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Listen to Off The Record – 17 January 202603:00:0017 January 2026
Playlist for Off The Record – 17 January 2026
  • Carnivore (Long March Through the Jazz Age)The Saints
  • Cut LooseJeanette Jones
  • Bindi BhageeJoe Strummer
  • All Tomorrow’s PartiesSt Vincent, Thomas Bartlett
  • We 'a' RockersInner Circle
  • Won't Get Fooled AgainPussy Riot
  • The Lynchian MethodRhyce o Neil and the Narodniks
  • VeniceMakaya McCraven
  • The Way You Make LoveGena Rose Bruce
  • All Of The TimeRobert Forster
  • HotaruAkai Tori
  • Nati Bati YiThe Spiders
  • Social End ProductBluestars
  • Dark Gravel RoadTeri Gender Bender
  • Peaches (live)Captain Beefheart
  • Moonlight on VermontBlack Midi
  • OtemoyanMinyo Crusaders
  • Stalag (dub)The Techniques
  • Two Sevens ClashCulture
  • I'm Your ManLeonard Cohen
  • I Can't Forget (live)Jarvis Cocker
  • IRM (live)Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • You Can't Unring a BellThese Immortal Souls
  • Johnny's SpeechTom Waits and Van Dyke Parks
  • Red Shoes by the Drug StoreThe Wedding Present
  • This CityDelsinki
  • Enjoying the DaysMaggie Alley
  • White Valiant (live)The Muttonbirds
  • La GaronneThe Soul Motivators
  • Brilliant Mistake (live)Elvis Costello
  • Randolph's Going Home (live)Shayne Carter and the NZSO
  • God Gave Me Feet For DancingEzra Collective feat. Yazmin Lacey
  • Dublin BluesGuy Clark
  • To Live is to FlyPaul Kelly and Charlie Owen
  • African BattleManu Dibango

About this program

'More old-fashioned than ever before.' John Cooper Clarke 2007

'The older I get, the better I was!' Van Dyke Parks

A ‘roots’ music program with feature interviews, in studio performances and live recordings and regular broadcasts from festivals at home and overseas.

Off The Record won the InPress Writers' Poll for Best Radio Program in Melbourne for 2011 and 2005 and was runner-up for 2006 and 2008!! Off The Record also won the PPCA Award for Excellence In Music Programming at the 2005 National Conference of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia for a Ry Cooder interview special about his album Chavez Ravine. The program was also a finalist in the category in 2012. A weekly one hour version of the program is broadcast on the satellite network of the CBAA to more than 45 stations across Australia.

Brian is the Founding & Editor of Rhythms Magazine (which he founded in 1992). You can visit the magazine at rhythms.com.au and read about what Brian is up to outside Triple R.

EMAIL BRIAN: brianwise@aol.com

NEW ORLEANS TOUR - APRIL/MAY:

Each April/May there is an Off The Record trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. What could be better than travelling to the world's best music festival and enjoying music with like-minded people? The 2019 tour to Jazz Fest is BOOKED OUT. If you wish to go on the 2020 tour please email your interest: brianwise@aol.com

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