Out of the Box

Photojournalist  Andrew Quilty  likes to quote his mate and photographic mentor Dean Sewell as saying “There are only two types of photographer: Those who draw attention to their subject, and those who draw attention to themselves.†And, while behind the lens he keeps to that, Andrew has done so much lately to draw so much well deserved attention to himself. He came to fame covering t...

Comedian Dan Ilic made his name making Hungry Beast, Can of Worms, and A Rational Fear. Dan's been in and out of FBi since the birth of the station, and even hosted Out of the Box back in the day.  Real soon, though, he's jetting off to work in California for Al Jazeera's AJ+. Before he goes we're getting him in to say goodbye with an hour of his favourite songs. Playlist...

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST JULY 18, 2013 Jonathan Harris is a storyteller has spoken at TED , co-designed the Vermont state coin and runs a storytelling site called Cowbird , among many, many other things. He was here in Sydney in May 2013 to talk at Vivid Ideas , but he took an hour to tell us all about the music that he loves. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-...

Comedian  Jazz Twemlow  has been in Australia only 3 years, but in only those three he's managed write for  A Rational Fear , written and performed for daily ABC satire The Roast  and currently writes for the Guardian Australia . Though you probably know him best from his  Junkee article  on the ABC cuts in the last week. Full show notes and playlist at http://fb...

While we take a week off we've got an interview with Yasmin Ibrahim Mohamed , a singer with the band Fanous, a trained veterinarian and an environmental educator. Her career has traversed Egypt, Sudan and Australia. She originally joined us on August 22, 2013. Full playlist and original show notes at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-11-20 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Sound engineer Adam Kaye, from GAS Audio , tells us what it's like to make the gigs you hear sound as great at the gigs you hear. Track list at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-11-13 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BUMPER TINA SPECIAL! We talk to four and a bit writers from 2014's This Is Not Art festival: Michelle Law , Jane Howard , Lawrence Leung and Luke Ryan . Playlist at See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Out of the Box, a man who has dinosaurs. Will Reichelt is a visual effects supervisor at local movie effects house Animal Logic . He's worked films like Knowing, Australia and his most recently on a big screen version of Walking With Dinosaurs 3D. He's also a photographer and in his time he's snapped some of the hottest acts around, including Sigur Rós, Cloud Control and Wayne Coyne...

Newcastle born comedian Rhys Nicholson just got back from a solo run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He's a local regular at the Comedy Store and has supported big name acts around Australia. But Rhys is probably best summed up his audience Fringe reviews , which said "I will admit I'd never heard of this bloke before we saw him" and "few can manage to be simultaneously as filthy and endearing a...

EARS is the pseudonym of Sydney artist  Daniel O'Toole . Daniel makes paintings, drawings, photos music and videos. And the kicker is that he makes them all stunningly. He is a renaissance man: not just for his range, but for his talent. Please note that the Project 5 Charity Auction will be on October 29 , not October 19 as stated in the original broadcast. Details at www.project5.com.au/#au...

Lacey Cole and Eileen Kramer are mates. Lacey's a singer/songwriter and Eileen's a choreographer, so when Lacey made the video clip for his new song "Nephilim's Lament", he got Eileen — now 99 — to dance for it on the cliffs at Clovelly Beach. It was wicked. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-10-09/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL! Four men, one host, one hour. For Drive FBi , Out of the Box is bringing you a full car's worth of guests in a single hour. The Bondi Hipsters will be bringing their taste, and disdain, for music to FBi Radio, then we'll be joined by the men behind the men: Hipsters creators Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nick Boshier .  The Bondi Hipsters hit ABC TV with Soul Mates on October...

Stuart Rogers has been a New York City radio star at East Village Radio, shot videos at Lofi.tv and managed Icelandic singer/songwriter Ólöf Arnalds. Nowadays he works as program manager for music at the Sydney Festival , helping to get its massive program together.  Guest host Nick Hollins from Telepath and Skydreams leads Stuart through the tunes. Track list at http://fbiradio.com/program...

