Visions of free soundscapes, yours online each week.


Wednesday February the 26th ~

World's of song, from beyond the binary and across the seas. Palmer & Co provides timeless solace. Pop in after The Necks at the Recital Hall. 10 til 2.


Thursday February the 27th ~

Wink & Spin unfolds in a pink haze at dusk by the waters of Woy Woy, in the beer garden of the smoke-shop-adjacent Link and Pin. Fire up from 6 til 10.


Friday February the 28th ~

Go nuts the night before Mardi Gras, as Pleasure Club hosts identities & outfits akimbo, all the way from half 9 at night til almost dawn the next morn.

Sin City Soirée - with Hot Flush and myself on the decks from go to whoa - brings moving music to the fore and loving larks to the floor. Alone or with crew, we've got you.


Saturday March the 1st ~

Can't quantify the contributions to local culture made by the three Beasts pictured above, so it was an honour to hear two live tunes and shoot the shit with them on Jack Off last week. No idea what will go down this time around. Tune in from 3 to see!

Afterwards come have a cold beer and/or sizzling hot plate at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre where I'll be spinning bent music on flat platters between half 8 and half 11. Happy Mardi Gras all!

Songman, educator, custodian, family man, friend.

With Vic's farewell tomorrow my heart and head are focussed on him and kin. All of the beautiful photographs in this edition were taken by my love Liz Ham: the portrait above on Bidjigal land at La Pa, before Vic's annual Invasion Day concert last year; those below at the Recovery On The Rocks event we staged on Gadigal land back in 2021.


Wednesday February the 19th ~

Just above the Tank Stream at Palmer & Co. 10 til 2


Friday February the 21st ~

Be A Little Cooler, if you can. 9.30 til 1.45


Saturday February the 22nd ~

Jack Off will pay tribute to Vic by replaying the first of our two interviews in full - where he takes us from a leaky mud-floored shack to child stardom, incarceration in Bathurst, recording The Loner in Long Bay and multiple dates at the Opera House as it opened. Vic also sings his iconic number (composed in gaol) Stranger In My Country unaccompanied, rendering it more stark and moving still.

Astoundingly Vic talked then of being honoured to have been chosen as the support for Tex Perkins' gigs across two States, starting a week later. They would meet for the first time then. Tex is of course noted for his performances of Johnny Cash's prison songs. And guess who is my mooted guest this week? None other than Tex and his bad-ass band The Beasts (no strangers to mortality themselves). If it all comes off it will be perfectly fitting to hear their take on Vic and his craft too.

Tune in to FBi (which is about to announce, also tomorrow, some catastrophic financial news, providing some context for the grave existential risk I have been alluding to for months now) between 3 and 5. Who knows if this facility can even endure?

Afterwards it's the final of these free gigs this week, up top at Dean and Nancy on 22. 9 til 12.30

All at sea with an infinite array of elemental audio.


Wednesday February the 12th ~

Old songs by Sydney Cove at Palmer & Co. 10 til 2


Friday February the 14th ~

Shiny Shiny returns for 2025, gratis, on the day after Galentine's Day, celebrating love in all its forms, via a sonic swim through the streams of tide and time. Sham DJs (Hot Flush & myself) on the decks throughout. Kicks off at 8, runs til 1 - within wide-open perfect public house Hotel Hollywood.


Saturday February the 15th ~

Jack Off transmits with renewed vigour, following last Sunday's sublime set, born outta this tiny caravan, perched atop a Centennial Park Pine forest, for the super-excited Laneway Festival PIP peeps. Tune in to FBi between 3 & 5 for fresh air fare.

The outdoor action continues by the Harbour and Gardens, prior to the Open Air Cinema screening of smash hit Italian feature There's Still Tomorrow. This is my last summer date here. 6 til 8.30

Afterwards I'll (re)join Hot Flush, spinning vinyl on the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre turntables - free, for three hours from half 8 onwards.

Blowing the horn for super-natural scalable Shite.


Wednesday February the 5th ~

Palmer & Co post Merivales. Seedy staff + song. 10-2


Friday February the 7th ~

Veges and vinyl to sink yr teeth into at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre. 8.30 til 11.30


Saturday February the 8th ~

Reptilian radio on FBi - Jack Off from 3 til 5

High and mighty at Dean and Nancy on 22 for my final free gig this week. 3 & a half hours from 9


Sunday February the 9th ~

An ultra-rare Sunday scenario as I rejoin the Laneway Festival line-up after opting out upon their migration to Homebush. Just couldn't resist the combo of Charli XCX and Fcukers in Centennial Park.

It sold out in seconds (rather a nice change for an Australian festival in this day and age). You'll need one of the top-tier tickets to catch my climactic bracket in the VIP if yr going. 6 til 9