How long have you lived in Bright?
Five months now.
What do you do for a living?
I've got an online business in holistic medicine: like herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, and aromatherapy.
What are your hobbies or interests?
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I've been in the hip hop music industry down in Melbourne for 22 years. I’m a hip hop music producer, I also dabble in techno, drum and bass, electronica, a bit of experimental with raga and reggae-type stuff, just producing instrumentals and experimental trip hop stuff like DJ Shadow. I've got my own record label in Canada and America and I released through that. I was a prevalent figure in the Melbourne street art scene. From 2002 it really started kicking off and I kind of retired from that in 2007 and went into music. I used to be in the graffiti scene and the arts in Melbourne. Lots of different art – so comic book drawings and street art, lots of stencils, stickers and paste ups.
What do you like about the area?
The Ovens River, the trout fishing, four-wheel driving, camping. Winter opens up and you get the snowfields, which I really like. It's a quiet town, lots of locals and I know a few of the mountain people around. I went to school in Albury so I had a strong connection with Yackandandah, Myrtleford, Porepunkah and the King Valley. I’ve been coming through here for many years on the way to the snow and stopping in.
Where would you take visitors to showcase the area?
I’d take them around Mount Buffalo, the chalet up there. There’s good hangliding, good rock climbing. Bushwalking around Hotham, Dinner Plains, Mount Feathertop. Snowshoeing and apres-ski is good for people who just want a bit of cheap walking around the snow, they don’t have to hire the gear and get the lift tickets. I like horse riding, so if there’s any places you can go horse riding, which I used to do around Mansfield, Delatite Shire. Fishing, mountain bike riding, just the local recreational, touristy kind of things.
Is there anything you would change about the area?
I wouldn't mind seeing the tobacco industry fire up again, which the Italians used to run. Normal Australian tobacco to get it out of the overseas production companies and get it healthy again. I’d like to see the rivers cleaned up a bit – do a bit of work to get the carp out of there and protect the Murray cod, local fisheries and native species. Illegal fishing I’d like to see policed pretty hard, and illegal hunting and illegal camping up in the state forests.
