The last two weeks have been an adventure to say the least. On the 30th of March I had the honour of opening for Michelle Xen, for the launch of her RMX EP, Synesthesia, at the X & Y bar in Brisbane. Alongside my band we worked hard to put on our most refined performance [...]

Featuring Smokey, my cat, here is my new music video for my cover of Die Young by Kesha. Girl’s Just Wanna Have Fun and Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper makes this film clip complete, as I reference this iconic PERSON and period. I hope you enjoy my rendition of this song and if you [...]

In many ways, I feel like the luckiest person on earth. One of the things I am most grateful for, is that in my life I have had the opportunity to dream up the craziest of ideas and to turn them into a reality. I’m so thankful to everyone who believes in my music and [...]

One Direction (otherwise abbreviated to 1D by obsessed fans!) are releaseing their new album “Take Me Home” this week with the pre release available now! By no means am I a 1D fan, but when I heard the song “little things” a little spark inside me went something like this… … … .. “NAWWWWWWwwwwwWWWWwwwwwWWWWWwww….” Also, [...]

On September the 22nd 2012, I performed at the Brisbane Powerhouse, on the Turbine Stage for an event called POPALICIOUS which was hosted by Mike Howlett. Here is some footage of me and my band, CARMICHAEL, performing my single “Falling For You.” Leave a comment below! what did you think? New cover videos and original [...]

“lets get…PHYSICAL!!!” After alot of mucking around, I’ve now acquired the licence and I officially own a piece of the 80s (legally!!) If you haven’t seen my latest film creation, CLICK HERE to see what I’m talking about! ALSO! after much reflection, I feel that using the term NEW WAVE best describes my music, sound [...]

A few days ago I posted a new cover video! Unfortunately due to technical difficulties I couldn’t share it on here until now. So without any more hesitation here is my cover of Katy Perry’s latest Single Wide Awake. I collaborated with percussionist and good friend Chris Richards for this cover. I hope you enjoy. [...]

Here’s my new cover video! of Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. I’ve put my own unique spin on it. I filmed this on Tuesday night in Brisbane city underneath the freeways that separate the city and the river.

Firstly I want to introduce you to this really cool Brisbane band called Cub Scouts. They make alternative upbeat indie dance music which is quite infectious and the singers voice is memorising!! I also wanted to write this blog to THANK YOU!!! So many of your have got behind me and wrote a review of [...]

For my new cover video of ‘Somebody That I used to know’ I collaborated with Darren Lau and Chris Richards. They are both amazing musicians and it was great fun experimenting with new textures and sounds in this cover video. I’ve never made a video like this one so I reccommend you check it out… ALSO! I’ve got some exciting NEWS! [...]

Last week on the 28th of March, I had the launch of my latest single, Falling For You, at The Zoo in Fortitude Valley. I had an amazing team of people their including a camera crew which captured the performance. So without any hesitation HERE is a clip of me performance my latest single live. [...]

Here’s a short videos showing the process of how I made my own custom t-shirts using a lino-block print method. The t-shirts where modelled by Zac Zasada and photographed by Emily-May Mackay and myself. Click here to watch If you could like to inquire about purchasing a t-shirt you can contact me from here [scrollGallery [...]

To celebrate the officially release of my new single ‘Falling For You’ I’m holding a very special gig @ The Zoo on the 28th of March (doors open at 7:30pm) This is going to be my biggest show to date as I’ll be playing with a full band and I’ll also be reenacting scenes from [...]

So its only days away from the release of my new film clip Falling For you! And I wanted to take some time to reflect because I keep coming back to this question… Why do I even write music? Why should I even bother…? Ok time to take a step back… On regular occasions, I [...]

And so the count down begins! In less than one week, on the 2nd of March, my new single Falling For You will be released! Many many months of hard work, perseverance, and some hair pulling drama has gone into perfecting my new release. The film clip was directed by the amazing Emily-May Mackay! And [...]

This is my tribute to Whitney Houston…I don’t really know what to say except that Im really going to miss her… CLICK HERE TO WATCH CARMICHAEL

Click here to watch the behind the scenes video… Falling for you is the title of my next single release. And today I’m getting it mastered with Dave Neil. I’ve worked with Dave with all of my previous releases which includes ‘My Heart’, ‘Girl’ and ‘Love Defeat;’ I really trust and admire Dave’s work. For [...]

Its only been about 3 weeks now since I first heard of Lana Del Ray and I love her voice to death! My friend Emily introduced me to her. Im also really excited as Lana Del Ray’s new album, ‘Born To Die’, is due to come out within the next few days! I’m as eager [...]

Pumped Up Kicks is a song that has become embedded in my head! It’s been played to death on the radio, I’ve danced to it constantly at night clubs and it seems to always played at functions and party’s that I attend! It only seemed logical that I would do a cover of it! CLICK [...]

Its officially christmas here in Australia I’ve stayed up all night and I’m still waiting for Santa!!! While I’ve been waiting, twiddling my thumbs, I thought I might upload a christmas cover song to further celebrate this occasion! I was hesitant at first to cover Justin Bieber’s new single Mistletoe but I can’t deny and [...]

Weekly update!!! Under the covers of my life I’ve been keeping a secret! And I’m about to unleash it! Last weekend I began the filming for my new single which is called “Falling For You”!!! This is the first time that I’ve officially announced this online!! Falling for You was filmed over a two day [...]

I’ve never really been a Christmas person. Don’t ask me why, I’m just not. It’s unfortunate as the idea of Christmas is amazing. You have a time where everyone can celebrate together, spread love and exchange gifts and its an amazing festive time… But for me I’ve never really felt the Christmas ‘spirit.’ click here [...]

20 years ago, to this day, we lost Freddie Mercury. Ever since I can remember I loved listening to Queen! I can remember in my school choir us attempting a SATB rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, even though we failed miserably, it is an amazing song to sing and go theatrically crazy with! I’ve also been [...]

Its a Thursday night and I’m sitting at a train station after just finishing my architectural presentation. Its about 10pm and the people waiting to the left to me are discussing the music of John Lennon, whom I love! But I thought this might be a good opportunity to share this you an artist, whose music I recently fell [...]

I think without a doubt Lady Gaga has had a huge impact on my life as a person and on myself as an ‘artist’ (if I can call myself that). Marry The Night is one of my Favourite songs from Lady Gaga’s Born this way album so it was only a matter of time before [...]

Beth Ditto From Gossip!!!!! I’m now obsessed with! Yesterday whilst attending Park life I had the joy of seeing them play live and it was super dooper amazing! I loved how she performed, how she owned the stage and how confident she was (plus I loved her dancing!). Somehow, alongside my friend Kiera, we made [...]

Sleepless nights, loneliness, longing for a lover that once was…Adele is amazing and has captured something so so special in her song Someone Like You! I hesitated for a while to do a cover of this song…

I just read an articl called: “why creating a fashion statement is good for your music career” and it rang a few bells for me! (you can read that article HERE). This I feel is such an important factor for any band, musician or artist! Anyone who knows me well knows how conscious I am with what I wear [...]