Daily life and night times, as civilisation's flame flickers in headwinds of hate and cruel fate.

Thursday August the 13th ~

Move beyond the spooky present by encountering our ghostly past at Palmer & Co. A gratuitous set of antique audio from 9PM til midnight or beyond.

Friday August the 14th ~

Be baptised by music - and perhaps even mirth - as I spin an especially early bracket at The Paddington betwixt 5 and 9PM. Food is fab. Entry is free.

Saturday August the 15th ~

Jack Off with expressive eyes and ever-attentive ears, as FBi Radio hosts our (un)holy racket for the umpteenth time between 3 and 5PM.

Preternatural possibilities and intimate interiors.


Wednesday August the 5th ~

Secret lawyers' business. Bloom online another time.

Friday August the 7th ~

Free public performance atop the front bar of The Paddington perhaps - betwixt 9 and midnight...

Saturday August the 8th ~

Jack Off, like this newsletter as a whole, is safe for work. Be assured that prying eyes or ears will find nothing to fear, only pleasure and cheer.

Ongoing verifiable proof of this fact is provided as a live audio signal from 3 til 5PM each Saturday.

Whether yr luxuriating at home or hard at it in the office be assured this program has universal appeal.

Move complete. Body (sorta) intact. Mind recovering.

Tuesday July the 21st ~

Brain better get into gear quick as I've chosen to spend my first night not carting crap spontaneously generating musical cues for six rounds of trivia questions live. Normally this takes me hours of prep but I don't have that kinda time frankly, what with my inbox backlogged by weeks of untended work fare.

I mean shit it's only the debut outing of Julian Morrow's Totally F*ct Trivia, both in front of a live audience at Giant Dwarf and simultaneously online for anyone wanting to play remotely. What could possibly go wrong?! Join us via either method (but be quick if you wanna attend the venue as there are only a handful of tickets left) and see for yrself. I will literally be hearing the questions for the first time in real time, then having to play an apt soundtrack to each within seconds. C*nt fail!


Friday July the 24th ~

To kick the weekend off you might wanna don yr Friday best (as protective as you feel is warranted in Paddo at present) and head up Oxford Street for another of my surprisingly successful sets at The Paddington. It's happening from 9 til midnight for free in the front bar (next week too, gods willing).


Saturday July the 25th ~

Jack Off tunes the dial to infinity. 3 til 5PM, then on-demand, as you like it, via FBi Radio.

Still moving (just) so another sparse Shithouse will have to do til I'm settled in. Stroke me soft Betty


Thursday July the 16th ~

Broadcasting out of an empire of dust, somehow some sorta shattered sound will be my contribution to Julian Morrow's Questions of Law between 5 and 6PM.

A little later I'll be spinning ancient songs for the assembled revellers at Palmer & Co. It's a free set from 9PM til close around 1AM - but best book!


Friday July the 17th ~

Stop tearing yr hair out about the demise of civilised life on earth and instead enjoy some of the remaining remnants before they too are gone! As the weekend unfurls you'll find me playing a broad mix of music in the front bar of The Paddington between 8.30 and close sometime after midnight. There's delicious food available and entry is free.


Saturday July the 18th ~

Brush yrself down then Jack Off at yr best - broadcast on FBi Radio from 3 til 5PM each Saturday.

There is a light that never goes out. Poor light!

Dear readers, whether yr cooped up or relatively free, I've a little mix to leaven yr load. It's an experimental mood board for a (clearly) radical new bar opening in desperately benighted Melbourne town, sometime after the latest hellish lockdown abates. Essentially it's a riff on global power failures and the games people play. You can stream it here.


Thursday July the 9th ~

You know when we exported Julian Morrow's legal trivia happy-hour quiz from NSW to Victoria a fortnight or so ago I thought the remedial relevance of online entertainment and social sharing had perhaps passed. Wrong on so many levels. Thankfully we're still present, if not accounted for. Questions of Law returns between 5 and 6PM tonight.

Saturday July the 11th ~

Jack Off streams across the Earth from 3 til 5PM.

Directly afterwards I make a grateful return to The Paddington - playing a four hour live mix for free in the front bar from 5. Swing by and say hi, while this window of openness and opportunity endures.

Happy New Financial Year everyone! I've combined some social media spirituality with elementary wishful thinking and I'm pleased to report that the world is about to experience a time of unprecedented prosperity and peace. How good's (t)hat?!

P.S. Apologies for not publishing last week's edition of this newsletter, for the first time ever. Sudden circumstances necessitated many levels of emergency action and there wasn't the time. But that junk was all before the advent of this glorious new (financial) year - and the annus horribilis that preceded this morning's dawning of a new era has been banished to the dustbin of history.


Thursday July the 2nd ~

To celebrate today's advent of no limits (beyond 4 square metres per person) on numbers at all venues in this State I am kicking off Palmer and Co
's roster of DJs for the week with a special 5.30 til 9PM bracket. There is no more apt bar/bunker for surmounting the strangeness and suffering of the last year. Within our sandstone walls people somehow seem to retain the wonder and romance of yore. Book ahead to be sure of entry if yr smart. It's free!

