At 10:40 am, Ed Lippmann returns with Part 2 of Loved and Unloved, our new series of Sydney By Design, this time discussing heritage issues. The topic for this week is The Rocks and Green Bans in the 1970s. At 11:00 am I will play an interview I recorded in Adelaide a couple of weeks […]
UK saxophonist YolanDa Brown is touring Australia with her jazz, soul and reggae album Love Politics War. She joined Thursday Drive to speak about the real-life inspirations for her record and what it’s like being a musician, a mum, and also a children’s book writer. Listen to her interview below. Find YolanDa Brown’s upcoming shows […]
This week sees the start of a new series of Sydney By Design with Ed Lippmann and he has called this series Loved and Unloved, where we will address heritage issues. Part 1 at 10:40 is an introduction to the series, defining what the heritage issues are: do we pull down, do we keep, what […]
SIZZLE 2018 presents art music to pop music and everything in between featuring the virtuosic musicians from Ensemble Offspring who are champions of adventurous new music. Based in Sydney, these acclaimed eclectic musicians present music from seminal chamber work to free improvisation, alongside the creation of striking interdisciplinary productions which embrace open-minded music making of […]
Friends and well-established musicians Clotilde Rullaud (vocalist and flutist) and Alexandre Saada (pianist and multi-instrumentalist) perform together as Madeleine & Salomon. On International Women’s Day, they joined Nick Terry on Thursday Drive to speak about their album ‘A Woman’s Journey’. After revealing to Nick why he is (what the French call) a ‘bobo’, Clotilde and Alexandre explained […]
Eastside Radio is happy to introduce to our listeners John Scurry and his band Reverse Swing their newest album ‘Post Matinée’. Released the 1st of November 2017, guitarist and composer John Scurry along with Eugene Ball on trumpet, Michael McQuaid on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Matt Boden playing the piano, Howard Cairns with the double […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 8 March. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Discover the world of women artists who daringly left Australia at a time when few women practiced art, yet alone travelled overseas to develop their artistic skills. Intrepid Women, an exhibition at the SH Ervin Gallery, presents the work of Australian women artists […]
Read More… from ARTS THURSDAY – women artists and historic houses March 8 2018
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 5 March, for a program that delves into the lesser known Sydney. My guest interviews today are with Vanessa Berry, author of the book “Mirror Sydney”, a marvellous, entrancing and acutely alert reverie on our city and its ever-changing urban landscape. “Mirror Sydney” is rich in observations and history, and […]
Mysterious Victorian musician Archer and his humble mate Phil paid a visit to Eastside’s Thursday Drive. Archer gave an intriguing insight into his journeys across our sunburnt country. After performing a spontaneous poem requesting all of Australia’s old people, Archer revealed meeting a white supremacist who called himself ‘Jesus Christ’. Have a listen to his beautifully strange […]
Arts Thursday 1 March, presented by Bronwyn Rennex ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: The lovely actor, singer, writer, voice artist Anni Finsterer discusses her role in Warwick Thornton’s ‘Sweet Country’ Sweet Country is a period western, set in the late 1920s on the Northern Territory frontier, where justice itself is put on trial. Inspired by real events, […]
Read More… from ARTS THURSDAY 1 March – Anni Finsterer in ‘Sweet Country
This week at 10:40 am, we hear the last episode of Historic Events and How We Mark Them with Laila Ellmoos and the series finishes with 8 Hour Day. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Sonya Lifschitz, virtuoso pianist, broadcaster and academic who stars in Stalin’s Piano, an almost 1-woman show at the […]
Interview with artists Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford. When art is your life, it helps that your life partner understands your passion, obsession and your need to create. In the case of Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford a love of the landscape in all its magnificence has given them common ground for their travels and […]
Read More… from Debbie Mackinnon and Mike Staniford on The Dialogue 28 February