In yet another highly competitive final at the Studio in the Sydney Opera House, trumpeter Nick Garbett emerged as the winner of the Freedman Jazz Fellowship for 2018. Nick plans to use his $20,000 award to compose new music for an album he will will record, produce and release under his own name. The project will also involve Shannon […]
Something a little different for the show this week: we’ve flipped the format and put usual host GT in the hot seat! Gearoid Towey needs no real introduction. A three-time Olympian, he rowed for Ireland at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Games. He’s also a rowing World Champion, winning golds at the 1996 U23 […]
Read More… from Former Olympian Gearoid Towey on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 7 August
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is About Time by Pat Powell on the Bamboozle Music label. About Time speaks to the heart of your favourite soul music, then takes twists and turns through romantic blues ballads and Motown funk via the deep south. Underpinned by the unfailing vocals of Australian artist Pat Powell (vocals […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Aug 2 – Aug 9
One Hundred Years of Dirt is the debut by Rick Morton- award winning journalist and social affairs writer with The Australian. At only 31, Morton has given us a book that is part family history, with all the traits of really good long form Journalism. Part memoir, jarringly honest and full of introspection. And part […]
Read More… from One Hundred Years of Dirt By Rick Morton: A review
Revered instrumental trio The Necks are unparalleled when it comes to rhythmic complexity, but they have put much of that to one side on BODY, their 20th release, conjuring their most relentlessly driving album since Hanging Gardens (1999). In contrast to The Necks’ customary evolving ribbon of sound, BODY is episodic in nature, comprising four contrasting sections that cross multiple sonic […]
Read More… from The Necks New Album “Body” Released on the 14th of August 2018
At 10:40 am, Dr Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 5 of Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains, this week entitled Those Who Serve Are Also Heroes. Arts Wednesday this week pays tribute to Australian living treasure, composer Ross Edwards, who turns 75 this year. My guest is Nicholas Routley, founder of the Sydney Chamber Choir and one […]
Andrew ‘Fuzz’ Purchas has a decorated background in sport, representing NSW in both rugby and rowing. He was awarded a University Blue for rowing as a representative of Sydney University, and also played first grade rugby. Andrew has been instrumental in equality for sport. In 2004, he founded Australia’s first gay rugby club, the Sydney […]
Read More… from Andrew ‘Fuzz’ Purchas on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 31 July
Bestselling Australian author, Pamela Hart, tells the story of two deeply determined people who find the resilience of their love tested to its limits amid the Australian Army hospitals of World War 1 in Egypt. Her latest book, The Desert Nurse, shows just how much a young nurse, Evelyn Northey, will sacrifice to pursue her […]
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight is the most successful play ever staged in Canada and has been produced in over 30 countries! A Hitchcock like comic-thriller which is likely to have you not knowing whether to laugh or scream… After several months in hospital following a nervous breakdown, Jan is brought to an isolated farmhouse […]
Music transforms. Music Unites. Music connects. And this year the music is the magic that happens at Mullum Music Festival, running 4 nights and 3 days (15-18 November) in the halls, pubs, streets and clubs of Mullumbimby. The first artist announcement heralded the impressive line up of international artist with the second artist announcement introducing the wild and […]
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Diggin’ Bones by Phillip Johnston & The Coolerators on the Asynchronous Records label. Diggin’ Bones, the first CD by Phillip Johnston & the Coolerators features a unique sound which combines funky organ combo jazz with modernist jazz composition. Produced by The Necks’ Lloyd Swanton and featuring some of […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Jul 26 – Aug 2
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 26 July. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation about 60s Interior Decorator/Designer Marion Hall Best and the exhibition honouring her work at Hazlehurst Art Centre. Firstly Michael Lech, Curator of the exhibition, gives us an insight into this period in design, when modernism was gaining in […]