Saturday July the 4th ~

Jack Off could fairly claim to exemplify the independent values of Free Broadcast Incorporated, given our longstanding passion for Sydney and fearless embrace of humanity. Hear music. 3 til 5PM.

A stitch in time saves lives.

Thursday June the 18th ~

Questions Of Law survives another month, transported now to Victoria but accessible to all online. Julian Morrow hosts from 5 til 6PM each Thursday. Spotty sound cues via my own d(e)ad/dab hand.

This week I'm pleased to give you a little advanced warning about an actual live DJ set too, taking place in the salubrious surrounds of my sandstone Sydney stomping ground Palmer and Co, between 6.30 and 11.30PM. Entry is free - but book to be sure of access as numbers are naturally limited.


Saturday June the 20th ~

Jack Off strides ever on. 3 til 5PM. FBi Radio.

Words fail after this last week. Thankfully I have been active. Some off the required action was remedial (see Saturday below for the whole sorry saga), some was a surprise.

In the midst of recording this final Quarantine Care mix for my mates at Scarborough Wine Co. yesterday I was asked to make tracks to Palmer and Co. pronto, so as to reanimate the DJ booth in our sweet little speakeasy. I high-tailed it the moment I stopped recording and was overjoyed to find the atmosphere genuinely warm and convivial, even with numbers capped at 50.
Apologies for not being able to tip you here first (last night was really just a toe in the water) but as it went exceedingly well I hope to have good news for anyone keen to head back out soon.


Friday June the 12th ~

Questions Of Law continue to dominate matters here in Sydney (my eternal esteem goes out to these two barristers from Dubbo, who succeeded in their last-minute appeal to have the police and government's backflip ban on the Black Lives Matter rally overturned).

Today's not-entirely-trivial quiz with Julian Morrow will be the last of our season for NSW Young Lawyers, so hop online at 5PM via the link above if yr keen to have a beverage and test yr wits.

Saturday June the 13th ~

Jack Off began mere minutes after the legal reprieve for the BLM vigil enabled 20000 people to take to the streets with slightly less fear of police violence. I got to break that news (with vast relief) then dive in to one of the most intense programs I've ever done.

I was in full fight-or-flight mode going in to FBi. The station could have lost it's licence had I advocated for attendance at an 'illegal assembly'. It was incredibly invidious situation to be in - given we are normally duty bound to reflect and enable the caring community we serve.

I was hugely concerned for the safety of all going, especially after Police Commissioner Mick 'Bad Day' Fuller had boasted of the deployment of 'force multipliers' (like the mounted police and riot squad) at his press conference with Gladys 'Back-Down' Berejiklian the day before. Even though I felt triumphant at the NSW Court of Appeal ruling, I was still disgusted that countless thousands of people (particularly families and the vulnerable) had been disenfranchised from democracy by this bullshit ban.

During the program we received so much love and respect from listeners (bar one, there is always literally one). The music we played during the taking of the knee and silence in town brought many, including me, to tears.

When I concluded the one-off three hour show I was concerned to see one of our loggers had failed the night before. Within a few days it became clear the back-up logger had also gone down, in this timeslot only! The prospect of losing all of this audio, from this pivotal moment in our city's history, was devastating. I contacted everyone I could to try and rescue it: techs, listeners that sometimes tape stuff, even media monitoring companies.

Only the biggest company, Isentia, had a copy. I pleaded my case for a reduced price, given the community cause, prepared to pay it out of my own pocket. This vast corporation is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They decided to charge a volunteer-run station in their home city what they deemed fair - $462 for 88 minutes of audio recorded at the execrable bitrate of 24kbps. They can fuck off for all of time (and it seems they are failing fine anyway).

Long story short: all seemed lost until our ultra-dedicated Station Manager Nikki went hell-for-leather through some crazy lateral options before turning up a copy from a realm we can't really even disclose. Suffice to say there is some poetic justice in the equation. I am deeply indebted to her and so glad I can now share the full three hours with anyone that cares on-demand here. Please read the intro and click on as many of the links included as possible. A lot of work went into this. I even had to teach myself to edit for the first time so as to stitch the 6 or 7 fragments together as a cohesive whole. So, as they say in the sting, please listen!

Dunno what this Saturday will throw up from 3 - but there's never a dull moment eh? Tune in and see!

Pitiful pixels, once people, gasping for f/air.


Friday June the 5th ~

Questions Of Law hover over us all now. 5 til 6PM.

Saturday June the 6th ~
One-off Jack Off, for three hours from 3PM.

As Hamilton Leithauser (of The Walkmen) stated sorrowfully from quarantine at his folk's farm in Virginia a few weeks back (listen to the whole warm & dark chat here): 'with folks locked up and Donald Trump in the White House anything could happen'.