Perpetually reborn songs & radio pour freely forth. Wednesday December the 6th ~ Secret signs say Swingin' at the Speakeasy be the place to be. I'll follow the King Creole Band's several sets (starting at 7) and some interstitial fare from Dean Riot, personally playing 11 til late. Friday December the 8th ~ A (fro)zen set of aberrant early latin audio to sate the state of early-summer heat at El Primo Sanchez, beginning at 6 before vanishing two hours later. Saturday December the 9th ~ After last week's astounding spread of far-flung talent and surprise combos (fit for a finale for most, one might imagine) we still have sublime live fare to air this year. After a false start a few months ago, Bad//Dreems join me to Jack Off on FBi Radio between 3 and 5. We strongly suggest listening back to the prior program on-demand to be blown away by the stunning performances of both Xylouris White and M Ward (joined by Folk Bitch Trio). I'm not sure what I can conjure to match the atmosphere created by the wild lightning storm I soundtracked (with literal lyric themes of course) at Dean and Nancy on 22 last week but you know I'll give it my all. Book a spot and take the lift up to the 22nd floor to sample staggeringly inventive cocktails and food as you enjoy the tunes on either side of the building. I spin heartily: 9 til 12.30. Artists Retreat as a true Shitstorm descends. Wednesday November 29th ~ Stay fit the old fashioned way, dashing from death via dance, during Swingin' at the Speakeasy. It's free (from awful modern fitness fads) from 10 til 2. Thursday November the 30th ~ It has been many years since I've ventured to Melbourne - and then I was invariably playing the night before Golden Plains at some ungodly hour. So I'm stoked to be able to blow my own horn and head down to The Retreat on Brunswick Road, at a civil hour, without having to rise again before dawn, to reunite with many mates and music lovers I rarely see. Please join us there. If you are one of those perverse Victorians who wade through this weird newsletter weekly you truly deserve a treat! I will do my best, out in the beer garden between 6 and 10, to tear early summer asunder. It's free for all! Friday December the 1st ~ If airlines, aircraft and the gods of weather permit our transit in a rather narrow dusk window, I will reconvene back in Shitme at the stately Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre, spinning a sic set from half 8 til half 11. Open to all commies comrades. As if that were not a stupid enough schedule, I'll then restart my engine and motor up to Enmore's new Trocadero Room, a nifty new venue from the peeps behind Earl's Juke Joint and Jacoby's Tiki Bar. Unbelievably they have a 4AM licence - and whilst it may yet close closer to 3, I'm determined to crank out bangers until the cows come home if they'll let me. Meet there after everything else for a freaky free time on the floor from 1AM on. Saturday December the 2nd ~ Some weeks I can't really believe what I'm writing you know? There are certain acts we've been waiting for a suitable synchronicity to yield as possible visitors to Jack Off for years, even decades. So many details monitored and emails exchanged for oft-times a slim chance at best. So it's wild when two come true at once! This Saturday arvo at 3 on the dot you'll hear the incomparable Xylouris White playing live in the studios, immediately followed by magical maestro M. Ward - graciously visiting us on his day off, no less! Please tune in, or listen back on-demand. Before I collapse catatonic at this overload of experience I aim to ingest at least three or four of the sublime new cocktails on the list of the Best Hotel Bar, Dean and Nancy on 22. Thus far I can strongly recommend the Aconcagua, Dark Side Of The Moon, Malinalli and Rocketman. Join me there between 9 and 12.30 for aural and oral pleasure. Gratis! Got so discombobulated by having to talk to a proper journalist re FBi yesterday that I clean forgot to write Shithouse! Palmer last night was fun. Onwards! Friday November the 24th ~ Immaculate perceptions rendered through glass, your senses and subtle speakers, as we sup upon the astounding new cocktail list Above The Clouds at Dean and Nancy on 22. Free from 9PM til 12.30AM. Saturday November the 25th ~ Jack Off: nutritious radio au naturel between 3 & 5. El Primo Sanchez: gratis Mexican & latin music from places past. A sundowner situation, 5.30 til 8.30. Storm-struck streets as we bring the summer heat... Wednesday November the 15th ~ Swingin' at the Speakeasy, underfoot from 10 til 2. Friday November the 17th ~ Get down and dirty in a space both secular and sacred as Sin City Soirée heats up for summer by returning to the main bar of the Hollywood. Sham DJs keep the nimble on their toes and the seedy on their knees with a non-stop block of crock from 9 til 2. Join us on the floor. It's (a) free for all! Saturday November the 18th ~ Jack Off proceeds at a stately pace between 3 and 5. Then medical madness ensues at Lisa's private Party. Free rides to dance destinations & listening lounges Wednesday November the 8th ~ 10PM til 1 AM tonight for Swingin' at the Speakeasy Friday November the 10th ~ 9PM til close around 1 in The Rocks for Maybe Sammy Saturday November the 11th ~ 3 til 5 live forever on Jack Off via 94.5 FBi Radio Listen back to the magnificent Mick Harvey playing and discussing The Birthday Party last week here Float up to Dean and Nancy on 22 from 9 til 12.30 Free sources of sound for thirsty ears everywhere. Wednesday November the 1st ~ Can the can! Swingin' @ the Speakeasy from 10 til 1. Friday November the 3rd ~ Wild and wooly weirdness at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre between half 8 and half 11. Saturday November the 4th ~ The Lemon Twigs were zesty on Jack Off last week, listen here. This weekend we've both Mick Harvey and Phill Calvert from The Birthday Party - joined by Ian White, the director of the feature length doco about said band of ratbags, Mutiny In Heaven. Mick's even gonna sing an old number live. Tune in to FBi from 3 til 5 for integral antipodean energy akimbo. Afterwards ascend again to Dean and Nancy on 22, toasting good health with fine fare as fabled fandangos spin betwixt 9 and half-past midnight. Fluked a serendipitous trip to heavenly heights in Japan, literally bathing in beauty beyond the clouds - acutely aware of our good fortune and privilege during this benighted time upon the planet. We are lucky to have gone - and are grateful to be home amongst the people and places we love, notwithstanding the dire politics playing out everywhere of late. Time to resume transmission of mixed music and messages so as to meet the moment. Wednesday October the 25th ~ Smoke signals sometimes suggest subterranean audio activity, even at the site of our first stolen water source. Swingin' at the Speakeasy emits historical cultural perspectives even as hope springs a leak. Hear it and be moved/moving. 