Out of the Box: Recent Episodes
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Each week, we delve into someone's record collection and talk about the music they love, the life they lead and how the two interact. Hosted by Joey Watson. Track lists every week at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/ Subscribe on iTunes or elsewhere.
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Sean Sweeney gained Australia's attention as being the big, bearded AUSLAN interpreter for the NSW Rural Fire Service during the 2019 - 2020 Australian bushfire crisis. Sean was born as the first hearing baby on his mother's side in four generations. He's grown up immersed in Sydney's deaf culture and community and knew how to sign before he could speak.
Ricky Simandjuntak is the manager of Western Sydney drill group, OneFour. Despite pressure from police, they have become an international sensation. Ricky has been a feature in the recent renaissance of Western Sydney's creative scene with his label and lifestyle brand, Sydney Romantics. | Producers: Bre Jones and Rebecca Merrick
In the 1970s, a group of women decamped to Amazon Acres in Northern NSW to create a small society completely free of men. Amber Jackson was one of them. As a kid she grew up with her Mum in a feminist hippie commune guided by the mantra: no men, no meat, no machines. Amber will be appearing at All About Women at the Sydney Opera House in March. | Producers: Bre Jones and Rebecca Merrick
When Susan Francis was a baby, she was privately adopted from a doctor's practice in Newcastle, NSW. In her 30s Susan went on a search for her biological parents. It would take her 20 years and all around Australia. When she finally met them, they turned out to be nothing like she expected. Susan's memoir The Love That Remains is out now through Allen and Unwin. | Producers: Bre Jones and Rebecca Merrick
Ron McCallum is the former Dean of the University of Sydney Law School, the chair the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva, and a senior Australian of the year. He is also completely blind, in fact, he has never been able to see. His memoir is called 'Born At The Right Time'. | Producers: Bre Jones & Rebecca Merrick
Joey is joined by A'isyiyah - activist, community organiser and vocalist of SMAC nominated, anti-colonial hardcore group Arafura. Before music, A'isyiyah spent their childhood fighting for their family's rights to stay in Australia. It's this context that has informed a lot of their politics, expressed through music and otherwise.
Arafura have just released a self-titled EP available via Bandcamp. All proceeds from the digital sales go to the Firesticks Alliance. | Producers: Bre Jones & Rebecca Merrick
Osman Faruqi is a journalist and commentator. And in that pursuit, he’s been exposed some of the most vitriolic, tactical abuse that Australia’s far right are capable of producing. Os has also had a stint as an engineer-in-training, been a political operator, and of-course has spent some time on the airwaves at FBi Radio. | Producers: Bre Jones & Rebecca Merrick
Jane Caro is now known best for her advocacy as a writer and public commentator but it all started in the no rules, man’s world of Australian advertising in the 1970s. Now with over 8 books behind her, including a memoir and a fiction series she has become synonymous with her advocacy around education reform and feminism. | Producers: Bre Jones & Rebecca Merrick
From South West Sydney, Avani is weeks away from taking over as the presenter of Triple J’s youth issues and current affairs program, Hack. Like many figures in the Australian media landscape, Avani got her chops right here at FBi Radio before she spent nearly three years as a reporter in the wild north at ABC Darwin. | Producers: Bre Jones & Rebecca Merrick
Clare Bowditch has an impressive stack of achievements to her name: seven albums, an acting career, a stack of ARIA’s, and a Rolling Stone Magazine ‘Woman of the Year’ nod. But away from the public view, she’s overcome childhood grief, found a way to manage anxiety and embraced life in just about a million ways. Her memoir, 'Your Own Kind of Girl' is out now. | Producers: Bre Jones & Rebecca Merrick
Debra Keenahan is a psychologist, academic, artist and activist. Currently undertaking her second PhD, she explores themes of Dehumanisation and the Disability Aesthetic throughout her work in both academia and visual art. Debra also has dwarfism and her experience of being Othered, sometimes with extreme cruelty, looms large in her work. It also gives her a unique perspective of humanity at its best and its worst. Debra’s works Being Debra and #Belittled are currently showing at The Big Anxiety Festival, presented by the University of NSW. | Producers: Bre Jones and Rebecca Merrick
With an estimated 40,000 hours of music programming under her belt, Gayle Austin is Australia’s first female rock DJ. A true trailblazer, Gayle started working in Sydney radio in the late 1960s, producing for the shock jock John Laws among other icons of the airwaves. She then became an on-air icon herself, as a founding presenter of the ABC’s radical, underground youth station Double J in 1975. | Producers: Bre Jones and Rebecca Merrick
Writer Ruby Hamad’s bread and butter is tackling big issues like identity and intersectionality. As the daughter of Syrian-Lebanese refugees, Ruby has experienced the breadth of what it means to belong to a marginalised group in Australian society. She’s resisted cultural expectations from her family, fought discrimination in the work place, and the othering that Australia often dishes out to migrant groups. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Mornings radio star, Bridie Tanner, joins Out of the Box for our special Supporter Drive episode. From growing up in regional NSW, travelling around Australia in a protest rave as a young kid and coming to terms with the onset of her Mum’s mental illness at a young age, Bridie has brought a whole lot of life experience to the microphone. | Become an FBi Radio supporter at fbiradio.com/support | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
When protest broke out on the streets of Fergusson, Missouri in opposition to police violence against African American’s and other minorities, DeRay left a comfortable job as a school administrator and took up the cause of chronicling the resistance via Twitter. Not long after he has become one of the Black Lives Matter movements most high profile activists. Traveling the world with a cautious vision for truth and justice. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
On this day 16 years ago, Stuart Buchanan was one of the many midwives and midhusbands who helped birth FBi Radio. In the early 2000’s, he was at the frontier carving out the relationship between music and the internet at inception. Once the General Manager of FBi, Stuart is now Head of Digital Programming at The Sydney Opera House where he continues to dedicate his life to the weird and wonderful future of sound. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Glenn is a photographer and photojournalist with a purpose. For 25 years Glenn has carried the flag of human rights and environmental activism through his camera. It’s a passion and a mission that has quite literally taken him all around the world, from South Africa to central Australia, Botswana to Tahiti, and most recently through the Arctic waters where he was a photographer on the Sea Shepherd vessel, The Bob Barker, putting his life on the line to stop whaling. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
For 20 years Murray graced Australian televisions as the Red Wiggle. He played everywhere from regional NSW to New York’s Maddison Square Garden and became a much loved part of millions of childhoods. Since wrapping up with The Wiggles, he’s been busy playing with the DZ Deathrays, recording in the US with his band The Soul Movers and advocating for Australian music. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Hazem Shammas last year won a Logie for his role in TV show Safe Harbour, a drama which follows the story of five Australians who set out on a sailing holiday and encounter an overcrowded fishing boat of desperate asylum seekers.
But it was a long trip to the podium one that goes right back to his Palestinian parents’ migration from a small village in northern Israel in the 1970s to an insurmountable challenge of being typecast as either a drug dealer or criminal on Australian screens. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Michael Mohammed Ahmad came of age as a young Muslim man in Western Sydney in the notoriously violent world of Punchbowl Boys High. This became the setting for his award-winning book a work of autobiographical fiction called The Lebs. He is also the founder and director of Sweatshop, a literacy movement in Western Sydney devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse communities through literacy and creative expression. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Emelda’s grandfather was kidnapped on a beach in Vanuatu and brought to Australia as a 12 year old boy to work in unspeakably harsh conditions on the sugar plantations of Northern Queensland. It’s a story that makes her a direct descendent of blackbirding - Australia’s forgotten slave trade. Her own life has been defined by identity, community and a healthy dose of black power.
