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Rod Whitfield, Journalist

Rod Whitfield

Rod Whitfield is a retired musician and long-time music writer. He joined his first band on drums way back in 1987, playing in myriad original rock acts before hanging up the sticks and retiring in 2015. In 1995, he joined Forte Magazine, Geelong’s premier street press magazine, as a journalist and has not stopped writing about music since. He has written for The Music, UK Prog Magazine, Beat, was The Buzz Magazine’s chief rock and metal writer for eight years, and has worked for countless online publications and zines. 

Since retiring from the original band scene, he has become a novelist, and at the time of writing he is completing work on his fourth book, the third work in a trilogy based on an upcoming fantasy/combat/adventure video game, as well as designing the narrative of the game itself. Keep an eye out for the release of Brides of Vampira in the coming years. 

Features / Music
Lagwagon's Joey Cape Ticks Another Achievement Off The List At BIGSOUND
Punk legend Joey Cape of Lagwagon fame certainly has some stories to tell. Ahead of his appearance at BIGSOUND this week, the man himself had a chat with Rod Whitfield.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Transience, Breaking Orbit, The Omnific, Formiles
"This band has a unique intensity to them, and a fair percentage of that emanates from the big-lunged voice and magnetic presence of frontman Robert Cuzens."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Circles - The Last One
"What a departure, and what a gutsy move."
Features / Music
Music Is Just The Day Job & Mime Is The Real Passion For The Gametes
"There's just something about mime. When you see a mime and you see them perform the theatrics of it, it's just so great."
Features / Music
Movements On Trying Not To Think Too Hard About Streaming Numbers
"We would be literal millionaires if we'd started 30 years ago!"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Make Them Suffer, Silent Planet, Oceans Ate Alaska, Thornhill
"There is a true beauty in this band's brutality."
Features / Music
Making Fronds With Phantastic Ferniture
"That's when we thrive, when we don't have any pressure to do anything."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Kaki King & Derek Gripper
"The sheer creativity and imagination, not to mention technical logistics, that have gone into creating a show such as this are nothing short of astonishing."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mammal, Osaka Punch, Fresh Violet
"Pure, unbridled adrenaline; a funky, high-octane shredfest of pure rock played at extreme volume and with extreme energy."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Mass Sky Raid - Science Of Fiction
"Well worth 38 minutes of your time."
Features / Music
Caligula's Horse Are Taking The Aussie Prog Scene To Europe For Some 'Big, Sweaty Cuddles'
"We want to keep that gap as short as we can, because 'In Contact' in itself is a mammoth. Then to play a set of requests is going to make for a marathon set."
Features / Music
How Kaki King Uses Technology To Create A Synaesthetic Experience On Stage
"I'm finally able to give it the personality that I witness when I play guitar, but do that visually as well as musically."