Tonight, Tuesday 16th August, you can choose from a fabulous mix of the latest bright green thinking at the Greenhouse smart talks with organic snacks, Save the Planet? There’s an app for that, Junction Cafe, the Powerhouse Museum, or OzDox’s evening of storytelling mayhem, How to Make a Great Science Documentary: Spin Coherence and Decoherence […]
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Album of the Week – Midnight at the Plutonium by The John Steel Singers
‘Midnight at the Plutonium’ by The John Steel Singers is Eastside Radio’s Album of the week. This week we bring you yet another great homegrown Australian album, bringing the funk from Brisbane is five piece band The John Steel Singers and no none of the members are named John Steel apparantely they named […]
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Jazz Made In Australia- 15th August 2016- Peter Knight’s Way Out West
Melbourne based Peter Knight is a multi-disciplinary musician. He is a trumpet player, band leader, composer and sound artist. His work covers jazz, world music and experimental music in a range of ensemble settings. He composes for theatre and creates sound installations. Peter is also the artistic direct0r of the Australian Art Orchestra, one of […]
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World’s Collide! Stingray Sisters, Ghost Girls, Meat Free Messiah
Next Monday’s show is a combustible blend of multicultural surprises from Richard Cornish talking up his memoir of the year he gave up meat, to quick chats with the geniuses behind Stingray Sisters, an innovative indigenous doco series, and Ghost Girls, a new contemporary novel set in the Sydney we never see on TV, amidst […]
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Boiling Point 9th August 2016
Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here:https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/# Tim brought us the latest in nostril news, where the answer to fighting superbugs might just be lurking right under our noses: https://www.sciencenews.org/arti…/nose-knows-how-fight-staph … And Chantelle took a look into the history and hype of hypnotism – and what happens in the brain when you are hypnotised? […]
Tenderfoot and the Top 10 Alt-Country albums of all time!
So, yesterday monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, Paste, took on the tricky task of naming the top 50 alt-country albums of all time. Not easy for a number of reasons. Firstly, these things are entirely subjective and there’ll always be cries of “how could you forget this album?”, but even more difficult is the […]
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Arts Wednesday 10 August 2016
Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am with Part 2 of our current season of Sydney By Design about Sydney and this week Ed talks about Sydney’s history. At 11:00 am, art consultant Anna Groden joins me to talk about our annual visit to the Archibald Prize. It’s one of those exhibitions where we all […]
Album of the Week – Sensations Wind, Waves, Birds, and Fire by Margaret Brandman
‘Sensations Wind, Waves, Birds, and Fire’ by Margaret Brandman is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. The album we are focusing on this week across the station is one that hosts some lengthy experience and talent, this Australian artists’ career in the music industry spans over 40 years. A lady who has been awarded the International […]
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A haunting soundtrack to a movie not yet made…on Monday Drive
Enjoy some extraordinary melodicism and dazzling technique in-studio with me next week, when Monday afternoon gets hot and high octane with a visit from Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians. In town with his trio for one gig at the Sydney Recital Hall, Muthspiel’s last recording, Bright Side, was described as “gorgeous, […]
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Boiling Point August 2nd
Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here:https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/# Tim talked about turning a new leaf in solar-generated syngas https://www.abc.net.au/…/humans-and-wild-birds-talk-…/7650038 … Chantelle reported in from tropical Panama with an interview with Dr. Graham Zemunik on soil driven vegetation assemblages and the role of manganese in reducing growth rates of tropical trees https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Graham_Zemunik And Luke led us […]
Arts Wednesday 3 August 2016
This week at 10:40 am, we start a new series of Sydney By Design – our second for 2016 and this series Ed devotes to the city of Sydney and the challenges we face. At 11:00 am, I will play an interview I recorded some weeks ago when I was in Philadelphia visiting the Barnes […]
KOOZA, BIJOU, NOAH-Arts Monday
Cirque du Soleil Company Manager, Genevieve Deslandes, Filmmaker, Tel Benjamin, and Cabaret artist, Chrissie Swan are my guests today. Cirque du Soleil’s new production, KOOZA, is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil that combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. KOOZA tells a story of human […]