1. John Willsteed is an adjunct senior lecturer in Music at Queensland University of Technology.
17 Facts About John Willsteed
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In 1978, and with little formal musical training, John became a member of Brisbane feminist punk group Zero after a chance meeting with drummer Lindy Morrison and Brisbane visual artist Gary Warner.
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John Willsteed became the bass player, replacing former member Catharine Hunt.
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John Willsteed remained a member of the band until 1985.
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John Willsteed's move to Sydney in 1985 heralded a period of musical expansion.
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John Willsteed continued to play in Australian bands, including Plug Uglies, The Drunk, The Monk and the Spunk, Disgraceland and The Apartments on their 1992 album Drift, and is currently a member of Halfway.
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John Willsteed has contributed to recording projects by The Apartments and Ed Kuepper among others.
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John Willsteed studied Sound at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, graduating in 1996.
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John Willsteed moved to Brisbane, and began working professionally as a sound designer for film and television projects.
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John Willsteed has composed music for the children's stop-motion animated television series Kitu and Woofl for Henderson Bowman Productions and ABC TV in 1997.
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John Willsteed has won three Australian Film Institute Awards for Sound Design.
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John Willsteed has been nominated for two IF Awards and is the recipient of the International Wildlife Film Festival Sound Award.
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John Willsteed began teaching in the tertiary system in 2000 at Griffith University in Brisbane, and has since taught at Bond, SBIT, and a number of private schools.
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John Willsteed is an adjunct senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in the Music Discipline, after his retirement in 2023.
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John Willsteed's PhD, It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity, is an exploration of the presentation of cultural history with an emphasis on Brisbane's punk and post-punk music scene.
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John Willsteed has written for The Conversation on music and other related topics, and co-edited Electronic Cities in 2020 as well as Underground Music Cultures and Music-making in LA in 2024, both for Palgrave Macmillan.
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In 2016, John Willsteed won the Letty Katts Award and held a presentation at the State Library of Queensland on the role of posters in the Brisbane music scene from 1975 to 1995.