This was supposed to be a post about last night, my Sunday night 2025 Bluesfest experience with John Butler, complete with a song called trancing and dancing which arrived in my head courtesy of a cricket connection, the chirpy kind, that carried the song all the way from Byron Bay, super speedy.

I’d also done a recording of the cricket sounds , called it Timestamp because at 7:13pm I started transcribing what I was hearing oh so clearly. I was going to put the recording of that up too. There was a problem though in aligning the lines I wrote with the sounds I heard. Not feeling so confident about posting that just yet.

I’d made a promise to persons unknown, whispering in my head, to get it posted today, I have a sneaking suspicion there might be something riding on this post getting published within the ‘today’ timeframe’ so I’m doing what I hope meets some of the intent. Even the birds were calling it a bet, they are very good with monosyllabic words.

I’m a tad overwhelmed with the happenings of last night, unsure what to do next. I’m trying to keep on keeping on. In retreating to the garden and letting my mind relax, trying to find my why again, the birds keeping the faith. If it wasn’t for them thanking me for being their guardians I don’t think I’d be publishing what appears to be rant of no real meaning, that deeply questions my mental state.

I hear the Bird Talk “She is spiritual, what are we to do, we don’t have a government, we need people, we need you. Hard work, will you lead us, and we will help you along, we hear, we know, we are clever ones, like you are. Remember to stay grounded, listen and believe, we’ll help you.”

It’s hard to maintain my belief in this reality, questioning it.

Like so many times before for those that experienced it, it will have meaning. If you don’t know, you won’t know.

Today there seemed to be a keen desire for some confirmation of what I was hoping to achieve by disrupting communications in such a way as to highlight that there are many lifeforms on earth capable of communicating and understanding what’s going on, but powerless to change or influence it.

For those that kept track of my cleaning and gardening outcomes of the day, I hope they found out something they didn’t know. For those that were trying to understand, the explanation from the Captain maybe of some help.

“It’s the way she communicates, she can hone in on frequencies that we didn’t know existed but had hypothesised. She’s the proof of the pudding. The ABC’s Science Unit has been instrumental in keeping abreast of the latest discoveries in their research branch, supported by the All in the Mind crew that have been able to put the pieces of the puzzle together.It’s very exciting times in the land of the Comms.”

Back in the early noughties I did work experience with the ABC as part of the final year of my Comms degree, majoring in sound and radio.I spread myself a bit thin, doing a stint with local radio, Play School and the science unit. My parting gift to the science unit was a sheet of ideas for a show, emotions and the mind, looking for the connections between feeling and knowing. I’m pretty sure this page of prompts became the inspiration for the award-winning series All In The Mind, and today it struck me that by them developing expertise in the area they became perfectly positioned to interpret what was happening across the airwaves and the ether. What an amazing position for the National Broadcaster to be in.

Whilst I’m well aware that this is not my finest writing, it is a record of some things that have happened over the 28hours and at least I can go to sleep knowing that I kept my promise.

Lyrics to Trancing & Dancing 6:25pm

Trancing and dancing whatever we do, we’re dancing and trancing and dancing for you, trancing and dancing and recording too, we’re dancing and trancing with John Butler crew.

Trancing and dancing and being as one, trancing and dancing it’s John Butler fun, trancing and dancing and how can it too, all of this trancing and dancing for you. Where all we’re all where will you be, trancing and dancing with John Butler 3, wondering what the fuck Jubilee.

We’re trancing and dancing and being as one, trancing and dancing John Butler fun, what will we do with it now that its free, all this world, one jubilee.

Ahhh trancing and dancing and being just here, dancing and trancing allaying the fear, all of the love all of it real, all of the loving all of the feel…

Dancing and trancing and wondering why, all of the people are starting to cry, we are loving, wondering why, what is the feeling what is the sigh.

Loving and being as one we can do, all of the things that we say are as new, wondering things, wondering what’s true, one day they’ll tell me, then I’ll be through.