‘Witness’ from Benjamin Booker is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. ‘Witness’ is Booker’s second album, the follow up to his self-titled debut from 2013. People talk about writing the “difficult second album”, however Booker doesn’t appear to have suffered at all from this oft-referenced pressure. The new album is a strong, concise record, full of confident […]
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Keith Sweat Live at Sydney’s Star Event centre Sat Aug 5 Reviewed by Chris Zinn Expectations were high although details were few for the first Australian tour from New Jack Swing pioneer and the self-styled ‘Casanova of R&B’ Keith Sweat. A pre-visit interview further heightened the stakes by suggesting Keith didn’t hear voices like Teddy […]
A recent rip to Iceland piqued Sylvia’s curiosity about nearly every geological feature she saw. Back in Sydney, she explored those features – volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes, tectonic plates – with Dietmar Muller, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Sydney. That conversation went to air on Arts Wednesday 16 August 2017 and you can listen […]
This is Science Week and Arts Wednesday today celebrates our universe. First up at 10:40 am is Part 3 of Our Universe and this week Professor Geraint Lewis talks about our evolving universe – yes, it is still a work in progress! At 11:00 am I’l be pleased to introduce you to Dietmar Muller, Professor […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 10 August 2017 welcomed star performer, Geraldine Turner in a lively and frank interview around the upcoming performances of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, to be staged in Mittagong by CMS Productions from 17th August . Jacques Brel was a symbol of the Beat […]
Peter Solness uses light in long exposure photographs to paint incredible dream-like landscapes and portraits. Peter says that he works from a pitch black canvas, and light painting allows him to build images with extraordinary precision. ‘I no longer wait for the camera to tell me what it wants to show me. Instead, I imagine how […]
Bandaloop is a group of dancers that perform a ‘sideways dance’ while dangling from the roof of the ANZ building and gliding across the surfaces that is mesmerizing. They re-imagine dances and inspires wonder around the world. Bandaloop performs in theaters or museums on skyscrapers, bridges and on screen. They have performed off the cliffs in […]
A revisit of Latin America’s political history accompanied by a great Latin American folk music repertoire – live music with meaning! To mark the 12th Sydney Latin American Film Festival, SLAFF will host a fundraiser in support of the ongoing work of the organisation that has brought to Sydney the best of Latin America’s art, […]
‘Not Everything But Enough’ from Alister Spence Trio is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. The Alister Spence Trio is: Lloyd Swanton on double bass, Toby Hall on drums and glockenspiel, and Alister Spence himself on piano, samples and music box. The Sydney trio draw on more than 20 years performing together, ‘Not Everything But […]
The Klezmatics are the world-renowned, Grammy-award-winning superstars of klezmer music. Virtuoso clarinetist David Krakauer has been reinventing and remixing the Jewish music of his ancestry with the sensibility of a contemporary musician for decades. Both will make their Australian début on the same night at Sydney’s Factory Theatre on Thursday 31 August. It’s going to […]
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Starring Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson, HAMPSTEAD is a charming romantic comedy set around the beautiful Hampstead Heath in London, a quiet piece of countryside in a vast metropolis. Living on the edge of the Heath, Emily Walters (Keaton) can’t quite focus on the things that need attention in her life, like her lovely old apartment, her […]
Forever French QK Show 004 || Wednesday 9 August 2017 || (8-9:30pm) Bonsoir, Good evening Eastside listeners, It’s Stéphanie Denizard from Queen Kafé. I will be hosting and producing Forever French tonight, Wednesday 9th of August 2017 and we will be having a musical trip in my hometown Montreal, “La ville aux 1000 clochers”. Be […]