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Micro Music Festivals & Folk

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On this week’s episode of Something Else, Joel is going to be talking to friend of the show, Sean Hall, the organiser of 24, a micro music festival right here in Sydney. We’ll… Continue reading

Our Nerdiest Show Yet

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It has been a long time coming, but Joel finally got to bring out his inner nerd to Something Else listeners.  At last the seemingly “hipster-cool” host’s façades of ‘independent filmmaker’ & ‘alternative… Continue reading

Drawing Robots

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I should clarify, this is not about people drawing robots. It’s about a robot ‘who’ (or should it be ‘that’?) draws. If art is an important distinguishing factor separating humans from all else,… Continue reading

The Drive

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A couple of weeks ago Joel & Rhys had the pleasure of presenting an episode of Something Else all about the new web series they are both involved in making. They got to hang out in… Continue reading

Self Referencing Error

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A community radio show about a web series about community radio. On tonight’s edition of Something Else Joel & Rhys will be joined by their friends & colleagues from The Drive, a new web series currently… Continue reading

May Contain Traces of Nuts

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On last week’s show Joel & Rhys brought Something Else listeners a band making their radio debut. Nut & Butter Thing, the Sydney funk collective, talked to us about their musical escapades, including… Continue reading

Proving art can be funky: Nut & Butter Thing

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On this week’s edition of Something Else we will truly be embracing underground art. So underground in fact that it’s presence cannot be detected online, which means this blog post will be almost… Continue reading

Julian Day – Sound Artist Extraordinaire

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This week on Something Else we’ll be talking to Julian Day, a safARI exhibited sound artist and composer. We’ll be chatting to him about his background in music and how he has transformed… Continue reading

Something Else July 12th with Red Fire Red

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This week on Something Else we chatted with Red Fire Red, local up-and-coming Sydney independent music makers about the group, their creative process, recording, touring, pokemon and more. To hear their song The… Continue reading

Something Else – June 14th, feat. Alain Gomis, Tami Sussman, The Rusty Spring Syncopators and Jackpot, Tiger.

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We’d be crazy to try to give you a one sentence summary of last week’s jam-packed Something Else…but here goes: Slam poets, Sydney Film Festival, movies in the Sydney Film Festival, slam poets… Continue reading

Review: Buffalo Girls at the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

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We’re into the thick of blockbuster movie season but that doesn’t mean explosions, crappy one-liners, burly heroes, foxy heroines and gross-out comedies is all that’s on offer (not that any of those options… Continue reading

How Festivals Are Affecting Our Fringe Arts Scene

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On last week’s show I discussed how the somewhat recent popularisation of festivals is affecting our fringe and alternative arts scene here in Australia, including festivals such as Tropfest, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide… Continue reading

Something Else – 3rd Nov on grad shows

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On last week’s show I explored the world of grad shows (showcases put on by universities of their graduating students’ work). I mainly focussed on the COFA Annual, the grad show put on… Continue reading

Something Else – 27th Oct with Bendeguz Devenyi-Botos

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A couple of weeks ago (my apologies for the delayed post) I interviewed Bendeguz Devenyi-Botos on the show. Bendeguz is an actor in the fringe theatre & film scene, and also was a… Continue reading