The indelible character and emotion bestowed upon a particular generation of songwriters, at the hands of a 1970’s Dublin childhood, is transcribed into song with no more lucidity than in the current works of Irish born singer songwriter Gallie, who now calls Melbourne his home.

Tom Waits once said “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering;” the very same Tom Waits which then went on to vote Gallie into the finalists of the International Songwriting Conte