we had to do – and Trenna was prepared to go along to prove that I was wrong!
It was a Slim Dusty concert at the Perth Concert Hall.
I cast my mind back to our house a month or two earlier.
“Hey, Tren. Slim Dusty is doing a concert at the Concert Hall”.
“So?” Those two letters were … Read the rest ... “Eric Bogle and Slim Dusty – Two Concerts We Remembered”
Intro by Greg, Lyrics by Trenna
Trenna had quite a nice study desk when I first met her in 1987. It was very solid, and had one of those inlays on the desk top that look like green leather. It has three drawers on either side, and it is solid.
It was one she bought new, so it is no antique, but it is still a nice piece. It made it’s way … Read the rest ... “The Mill Point Road Song Lyrics”
By Greg
This story was inspired by the picture above, which Trenna had captioned “Us, happy and relaxed @ Crowded House gig”.
One thing I wish Trenna and I had done a little more of together was attend concerts.
In the 1970s and some of the 1980s Trenna and I had, seperately, attended concerts by a LOT of international acts. However, once we were together, for many years we tended not to do that.
That changed in 2010 when … Read the rest ... “Crowded House – Happy and Relaxed”
By Greg
I’m very keen for this website to be an accurate representation, or at least sample, of Trenna’s life.
So if I become aware of an error, I will try to correct it.
I discovered one recently when I was working on a soon to be published story about Trenna and my earliest days together.
I was was telling the story of how I had dedicated a song to her when I was the guest presenter on a community … Read the rest ... “I Was Wrong – It Wasn’t That Song!”
4 March 2013
By Trenna, with an intro from Greg
I had always planned on including this story from Trenna’s iPad. As I read it I can tell that she has done a bit of a download of her brain to get it down in print whilst still fresh in her memory.
I feel sure that she hoped to come back to it in future and elaborate on some of the comments. She either never got around to it, … Read the rest ... “Soundwave Festival 2013”
As the title suggests, this is the second part of the story, the first part is here.
So there we were, in the tongue pit with Tren’s great friend Sue, who she probably hadn’t seen for a couple of years, and Sue’s sister, Judy.
“Ahhh! You’ve got the same top as me!” Both have a black (of course) “It’s only rock n roll” singlet top. Judy has a different, but equally cool Stones top.… Read the rest ... “THE Rolling Stones Concert – Part 2”
The time had to come in the life of this website when I had to write about THE Rolling Stones concert. For one reason I have HUNDREDS of photos Trenna and I took at the concert, and for another, Trenna and I had such a good time.
Trenna told me that she was keen to go to the Rolling Stones concert, at the WACA grounds in 1973. She would have been 16 years old … Read the rest ... “THE Rolling Stones Concert Part 1”
Looking through Trenna’s iPad I came across the document she wrote to review/record the Black Sabbath concert we went to along with a friend, Adrian. It was the first time I had read this piece since 2016.
It immediately brought back memories of a really fab night. I also found some of the turns of phase pretty entertaining.
I will put her writing below, in the main body of this post but also … Read the rest ... “Moshing With Black Sabbath!”
[GM: As the title suggests, this was the fourth of 24 recordings done at our kitchen bench in Kensington, Western Australia. As part of the preparation for putting it on this website, in February 2022, I asked our friend Helen to read through this transcript and the one from 7 June 2018. Below you will find some of Helen’s comments interspersed. My thanks to Helen for doing that.]
GM: OK, so it’s the … Read the rest ... “The Fourth Kitchen Tape”
On 15 January 2021 a celebration of Trenna’s life was held. I wanted to hand out a postcard which had a picture of Trenna and a couple of links to a playlist I developed after Trenna passed away a few weeks earlier. I then put up a Facebook post to help people to click through to the playlist.
That Facebook post appears below and I have embedded the Youtube Playlist and the Spotify below.