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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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At 10:40 am, Dr Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 4 of Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains and in this week’s episode, the topic is romantic heroes. My special guest at 11:00 am is Adam Courtenay, talking about his latest book: The Ship That Never Was. It is an extraordinary tale of a daring convict escape by […]
Sally Kehoe was introduced to rowing at the age of 14 while at a boarding school in Brisbane. Seven years later she made her Olympics debut at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She would go on to represent Australia in another two Olympics, at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Sally has also achieved a silver and […]
Read More… from Olympian Sally Kehoe on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 24 July