Emelda Davis is the head of Australia’s South Sea Islanders - Port Jackson, the principal body advocating for the recognition of blackbirding and Australian South Sea Islander culture. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Bri Lee was a District Court Judge's Associate in Queensland where she was exposed to some of the worst rape cases in the country. It was dealing with these traumatic stories that spurred Bri to confront her own history of sexual abuse and take the man that assaulted her to court. Her book is Eggshell Skull, its examination of the toll that our justice system takes on women and all survivors of abuse. Quickly become a leading advocate in this space. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Today Joey chats with bass player Ray Ahn of Australia’s thumping 80s pub rock bands, controversially titled, The Hard-Ons. Ray acts as a chronicler of the wild Australian DIY scene of the 80s and 90s through his blog and, of course, his writing is full of stories about his own bands. In 2017 he released a book of his art titled, “The Art of Ray Ahn – What I Did During My School Holidays” and Ray will be hitting the road later this year with The Hard-Ons in support of their latest album, So I Could Have Them Destroyed. | Producers: Bre Jones & Nicole De Palo
Rick Morton is a social affairs journalist and writer, but Rick’s own story is a social affairs scoop like no other. When Rick was little growing up in the extremely remote and dusty Qld outback a terrible accident was followed by the break-up of his family. His mum and siblings were driven out of the family home into a poverty they never quite managed to escape. | Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
As a young boy, Dor Akech Achiek spent 9 years in a refugee camp in Kenya, after escaping war-torn South Sudan.
Once Australia accepted his family as refugees, as a teenager, Dor was educated at one of Sydney's most prestigious private schools.
He's recently represented Australia at the UNHCR and the Global Youth Refugee Youth Conference in Geneva.
Steve Bunbajee Hodder Watt is a radio maker but you won’t hear him stuck in traffic in the city.
As the Senior News & Current Affairs presenter at Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association he broadcasts from Alice Springs into the desert, his audience hailing from some of the most remote parts of Australia, and some of that have been hit hardest by poor government policy.
He’s currently in Sydney for Audiocraft - it’s a podcast festival running from tomorrow until Sunday.
Mahmood Fazal was once the sergeant-of-arms of the Mongols, one of Australia’s largest outlaw motorcycle clubs. He was in an environment shrouded in addiction, violence and often death. Now this is the world and subculture he writes about for Vice Australia.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Nina Oyama, has been a bong smoker, a party goer, and done a dash working the counter at Supré but she is nothing short of a chronic overachiever.
Just out of uni she was picked up to play a recurring role in the hit comedy Utopia, she was a comedy writer and performer on Tonightlywith Tom Ballard, and her self-written three part series The Angus Project was picked for the ABC’s Fresh Bloodinitiative just to name a few of her credits.
Her award-winning stand up show Needs a Liftis playing at Sydney Comedy Festival every night until Sunday 19 May.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Karl Kruszelnicki is better known as ‘Dr Karl’ is an Australian science communicator and populariser. Dr Karl can be found on radio and television spitting out interesting but bizarre facts on science.
Dr Karl joins Joey on Out of the Box today to discuss how he ended up in Australia, the variety of jobs he’s worked and teaches us how radio works.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Akala is a rapper, who through his music, activism and writing are confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of the British Empire.
Our guest today has spoken at writers festivals, addressed the prestigious Oxford Union, done viral Ted Talks, written for rags as high flying as The Guardian and The Independent and researched history all around the world.
Akala joins Joey on Out of the Box today to discuss his childhood, street violence and race.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Fiona Wright is a writer, poet and critic from South Sydney. While attending university at the age of 19, a malicious version of anorexia struck. One that would define her life today.
She is now an essayist and poet — reflecting on her experiences. Her book of essays, Small Acts of Disappearance, won the 2016 Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and her poetry collection, Knuckled, won the 2012 Dame Gilmore Award.
Fiona joins Joey on Out of the Box to discuss growing up, her experience in hospital, and living in Sri Lanka.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Ella Dreyfus is a photographer with an impressive career spanning over 30 years. Her work is often confronting and deals with issues as conceptual as masculinity to as real as the holocaust, and the shadow it has cast over her family history.
Ella is now a Senior Lecturer and Head of Public Programs at the National Art School in Sydney.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Sara Mansour is a lawyer, poet, co-founder and director of Bankstown Poetry Slam. Sara uses her art and passion for justice to empower others through poetry.
Sara Mansour, the oldest of eight children, was born into a traditional Lebanese family. She would attend Arabic school each week, learning and memorising the Qu’ran. At the time it was unveiled, it was seen as a collection of poetry, which allowed Sara to feel reconnected with a part of herself when she started performing poetry.
In high school, Sara’s love and interest in rap and hip-hop were born from trying to fit in with the people around her and reconcile her place in Australia as "other". However, this leads to her developing her interest in writing poetry and what would result in co-founding the Bankstown Poetry Slam.
Sara most recently has co-founded her own company Alepha where she hopes to engage with diverse writers, speakers, thinkers and teachers in meaningful opportunities.
Sara joins Joey on Out of the Box to discuss being raised by migrant parents in Australia, the Christchurch attacks and how she plans to make a difference to society.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Eddie Woo is an Australian mathematician best known for his YouTube Channel focused on explanations of math problems, live from the classroom.
Eddie’s parents placed a lot of importance on education, as they had packed up and left Malaysia to give their children better prospects. So when Eddie told them he wanted to be a teacher, they weren’t exactly thrilled.
However, having over half a million subscribers on his YouTube channel and a ‘master teacher’ with the NSW Department of Education, Eddie’s parents are more than supportive. Eddie is not only teaching students to love mathematics, but he is also influencing the role of the teacher in the classroom.
Eddie joins Joey on Out of the Box to discuss fitting into Australian culture, his struggles at school and his philosophy to teaching.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Nikhil Autar is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, writer, speaker, medical student, and survivor of childhood cancer.
Growing up Nikhil's dad made him watch every episode of M.A.S.H, where the character Hawkeye inspired him to become a doctor due to his humour and caring for fundamental human rights.
However, in the first term of year 12 Nikhil's health was declining, where it was later discovered he had leukemia. Nikhil went through 21 cycles of chemotherapy, two bone marrow transplants, and the highest dose of radiation allowed before a bone marrow transplant.
Remarkable, Nikhil is now in remission, and nothing is slowing him down due to the healthy mindset he instilled in himself during treatment. He has won the Student Start-Up on the year in 2018 and is on the NSW brand of the Sydney Youth Cancer Service advisory committee. This is all while he completes his childhood dream of becoming a doctor.
Nikhil joins Joey on Out of the Box to discuss living with an uncle with cancer, his own journey and where he is at now.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Clementine Ford, is a prominant Australian feminist, writer and broadcaster. With two books, and a large social media following, Clementine is to the point in calling out sexism, and harpering on the importance of Feminism.
Growing up, Clementine and her family were constantly moving from country to country, which brought on a heap of mental health struggle. These struggles followed her through her pregnancy, but she has taken it in her stride to talk about these tabbot issues, and let people know they are not alone.
Clementine joins Joey on Out Of The Box to discuss her youth, her relationship with her family, her mental health journey, and how she became the loud feminist icon she is today.
In her book Fight Like A Girl, she says:
“Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they must twinkle, twinkle if they want anyone to pay attention to them.”
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Aunty Norma Ingram is a proud Indigenous woman, who was at the centre of the black movement in Australia in the 1970s, and is still fighting for Aboriginal rights now.
Aunty Norma is a Wiradjuri woman born in Cowra NSW and raised on ‘Erambie’ Aboriginal Reserve. Although the youngest of 11 children, her mother never failed to encourage the importance of education, and the impact it can have on a person’s life. She is the first Australian Indigenous woman to graduate from Harvard.
“She strongly encouraged me as the youngest, well, all of us, but particularly me as the youngest, to get an education. ‘You can’t get anywhere, you have to have an education”
Heavily involved in the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs, and influenced by the Black Panther movement coming out of the US, Aunty Norma became involved in the Children’s program, which integrated Aboriginal culture into its learning programs.
Aunty Norma joins us today talking about her childhood, the genesis of self-determination, to her current campaign to become the local member of Newtown.
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Eva Cox is a woman who likes to push for change from the outside in. Eva is an activist, a feminist, socialist and social commentator.
Eva Cox was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, just weeks before Hitler marched into Austria. She grew up as a refugee in England with her mother, but her family eventually settled in Sydney, Australia, where Eva was once again on the outskirts of a new place.
Placed on the outskirts once more, this didn’t stop Eva from being a strong woman but rather pushed her to create change within society. Eva has dedicated her life to elevating the status of women, particularly migrant women due to her own experience.
On her personal website, she refers to herself as a "political junkie" and explains her passion for activism by suggesting, "My father used to embarrass me and adolescent friends by asking what we had done to save the world that day, so maybe it's genetic to feel that if something is wrong, I should try to fix it."
Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo
Mojo Juju, founding member, songwriter and vocalist for notorious, seven-piece noir punk/garage switch bank ‘The Snake Oil Merchants’, sits down and tell us how she broke out on her own, although being told multiple times she was ‘too queer, too brown or not attractive enough to sell records.’
Mojo Juju draws inspiration from Jazz, early blues and Latin American ‘Pachuco’ culture of the 1930s and 1940s. Her latest album Native Tongue, discusses identity politics are coming from a place that is accessible to all — not just academics.
“I wanted to do something that addressed it from my own perspective, but approached it in a way that was very personal – because I don’t think that you can remove the personal from the political or vice versa.”
Producers: Brie Jones and Nicole De Palo
Stella Donnelly is an Australian musician from Perth, Australia.
Donnelly started off singing Green Day songs in her high school rock band. This eventually leads to her interest in jazz and contemporary as an adult studying at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
After two whirlwind years of international record deals, massive spots, and calling out bulls**t, Stella is preparing to release her debut album.
Producer: Nicole De Palo and Bre Jones
Today Joey chats to Father Rod Bower.
In July 2013 the sign outside the Gosford Anglican Church was thrust into the center of Australia’s national conversation when Rod changed it to read 'DEAR CHRISTIANS. SOME PPL ARE GAY. GET OVER IT. LOVE GOD’
Rod posted the message on the Anglican Parish of Gosford Facebook page. It went viral.
Five years on, and a healthy dose of death threats later we’ve seen signs reading anything from “BOO THE BIGOTS. WE STAND WITH ADAM GOODES.” , to “CHANGE LEADER, CHANGE NOTHING. CHANGE SYSTEMS, CHANGE THE WORLD".
In recent months Father Rod has published his autobiography Outspoken, and announced his senate candidacy as an independent in this year's federal election.
Producer: Bre Jones
Lexi grew up in the leafy eastern suburbs of Sydney in a secular Jewish family – the granddaughter of Hungarian refugees.
Perhaps she didn’t know it at the time but after having a go as a play write, a short career in acting at the Bell Shakespeare company, and a move to New York it would be the leafy east of her childhood that would provide the setting of her debut novel.
Published last year 'Innaprorpiation' has become a phenomenal success in the US making New York Magazine’s top 10 list for 2018.
Today Joey chats to drag artist Le Gateau Chocolat.
Gateau was raised in the bustling seaside Nigerian city of Lagos, in a conservative Pentecostal family – he grew up suppressing his identity in an environment where being gay was forbidden.
At 16 he moved to the UK to attend boarding school, which became a law degree.
But soon he shook of the traditional route and, almost by accident, he became a drag-inflected diva with a soaring operatic baritone that he lends to the compositions of everyone from Whitney to Guiseppi Verdi.
Today, rapper, poet, playwright, and novelist, Omar Musa.
When Omar was growing up in the regional NSW town of Queenbeyan, the son of a theatre historian and Malaysian poet, he fell slowly into the world of the arts– driven partly by an obsessive desire to create, and partly by the injustices he saw in the Australia’s combustible society.
It would be the basis for a life spent creating in all forms. One that would take him from seedy record labels in London, to otherworldly cultural experiences in California, and back to his family roots in Borneo.
As a rapper Omar has collaborated with some of the greats – Horrorshow, Kate Tempest, Marc E. Bassy, and Akala to name a few. Beyond that his poetry books, and novel have both been widely acclaimed. He’s currently finishing a run of his self written, self performed play Since Ali Died at Sydney festival.
Today Joey speaks to Stuart Coupe.
When Stuart moved from the northern Tasmanian town of Launceston to Adelaide in the mid-70s he was a representative squash player, with a passion for music, and an unlikely taste for counter culture.
It was not long before he fell into the world of music – his own zine roadrunner was a quiet step into a career that would see him come face to face with the likes of Bob Dylan, and Mick Jagger, manage Paul Kelly and the Hoodoo Gurus, and promote acts as varied Chris Whitley, Lucinda Williams, and Harry Dean Stanton.
In more recent times he has taken up radio. On Tuesday he hosts Tune Up - a show dedicated to covers - due to that and the many other shows he has hosted over the years he is often referred as the god father of FBi radio.
Today Joey speaks to the owner of Oxford Art Factory Mark Gerber.
When Mark Gerber moved to Australia in 1971 he was a ten year old with a budding appreciation for the arts. His life to that point split between Denmark and the Netherlands.
His new home city of Sydney would be the launch pad for global careers, as a musician, dj, actor, model, and promoter all driven by an obsessive fascination culture - the new and the exciting.
But it was in 2005 when he took over a former record store three blocks from Hyde Park in the inner Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst that a long term dream of an inclusive, innovative creative space would come to life.
It would be called the Oxford Art Factory and over the past 11 years, under Mark’s management, it has go onto become one the most respected cultural institutions in Sydney.
Today Joey speaks to Ravi Prasad.
Almost eight years ago Ravi watched his eldest daughter stop breathing moments after she was born – she survived, but it was a moment that changed everything.
Up to that point he’d spent twenty years working in the often-vacuous world of advertising – an environment where as Ravi himself says ‘the higher you climb the thinner the air.’
Skip forward a few years and Ravi is now the owner of Parliament on King, a café set up in his own living room on South King Street in the inner city suburb of Newtown that provides life-transforming hospitality training and work for refugees and asylum seekers.
Over two years Serge has chatted with an incredible selection of people from the rapper Briggs, to journalist Jan Fran, to Anthony Albanese MP – his radio life continues now at triple J where he produces Hack.
But there is more to Serge than radio. In his short years he’s been a wildlife ambassador, child actor, skate board fiend, Italian football hooligan, and the survivor of a life threatening injury.
At just 16 years of age Chris Csab began gay conversion therapy and in decade following, it left him celibate, feeling a deep sense of shame, and ultimately suicidal. But his story is one that has light at the end of the tunnel and chris is now a gay christian LGBTQIA advocate who is pushing governments to stop gay conversion therapy.
Indigenous broadcasting and all-round media talent Emily Nichols talks to Serge about powerful indigenous women and the best and brightest new indigenous artists.
Presenter and reporter for The Feed on SBS Marty Smiley talks to Serge about his Lebanese heritage and making great stories with a tongue in cheek.
Mari Andrew is a writer and illustrator in New York City who has taken Instagram by storm with her modern take on becoming an adult.
The greatest snowboarder of all time, 3 times Olympic gold medalist, 15 times X-games gold medalist Shaun White talks to Serge about what life is like for a GOAT!
American writer and journalist Alexis Okeowo works for the new yorker as a staff writer and has spent years reporting across Africa, the experience of which she has now chronicled in a new book.
Comedian, radio presenter and all-round funny man Dave Thornton chats to Serge about throwing away a secure job to become a dad and tour the comedy circuit.
James Maskarlick is an emergency room doctor from Canada and a member for Medicins sans frontiers who spends half his life working in a state-of-the-art hospital in Toronto, the other half, in make do emergency rooms in Africa.
Indigenous academic Jennifer Newman talks to Serge about the changing face of education for Australia's first people.
Comedian, writer and all-round media star Jen Wong talks to Serge about racism and passionate enthusiasm for work.
Woman, muslim, boxer, boss... what more is there to say about Bianca Elmir? A lot! Listen in to Her candid chat about going from kidnapped kid to boxing bad ass.
Journalist, documentary maker and presenter of The Feed on SBS chats to Serge about travel, the media and feminism.
The notorious Sydney street artsist Scott Marsh talks to Serge Negus about the politics of art, the graff scene and making a living out of what you love.
Features editor at VICE Australia Maddison Connaughton talks to Serge about the ups and the downs of working as a young journo.
Tim Omaji aka Timomatic talks to Serge about pop music, creating, and the realities of being an African migrant in modern Australia.
Comedian, writer and political satirist Mark Humphries talks to Serge about finding humour in the darkness of politics.
Trans activist, dancer, creator and all-round star Bhenji Ra talks influence and progression with Serge Negus.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott's Lesbian sister talks about the public and polarising battle over marriage equality with her brother.
