CORINNE BAILEY RAE By PARIS POMPOR “It was very unreal. I remember thinking: I don’t really know how I ended up in this room, but I’m really grateful to be here.” On the eve of her debut tour of Australia, Corinne Bailey Rae is on the phone talking to Eastside Radio about pinch-yourself-moments. And she’s […]
Cemeteries with Dr Lisa Murray
Lisa was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 8 March 2017 and shared with us all her prodigious knowledge of cemeteries in Sydney: old ones and new, ornate and simple, ones with great view and ones that have great people buried there. Listen to the 3 parts of the conversation here: That was the […]
Arts Thursday 9 March 2017 – Two Perspectives!
This Arts Thursday – two distinct perspectives on the visual arts in Sydney! Firstly, an interview with John Firth-Smith, long established as a painter, much awarded and widely collected, the artist generously shares his anecdotes and gives us an insight into his new works, now on view at the King Street […]
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Liminality – Deborah Marks
Fragmenting mind, fragmenting world, fragmenting society, fragments of memory, disintegration, integration and nostalgia. Can what is broken be mended? Can it be transformed? These are the somewhat disorganised thoughts running behind the production of this series of pendants; how apt! They arise from watching the current politics, global warming dramas and Deborah Marks’ own longing […]
Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez in town during International Women’s Day
If you are in town during the week of International Women’s Day, don’t miss out Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez who will be performing at The Basement on Sunday 12th of March 2017. Stéphanie Denizard, radio producer and presenter of Queen Kafé had a chat with Alfredo and talked about the women who […]
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The New Thing: Interview with Manu Delago
Austrian-born London-based musician Manu Delago is a multi-instrumentalist by design. Yet it came to be that in a career spanning over 10 years, the Tru-Thoughts signee is most known for playing the Hang, a percussive instrument that creates sounds so unable to be pigeonholed. It’s this flexibility that has led him to poignant collaborations with prominent […]
Boiling Point 7 February 2017
Catalysts and Black humour Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here: https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/ Tim speed visited the three new catalysts processes replacing platinum and speeding our progress towards renewable energy generation; Carbon derived enzymes, new carbon forms and rationing what we already have! (Novel hu?)… https://www.sciencenews.org/…/new-greener-catalysts-are-bui… And Chantelle checked in with Freud’s 1905 theory that […]
Selby & Friends’ Clancy Newman performs live on Friday Drive
On Friday March 3rd Clancy Newman the cellist currently touring with Selby & Friends came in to chat with Gemma in the studio. Happily he also brought his cello with him and delighted Gemma and her audience with a live performance of an original composition called Uptown Funk. Listen to the whole interview and performance […]
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Arts Wednesday 8 March 2017
Ed Lippmann continues with this series of Sydney By Design at 10:40 am, with Part 4 of our discussion of the vision for Sydney of the Greater Sydney Commission. This week Ed looks at the proposal for East City. My special guest at 11:00 am this week is Dr Lisa Murray. Lisa has been a […]
2017 Radiothon Coordinator
Eastside Radio 2017 Radiothon Fundraising Coordinator Fixed Term Position: Monday 24th of April to Friday 30th of June 2017 Closing Date for Applications: Friday 31st of March 2017 Salary: $50,000 pro rata with commission Summary The Eastside Radiothon is an annual fundraiser that helps raise much needed money for the running […]
Art and Activism and Civil Rights
Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan in conversation with Matt Poll, Sydney University’s Indigenous Heritage curator, about the Freedom Rides of 1965, and the work of a group of artists produced in response for an exhibition titled, ‘Freedom Riders: Art and activism 1960s to now’. Inspired by the ‘freedom rides’ into the segregated southern states of the […]
Moonlight Cinema Centennial Park
Sydney’s Moonlight Cinema feature new releases and cult classics in an open-air amphitheatre with a food truck and bar, and outside food and drinks are allowed. Tickets start at $14.5 and are offered in a range of packages. Gates open at 6.30pm, and screenings start at sundown (approximately 8.00pm). A limited number of Bean Beds are […]