Snarky Platypus is a platypus of many talents whose current day job is pushing emails at an Australian government agency.

His key musical influences growing up in 1980s and 1990s Australia were his father’s Boomer 1960–70s pop (Fleetwood Mac yay, but as a result of overexposure, Beatles nay), too much 2WS 1224 (classic rock) on car trips, and buying cassettes of his favourite girl bands (the Bangles and Bananarama) during holidays in Jakarta, Indonesia.

He is, of course, also a big fan of the Eurodance and teen pop of the 90s.

His musical achievements include getting straight As in AMEB piano exams before he got bored of it, being able to identify songs quicker than Shazam consistently in certain musical genres, and introducing his father to Spice Girls and S Club songs which his father very much enjoyed.

These days Stilgherrian is best known for his journalism and such, but in the past he’s worked a lot with music.

In the 1990s he was variously station manager of Adelaide’s progressive, alternative, and local music station Three D Radio, features editor of club, dance, and hip hop street mag The Core, and co-presenter of Triple J’s dance music show Club Escape (which aired only in Adelaide).

The during the first dotcom boom he was editor of the award-winning but very short-lived CD-ROM magazine this!zine.

Way, way back he began his media career presenting classical music and producing live music broadcasts for the community station now known as Radio Adelaide.

He also produces and presents the podcast The 9pm Edict.