Keep your self-composed…Manly Jazz 2018 is back! The internationally acclaimed Manly Jazz is known worldwide for its beautiful location and the diversity of music it presents, from traditional New Orleans jazz to funk, Latin, fusion, blues, gospel, swing and roots -This family friendly event will have performances in multiple indoor and outdoor venues including major […]
Professor Geraint Lewis returns at 10:40 am with Part 3 of the Science of Science Fiction and this week’s episode is the Science of Planetary Colonisation. This series just gets better every week! At 11:00 am, I’ll replay an interview from 2014 with bagpipe player, Adam Wishart. It was my first time up close and […]
Esteemed friends and stockholders, When I stopped to pick up a hitchhiker just outside Bridgetown, WA in November 2016, I could never have dreamed that it would be the start of a life-changing friendship. The stranger who climbed into my rental car was wearing motorcycle leathers and sporting a white, wispy, tobacco-stained beard. He introduced […]
Read More… from The amazing true story of Grindhowl Screech!
UTS student Ed Goddard is making a name for himself across numerous distances in the athletics scene. He has impressive PB’s ranging from 800m to half marathons. Hailing from Mosman on Sydney’s north shore, Ed chats to Lorna about the psychology of running and having the mindset to put in the hard yards needed for […]
Read More… from Runner Ed Goddard on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 28 August
Mum, Me and the IED , Depot Theatre, Marrickville, Aug.15-Sept. 1 The play is about a traumatised medic, Rob Harrison, returning from service in Afghanistan. He is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, as a result of what he witnessed, patching up his colleagues and the local village victims including children. The horrors of […]
Eastside Radio’s Album of the week is LAST BAND STANDING by ORCHESTRE LES MANGELEPA on STRUT. ORCHESTRE LES MANGELEPA is Originally from Eastern Congo they moved to Nairobi and succeeded by mixing the massively popular music of their homeland with Kenyan influences and lyrics in Swahili. But despite their success in Africa, they didn’t tour in Europe […]
Read More… from Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week: 23 Aug – 30 Aug
“He reveals the very essence of his character and soul but, like any clever composer, he leaves you wanting more.” – Cut Common Magazine Five extraordinary musicians combine their talents to delivering a passionate, uncompromising performance of the most beloved loved tango repertoire ever conceived. With the passion of South America bubbling in his blood, […]
Roy Ayers (USA) Roy Ayers, is one of the most sampled artists of all times. He is a King of Neo Soul in Erykah Badu’s eyes. He is a jazz legend who made the vibraphone cool. A prodigious jazz talent raised in a musical Los Angeles household, Roy Ayers was literally handed a set of […]
Read More… from Raul Midón & Roy Ayers Live @ Bird’s Basement, Melbourne
WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: This year’s Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Great Architecture – What makes a building great? Can great places bring us together and why do we need ‘great?’ Tim Horton from the Architects’ Registration Board joins the program to give us the key to the Festival and its value for the community. A […]
Read More… from A Tear in the Glass and other stories – 23 August with Maisy Stapleton
At 10:40 am, Geraint Lewis joins us for Part 2 of the Science of Science Fiction and this week’s episode is the Science of Space Travel. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Karen Sommerville, who heads up a research team at the Herbarium at our Royal Botanic Gardens, trying to establish a seed […]
Mike Nock has been central to Australian jazz for decades. As a pianist, composer, band leader, educator he is responsible for bringing dozens if not hundreds of young musicians into the Australian scene. His recordings go back to the 70s, performing with jazz greats such as Bennie Maupin and Cecil McBee as well as the […]
Few people decide to cycle across a continent. Sports journalist and endurance athlete Rupert Guinness has made that decision twice. His first attempt, as part of the IndiPac Wheel Race in 2017, was tragically cut short after the death of fellow cyclist and competitor Mike Hall. His second attempt, along with 50 other intrepid cyclists, […]
Read More… from Rupert Guinness on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 21 August