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Pop music for pen-pushers - absolutely free for all
Wednesday January the 31st ~
Speed read Swingin' at the Speakeasy from 10 til 2
Thursday February the 1st ~
Memories Can't Wait at our Open Air Cinema as I precede The Notebook with song stories from 6 on
Friday February the 2nd ~
The Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre elevates an egalitarian Australian ethos that I'll embellish further via a debut local bracket of 7" singles, spun between half 8 and close at half 11
Saturday February the 3rd ~
Jack Off embraces the blank page weekly from 3 til 5
Dean and Nancy on 22 stacks unlikely bedfellows of glamour and humour atop a fancy hotel. Imaginations stir as people peer over the city in a reverie. All I have to do is weave an apt soundtrack. Feast yr senses and clear the air from 9 til 12.30 at night
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Music to the ears of mirthful, moody, motor mutts.
Wednesday January the 24th ~
Swingin' at the Speakeasy for free from 10 til 1.30
Thursday January the 25th ~
Open Air Cinema is presenting the main movie I've been anticipating this summer, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone's Poor Things, the perfect flick to see on a sweltering Sydney evening by the harbour. By way of preamble, I'll be spinning songs of science, fantasy, travel and liberty from 6 til screen-up.
Saturday January the 27th ~
Jack Off emerges from another interval of pert performance pieces (hear Lewis Coleman's livewire bracket of last week here) ready to kick back and stew a few extended recordings from 3 til 5 on FBi.
Directly after I'm off to The Rocks to play twisted pop tunes for the savvy denizens of Maybe Sammy. My set runs betwixt 6 and 9. Entry is always gratis!
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Core-strengthening concepts for those heading out...
Wednesday January the 17th ~
Swingin' at the Speakeasy is back at Palmer & Co. Tonight I'll follow George Washingmachine's live sets (and Pia's interstitial brackets) with another mad mosaic of music history. Free, from 10 til 2.
Friday January the 19th ~
Come Friday Sham DJs (Liz Ham and myself) will host our first Sin City Soirée for 2024, as the Hollywood Hotel reopens to all and sundry after their summer break. Pop along for a shimmy, a snog or both. Entry remains gratis for everyone. Five big hours from 9!
Saturday January the 20th ~
On Saturday you can experience Melbourne tourist Lewis Coleman Offline (or on) as Jack Off goes to air between 3 and 5 in the arvo.
Afterwards we can exercise our internal cravings for beer and food, whilst uplifting our spirits listening to tunes by local legends at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre. 8.30 til 11.30. No charge!
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A heady mix of mental music played outside and in.
Wednesday January the 10th ~
Delve deep inside and feel perplexing sensations down below at Palmer & Co. A free set from 10 til 2
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Thursday January the 11th ~
Witness Wicked Little Letters writ large on a vast screen that rises out of the harbour down by the Botanic Gardens, as Sydney's Open Air Cinema manifests for another summer. I'll spin for several hours from 6, as the sun sinks and bats ascend.
Friday January the 12th ~
If you were dreaming of joining infamous injured stars for the extravagant excesses of our Sham DJs NYE shindig at Dean and Nancy on 22 but missed out due to a lack of funds / mystical equipment, do not despair - my solo bracket there this weekend is accessible entirely free of charge. 9PM til 12.30AM.
Saturday January the 13th ~
Jack Off is the penultimate stop on this week's itinerary. Tune in between 3 and 5 to discover exactly what kinda flash fare will air. Two polar opposites have been tossed up thus far: Alex Cameron and the Cosmic Psychos. I'd be stoked if we could welcome either back frankly. Time will tell!
Directly afterwards I'll be quenching my thirst with the most unimaginably inventive cocktails conceivable at Maybe Sammy, all whilst somehow multi-tasking by deejaying at the very same time! The complete caper is gratis betwixt 9 and 1.
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Faint hopes falter whilst we soldier on regardless.
Thankfully the tasks at hand for me are free and aim to be elevating for all at this challenging time.