Editor-in-Chief of the Surfing World magazine Vaughan Blakey talks early days hedonism in surfing, the evolution of the sport and waves pools.
There is far more to Osher Günsberg than simply handing out roses on reality television. Hear his deeply insightful chat with Serge Negus where they talk politics, refugee policy and mental health.
Justin Jones is a hardcore adventurer, breaking records like being the first to kayak from Australia to New Zealand, first to ski to the South Pole unassisted, and in his latest effort, walking half way across Australia with his one-year-old daughter and wife.
Nicola Barr is the number one draft pick for the Greater Western Sydney Giants Women’s AFL team, solidifying a meteoric rise from an aussie rules newbie, to one Australia’s most talented AFL prospect.
Julia George was Barak Obama's 2008 election campaign manager, now she is a psychic and clairvoyant.
Madison Stewart otherwise known as Shark Girl, free dives and interacts in an incredible intimate way with sharks that people have been lead to believe are indiscriminate killers.
Sally Rugg has made it her life work to better social equality, including leading the Same Sex Marriage YES VOTE campaign.
Greens state member for Newtown talks social justice, police intimidation and being a young mum in parliament.
Jeff Khan is a curator and writer working across performance, dance and the visual arts.
Dean Sewell is one of Australia’s top independent documentary photographers and photojournalist. He has been the recipient of three World Press Photo Awards for works covering the transition of East Timor to an independent state, Australian Bushfires.
Ian Keteku a Canadian poet and multi-media artist who was 2010 World Poetry Slam champion. Hear him talk race, culture, diversity and love.
Wiradjuri woman and Federal Labor MP Linda Burney is Australia’s first indigenous woman to serve in the House of Representatives and she was also the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament..
Award winning crime journalist Dan Box speaks to Serge about the notorious crimes he's covered and the impact they've had on him.
Multi-talented Yorta Yorta rap superstar Adam Briggs talks to Serge Negus about, racism, comedy and writing with the creators of The Simpsons.
Kelly Brooke Nicholls has spent years in Colombia and latin America working as a journalist and in human-rights activist, experiencing the trauma and tragedy of the drug wars.
Acclaimed singer songwriter Shellie Morris speaks to Serge Negus about finding her long lost heritage after being adopted out as a baby.
Showgirl and author Jenevieve Change rebelled from her conservative Chinese roots and discovered what race and identity really mean.
Illegal immigrant Umit Bali spent 15 years on the run from immigration before he realised the funny side of it, and decided to become a comedian.
Gangster, ice tester, criminal, Johnny Nguyen talks to Serge Negus about falling into a life of crime and fighting his way out.
Director, curator and influencer Aislinn Lowe talks what it takes to kill it as young woman in the creative world.
Gay, Indigenous and a Liberal party candidate, a few things you wouldn't usually put together, but that is Geoffrey Winters, hear him break down social stereotypes with Serge Negus.
At the age of eleven, Daniel Monks was struck down by a crippling acquired disability, and the realisation of his homosexuality... Leading him on journey down a dark path, that he has now well and truly emerged out of with flying colours.
Sexologist Juliet Allen talks about unhealthy relationships with sex and what we can do to...do it better.
Editor of The Cusp Amelia Marshall talks about what it means to be a young and moving into adulthood.
Gamilaroi man, dancer, artist and writer Travis De Vries chats to Serge about what it means to be young and black in Australia today.
Arthur Alla realised that something need to be done to bridge the divide between kids living in the bush and kids in the city. So he started Red Earth, an organisation which connects Indigenous Australians from remote homelands with young people from the city. Work which saw him receive an award for NSW young Australian of the near and a nomination for Young Australian of the year.
Damien Power is one of the rising stars in the Australian comedy scene, hear him chat philosophy, ideology and politics.
Nevo Zisin is a 21-year-old transgender activist who identifies as queer, transmasculine and non-binary. Nevo has just released an autobiography about gender and their journey to identity.
Growing up with a single mother living in share houses, Jed Smith represents a voice rarely heard from, working class breadline Australia.
Anthony Albanese MP grew up in a Camperdown public housing block. He was raised by a single mother who instilled a deep sense of social justice in a boy who would one day become the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
James 'Breko' Brechney is a gay icon in Sydney. Hear his chat with Serge about being a prankster, loving showbiz and his work on the board of Mardi Gras.
Archibald Prize finalist Kim Leutwyler talks to Serge about opening discussion with art, sexuality, inequality and marriage equality.
Comedian and former Triple J presenter Kyran Wheatley chats to Serge about why the Hottest 100 should change dates (as well as Australia Day), his 'illegal' engagement, bisexuality and the future of alternative Australia.
Emele Ugavule is an actor and creative artist who started Black Birds, an all female project that aims to dissect Non-Indigenous Black & Brown experiences of Australia both theatrical and non-theatrical.
Rhoda Roberts is an incredible force at the forefront of bringing Indigenous arts and music into the spotlight. She is the director of Indigenous programming at Sydney Opera House and developed Boomerang festival. She is a broadcaster, actor and journalist and dropped by to talk to Serge about culture, Indigenous representation on TV and violence against women.
Well-known Australian comedian, producer, TV personality and Gold Logie winner Rove Mcmanus stops by and talks to Serge about being an animal lover, the origins of nicknames and getting his start in community TV.
Marc Fennell (aka That Movie Guy) is a Australian broadcast junkie known for his work on The Feed, Hungry Beast, Download This Show and Triple J. Hear his chat with Serge about film, being raised in a religious family and being omnipresent in the industry.
Damien Thomlinson is a an Afghan war veteran and SAS Commando who lost both legs after a Taliban attack in 2009. Hear Damien chat to Serge about what it takes to kill, the horrors of war and growth through tragedy.
Vanessa Marian is a dancer and the founder of Groove Therapy, which aims to inspire people of all backgrounds and ages to develop the confidence to express themselves through dance...and in turn provides them with a little bit of the healing power of dance.
Outgoing FBi Radio music director Stephen Goodhew talks religion, death, Kanye West and what gives music soul.
Kuku-Yalanji/Wemba Wemba man Bjorn Stewart an Gomeroi man Colin Kinchela are from the Cope St Collective. Hear the boys chat with Serge about all things Indigenous comedy, theatre arts, whilst breaking down the realities of racism and inequality in modern Australia.
Paul De Gelder is a conservationist, soldier and shark attack survivor. Here him chat growing up in Canberra, his time on stage with Snoop Dog, joining the army and the shark attack that took two limbs and almost his life.
Yasmin Suteja is a photographer, filmmaker, social influencer and creator of Culture Machine. She popped in to chat about social media, forging her own way in the online workforce and growing up in Australia in a diverse multicultural family. She also brought with her some fab 90's music.
Danielle Harvey is a festival curator extraordinaire, managing and creating festivals such as Mardi Gras, Festival Of Dangerous Ideas and All About Women. Danielle Harvey is a festival curator extraordinaire, managing and creator festivals such as Mardi G
Actor Sean Keenan, known best for his TV role in the adaptation of the 1979 novel Puberty blues, drops by to talk growing up in Busselton, Western Australia, his progression from child actor to well known name and diversity within the film industry.
Award winning arts and fine arts photographer Nic Bezzina talks growing up in Broken Hill, his connection to hardcore and the characters that inspire his pictures.
Indigenous playwright and performer Katie Beckett opens up on being a young mother, docs, racism and changing the status quo when comes to indigenous content on our stages and screens.
Federal Labor MP Tony Burke talks motivations for going into politics, indigenous issues, environment and how to protect Australia's music industry.
Psychologist and refugee Mary Hoang walks us through the life of a first generation Australia, the problems she faced and what she did to overcome them (whilst giving a few self help psychology tips along the way).
Co-founder and CEO of digital youth, culture and news publication Pedestrian.TV, breaks down the beats that shaped his career.
Environmentalist, anti-plastic campaigner, co-founder and CEO of Take-3 For The Sea, Tim Silverwood shares the songs that inspire his work.
Interview god, photographer, videographer and host of Out Of The Box for two and half years, Ash Berdebes has the tables turned on herself to reveal the woman behind microphone.
Existential nihilist / believer / frontman on Gang of Youths, David Le'aupepe shares his formative music and plays a live song by Wilco.