Avis Mulhall dropped out of the corporate world to live in an African Rainforest. And, honestly, that's only the start of the interesting stuff about her. Avis has founded talk shop for social good, Think Act Change , socially aware loo paper,   Looloo Paper , and mmMule.com . She's also freshly back from Burning Man. At Burning Man she helped run an organic famers market in the middle of the des...

It's probably pretty cool to be  Alicia Kish . She had a life in & out of music and media in England & Australia until 2009, when she took a year off to share this media and music nous with Mongolia. There, she helped to run an international festival, learned to live with horses and generally had her mind blown by the local music. She's a trained journalist who has managed bands, danced in Spo...

Dr Rebecca Sheehan was sneaking out to make radio well before the time before the last time before America was sending its military into Iraq. She's worked in music from Sydney to Singapore and now teaches Sydney Uni undergraduates about "sexuality, race and rock music in the United States from Elvis to Lady Gaga." But you probably know her best from Up For It 's Monday music history segment, With...

Tom Ballard  is our guest on Out Of The Box today! From 12-1pm he's choosing the songs and telling stories from his time in radio, comedy and now TV (did you watch  Reality Check ?), and possibly some dick jokes. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-08-28/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Formerly the woman of FBi film, Kate Jinx is now the brain behind the scenes who makes sure Golden Age Cinema and Bar has such good stuff up on the screen. She's returning FBi this week to tell us about some of her favourite tracks and answer the perennial question: Watching too many movies, is that a thing? Full show notes and track list at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-08-21/...

Richard Adamson and Oscar McMahon are two of the brains behind inner-city, Sydney brewery Young Henrys and the upcoming Small New Worlds Festival . Full playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-08-14/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jaclyn Moriarty made a massive career transition, which thousands — or perhaps millions — of people are very grateful for. She started off as a media lawyer; she represented shock jock Alan Jones in the Cash For Comment scandal and also the boxer, Kosya Tzu. Then she left that world to make other worlds. She became a writer, an award-winning, best-selling author, of young adult fiction. Feelin...

Billy Sorrentino is Wired's Creative Director and part of New York band Brothers . Billy originally planned to work in music, but ended up in graphic design. He's worked across all sorts of magazines, joined the WWE's traveling roadshow and gotten to pioneer Wired's mobile presence in the post-iPad age. Out of the Box caught up with him while he was in town for Semi Permanent Sydney, giving him th...

Damion Brown is a Jamaican-American chef who began his career at age 10, hanging out at his family's popular west indian restaurants in Miami and New York that catered for the island diaspora - including Bob Marley's family in Florida. Since then he embarked on a 35-country food safari, worked in restaurants around the world, and has been head chef everywhere from intimate wine cellars to film set...

Samboleap Tol is Cambodian, but grew up in the Netherlands in one of the few Cambodian refugee families in a tiny Dutch town; rejecting her Cambodian identity for much of her life. It wasn't until she found out more about what had happened in seventies Cambodia that she started to understand her family history and embraced her Cambodian identity. Now she's making a documentary about the Thai refug...

SPECIAL DOUBLE SIZE SHOW! Eleven years ago, a guy came in and painted the back wall of FBi's meeting room. He was the station's new Music Director. Eleven years later, FBi's General Manager of Music, Dan Zilber, is stepping down. But before he goes, he's coming on Out of the Box to tell us a bit about those last eleven years, himself and his crazy good taste in music. Full show notes and playlist...

Chef, author, DJ, a heaps decent co-founder of Heaps Decent and co-host of FBi Click‘s new Halfway Crooks Radio show. Andrew Levins knows how to do a lot of stuff. But he's saying goodbye to the Dip kitchens after years at Goodgod Small Club, and he's coming in to tell us all about it. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-06-26 See omnystudio.com/listen...