Tales of Transformation from the Nicholson Museum

Journey through ancient history and mythology with Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan, exploring “Alpha & Omega: Tales of Transformation“. The exhibition reveals exciting, mysterious and sensual tales of transformation from Greek and Roman mythology, and, in the process, teases out some surprising contemporary links. Snr curator Michael Turner employs his love of storytelling throughout the exhibition, […]

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Moodswing Playlist – Finest Soul Singers!

Selected & Presented by DJ Taline Aired 26th April 2016 on Eastside Radio 89.7Fm 8.00-9.30pm Tonight’s Moodswing is bringing you some of the finest soul singers and artists from 1960s & 70s Soul America.  Featuring the late and great Billy Paul, Sly & The Family Stone, Bobby Womack, Marlena Shaw, The Undisputed Truth, Lou Rawls, Esther Phillips, Curtis Mayfield […]

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Melbourne Ska Orchestra New Album National Tour

Only three years from Melbourne Ska Orchestra’s debut album –sees the release of their second album, Sierra-Kilo-Alpha, April 22, 2016 – picking up where they left off, taking the age old style of Ska and adding to it with aplomb. The band’s debut resulted in sell-out shows both in Australia and abroad, many high profile […]

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Album of the Week – Evolving by Francesca Prihasti

‘Evolving’ by Francesca Prihasti is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. If you are always on the look out for new music and are keen to see what the next generation of musicians are coming up with, then an album that is full of enjoyable Jazz is ‘Evolving’ by Francesca Prihasti. If you are worried […]

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Poster Boy by Claudia Chan Shaw @ Art Atrium

As a part of the Head On Photo Festival, Art Atrium will be hosting a spectacular exhibition by renowned artist Claudia Chan Shaw. Called Poster Boy, it is a in depth interpretation of what Claudia sees when a message left on wall space is taken down and replaced by many different posters that leaves a […]

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Drive Tuesday: Interview with Mikelangelo

David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks with Mikelangelo about his new album with the Black Sea Gentlemen.  Titled After the Flood,the album is set around the Snowy Mountains Scheme in the 1950’s when thousands of workers from post war Europe came to Cooma to work on the scheme. The band stayed in Cooma to soak […]

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Arts Wednesday 27 April 2016

Music historian, Andy Bromberger, makes a welcome return to the program at about 10:40 am with a new series entitled Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism and she starts the season with a general introduction. My special guest at the 11:00 am spot is Dr Leroy Gonsalves, Biodiversity Research Officer with the Department of Primary Industry, talking […]

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Album of the week – Cold Radish Coma by 30/70

‘Cold Radish Coma’ by 30/70 is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. Here at Eastside Radio we love originality and this weeks featured album is full of it. Melbourne is widely known for its music scene and for producing some of the finest artists in the country, a Melbourne collective that are starting to get […]

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