Beautiful sunshine and the scent of pine needles filled the air mid afternoon as the Hackney road gates were flung open to celebrate the opening of Womadelaide 2017 – the 25th anniversary of the best World Music event that Australia hosts every year. We were greeted by the bizarre sight of two Frenchmen clad in […]
‘Raven‘ by Domini Forster is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. Domini Forster is fast-establishing herself as one of Melbourne’s brightest new voices in modern folk. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is currently preparing to release her debut album. Hovering deftly in the breathless spaces between light and dark, Raven is an unfeigned paean to the […]
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This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
Afternoon Eastsider! Looking to catch some great live music near you? Take One’s got you covered. Check out this packed guide full of all the artists we love here at the station. For more information, tune in on Friday’s 1:30-3PM. Missed an episode? Don’t stress! Just click HERE and scroll down to the on demand […]
Reviewed by Olana Osborn Based off of the 2009 novel, Jasper Jones is a murder mystery film that recently debuted in cinemas. Charlie, the 14-year-old bookworm and main character, offers a fresh perspective of late 1960’s innocence as he is charged with helping Jasper Jones, the outcast mixed-race teen, find out who killed Jones’ true […]
Anyone who expects the media to tell the whole story isn’t living in the post-fact universe. Just ask the thousands of American scientists who hit the streets in Boston last weekend protesting the Trump Administration’s rejection and active repression of fact based scientific analysis. In Australia we are blessed with a vocal, hard working, […]
CORINNE BAILEY RAE By PARIS POMPOR “It was very unreal. I remember thinking: I don’t really know how I ended up in this room, but I’m really grateful to be here.” On the eve of her debut tour of Australia, Corinne Bailey Rae is on the phone talking to Eastside Radio about pinch-yourself-moments. And she’s […]
Lisa was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 8 March 2017 and shared with us all her prodigious knowledge of cemeteries in Sydney: old ones and new, ornate and simple, ones with great view and ones that have great people buried there. Listen to the 3 parts of the conversation here: That was the […]
This Arts Thursday – two distinct perspectives on the visual arts in Sydney! Firstly, an interview with John Firth-Smith, long established as a painter, much awarded and widely collected, the artist generously shares his anecdotes and gives us an insight into his new works, now on view at the King Street […]
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Fragmenting mind, fragmenting world, fragmenting society, fragments of memory, disintegration, integration and nostalgia. Can what is broken be mended? Can it be transformed? These are the somewhat disorganised thoughts running behind the production of this series of pendants; how apt! They arise from watching the current politics, global warming dramas and Deborah Marks’ own longing […]
If you are in town during the week of International Women’s Day, don’t miss out Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez who will be performing at The Basement on Sunday 12th of March 2017. Stéphanie Denizard, radio producer and presenter of Queen Kafé had a chat with Alfredo and talked about the women who […]
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Austrian-born London-based musician Manu Delago is a multi-instrumentalist by design. Yet it came to be that in a career spanning over 10 years, the Tru-Thoughts signee is most known for playing the Hang, a percussive instrument that creates sounds so unable to be pigeonholed. It’s this flexibility that has led him to poignant collaborations with prominent […]