All Entries Tagged With: "Something Else"
INTERVIEW: Planet Nimbin and Alien Alibi
‘The truth is that if contact with an extraterrestrial life form does eventuate in the future … our understanding of ourselves in the universe will radically change. Planet Nimbin is a precursor discussion to this potential event.’ – Simon Georgeff from WSS in interview with Maren Smith Still from ‘Planet Nimbin’, courtesy of Warp Speed [...]
Want to join Something Else?
We’re looking for one presenter and four contributors to join our show! The presenter would be keen, savvy, have a passion for alternative arts in Sydney, and would be able to produce content and present a regular monthly show. We’re also looking for writers, comedians, actors, poets, sound artists, journalists and more who have an [...]
Our Nerdiest Show Yet
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 arts lover’ were broken down and replaced by his true nature – that of a bespectacled computer nerd who likes “drawing comparisons to web design…[and] WYSIWYG editing” and [...]
Long + Salty
Last week on Something Else, Joel and Rhys chewed the fat with Lisa Eisman & Adam Szudrich, directors at this year’s Short + Sweet short play festival. Despite veering briefly into the unchartered conversational territories of orgasming grandmothers, Lisa and Adam had some very interesting insights into the festival, and theatre in general. Lisa’s play this year is called 2 [...]
The Drive
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 Eastside’s cosy studio with their friends David Burrowes and Emily Sheehan (who are the writer & co-director, and one of the lead actors [...]
Thespians and Pop-Ups
On Thursday eve the East Side studio was abuzz with jazz music and Christmas cheer! It was the 11th day of the East Side FM 12 days of Christmas, Something Else was about to hit live radio, young playwrite extraordinaire Josh Forward was about to be the subject of the alternative arts half hour, and all round [...]
Fresh Ink: Dan Prichard and Jessica Bellamy
On Thursday the 1st of November, we had Dan Prichard, Manager of Fresh Ink, the emerging writers program done through the Australian Theatre for Young People, and Jessica Bellamy, award winning Australian playwright and Fresh Ink writer. We talked about the wide variety of programs run by Fresh Ink, including their Masterclasses and the National Studio Getaway, which sounds amazing. You can also check out Fresh [...]
SEXES Festival, Performance Space
In this week’s episode of Something Else, Julian chatted with Bec Dean and Lex Lindsay from SEXES, a new festival produced in conjunction with Performance Space and running at Carriageworks until Dec 1. SEXES explores and celebrates multiple perspectives of sex and sexuality. Performance Space’s SEXES festivalwill tickle, tantalise and tease audiences with an extensive visual arts exhibition, [...]
May Contain Traces of Nuts
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 illegal train gigs and their bid to gain residency in James Dean Pizzeria. They also played a couple of live songs in the [...]
Sexually Frank Creators Tell All About Love, Sex And…Toes?
In a world where the cost of living exceeds the annual salary, where millions of dollars are poured into CGI and where the same actors are running viral circuits around Hollywood, it’s nice to see that extraordinary things can be done with a nurse, a computer programmer, toe sex and some loose change. From the [...]
Things That Make You Go “Urgh!” – Katherine Berger
The Sydney Underground Film Festival is on this week, and it’s set to be a total ripper. On the show last Thursday we had Katherine Berger, co-director of the SUFF, to give us the low-down on this year’s line up, including the exciting news that Mr Doodleberger himself will not only be screening new material, but also [...]
Funk, Blues, Jazz, Reggae, Passion, Excitement and Enthusiasm: BrotherFunk Visit East Side
I arrived at the East Side studio cold, wet, extremely late and worried I’d just wasted the time of roots-fusion band BrotherFunk due to an unforeseen battle with gridlock traffic in a weirdly sporadic storm. Prepared to see some bored musicians sitting on a table, I burst into the office armed with big appologies and [...]
Something Else 9th August – Julian Day
This week we caught up with renowned Sydney sound artist Julian Day. Julian is the director of An Infinity Room, a synth sound art collective, and co-directs Super Critical Mass, a group which creates space and sound installations. An Infinity Room creates sonic installations which explore the relationships between sound and space. Using synthesisers and electric keyboards, A.I.R [...]
Tales From Drunk Town and Other Brutal Truths
Dominica Nicholls’ work comes together in a synergy of raw emotion, crude confession and brutal honesty. Laden with passion, excitement, remorse, longing, resentment and desire, to say she shows great use of the English language only skims the surface. Along with using poetry as a form of self-expression, Dominica also uses writing to explore her [...]
Something Else – June 14th, feat. Alain Gomis, Tami Sussman, The Rusty Spring Syncopators and Jackpot, Tiger.
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 in movies in the Sydney Film Festival, awesome music by two “local” bands (if, like Joel, you happen to call both Sydney [...]
