Show 185
All aboard the ARC
We started the show this week with three pieces from a performance enabled by the Australian Reconciliation Company called ARC Dreaming Live, in Byron Bay, northern New South Wales, featuring dance group Nunukul Yuggera and the band Visions of a Nomad. A recording of the show was released in 2015.
Change Is Coming - Emma Donovan, from her 2024 album Til My Song Is Done, which was named Best Independent Blues and Roots Album at the 2025 Australian Independent Records awards.
Always Waiting - Max Judo, featuring Lucas Proudfoot, whose main job is as a multimedia children's entertainer and educator, with a focus on Aboriginal culture. The song is on a 2018 collection titled Australian Aboriginal Music, put out by the Downunder Rock Club.
Waiting Game - Bumpy, the stage name of singer Amy Dowd, from her 2023 EP Morning Sun. She's from the Noongar people of Western Australia.
A change is gonna come
Falling Star - Rebecca Barnard and her band Rebecca’s Empire, from their album Way Of All Things, a 1996 release.
Caravan Land - the Bures Band, from their 2024 album Fool Circle.
Green Spirit (Tumbling Away) - Ashley Naylor, from his album Alexandria Sunset, which came out in 1995. When he's not making his own records, Naylor plays guitar in Paul Kelly's band, he sits in with the Church, leads a band called Even, etc.
Into the vault
Led by guitarists Deniz Tek (Detroit born) and Chris Masuek (born in Canada) and singer Rob Younger, Inspired by Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Radio Birdman generated such a wild scene in Sydney in the mid-1970s, they had to lease their own pub to play in because they'd been banned everywhere else. Tek, Masuak and Younger all became prominent record producers along with continuing to play in bands. From 1975, here's Radio Birdman.
Three songs from their 1975 debut album, Radios Appear:
- New Race
- Descent Into the Maelstrom
- Anglo Girl Desire.
New stuff
A bit of standup comedy by Daniel Muggleton
Odd Couple - Bagful of Beez, new single, ahead of an album promised for September. The band is run by Link Meanie - aka Link McLennan - he's been around for awhile with his other band the Meanies.
Mullumbimby Nights - Marcel Borrak and the TD Band, from their new album, Sun Dust, a July release. Mullumbimby is a small town in northern New South Wales.
Sweet - Joeys Coop, the song is on their album Sawdust Memories. The band is led by Brett Myers, the former guitarist-songwriter from Died Pretty. Also a July release.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and telli us when we're done
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