Sex worker and writer Tilly Lawless on the laws and mores of her industry, and the terrible music played in massage parlours and at original bush doofs. Edited by Harry Domanski.
Queen of the Secret Garden, Clare Downes talks about the highs and lows of the festival, family and love.
Edited by Harry Domanski.
Kirk Docker is a Walkley award-winning video journalist. He launched Vive Cool City. He's been a Hungry Beast. And now he doesn't care if You Can't Ask That.
Edited by Harry Domanski.
Actor, producer and poet Stephanie King on her journey from being cooked in a cupboard, to gyrating on the floor, to floating towards academia, to being yanked back into art.
Jess Miller is bashing the campaign trail at the moment with TeamClover. Meet the Gath Hat-wearing, nose-picking potential council member through her stories and music.
THE MEETING TREE r u a cop 12:00 // BIKINI KILL Double Dare Ya // 28 DAYS Goodbye // JORGE BEN JOR Take It Easy My Brother Charlie // PEACHES Fuck The Pain Away // NORAH JONES Don't Know Why // LE TIGRE Deceptacon // HIPPIE SABOTAGE Devil Eyes // JORDAN COREY Imagination //
'Cleverman' Hunter Page-Lochard on ghost investigating, soul dancing and and history repeating.
Stephanie McCarthy on macho towns, failures of justice, and being trans in Australia; all set to a few decades in punk.
Emily Parsons-Lord on distilling air from deep history, working with refugees on Christmas Island and talking to a clothes rack.
MOGWAI Hungry Face AL BOWLLY Guilty BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground YEO Quiet Achiever Aus VAN MORRISON Caravan NINA SIMONE Rags and Old Iron KUCKA Divinity (Mazde Remix) Aus
Meet Bear Pack cellist, ABC journalist and rap tragic, Ange Lavoipierre.
JAY Z 99 Problems
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Stagger Lee Aus
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Homeless
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Feel Good Hit of the Summer
CAT POWER I Don't Blame You
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Bad Moon Rising
JAMES BLAKE f.o.r.e.v.e.r
ROYAL HEADACHE Girls NSW
JUSTIN BIEBER Sorry
Zoe Coombs Marr on her marriage to Rhys Nicholson, life growing up in Grafton and being Dave.
Lord of the mixtape and owner of Freda's bar David Abram shares his life and thoughts through fabulous tunes.
Ianto Ware on the history of liquor licenses, binge drinking and making creative space in cities.
Ian Flanders unflinchingly points his camera into the ethical minefield of sex slaves, prostitutes and death.
Blues singer, saxophonist, and former Black Panther Party member Marlene Cummins came on Out of the Box to reminisce about her colourful life, the light, the dark, and the music that accompanied it all.
Music therapist Max Schollar-Root on the therapeutic benefits of music throughout every life.
Newtown Fire Chief and historian Matt Murphy on the dodgy stuff you see in local fire emergencies and the dodgy figures of local convict history.
A.H.Cayley on The Troubles in Ireland, the feeling of home in music, the rigours of life as a young creative, running FBi's politics and current affairs show with a sleep disorder, and finding family in Gooddod Small Club.
When Yassmin Abdel-Magied isn't binge watching Netflix, she's working on oil and gas rigs, running initiatives like Youth Without Borders, frothing over race cars, and just generally defying expectations placed on young muslim women.
In the lead up to Mardi Gras, Walkley Award nominated journalist Patrick Abboud talks about coming out to Arabic parents, loving Icelandic music, finding long lost family, enjoying bus breakdowns and making beautiful documentaries.
Yaryna Kvitka and Volodymyr Muliar rolled into Sydney on bikes, all the way from Ukraine! They are Folknery; a Ukrainian modern folk band, and they've been on the road for 16 months, collecting traditional folk songs from communities along the way. They were also part of the massive months-long revolution in Maidan, for which they maed a bit of an anthem against the government at the time. In this episode, hear that song, plus two others played live in the studio.
Kelli Jean Drinkwater's creative practice critiques society's perceptions of people of size and encourages a diverse, body positive visibility.
The man who brought FBi radio 5 years' worth of 'Sociologic' Professor James Arvanitakis, on his life as a former banker, miracle child and social justice activist.
Warren Roberts started YARN to create a space for non-Indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to connect and discuss the past 200 years of shared history.
Norrie May-Welby defies categorisation with delight and spreads joy with bubbles. Norrie is a social justice activist, anarchist, political cartoonist, and the first person in the world to be declared 'gender non-specific' by the courts.
Anna supports Ghanaian garment makers through Yevu, by bringing their clothes to people who want to look loud and fabulous. She brought some loud and fabulous tracks on Out of the Box.
Ben Marshall talks about his journey from promoting events via snail mail to being Head of Contemporary Music at the Opera House.
Lawrence Leung on delivering a real baby as a TV Doctor, making bad David Lynchian films in high school, & his new film Sucker. All to a TV and film themed soundtrack. See 'Sucker' at Hoyts Broadway (Dec 3) or Hoyts Blacktown (Dec 4).
Daniel Robins on freeing refugees from Woomera Detention Centre, the wrath of ASIO and fighting unsafe mining with Lock the Gate.
Comedy writer & producer Kara Schlegl on interviewing her exes, growing up in a house made of billboards and diversity in comedy.
Atong Atem was born in Ethiopia, her family is from South Sudan but she grew up as a proud bogan on the Central Coast of NSW.
She acknowledges that she's somewhere in the middle, a Third Culture Kid. This extends into her photography work, exploring the ideas of colonialism and migrant narratives, and also extends into her motley taste in music.
Matt Baker is a bionanotechnologist, a spoken word poet enthusiast, a player of the gentlemanly sport of fencing and a DJ in the not-so-gentlemanly music genre dancehall. He also hosts a radio show every week on Bondi Beach Radio, has lived in New Zealand, California and England as well as travelled around to many other countries in the name of science and sport. His many and varied interests rarely intersect, but this week we spoke about most of them on Out of the Box as well as exploring the music with which he playlists his life.
Have you ever been to a gig in Sydney? If you have, then you've more than likely spent time in the same room with David James Young, our guest on Out of the Box this week. He's THAT guy, the one that everyone recognises because he really loves music and REALLY loves seeing it live.
He does other things with his time too though. He's a writer, a musician, podcast creator, among many other fab activities. This week he brought in a cracker majority Aussie playlist to give us a taste of what he feeds into his ears on the daily.
Juan Francisco Salazar is an anthropologist and film maker who came to Australia from Chile to become a doctor in Communication and Media at Western Sydney University. His speculative documentary, Nightfall on Gaia, was shot over 4 summers in Antarctica, and through the hour he spoke a bit about what it was like growing up around Pinochet's dictatorship.
What a boss! Blair Palese is the CEO of 350.org. She came in during our Business Time supporter drive to talk about being in the business of saving the world; from exposing the dumping of nuclear waste in the ocean, to getting banks to divest from mega mines in Australia.
During FBi Radio's 'Business Time' supporter drive, boss bitch and Executive Director of Vibewire Cass Mao conveniently played lots of business-related rap songs. She also told us what it was like being a prodigy and skipping Year 1 and Year 3 and about young people starting up their own dang businesses.
Dr Stefan Popescu is the co-director of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, an academic, an artist, and a bogan property tycoon. He made the leap to academia from growing up in Cabramatta, and talked about his experience of gangs there in this episode on Out of the Box.
This Out of the Box sees Emma Maye Gibson, also known as Betty Grumble coming in for a chat. A former child pageant star, beauty queen, and master of the burlesque, Emma is also interested in hyperfeminintiy and breaking down normal conventions of gender.
Olafur Arnalds came in for an hourlong special music interview with longtime fan and host, Ash Berdebes. In it they talked synths and Chopin, minimalism and the Tao te Ching, Mossfellsbaer, the beauty of imperfection, and playing games to create 'happy accidents' in music. Olafur gives some insight into how songs from his collaborations with Alice Sara Ott, Arnor Dan, Nico Muhly, Nils Frahm and Janus Rasmussen (Kiasmos) came about.
