Unfortunately a title that I was saving for application to offshore immigration hells snuck in to the email edition of this newsletter last week, when the content was merely my fortunate fate in roaming around Australia visiting friends and family. Thus I'm explicitly flagging only local larks from that same journey this week, which has been tragic (but beautiful) for other reasons. Every escapist event below will be free - and hopefully uplifting and uniting for people of all persuasions. Wednesday July the 24th ~ Bounce yr big ears down to Palmer & Co: 10 til 1.30 Thursday July the 25th ~ The third Wink & Spin unfolds in Woy Woy: 6 til 10 Saturday July the 27th ~ After yet another astonishing exchange with Darren Hanlon last Saturday, this weekend's Jack Off finally sees fruition of a longstanding aim to air the virtuosic violin stylings of the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti. I can barely believe that Richard has agreed to play a few minutes of one of my favourite pieces (Fratres), by my favourite composer (Arvo Pärt). There is so much I wish to discuss with Richard but I'm honestly not sure how I will be able to form words after hearing that. Tune in to Free Broadcast Incorporated for silence and serendipity: 3 til 5 Thence I do the double again - Maybe Sammy: 6 til 9 Dean and Nancy on 22 (photo credit ETA): 9 til 12.30 Dappled light and dancing waters beyond the border/s Wednesday July the 17th ~ Ninderry to Sydney via TV footy for Palmer & Co 10-2 Saturday July the 20th ~ Jack Off with old mate Dazzler Hanlon (fresh from my visit to his Gympie home tomorrow): 3-5 on FBi Another free fling, at Dean and Nancy on 22: 9-12.30 More free midwinter music, in person and on air. Wednesday July the 10th ~ Palmer & Co while the city sleeps, from 10 til 1.30 Friday July the 12th ~ Above the trees at Dean and Nancy, between 9 & 12.30 Saturday July the 13th ~ Jack Off from 3 til 5, via 94.5FM or digital/streams Grounded girth and glee at Maybe Sammy from 6 til 9 Ancient audio alchemy freely flung towards the sun. Wednesday July the 3rd ~ Seated at Palmer & Co, from 10 til 1.30 or so. Friday July the 5th ~ Standing to sling sevens for three hours at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre, beginning at half 8. Saturday July the 6th ~ Cock yr head to hear Jack Off on FBi between 3 & 5. Then go full flamingo from 6 til 9 at Maybe Sammy. Gratis night delights, as we turn to face the sun... Wednesday June the 26th ~ Every Wednesday at Palmer & Co between 10 and 1.30. Thursday June the 27th ~ Wink and Spin wakes Woy Woy on the final Thursday of each month, from 6 til 10, at Link and Pin. Pop in! Saturday June the 29th ~ Jack Off strolled down memory lane with Jess Ribeiro last week, witnessing some formative early native animal encounters on either side of her cover of Big Star's Kangaroo. Listen back here. Our intended guest this week, Ricky Albeck, has had an awful combo of illness and the theft of musical gear put paid to his trip up here so it'll just be little old me broadcasting on FBi, til 5, from 3. Thereafter it's the daily double in town: a non-stop block of rock beginning at 6 via Maybe Sammy, before jinking up to Dean and Nancy on 22 come 9. All the racket ceases around half past 12. Arrivederci! Elemental audio intersections granted gratis... Wednesday June the 19th ~ Sub-street streaming at Palmer & Co from 10 til 1.30 Saturday June the 22nd ~ Post-solstice radio with Jess Ribeiro on Jack Off Sky high sonics at Dean and Nancy on 22 9 til 12.30 Free ways to warm up via sanguine sounds within. Wednesday June the 12th ~ Palmer & Co from 10 tonight til around 1.30am. Free Saturday June the 15th ~ Good Morning may manifest on Jack Off between 3 & 5. I'll then stir sonics at Maybe Sammy from 6 til 9. Sham DJs reunite with vinyl akimbo at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre - 3 hours starting at 8.30. Escaped audio emissions on slippery dates... Tuesday June the 4th ~ Musical hairs: a full live line-up got rained-out of Vivid at Tumbalong Park on the weekend and has only been