Sometimes when the industry doesn’t work fast enough for you, you need to take control. Take Gilli Moon for instance. When it didn’t happen fast enough for her in Australia, she hopped a plane to Los Angeles and has had a thriving career ever since. Interview by Paul Cashmere

Life on the road is obviously constantly full of surprises for gilli moon. But then, she's also gone from being an aspiring young singer songwriter from a little NSW country town to being an established artist and performer in Los Angeles from where she not only regularly tours around much of the US through the year but writes and records music for her own CDs as well as for television and film. And she's done it all independently. No wonder she has the confidence to pull off a solo gig in a death metal club.

 You just can't hold a good woman down. gilli moon is proving that saying in a big way. She creating a  storm in LA, getting rave reviews to boot. Now on home turf, does she go on a spree of self promotional gigs? No. She establishes an organisation for songwriters in hope to offer new writers the support that she never received.
- by Monique Lisa

"Staying Home" with performer gilli moon

Q. Mixing music with art is a concept you've been credited with starting. What inspires you?
A. Expressionist painting had always been a private passion until my bass player suggested I sell some of my paintings on tour. I thought I'd take it a step further and bring a glass canvas on stage and add an extra visual dimension to the performance while there's a guitar solo.

gilli moon chats about her life as a music artist and her new album Temperamental Angel.
"My last album wasn’t able to be released and I walked away from that without anything." - gilli moon

by Peter Gleeson

gilli talks to Monique Lisa in her first days as an international jett-setter...

  gilli moon is proving that saying in a big way. She creating a  storm in LA, getting rave reviews to boot. Now on home turf, does she go on a spree of self promotional gigs? No. She establishes an organisation for songwriters in hope to offer new writers the support that she never received.

- by Monique Lisa