Yes, you're seeing correctly - an actual new Spectrum song, mastered and delivered to the Lomond's Stephan Brown's front porch for inclusion (or not) on the Lomond Hotel's forth-coming compilation CD. You can read more about this unexpected turn of events in Stop Press.

Mike's Pith & Wind - Love to hate
There’s plenty of time for idle thought when driving interstate, and our last trip was no exception. Whilst there haven’t been many advances in the world of vans in the last twenty years – why fiddle with a box on wheels? – the power steering on the Mitsubishi is a boon on long distances, leaving the mind to nose around untrammelled by rigid shoulder muscles.
It’s at times like these you feel free to tackle the Big Questions, or rather, they drift in from the north and settle on you like a perplexing doona, and this trip was one of those times. And so, my thoughts ran as follows:
Many years ago I came to the realisation that the one basic emotion that underlies all our responses to the world and is common to us all is fear. I remember the day that this realisation came to me very well. It was in the very early ‘70s when I was living in Hawthorn. Bill and I had an appointment to see Philip Jacobsen, and I have the feeling it was even before he was managing us and was simply our wild-eyed accountant.
We had acquired some Durban Poison, probably unexceptional by today’s hydroponic standards, but certainly the most powerful marijuana of its day. In any case, I had overdone it to the point that I was slumped against a wall, terrified to open my eyes. I was was in such a state of terror I couldn’t put a name to anything I saw, so I thought it safer not to open my eyes.
It was as if I was a newborn child: nothing.. read more

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Dick's Toolbox - Life is too short to drink bad wine.
Given that there are too many people in the world it is slightly curious that there is a wine surplus both here and overseas. This doesn’t mean that people out there aren’t doing their bit, but it is rather a natural outcome of market forces. Simply stated, this means that whenever a growth opportunity occurs, every company rushes to take advantage, each and everyone ignoring the fact that thirty other companies are going to attempt to exploit the same opportunity. The outcome is a glut of something. This has happened before and it will happen again - to the consumers’ temporary advantage - but in the meantime some growers are having a tough time.
This parlous situation has been compounded over the past two decades by the desire of several thousand people, of otherwise impeccable intelligence, to spend their retirement read more