Friday January the 5th ~
Start at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre this evening, with a three-hour set from 8.30 on.
Then double up at The Trocadero Room as I follow DJ Soup with a midnight til 3 set of every music ever.
Saturday January the 6th ~
Tune in to Jack Off between 3 and 5PM for a soothing suite of sonics that steer clear of the snipers and side-swipers whose ways are numbered.
Break free of any siege mentality and make a leap of faith to join me at the debut public outing of the Sydney Festival's new Moonshine Bar, the site of this gargantuan Hi-Vis art installation by Michael Shaw at Pier 2/3, down in Dawes Point.
Before Charlie Villas brings the bangers later, I'll spin 120 minutes of stunning summer songs at sundown - acknowledging the miracle of any of us having made it even this far, both together and alone.
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Your ultimate ocular ultra-sound this annum.
Wednesday December the 27th ~
Lock in late sounds of old from 10 til 2 at Palmer.
Friday December the 29th ~
Ethereal aquatic elements emerge on a celestial plane via Dean and Nancy on 22, from 9 til 12.30.
Saturday December the 30th ~
Jack Off shits seeds of eternal life between 3 & 5 before new shoots emerge at Maybe Sammy twixt 9 & 1.
Sunday December the 31st ~
Sham DJs musically measure the infinite angles between times and space as Earth people carouse on high, marking another minuscule moment, even as it passes once again.
Given the rarefied nature of the fine food and beverages supplied on this symbolic occasion this prolific party at the best hotel bar in the Pacific is my only engagement this week that is not free.
If you are flush and inclined to a swish finale to 2023 then do join us all night long this NYE at Dean and Nancy on 22 by booking here. Salut!
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Tuneful turning points in time and place/s.
Friday December the 22nd ~
Mere hours after the sun reaches its highest spot in the sky here this year I will spin an arcane set of intense curios at the literal best bar in the world, Maybe Sammy. Entry is gratis. I play 5 til 9PM.
Saturday December the 23rd ~
Saturday sees similarly stretched sonic scenarios as I air a backlog of recent acquisitions on Jack Off between 3 & 5PM (see and hear our last guests here).
Immediately afterwards I'll be heading to Busby's, keenly anticipating my debut set on their hand-built 1977 vintage Klipsch Heresy speakers, Technics turntables and Ecler rotary mixer.
If you've not yet sampled the food, wine and cocktails brought together by the dream team of Clayton Wells, Mike Bennie and Paolo Maffietti at this new Paddington bar, tonight would be a fine place to start. I spin for free from 6 til 11PM.
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Global mental music manifestations embodied locally via multiple portals and pubs for free.
Wednesday December the 13th ~
Swingin' at the Speakeasy from 10 til close about 2.
Friday December the 15th ~
Sin City Soirée is stoked to be returning to the Hotel Hollywood on the day it reopens in 2024 but first we've a lot of snogging and shimmying to attend to to kiss off 2023. Thank you to my darling Liz Ham for forming Sham DJs with me and helping steer this wayward ship. Join us between 9 and 2!
Saturday December the 16th ~
Jack Off has had a purple patch of unrivalled quality and variety to cap off this year (listen to this extraordinary just-written story with improvised accompaniment that Bad//Dreems performed, between live crosses to sets at the FBi Turns 20 party, in the studio last week here for an example).
This Saturday you'll hear DeepFaith (Dan Stricker of Midnight Juggernauts & Siberia Records) and artist/photographer Byron Spencer bring everything from synths and drum machine to flute and a VR headset to perform new single Daddy and another as-yet-unreleased piece. Tune in from 3 til 5.
Then I'm going for a beer or three at the Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre, incredibly multi-tasking by drinking them whilst deejaying, possibly even adding the act of eating delicious morsels from the Lucky Prawn restaurant. Witness these wonders and lots less between 8.30 and 11.30.
I'm buggering off up to Queensland for some family time by the beach next week (so Shithouse might arrive a little late). Hope all is well in yr world and we see you somewhere before New Years. Peace!
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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.
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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!