New Rules
A podcast series based on my newsletter, exploring the strange emotional experience of being alive in the midst of massive planetary and environmental change.
Podcast
2023
New Scientist – Interview with Cassie Lynch
In 2023 I recorded a special episode of the New Scientist podcast in conversation with Noongar scholar Cassie Lynch, discussing Indigenous oral histories of sea level rise at the end of the last ice age.
Listen here.
Podcast
2023
Better Than Yesterday – Conversation with Osher Gunsberg
I caught up with Osher Gunsberg on his Better Than Yesterday podcast to discuss the emotional dimension of climate change – how are we all processing this extraordinary moment in history?
Listen here.
Podcast
2023
The Other Others – Conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta
The extraordinary Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta invited me on his podcast The Other Others to discuss Kill Climate Deniers and conspiracy thinking in the climate era.
Listen here.
Podcast
2022
Then Do Better – Conversation with Ben Yeoh
Investor, playwright and my Thinking Bigly collaborator Ben Yeoh chatted with me on his Then Do Better podcast about writing, creative practice and (of course) environmental thinking.
Listen here.
Podcast
2020
This is how we do it – Conversation with Noemie Huttner-Koros
In 2020 I spoke with writer and theatre-maker Noemie Huttner-Koros as part of Playwriting Australia’s this is how we do it series, discussing writing about the environment and the practice of making theatre in the 2020s.
Listen here.
LP
2016
Reuben Ingall & David Finnigan – Kill Climate Deniers
In 2016, musician/producer Reuben Ingall and I collaborated to turn my playscript Kill Climate Deniers into an audio work – a radio play, a dance party, a walking tour of Parliament House, and most spectacularly, a brand new LP of original club bangers in the vein of classic House and Techno circa 1988-93. The album was released through Clan Analogue – you can buy it there, or stream it on Spotify or Bandcamp.
RN Podcast
2011
Kids Killing Kids
In 2011, myself and Sam Burns-Warr, Jordan Prosser and Georgie McAuley (aka writing collective Too Many Weapons) headed to Manila to adapt Koushon Takami’s Battle Royale novel to the stage for Sipat Lawin Ensemble. Sipat’s Battalia Royale was an unexpected hit, a hugely successful production that got way bigger than anyone planned, and soon got a little… out of hand. We subsequently produced a theatre show documenting the experience (Kids Killing Kids, later A Wake: Kids Killing Kids with Sipat), and this is ABC Radio National’s podcast exploring the event.
EP
2018
The Munich EP
In 2018, Jordan Prosser and I recorded a short EP of spoken word in Munich, featuring music by Fossil Rabbit.
EP
2015
The Palawan EPs
In 2015, Jordan Prosser and I took off to the island of Palawan in the Philippines, after a fairly hectic month at Sipat Lawin’s Karnabal Festival, and created two EPs of spoken word, including field recordings from the island.
Finnigan and Brother
Musical collaborator and sibling Chris Finnigan and myself comprise the two halves of Finnigan and Brother. Since 2007 we have purveyed a peaceful blend of Chris’ guitar, loops and FX and my overhead projector, radio and vocals.
Album
2012
Finnigan and Brother Spend a Month in Colombia
In 2012, Chris and David Finnigan spent a month as resident artists at the Campos de Gutierrez artist space in Medellin, Colombia, writing and performing a new album of music and spoken word.
FINNIGAN AND BROTHER SPEND A MONTH IN COLOMBIA was recorded upon their return to Australia at RMIT Studios in Melbourne, produced and mixed by Nick McCorriston.
Album art by Marian Tubbs (with massive thanks to Yolande Norris for curating it).
This record goes out with mad thanks to Andres Monzon, our curator and guide during our Colombia trip, and all the other artists and makers we worked with in Medellin. Much love to Hannah Martin, Amara Abdul Figueroa, Rita Elizalde-Crocker, Gustavo Gil, all the Fulbright cats, Marlon, Paco, Lola and Aureliano. Peeps is rad peeps.
Remix
2013
Move to Canberra (Pav Dundee remix)
None other than Reuben Ingall aka PAV DUNDEE takes to Finnigan and Brother’s whatdoyoucallit single? our single? And gives it a little bit of everything good.