Before I dive into the making of the Stamps and Coins EP I'd like to briefly mention Elliott Smith. There's hardly an indie soul left on the planet who doesn't know the name and any time I come across a [...]

Maxfield Parish was an American painter and illustrator and one of my earlier fine art discoveries. He seemed to be able to combine the truest devotion to art whilst also being able to commercialise it. I was drawn to him [...]

Every musician deserves their first great musical moment to come sooner rather than later. This can take on one of many forms. Writing a great song, winning a contest, hearing your song produced, even hearing a new song* and so [...]

By 2003 I had a couple of interesting albeit very unique musical contacts. One of them was Colin Seeger, one of the original co-authors of Music Business. He'd been advertising in the Australian Music Industry Directory under the business name [...]

I'm slowly establishing the purpose of this blog. It is to catalogue and publish in one place the process that was the birth of Monday Records and its subsequent bands and musical projects. To be fair however, we must first very [...]

An apt albeit a borrowed title for the first official Monday Records blog entry. I'm Radi Safi and I started Monday Records in 2005 after the release of my first EP Stamps & Coins. That was done under the moniker [...]