able to reassemble on the date I was scheduled to play there, next Monday, the 'King's Birthday'. However I will still be spinning my intended 4 hour audio-visual extravaganza (in tandem with The Lost Futures, ex Vidiot) TONIGHT, due to a fellow selector (and friend) coming down with COVID. Please join us there for some lush local manifestations of memory and meaning. Entry is free and all ages are welcome. We spark up from 6. Wednesday June the 5th ~ After catching the world premiere of my old mate Paul Clarke's new doco on Midnight Oil, in the splendiferous State Theatre (where it opens this year's Sydney Film Festival), I'm (re)gathering in sub-street staple Palmer & Co, playing gratis murky music for the Tank Stream set, from 10 til around 2. Friday June the 7th ~ By Friday I'll have collated a fresh crate of vinyl to carve up with my new cartridges at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre. Hustle through the streaming streets and join me there for smoking Chinese meats or bitter brews, between 8.30 & 11.30. Saturday June the 8th ~ Jack Off will transmit from a relatively calm studio this Saturday, rather a change from raucous and ridiculous rigmarole of Drunk Mums last week. Listen back to that fab fiasco, or choose a languid live immersion from 3 til 5 instead. The choice is yours. Afterwards I'm excited to play the wedding of Izabela and Tobey in Alexandria. It has been a while since I've been enmeshed in a large loving ritual like this - and we've been planning the particulars from opposite sides of the Earth since last year. Whatever you are up to, I hope you can stay cozy and dry across the week. Catch you this time next one x New dawns in old places. Back to the sea at last. Wednesday May the 29th ~ The first of these many free fiascos occurs this evening at Palmer & Co - a place almost as gnarly as the ancient Sydney Red Gum above. 10PM til 1.30AM. Thursday May the 30th ~ After dreaming up the notion of a convivial community social situation for all generations, well ahead of my move back to the Central Coast, I was so honoured that Link & Pin were instantly enthused and immediately sought to enable Wink & Spin to begin! Thursday night sees the long-anticipated opening of my multi-faceted musical tribute to this still somewhat culturally under-serviced yet naturally majestic realm. I hope to reflect all I love. As ever, the venue, right across from Woy Woy Station, has booked great live music out in the beer garden (where you can hear Bad Witch, Pilot Guy and Visor Buffalo), whilst I will spin a wide swathe of sound for all and sundry within. 6 til 10. The last Thursday of every month. All gratis always! Our Stern Flirtybird artwork comes from Shack fambly direct, Brooklyn's own Malcolm Smith. Cheers cuz! Saturday June the 1st ~ Come Saturday I'm hearkening hard as Drunk Mums are set to play an intimate version of their incisive and anthemic antidote to noxious nationalism, The New Australia, live on Jack Off between 3 and 5PM. Thence it's time for the nightly double of debonair deliriousness: Maybe Sammy from 6 til 9, before Dean and Nancy on 22 takes flight 'twixt 9 and half 12. Glowing audio embers to warm the cockles of yr art. Wednesday May the 22nd ~ Late, romantic, inter-special loving tonight at Palmer & Co, for free (as with all other engagements this week). Descend again. From 10 til around 1.30. Friday May the 24th ~ Vivid Fire Kitchen cleaves off from Barrangaroo's Cutaway this year, lobbing up to The Goods Line in (substantially less cursed) Ultimo. I had a ball playing to food-lovers (and gangs of young street dancers) in swathes of smoke last time, so am stoked to be aboard again. Guest pitmaster tonight is John McFadden. Sonic sparks should fly between 6 and 11. Saturday May the 25th ~ Jack Off celebrates the sacred advent of Xmas in May by setting FBi aflame for a few hours from 3. Thence it's back to Vivid Fire Kitchen, this time under the stewardship of Christine Mansfield, to spin a spicy musical mix til an hour shy of 12. |
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