10 til 2. Free to all comers. Friday October the 27th ~ Sin City Soirée is a microcosm of the bittersweet and humble heart of love and community in Sydney, situated in the Doris Goddard Salon at the eternally iconic Hollywood Hotel in Slurry Hills. Sham DJs (State Library speaker and photographer Liz Ham plus myself) conjure a convivial shimmy for all and sundry between 9 and 2, with entry always free. Saturday October the 28th ~ After another sublime stint from Jonny Seymour in my absence last week, Saturday arvo returns to far more volatile territory from 3 til 5, as The Lemon Twigs join us for Jack Off live on FBi Radio. Later I'll emerge atop the A by Adina in town to spin stunning sounds amongst the skyline at Dean and Nancy on 22 (Sham DJs just confirmed as their selectors for another NYE too). 9 til 12.30. Free! Fresh cheese and sordid songs on the precipice: a few final flings before fleeing this pitiful place. Wednesday October the 11th ~ Bashing out the blues again for Swingin' at the Speakeasy from 10 til 1.30. All gigs free this week. Friday October the 13th ~ Doubling down while redundant concepts of this country as essentially egalitarian teeter and topple on referendum referendum eve, at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre between half 8 and half 11. Saturday October the 14th ~ Broadcasting music from every emotional, spiritual and intellectual angle only to intersect at the same point/less speck that is Jack Off, from 3 til 5. Preparing to transition into travel by playing our best hotel bar, Dean and Nancy on 22, between 9 and half past midnight. Saturday October the 21st ~ Did you know that, for less than the price of a single combined tech+innovation/screen/gaming/music badge (basically a deluxe wristband that sells for $1895, whilst badges to individual streams go for $1295) to the heavily-sponsored inaugural Sydney SXSW, two people could fly to Japan via Virgin (even without the $900 Covid-era travel credit we used), trip out of Tokyo on trains to a tiny onsen - and be accommodated for four nights both there and in the capital? Me neither, but I discovered that this week. Admittedly we made our wayward plans in December last year, unaware that nationwide votes and international festivals would overlap. I'm at peace with that choice but presently devastated at the escalation and perpetuation of political violence on this planet - invariably by male-run regimes rotten from within, sacrificing innocent lives to sideline opposition from voiceless majorities at home by saturating everyone in the fog of war, such that a desperation to simply keep loved ones alive is all that good people can conjure. With the populace thus divided the machinery of war and exploitation marches on. Watch for more autocratic 'leaders' and states to initiate further abysmal manipulations under the cover of this chaos. With so little time at liberty left you are best advised to attend to the loving signals transmitted by Jonny Seymour, as he hosts Jack Off in my stead next week (originally I was to be back for this program but flight times shifted a smidge and it is a bridge too far now, though I will be back in time to play Dean and Nancy again later that evening). I love Jonny. I value you all enormously. I'm so sorry this world is falling apart around us. Please make the most of all we still share and take care xo Gotta (possibly literally) bail before the storms hit upriver so ulta-brief text and pics via Taralga. Wednesday October the 4th ~ Tonight it's Swingin' at the Speakeasy: 10-2. Free. Friday October the 6th ~ Back at the Hollywood to celebrate the COVID-delayed union of Kate and Luca, from 3.30 til 9.30. Saturday October the 7th ~ Jack Off airs guest-free between 3 and 5 this week. Afterwards it's up to Dean and Nancy on 22 to soundtrack the delayed-darkening of the city skyline with another free set between 9 and 12.30. Peas out! Force of nature, performer and art educator Rosie Rivette free-bleeding at home, as photographed by artist, teacher and deejay Liz Ham (the source of all our imagery this week). Wednesday September the 27th ~ Having just spent a few days with these statuesque beauties in the bush I'll be full to the brim with birdsong to share during Swingin' at the Speakeasy tomorrow at Palmer & Co. 10PM til 1.30AM, after Mary Heart tears it up live starting at 7. Free! Friday September the 29th ~ Reunite with mates, or mobilise independently to discover community in the heart of the big smoke, as Sin City Soirée reconvenes at the Hollywood Hotel for our monthly party. Liz and myself bedeck the Doris Goddard salon with transcendent tunes between 9 and 2. All welcome. Always free. Saturday September the 30th ~ Come Saturday we're off to Dancing On the Tablelands so Jack Off will go to air via the stewardship of Jonny Seymour. Amazingly an invite extended to Kevin Morby much earlier this year has been accepted and this fine fellow will play for us from the studio directly after the broadcast begins at 3. Tune in! If yr down south or keen to join us at Hugh Wennerbom's superb Taralga pub The Argyle Inn there's music to accompany the fab food all weekend. I'll spin late Saturday from 9 til 11. No charge! May we all travel and listen with the acute ardour of another local force of nature Betty Grumble (pictured above, paying tribute to her mum Karmyn). My love and respect to all of the inspiring individuals featured here this week. Every one is profoundly dedicated to their creative passions regardless of relative recompense. Live for love. |
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