Double trouble on Out of the Box today with Jo Wallace and Heidi Haydon, locals of the inner-west area. Jo photographed Heidz as part of her rather successful Humans of Newtown. Heidi is paraplegic, after being hit by a ute while riding her motorcycle. Now, she's a motivational speaker and works to empower people with a spinal cord injury.
Like what these ladies are doing? There are plenty of ways you can get involved. Humans of Newtown has been so popular that the blog has been turned in a book. This Saturday, is the Book Launch at Newtown Social Club.
Heidz is running an online fundraising campaign alongside her brother this October. It's called Sing for Spinal Cord Injury and they want to raise $10, 000 for Spinal Cord Injuries Australia by encouraging musicians to record and upload a cover song every day in the month of October. You can donate here!
Roslyn Helper was our guest on Out of the Box for this last week of August! She's just recently decided to call herself and practice as a performance artist full time, though before that, she's was doing a whole range of bits and bobs, including life as a flautist, an accounts manager and a journalism student.
Most recently she's been the Human Google Project at Underbelly Arts and she's now curating the Electrofringe 2015 showcase this November. She's also one half of Zin, who worked with Marina Abramovic during her residency here in Sydney.
Lovely local lady Georgia Woodyard is our guest on Out of the Box this week. She's the gal behind Scout's Honour cafe in Redfern and in a previous life was a commercial lawyer and played basketball for Australia. Keep your eyes peeled in the coming months for her brand new bar in Redfern!
Today the interviewer interviews the interviewer: Fenella Kernebone brought her music expertise and good yarns to Out of the Box! We discussed her new podcast Trackwork, which unpacks one track per show - the samples, the ideas, the stories - with musicians like Fishing, PVT & Caitlin Park.
On today's show of Out Of The Box we have the ultimate powerhouse - Jaimie Leonarder. Jaimie's worked as a nurse, a social worker, (the kindest) film critic, and general Sydney cultural legend for over thirty years. With a distinct focus on stretching how music can be constructed by individuals, Jamie found a way to converge the world of mental illness and music, founding The Mu Mesons, a band from the 80s and 90s that was comprised of individuals with schizophrenia and depression.
Jaimie is now beginning his new project - Toho Nights - a weekly alternative club night with no musical restrictions or genre preference. Check out the Facebook event here!
While Nic Warnock works at Repressed Records in Newtown, is founder and director of R.I.P. Society Records and is part of the band Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, what it all comes down to is that he just really LOVES music. He share this love with us on Out of the Box this week, bringing some of his faves.
An artist, an academic and a media archaeologist walk into a Sydney bar... Ultimate slashie Pia van Gelder was our guest on Out of the Box today.
What's a media archaeologist? Want to know more about electrotherapy? Or like ethereal tunes (plus a bit o' pop)?
Check out Pia's work next weekend (August 1-2) at Underbelly Arts Festival on Cockatoo Island.
What's a media archaeologist? Want to know more about electrotherapy? Or like ethereal tunes (plus a bit o' pop)?
It only feels fitting during Dry July to discuss a film about giving up the booze. Our guest today on Out of the Box was director and writer of Ruben Guthrie, Brendan Cowell. Brendan spoke about his experience of giving up alcohol for a year, one that sparked Ruben Guthrie, his new film released in cinemas today and about how being too Sydney, can be too bad.
Our guest on today's episode of Out Of The Box, Nic Newling, chats to Ash about his experiences with mental illness growing up. After experiencing a fairly rough childhood (a gross understatement), Nic eventually became an advocate for mental health and suicide prevention, working on Bite Back, a national online wellbeing and resilience program for young people through the Black Dog Institute in Sydney. He also works in suicide prevention initiatives as an ambassador for R U OK?.
On this episode of Out Of The Box we've got Warwick Levy, founder of independent clothing brand The Lonely Kids Club. Lonely Kids Club houses a bunch of alternative and limited edition t-shirt and clothing designs, ranging from themes like Seinfeld to Pokemon.
Warwick chats with Ash about lying on his resume, growing up, and starting up his own label from scratch.
If you're interested in how porn impacts the brain, how race functions, or even why people believe in God then today's guest has you covered. She's an expert when it comes to bringing science to the real world, working on Radio National, Triple J and 702 ABC Sydney. She's written tonnes of articles for New Scientist, and has worked on Catalyst, The Checkout, and The Project. She's probably one of the only people that can make science seem interesting, and nothing is off limits for her. Move over Bill Nye the science guy, we've got Wendy Zukerman the science chick.
Onstage injuries, tackling fans, performing at bar mitzvahs, making a kids show for kids and making a kids show absolutely not for kids - it's always an interesting time to be the Umbilical Brothers.
"I think it's okay to lie about having two dads." "It's not normal. You're not normal. They're the kind of things which go around my head."
When we discuss marriage equality and the impact of same-sex parents on children's development, why don't we talk to the kids? Gayby Baby brings out a rarely-sought perspective. On today's episode we have a chat with Maya Newell, director of the film. The sold-out premiere is this Friday night as part of the Sydney Film Festival.
Wanna watch it? Keep checking the website for the next opportunity!
Aria award-winning artist and electronic music royalty, Paul Mac (aka one half of Itch-E and Scratch-E, aka Stereogamous) joined us for a fab hour of tunes (albeit being blasted with fumes taking over the FBi studios). He spoke about those pointy trophies, his album ten years in the making, Holiday From Me, working with unconventional artists and good good tunes.
It's a baptism of fire when you join FBi... welcome to this legend Jase Spiller, our new head of partnerships & integration! It was his fourth day, so of course we shoved a mic in his face and demanded some of his favourite tracks. Ash grilled him about community radio, work, travel and we were treated to some rad tunes not heard on radio for close to a decade... Great to have you in the FBi family, Jase!
On Out of the Box today our guests were Ash Maher and Jodie Fisher. They run the pitch-black zero-judgement dance experience that is No Lights No Lycra.
We talked Dengue fever, odd jobs, youth work and dancing in the dark.
Get in on the NLNL action here.
Dance like no one's watching, because literally no one can see you.
Tattoo artist Jimmy Memento and his apprentice Tom Townend of LDF Tattoo Studio were our guests on the show this week, chatting all things tattoo plus some things free diving.
The studio has an open day for consultations this Sunday 10 May, which also happens to be Mother's Day so head over to Newtown with yo mumma for a matching tattoo consult.
From Paris to New York to Sydney, James Gulliver Hancock has seen it all... and drawn it all, buildings, to be specific. An illustrator, author, hubby and dad, his creativity permeates into all realms of his life.
His book All the Buildings in Sydney is out on May 1. You can also check out his previous book All the Buildings in New York created in his one-time home, New York.
You can check out his workshop at the Finders Keepers Markets next weekend and James will help you draw your own home. If you want to win tickets to join him, tweet or insta @fbiradio and @gulliverhancock with a pic of something you've drawn around you! James will handpick the winner himself.
Penny Greenhalgh, resident funny gal, dropped by the station chat about her journey from uncomfortable boarding school kid to comedian and clown school graduate.
We danced, we laughed, and she brought in some rad tunes (with a distinctive Frenchy vibe).
Make sure you check out her show Pop Pop during the Sydney Comedy Festival at Enmore Theatre from May 12 to 15, 2015 - crowd surfing and ice dancing guaranteed.
Brain and merch guy Jaymen Elliott graced the airways this week. In a year's time he'll have his doctorate in neuroscience at UTS (by the time he's 25 - impressive!) so we spoke a little about his shift work research, sexuality and the brain, plus about his band tee sales at music festivals. We reminisced about life at Manly High and tunes his parents loved to crank.
Check out the playlist here.
Emerging designer, pompom fanatic, chicken lover and all-round sweetheart Sofie Teh was our guest on Out of the Box this week.
We chatted style, life without hair, rural towns, travelling in Asia all to an emotive soundtrack hand-picked by Sofie.
Check out Sofie's work on Instagram or Facebook!
On this episode of Out Of The Box Craig Schuftan - writer of Culture Club, Entertain Us, and Hey! Nietzsche, Leave Them Kids Alone! graced us with a chat. You may already heard him blasting through your headphones on Triple J mornings, or public speaking at lectures on music history, pop culture, Star Wars, or even the philosophy of disco. He played us an intriguing range of music, from Elvis Presley, to Hole to Steve Reich. Check out the full playlist here.
