The literary achievements continued through to university where he studied journalism at UQ while still managing to party most nights a week at our suburban Brisbane share house. I have many memories of countless music festivals, dodgy nightclubs and seedy basement punk shows which more often than not involved whichever post-punk/hardcore/crunchy-jams ensemble Marcus happened to be playing bass for at the time. Like myself, Marc eventually completed a second (read: useful) university degree and now works as a cinematographer/director/editor in the glamorous film industry. Make sure you tell him what your favourite movie is and why. He will find it really interesting.

We shared a love of electronic music and eventually wrote and performed together in various guises. Bill is a natural musician and trained in composition, performance, production, pretty much everything. Knowledge of music theory comes in handy, especially when my input always seemed to revolve around 'more bass' or 'epic drop goes here'. After uni Bill and I coincidently both lived and worked in Japan, Bill mastering the language and culture, something I somehow never got around to. Parallels in our lives continued as we both enrolled in post graduate studies at University of Queensland, and both moving to Cairns within a week of each other to pursue our newly chosen careers. Bill now lives happily with his wife Kanae in Far North Queensland teaching high school students Japanese and music. He is still writing and producing his own compositions and develops large theatre shows. His other hobbies include Japanese cooking and enjoying all of that free time teachers have after school. ;)

I was studying at the Conservatorium at the time, but my real education in music started when Andy took me to my first rave. Having collected underground dance music from the UK and a DJ himself, Andy opened up a whole new world which has shaped my musical tastes to this day. We would often go out all night to various raves and festivals around Brisbane and not get home until the following morning. Now a little more settled down father of two, Andy works the Brisbane Council office making sure the trains run on time and cars...get to work on time?? It's kind of a complex job description I'm not entirely sure of.. Andy is also a huge video game aficionado and owns more consoles and cartridges than an eleven year old Asian kid.