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Jeane is the project of Jazz Johnston and friends, expanding to a full band including Luke Moseley on guitar, Connor Black-Harry on bass and Pelaya Arapakis on drums. “no one mess with this diva !!!!!!!!!! CASH rocks, straight up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Brodie was raised in a musical family, his father, a professional guitarist and singer taught Brodie the basic chords of guitar and piano and along with his brother Chris, they began making music together, playing as fast and loud as they could to whoever would listen, not letting their lack of experience get in the way of having a good time, and honing their skills o...

Dave Graney talks with Haydn Keenan, director and producer of the 1983 Australian Film Going Down which was recently rediscovered by a NYC film distributor and has been re released in a 4k 5.1 restored print. GOING DOWN (1982) is an entertaining odyssey through the pulsating streets of Sydney in the 1980s as four young women spend their last night together. The film stars Tracy Mann (Sleeping Beau...

Anna Smyrk is a Melbourne based songwriter and performer who is just putting out her debut album, though she has taken a long runup to get to this point, having released several EPs over the last decade. She started out as an acoustic folkie but has gone electric , weilding her Yamaha SG.

World Forever is the twelfth solo album by Australian guitar slinger / composer Cam Butler (Silver Ray, Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions). Butler expands on his widescreen compositional practice by adding the gargantuan roar of the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ to his trademark string orchestra and rock ensemble sound palette. World Forever sees the gorgeous swoon of Butler's 28-piece string se...

Dave Graney talks with Woody Campfire aka Tomas Ford. A few yarns around the billabong. Tomas Ford aka Woody Campfire. Once an electro pop cabaret indie music artist now a swaggering, bearded bushman. With a ukelele and a cork pick and an Akubra hat. Busking around Australia in all sorts of raw situations.

Keyo Rose came in to chat on my RRR Radio show which is called BLB. He had a gig coming up and I ran into him at Kim Salmons Surreal Science show at the Corner and I asked him to com in the following Tuesday. I get pages of PR every week from all over the scene. I mostly only play music from the present year and also mostly Australian music. I like to play vintage people as well as debut artists....

Dave Graney talking with Jim Woff, bass player for Sydney based rock band, CROW. CROW have been active since the early 90s and last released an album in 2010. They have just released a new single from a projected 2026 album. Talk is around 80s underground Sydney , driving cabs in Sydney, playing the bass guitar, influences, fellow travellers. The engine room and the powder room (Musical terms for...

Dave Graney talks with Tim Smith aka TV Smith aka the singer and songwriter who first appeared in London in mid 1977 fronting the band he and his partner Gaye put together called THE ADVERTS. Two albums and many memorable. unique songs such as Looking Through Gary Gilmores Eyes, Bored Teenagers and One Chord Wonders. Following that, many solo albums. In April 2026 he is to play shows in Australia...

Alex Ettling is a one man independent researcher and historian. He was working with the Living Museum Of The West (refers to the Western side of Melbourne - Footscray. Like the Western side of Sydney it’s where the factories and the factory fodder lived, where people traditionally drove to work with the sun in their eyes and drove home with the sun in their eyes) . He came to talk about a gig he h...

Melbourne band Girl Monstar historically existed between 1988 and 1993. In 2026 they are putting out a new album , GRRR!!

Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk with journalist Tony Wright about Lou Reeds 1977 Australian tour and specifically, his show at the Regent Theatre in Albury, NSW on Tuesday night November 1st.

Dave Graney talks with New Zealand songwriter, writer, substacker, musician and all around interesting character George Henderson. Both vintage players, both pale South Seas human beings having lived lives as sui generis voices off in colonial outposts of the Anglo American world of popular and unpoular music. Made guys. Veterans of the psychic wars! (thank you Blue Oyster Cult). They chime strang...

eastside interview by Players Please

Peter Milton Walsh aka The Apartments once more launches his music and himself into the void with a new album on French label, Talitres. Thats Whats The Music Is For. https://theapartments.bandcamp.com/album/thats-what-the-music-is-for Fellow Australians in Europe in the 80s. The talk is all about the new album but there are questions and answers about other times and people too.

Catherine McQuade has a new album out called The Corruption Of Memory. A fellow traveller of Dave Graney and Clare Moore from the early 80s Melbourne music scene. She was in the Ears (the band portrayed in the movie Dogs In Space) and then Deckchairs Overboard and then? A fashion shop in Sydney and then re entering Melbourne and the music world several years ago. This is her third solo album. Very...

An interview for BLB by Dave Graney with Wes Smith from Rhizome and the Flavonoids. Out of the Gold Coast/Brisbane (Qld) and into Melbourne. Punk exotica and now ? Kind of No Wave New Wave electro funk rock? Very creative and productive and isolated. Latest album is out digitally and on cassette.

An interview by Dave Graney with Way Dynamic aka Dylan Young. Or perhaps Dylan Young aka Way Dynamic. The new Way Dynamic album is Massive Shoe.

Sean McMahon plays guitar and sings in Melbourne band, The Owls. He has released many solo albums and also led a band called Downhills Home. He is a total music culture person. He has played music since his teens and is a nice person. The music he makes with his friends just keeps getting better. I always love music with flash and drama and The Owls don't trade or fuss with either of those. No wor...

Simon Strong lives in Melbourne but comes straight out of Sheffield in the UK. He made or makes music in The Ekranoplans and The Pink Stainless Tail before that. He presents a show on Radio 3CR in Melbourne. He tells a story of writing a novel in 2002 and then forgetting about it then retrieving it and finishing it after a dream encounter with Howard Devoto from Magazine. He released the book - Th...

Mitch McTaggart has a tv show streaming called The Backside Of Television. It's all about Australian Television. He usually presents a year end round up of The Last Year Of Television but this is more of a broader look at Australian television production over the decades. Occasionally it was bold and imaginative, he reckons. A couple of episodes are specifically about Australian tv Police shows. C...

Brisbanes finest? Yes! The Stress of Leisure have been pumping out totally upbeat, grooving albums since 2006. Most songs written by Ian Powne on electric guitar. Pascalle Burton on organ/keys also sings and adds her presence. An active poet and performance poet as well. The inscrutably funky Jane Elliott on bass and Jessica Moore swinging a big beat on drums. Dave Graney and Clare Moore talk with...

Harry Howard and David McClymont have collaborated on an album called UNDER THE WORLD. David was once in Postcard Records band, Orange Juice as well as in the latterday Moodists for their last two EPS. That was in 1986-87. Then there were years travelling the world and doing nothing in the music arena. Then in 2012 he suddenly started to produce music, learning new tech and releasing a dazzling ar...

Dave Graney interview with Billy Pommer Jnr and Graham "Hoody" Hood from the Johnnys in regard to their new album (recorded in 1990) Live in Lyon. The conversation ranges from the bands beginnings in early 80s Sydney and Melbourne to their experiences in the Australian live music and recorded music scene. Touring up to and over 300 dates a year in 1986. Hardcore driving and playing. Songwriting an...

Kim Salmon talks with Dave Graney about his new album/project/collective/live show which goes under the name Smoked Salmon. From the first question Kim goes back in time and the long conversation winds between shared experiences in teh underworld of Australian music, London and Europe in the 80s and 90s, working with large and small labels. It wanders!