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| Matt Gow & The Dead Leaves ~ Album Launch of 'The Messenger' |
Matt Gow & The Dead Leaves are an acoustic band playing soulful and rocking original songs with a country and folk flavour.
Links:
- Matt Gow & The Dead Leaves Myspace
- Northcote Social Club
- Come What May (music video)
- live at the Retreat Hotel Brunswick, Wed 18/6/08
- purchase single 'Come What May' in iTunes
"Very few artists wield so much charisma that they can sell you just about anything before you've realised what's happened. Matt Joe Gow has the charisma to be one of those artists - but he isn't. Matt prefers to concentrate on the conviction. On writing and delivering songs that look you straight in the eye. You don't have to listen to more than thirty seconds of Matt's debut LP 'The Messenger' to appreciate that. " from Wot's-On.info
"Very few artists wield so much charisma that they can sell you just about anything before you’ve realised what’s happened. Matt Joe Gow has the charisma to be one of those artists – but he isn’t. Matt prefers to concentrate on the conviction. On writing and delivering songs that look you straight in the eye. You don’t have to listen to more than thirty seconds of Matt’s debut LP ‘The Messenger’ to appreciate that. The deep quaver in his voice leaps out of opening track ‘Come To Mama, She Says’, like an arrow, both graceful and inexorable." from Northcote Social Club
"LETTING your child grow too fat amounts to child abuse and doctors are duty bound to report such parents to child protection authorities, a Sydney obesity expert says."
Fortunately some commonsense seems to be prevailing from the side of the government:"Victorian Community Services Minister Lisa Neville yesterday gave the idea limited support, saying a doctor would have to hold a firm view that the child was at risk.
"But the State Department of Human Services was not as persuaded, saying obesity alone is not enough to get child protection officers involved."
It must surely be difficult to draw a line at defining dangerous levels of obesity for children. And sometimes children may pass through obese phases before adolescence absorbs it in a growth spurt (haha in my own case).
But what we see here is misplaced 'concern' of the medical experts, that in a sympathethic governmental environment could lead to overweight children being taken away from parents.
I say - focus more on parental counselling and support rather than this arrogant presumptive approach that allows medical 'expertise' to erode parental rights.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/report-o
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