“When The Tide Rushes In” from Fleur Green & The Keepers is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week (2-9 Nov)

  This week we bring you audio wonders from Adelaide. Fleur Green met her Keepers – Gerard Spalding and Flik Freeman – whilst studying jazz together in their home city of Adelaide, and that relationship has blossomed into the wonderful debut album that is “When The Tide Rushes In”. It’s a gentle, soulful, whimsical record […]

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Out of time, place and mind

  Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 2 November brings the world of the arts to Eastside.         First of all, Singapore comes to Sydney. Singapore: Inside Out transports Singapore’s energetic creative life to Chippendale, in a cross disciplinary kaleidoscope of visual arts, music, food and fashion, as well as design and […]

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Mindfulness Colouring

  For Sydney artist, Kylie Johnson, positivity and creativity helped her to cope with the trauma of losing her mother and the breakup of a marriage. Kylie’s book, Mindfulness Colouring, is filled with beautiful illustrations and brings together children and parents through the calming act of colouring in. Kylie spoke with Ruth Hessey on Monday Drive […]

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Cine Latina Film Festival

CINE LATINO, Australia’s largest festival of Latin American cinema is returning for its second year with screenings at Palace Cinemas from 14 November 2017. The program of 26 titles represent the best films from Central and South America including new works from the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay. Opening the festival is Mexican director Roberto Sneider’s YOU’RE […]

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Funkadelic Detroiters Reviewed

FUNKADELIC REWORKED BY DETROITERS VARIOUS ARTISTS | WESTBOUND Reviewed by PARIS POMPOR Early in 2014, Kenny Dixon Jr released a self-titled, protractedly brilliant umpteenth album under his Moodymann moniker containing an eleven and half minute centrepiece entitled ‘Sloppy Cosmic’. Fast forward three years and the producer is joined by another fifteen or so fellow-Detroiters to […]

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“Last Band Standing” from Orchestre Les Mangelepa is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week (26 Oct – 1 Nov)

  “Last Band Standing” from Orchestre Les Mangelepa is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. Les Mangalepa formed in The Congo in the 1970’s, however they found a home and an audience in Nairobi, Kenya and have been writing and recording there ever since. You can see them to this day at their residency at the […]

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Sixth Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival

Over the past half decade the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival has grown from fairly modest beginnings to become one of the major events on the Sydney music calendar. Held over twelve days, in a variety of venues, the festival brings together a remarkably diverse group of artists from all over the world. Now in […]

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“Honey” from Harvey is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week (12-18 Oct)

  Harvey is a composer, vocalist, guitarist and trumpet player from the NSW coast who performs all around Sydney and regularly tours Australia, south-east Asia and Europe. On his travels Harvey has shared stages with some of his key musical influences including surf-roots musician Donavon Frankenreiter and guitar virtuoso Joe Robinson.   On this album […]

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Russian Resurrection Film Festival Coming To Sydney

The program for Russian Resurrection Film Festival 2017 is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever with a fantastic line up of new films confirmed for this year. The largest and most respected festival of Russian film outside of Russia will be screening  across Australia and New Zealand throughout October and November. “We […]

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