Our guest this week, Michael Mohammed Ahamad, is director of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and author of The Tribe.
We chatted about how music influences the Western Sydney Community, the importance of literacy and a bit of academia.
Andrew Bluff (aka. Rollerchimp) is a software engineer and new media interaction artist. He develops musical instrument apps including Mobile Phone Orchestra and Drumstudio and in the past has created speech therapy games such as Yakman and Speech Invaders.
Ash chatted to Andrew about idyllic moments in the Czech Republic, his previous life chained to a desk, former obsessions with kung-fu and tai-chi, and of course music that has influenced his interactive art, apps and studies.
Andrew's showing a interactive fluid system as a guest artist at Genext: Light Show at the MCA on April 19 plus a live visualisation of an experimental live electronic drumming crew at Hibernian house in April.
Professional funny person as well as comedian, actor, writer and improvisor Susie Youssef brought in an upbeat collection of tunes this week that had us grinning from ear to ear. We had a chat about pre-show rituals, owls, asylum seekers and black comedy.
You can catch her new show in April!
Typographer/letter lady/artist Gemma O'Brien brought in a wonderful mix of tunes this week and in between we spoke about tombstone writing, Comic Sans, design and a whole bunch of Gemma's weird and wacky experiences.
Today we went behind the news (reader) with SBS news anchor Janice Petersen who brought in a rad mix of tunes. We chatted women in the news, being in a power couple (being the partner Julian Morris of The Presets) and punk on the Central Coast.
Artistic director for the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival (March 3 - 22), Emmanuelle Denavit-Feller programmed a beautiful hour of music and spoke about her French background, French culture in Australia, French film and French stereotypes. Oh yeah and French music!
February 12 Margarita Sampson chatted this week about Norfolk Island, her sculpture, her art, losing all her posessions in the ocean and the music she creates to. Check out her exhibition Infectious Desires at Stanley Street Gallery, starting Feb 26 until March 14.
This week music critic for The Monthly Anwen Crawford programmed a fascinating hour of music on Out of the Box. Her book Live Through This about the Hole album of the same name has just been released in Australia. We chatted Courtney Love, New York, music and female confidence!
Evelyn Morris (aka Pikelet) programmed the music this week and in between we chatted new music, feminism, the name, the Listen project and the Noise in my Head.
Liked the tracks you heard on the show? Evelyn had a few more up her sleeve that we didn't have time for. Take a look below for extra rad tunes.
Bo Hansson - Leaving Shire Elephant Woman - Blonde Redhead C.O.B. - Eleven Willows Erkin Koray - Hale Yar True Strength - Black Song David Shire - No More Questions Chris Cohen - Heart Beat Beak - Battery Point Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Moon Gas
Chris Lego from Reclaim the Streets came in this week to talk about Newtown, WestConnex and Reclaim the Streets in between his music. Track listing here: http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2015-01-22
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 the Cronulla Riots in 2005, covered Hurricane Sandy from the front lines in 2012 using Instagram and has spent the last two years in and out of Afghanistan. He topped it all a few weeks back by winning the Nikon-Walkley photo of the year.
He came on Out of the Box to help us round out the year for our final show of 2014. We'll be back in early January 2015.
Full playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-12-18/
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 at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-12-11
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-of-the-box/2014-12-04/
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://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-11-27/
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
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
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
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 from the Flaming Lips. He'll be in this week to tell us about eight years of music photography and making his own dinosaur film.
Show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-10-30/
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 as Rhys Nicholson."
Playlist and show notes at http://www.fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-10-23
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/#auction
Playlist at http://www.fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-10-16
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/
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 23.
FBi Radio comes free over your radio every week, but we need your support to keep making it happen. If you haven't yet signed up, or you want to renew your membership, head on down to Drive FBi. You can help keep us the threadbare, evergreen-loving station that Dom and Adrian deign to acknowledge the existence of, from time to time.
Full playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-10-02/"
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/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-09-25/
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 desert playa. You know, the usual.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-09-18/
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 Spod's Orsumettes and played the glockenspiel a bit. She knows her music. She came into the studio to share a bit of it with us and tell us about the horses.
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, Without.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-09-04/
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/
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/
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. Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy, the Colours of Madeleine trilogy are just some of her books read widely in Australia, the US, UK and Latin America.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-08-07/
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 the chance to to turn FBi into one brief hour of his own dream music mag.
Full track list at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-07-24/
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 sets such as The Great Gatsby.
He now has a restaurant called Jonkanoo in Surry Hills: www.jonkanoo.com.au/
As well as a brand new Canteen at Goodgod Small Club.
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 refugee camp where her parents met and her brother was born — Khao-I-dang.
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 at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-07-03
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
Max Lavergne is the mastermind who unleashed the Spiders Georg factoid upon the internet, which was recently picked up and totally mis-interpreted by the Huffington Post. Other than his prolific tumblr-ing and tweeting he is also a producer and presenter on Triple J, has confessed at Confession Booth, late night libraried with Penguin Plays Rough, fed SBS' the Feed and puts on the bi-monthly TOD Talks events at Giant Dwarf.
This week on Out of the Box, Astrid Lorange. She's an associate lecturer at COFA, a researcher, teacher, poet, book indexer, essayist, and sometimes even a muso and an award-winning home brewer.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-06-12
SPECIAL LIVE SHOW: This week we come live from Carriageworks with artist Henry Coombes. Henry's work at the 19th Biennale, 'I am the Architect, this is not Happening, this is Unacceptable', is full of Eraserhead-like imagery, energetic middle-aged dancing and a mild descent into madness and/or art.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-06-05
Originally broadcast on July 11, 2013, this week we're bringing you last year's Sydney Writers Festival interview with Eli Horowitz by former Out of the Box host Heidi Pett. We're taking a week off as Vivid takes over FBi every midday this week.
Join us again next week, though, for our live broadcast! We're doing an open-to-the live show broadcast from the Carriageworks next week, with Biennale video artist Henry Coombes. Join us just outside the Carriageworks' Biennale exhibition ten to midday on Thursday, June 5th 2014. We'd love to see you there. Details here.
Zora Sanders is a an old soul trapped in the body of a young Melbourne writer. Currently editing Australia's second oldest literary journal, Meanjin, she is also interested in history and shps, presenting a history-mystery themed segment called The Zed Files with Jeff Sparrow on RRR in Melbourne.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-05-22
Andrew Johnstone started out dreaming to be an artist and accidentally became a designer. He's started Empty Magazine after a night drinking with a friend when they decided it would be a good idea to start a magazine. He found himself pitching an original idea for what has become an international design conference - called Semi Permanent - in Barcelona with co-founder Murray Bell. It's now in it's 11th year. They've had all sorts of amazing guests, who range from Pixar animator Andrew Gordon to Roman Coppola to this year's star catch Tony Hawk. Not bad for a boy from the 'Gong.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-05-15
Amelia Hepburn and Angela Aldred are the twin brains behind new cosy Redfern dive Your Ex Lovers. The pair met at art school and are going to tell us all about life after the tertiary while playing some of their favourite music.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-05-08/
If you've seen Mark Hawwa around town, the first word that probably leapt to mind was "dapper". Mark is the founder of the annual Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, which stakes its twin ambitions on raising money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and upping the sartorial chops of motorcyclists. He's also behind the upcoming bike show at The Vic, called Throttle Roll.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-05-01/
Tom Dawkins met nobel laureates at sixteen, helped found Vibewire while he was still at university and went on to co-found kickstarter-like, non-profit fundraising site StartSomeGood. Somewhere in there he's found time to have a family and a burning man presence, all in the same lifetime.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-04-24/
Today's guests are the dynamic duo responsible for the Shire's makeshift art gallery Space 44 and festival Sounds of the Suburbs, Jack Irvin and Aaron Girgis. A friendship forged out of scabbing lifts to the beach has turned out to be one of the best things to happen for the social lives of the kids in Cronulla.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-04-17/
Zoe Daniel is a former foreign correspondent and all around danger mum. An ABC foreign correspondent first in Africa then South East Asia, she has just written all about it in a book called Storyteller. Zoe is currently co-presenting the daily ABC current affairs show The World.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-04-10/
This week's guest, John Kirkman, has had many interesting turns in his career trajectory, working for the likes of the The Casula Powerhouse, Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Djamu Gallery at The Austalian Museum. He is now the Executive Directory of Paramatta's culture-making Information Cultural Exchange.
