360 To Battle Mathematician, Particle Physicist On Q&A

15 October 2014 | 11:16 am | Staff Writer

A rap battle this ain't

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Matt Colwell – aka 360 – will make his Q&A debut on ABC TV next week in a panel packed with PhDs, BScs and OAMs.

An often controversial voice on the Australian music landscape Colwell released his latest record Utopia earlier this year. Last year he was named one of the country’s 50 most powerful people in music in the AMID Power 50.

In their description of the panel for the Monday 20 October show ABC make note of his detox period following a drug addiction and write that with his “maturity also comes a heightened social conscience”.

He’ll need to be on the ball when panel show, which is a hotbed for social media opinions, takes place given he’ll be sitting alongside popular ‘rockstar’ British particle physicist Professor Brian Cox, Burmese-born mathematician Nalini Joshi and opera conductor Richard Gill OAM.

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It’ll be less rap-battle and more battle-of-wits.

Q&A airs 9.35pm on ABC TV Mondays.