Feature CD: Tortoise
Beacons of Ancestorship...
When it comes to genre-splicing gobsmackers, Tortoise have always been well-providing pioneers . . . their first album in 5 years is no exception...2ser subscribers have a chance to win this album all week on Breakfast, Overdrive and Static.
Fred Wesley
Sunday August 9 at The Basement...
Fred Wesley began his professional career as a teenage trombonist with Ike and Tina Turner. He was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for James Brown from 1968-1975, then arranged and played for Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He has played with and arranged for a wide variety of other artists including Ray Charles, Pancho Sanchez, New York Voices, Slide Hampton, Van Morrison, the SOS Band and Cameo, to name a few. Scores of other artists including Janet Jackson and Nas have sampled his work. Since his stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, he has maintained a focus on jazz – playing, recording, writing and promoting it.
See Fred Wesley Sunday August 9 at The Basement, Circular Quay. Tickets available from thebasement.com.au.
Wrong Prom
Where good music and daggy dancing collide......
Relive your dance floor glory days amongst friends, learn some groovy moves, and then dance the night away with DJ’s spinning the music your memories are made of under the glint of the disco ball.
In a mass dance class for over 18’s, professional dance instructors teach the moves you’ve always wanted to master from classic dance films like Footloose, Dirty Dancing (get out of that corner!) Saturday Night Fever and Xanadu (bring your own roller-skates!).
Get here at 7.30pm to start learning the moves in the dance class, and then throw your own shapes on the dance floor until late.
Wrong Prom #3 Saturday Night Fever 8 July from 7.30pm
Wrong Prom #4 Xanadu Roller Disco * 5 August from 7.30pm
* Roller skates optional on Xanadu night. Bring your own if you’ve got ‘em!
Presented by Carriageworks, Urban Dance Centre, FBi and 2ser.
MJ Woodbridge
2ser presents...
From Sydney, emerging Singer songwriter, MJ Woodbridge, draws comparisons with Anthony and the Johnsons and Tracey Chapman. MJ Woodbridge’s emotive lyrics and smoldering stage presence has attracted awards and the attention of the Music Industry. See him live with full band on July 9th at The Vanguard, 42 King st. Newtown, supporting Melbourne’s Me and the Grown ups.
Matching Grant
Need cash for a great community project?...
The City of Sydney can help enrich your community life through their Local Action Plans Matching Grants program. If you’re organising a small local event or celebration, you can apply for a Matching Grant.
Submissions are open now until July 20. For more info visit cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/matchinggrants or call 9265 9333.
This week's programming highlights
Week commencing June 29, 2009
Diffusion
Hosted by Ian Woolf
Monday June 29, 6.30pm - 7.00pm
Did you have an imaginary friend? Do you think the scientific establishment is suppressing alternative theories? Caitlin Howlett discusses giraffe evolution and Saturn's moons, and the benefits of imaginary conversations. John August debates the Ritzian alternative to Einstein's relativity with Ian Woolf. Marc West loks at the correlation between zombies, vampires and elections. Produced by Ian Woolf.
Slip Inside This House
with Martin
Monday June 29, Midnight - 1.00am
Described as "disorientation through pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory" is The Mirror Explodes, the new LP from US psych-overlords The Warlocks. But into how many pieces will it slice your brain? Tune into Slip Inside This House on Monday night for some extended play of the aforementioned...
Phantom Dancer
presented by Greg Poppleton
Tuesday June 30, Noon - 1:30pm and repeated Sunday 5 July 6:30 - 8am
Sarah Vaughan sings with her trio from Birdland over NBC in 1953. Hollywood stars Chico Marx & Desi Arnez front their orchestras in live broadcasts from 1942 and 1947 respectively. Hear live Sydney swing from 1943 with the legendary Sydney jazz figure Keith Atkinson on clarinet playing St Louis Blues over 2CH & the AWA Network. Presented by Greg Poppleton since 1985
Jailbreak
produced by Big Dave
Tuesday June 30, 6.30pm - 7.00pm
Ex-prisoner and Hip Hop artist Big Dave is guest producer of Jailbreak this week, one of a series of programs he will be broadcasting this year. Drawing from his life experiences, we hear his take on the politics of prison privatisation, as well as his own brand of music poetry and more.......
www.2ser.com or www.crcnsw.org.au The podcast version contains reduced music content due to copyright
Tape Relay
with Leigh Tran
Tuesday June 30, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Familiar names turn up in new incarnations this week - Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch scores an imaginary musical God Help The Girl and Buck 65 and Belgian producer Greetings from Tuskan join the Anticon collective as Bike For Three (pictured). Plus Ghostly glitch pop from Lusine, Adelaide's Aviator Lane bridges the distances with a new record and yet another teasing Radio Dept ep of shimmery Scandopop.
Sideways Through Sound
with Thee Sonic Assasin
Wednesday July 1, 9.00pm - 10.30pm
On next week’s show we’ve heartbroken new folk sounds from William Fitzsimmons and Bill Callahan, out of Israel we’ve finger picking folk flavours from Yair Yona and more eastern sounds from Avital Raz, and as promised last week, there’s a real gem of a tune from Sea Vines, the new collaboration between show regulars and favourites, Australia’s River Crombie and Sweden’s Sumie...and our featured album will be the stunning shamanic folk from The Boy Who Spoke Clouds out of Geelong, Victoria...
The Thursday Daily
with Caitlan McGregor
Thursday July 2, 9.30am - Noon
This week Caitlin McGregor will interview melbournes Jordie Lane, about his new record and his upcoming tour. Caitlin will also talk about gig highlights for the week and new new music!
The Outpost
hosted by Vinny Ramone
Thursday July 2, Noon - 1.30pm and repeated Sunday July 5, 5.00am - 6.30am
Atlanta's Vic Chesnutt has proven to be one of the truly unique idiosyncratic and affecting gems of modern songwriting, working with a diverse range of people from REM's Michael Stipe to Van Dyke Parks as well as members of Fugazi and post-rock outfit A Silver Mount Zion. Andrew Khedoori will be speaking with Vic on The Outpost on the eve of his first Australian tour.