Full show note and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-04-03/
Performance artist, clown and sideshow artist Marlena Dalí from Cabaret Sashimi chooses our songs this week. Probably the only woman you'll meet who can hammer 6 inch nails into her face onstage, swallow a sword and still talk with you about art theory after taking them out.
Full show notes and track list at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-03-27/
Sarah Emery is a creative lady with a big heart. Throughout her career she has been involved in a number of artistic proejcts aimed to reach out to disadvantaged people in the community. She is currently the Associate Director at Milk Crate Theatre and is the director of Milk Crate's current production You Are Here. She has also been an independent artist with Heaps Decent and Shopfront and was for a short period, a professional follower of Morrisey.
Full show notes and track list at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-03-20/
Long time presenter Heidi Pett is moving on from Out of the Box. But, before does, she gets together with our fabulous new host Ash Berdebes to talk about her own life and music; Frost/Nixon style.
Playlist and show notes at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-03-13/.
The multi-talented Florence Noble bootstrapped her way to fame and fortune — or at least, the road to fame or fortune — by making her own TV pilot. She's most recently been on screen on the ABC's made-in-a-week tv series 7 Days Later and she's in today to tell us about about her life and some of her favourite music.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-03-06/
This week we're joined by NSW President of Amnesty International and formidable social commentator for sites like the Guardian and the Vine Senthorun Raj, one of the speakers at the Mardi Gras' Walkley Media Talk Something queer happened on the way to the newsroom …
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-02-27/
In his short career Benjamin Law has published two books, a thesis and a million articles in frankie, Good Weekend, The Monthly, the Twitter and more. He talks a lot about sex, homosexuality, his Asian heritage, and the ups and downs of being a sexy gay Asian-Australian. He's funny, insightful and prolific, and he's all yours for an hour today.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-02-20/
Jimmy Sing is the man responsible for the eclectic mash up of tropical cuban decor, kitsch canteen style snacks and practically-breakfast-time dancing that is GoodGod Small Club. Together with his partner Hanna they dish up some of the best live music in sydney, ranging widely from R&B, dancehall reggae and funk depending on the night you rock up.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-02-13/
Toby Chapman is a Sydney art curator who really gets involved in the art he works with and the people making it. His recent work with the Vertical Villages Project has seen him partaking in hot pot dinners and crazy karaoke nights in the name of exploring the experiences of International Students living in Sydney. He has worked with C3West program and Edge of Elsewhere and is currently the Assistant Curator for the 4A Gallery.
Full show notes and track list at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-02-06/
Robbie Coleman went from sport to writing at 20, and has gone from that to become the sort of writer who crashed beautifully through an interview with Brett Easton Ellis and dished the dirt on the bohemian life in Berlin for the New York Times. He also makes fiction, films and music, and is currently the Editorial Director at Right Angle Studios, who create things online like culture guide The Thousands.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-01-30/
Today we're talking to Leonard Newton from Surry Hills salon and sometime music venue, Desmond and Molly Jones.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-01-23/
Pip Smith is a woman who's no stranger to drama — she's one of the founding minds behind DIY storytelling night Penguin Plays Rough; she's been the poet in residence for Aussie lit mag the Lifted Brow and is currently slogging her way through a doctorate in the creative arts.
Angela Bennetts started out as a copywriter for a publisher, and one of her early arts ventures was Even Books: book parties she put together with Alice Fenton because they were "bored". She's worked with Underbelly Arts, edited arts and fashion writing and been the co-director of the National Young Writers Festival. Next stop is Indonesia as she steps up to become the marketing manager for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.
Full show notes and playlist at
Reg Mombassa stepped off a boat as a New Zealander at the age of 17 in 1969. By 2000, his art had become so iconically Australian by being featured all over Mambo t-shirts that it was all over the Olympic opening ceremony. In between, his art college band went on to national, then international success. You might have heard of them: Mental as Anything.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-12-26/
Daniel Dalton is the creator of Go Book Yourself - a human-curated book recommendation site. Famous author John Green tweeted the book to his million followers and within a month the website had blown up. It now receives over 75,000 unique viewers and has special guest authors to contribute and edit, such as Matt Haig and Nick Harkaway.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-12-19/
Eliza Sarlos is an FBi veteran who throughout her life sees gaps and fills them. She created FBi's storytelling program All The Best, and has written a picture book based on inspiring women of history called Amazing Babes. As one-time director of the Sound Summit music festival and Creative director of Music NSW, she's been passionate about creating platforms for emerging musicians, and in 2010 was named one of the Top 30 under 30 in the Australian music industry. More recently, she's been in the limelight as artistic director of Underbelly Arts, an arts festival that's dedicated to unearthing Australia's next generation of artists.
Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-12-12/
Originially hailing from FBi as Arts & Culture Editorial Producer, Bridie Moran has her toes dipped in several creative rivers - she is the manager of the National Craft Initiative to boost craft appreciation in Australia, all the while coordinating projects for NSW New Voices Poetry Series and managing the bi-monthly Youth Action magazine called unleash, a format used to encourage youth to express their opinions and take positive action in their communities.
Full playlist and show notes at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-12-05/
Ele Jansen is a media anthropologist who grew up in small town Germany before moving to Leipzig not too long after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She's worked across media, non-profit and even as a snow board instructor, before seeking out Australia for her PhD around LEARN DO SHARE and story-based change-making game Wish for Future.
More info and track links at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-11-28/
Jamie Farkas grew up in New York, briefly next door to one of the Rolling Stones. Since 2003 she's been at the centre VICE music operations, spreading music across the publications vast web of media and signing artists to the company's record label like Black Lips and the Ravonettes. She's in town after speaking at Melbourne Music Week, and joins us to take over FBi for an hour of her favourite music.
Head to http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-11-21/ for a track list and show notes.
By the time that he was 19, Benjamin Gilmour found himself as the sole ambulance worker in a small country town. In the years since then he's worked as an ambulance worker here and abroad, been a visiting professional in ambulance services in Pakistan, Mexico, Macedonia and even Venice and even found time to be an author and a filmmaker. Now in his late 30's he's still working as a paramedic in Sydney, having written three books and produced two films. His latest is about his experiences working as a paramedic all around the world. The first one was fiction and got 89% on the pretty hard to please Rotten Tomatoes meta-critical site.
Show notes and track list at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-11-14/
Chris Graham started out at the Sydney Morning herald as a copyboy and has gone on to a Walkley-winning career that includes founding publications like the National Indigenous Times and Tracker magazine. He's described his career highlight as "having his home and office raided by the Australian Federal Police" and said that his job is essentially "explaining to white Australians that we are not the master race".
Show notes and track list at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-11-07/.
You may know Matt Ravier best from his involvement in Jurassic Lounge, a project of The Festivalists, or perhaps as the guy who runs Sydney Film Festival Hub. He's also worked on film festivals in Canada and Britain and has lived and worked in Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He comes in and tells us all about it, just before Jurassic Lounge's last ever night.
Show notes and tracklist: http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-10-31
Alex White is an arts producer, sound artist, festival organiser. He's co-directed Serial Space, Electrofringe Festival, Liquid Architecture Sydney, Moduluxx, High Reflections and is a founder and project consultant for the Lion Mountain Studio project His current project is Tele Visions, a festival celebrating and marking the end of analog TV in Australia.
Show notes and tracklist: http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-10-24/
Today we're talking to Glen Cassidy, co-founder of Cake Wines. They're a boutique wine company in the business of not just making wine, but putting on gigs, art exhibitions and more than their fair share of pop up venues.
Tracklist and show notes at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-10-17/
Today we're talking to Bill Dimas, co-director of Sydney street art stars aMBUSH Gallery.
Tracklist and show notes at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-10-10/
Grant Morrison, the visionary creator behind The Invisibles, Batman: Arkham Asylum, New X-Men, All-Star Superman and the upcoming DC project Multiversity, joins guest host Stuart Buchanan to share his favourite tunes in an in-depth chat.
Tracklist and show notes at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2013-10-03/