The Who
Liner Notes Live's Co-curators
Michael Nolan is the host of Liner Notes Live. He is the senior editor of The Monthly and was a founding editor of The Saturday Paper, where he won a Walkley Award for headline writing. He was formerly a senior book editor at Penguin Australia for many years, and was earlier speechwriter for Melbourne’s first popularly elected lord mayor, John So, a features writer for Black+White magazine, and an editor of the Writers Victoria magazine. In 2017, he toured Australia with a band led by Mick Harvey for the Bowie in Berlin concert series. Years earlier, he was the singer for the seminal Brisbane industrial electronic band Pure Bunk.
Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning Australian poet and spoken-word performer who has toured the world performing and writing poetry. She is the winner of the 2010 Berlin International Literature Festival’s poetry slam Slam!Review. She performs regularly at arts and literature festivals, and has appeared at the Sydney Opera House and TEDx Melbourne. Emilie is a 2014 Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. She has been poet-in-residence for Museums Victoria and coordinator for the National Australian Poetry Slam. She teaches poetry and slam in schools and in April 2014, she was core faculty for the Spoken Word Program at Canada’s Banff Centre. Emilie is also the author of fourteen children’s books and has published widely both in Australia and overseas including in Best Australian Love Poems (Inkerman & Blunt) Airmail, Sincerely, and Yours Truly (Penguin Australia).
Sean M Whelan is a poet, marriage celebrant and DJ. His two books of poetry are Love is the New Hate and Tattooing the Surface of the Moon. In 2018 he began a creative writing podcast called More Than a Whelan. He is currently working on an album with his new band Crystal Veins.
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The current line-up of the Liner Notes Live house band is: Rob McDowell, Gabriel Piras, Seri Vida, Ben Ling and Ainsley Finn.
Past members and guests include: Chris Chapple, Jeremy Furze, Paul Shannon, Geoff Bradley, Giovanni Clemente, Alex Taylor, Andrew Watson, Jet, Quinn Stacpoole, Jon Shannon and Justin Avery.