Breakfasters: How to Help Provide a Great Christmas for Aboriginal Children in Care
Muriel Bamblett is CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA), a welfare organisation that works with disadvantaged Aboriginal children across the state. Each year the organisation runs a Christmas Gift Appeal…
What The Orbweavers Can Tell You About Melbourne’s Waterways
From the Maribyrnong to the Birrarung to Stony Creek, The Orbweavers are soon to present a cycle of songs dedicated to the waterways of Melbourne’s West. Working with The Letter String Quartet, the…
How To Punk - CIVIC Live to Air on Dropout Boogie
Melbourne’s prolific purveyors of punk CIVIC deliver a blistering set from the RRR Performance Space. Join in for Dropout Boogie’s first-ever Live to Air.
The Grapevine: Is Anzac on the Wrong Side of History?
Journo Paul Daley offers The Grapevine some tough thoughts on the Anzac tradition off the back of his 'On Patriotism' essay release.
Breaking and Entering: SaD Drop By to Talk Pop Goth, Poetry and Perfume
The recently formed duo discuss their diverse backgrounds and muses for moody new collaborative effort 'Poets of Antiquity'.
The Glasshouse: Documenting a Moment in Time
One year on from the postal survey that legalised gay marriage in Australia, Beth AQ spoke to editors Quinn Eades and Son Vivienne about their book Going Postal: More Than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’…
Breakfasters: ‘Am I Bovvered?’
UK comedian, actor and writer Catherine Tate paid Breakfasters a visit ahead of her run of shows at the Palais. She discusses bringing The Catherine Tate Show to stage, how she breathes life…
How a Single Vivid Memory Can Shape Who We Are: Grand Salvo on Out on the Patio
He’s explored dying, aging and loss – and now Melbourne muso Paddy ‘Grand Slavo’ Mann is retracing memories to their source with his new concept album Sea Glass. Dive in with Out…
Backstory: Falling for Fiction with Toni Jordan
Have you ever fallen in love with a book? Toni Jordan definitely has and her new book is specifically for book-worshippers. Her new novel, The Fragments, is set in 1980s Brisbane and…
How to be a Dysfunctional Success with Wreckless Eric, on Banana Lounge Broadcasting
Self-described ‘dysfunctional success’ Wreckless Eric is touring Australia for the first time in 38 years. He stops by Banana Lounge Broadcasting to chat to Dave Graney about what he’s been up to. From…
Learn the Real Meaning Behind Nun’s Album ‘The Dome’ on Double Bounce
Melbourne synth-punk experimenters Nun have just released their new album The Dome. We’re loving it here at RRR (it’s our Album of the Week!), and if you’re loving it too, listen back to…
Breakfasters: How Shaun Micallef’s Life Inspired His New Book
Shaun Micallef has always been involved in the arts, playing the infant Christ in a nativity scene at just six months old, although, you probably know him better for his work in Mad…
Why Madeline Leman Left Melbourne – and Why She Came Back, on Local and/or General
Musician Madeline Leman talks to Local and/or General host Jason Moore in time for the launch of her band’s new single ‘Lay Me Down’ this Thursday (15 November) at The Curtin. The track…
How Xray Spex Changed the UK Punk Scene, on Neon Sunset
Xray Spex saxophonist Rudi Thompson joins Neon Sunset to celebrate the band’s 40-year anniversary of Germfree Adolescence. Having landed on the British punk scene in 1976, the band only lasted a few…
Maps: Why Brendan Huntley Sculpts at His Mum’s Place in Frankston
When he’s not wearing golf gloves and tearing up the stage, Brendan Huntley is moulding, sculpting or painting to some degree. This jack-of-all-trades joins Maps host Fee B-Squared for a chat about some…
Breakfasters: An Urbanite’s Guide to Filming in Remote Communities
Lightning Ridge is a rural town in north-western New South Wales. Less than 3000 people live there (roughly a quarter of the population is Indigenous). Known as the ‘black opal capital of the…
Why Brian Henry Hooper’s Legacy Matters on Under The Sun
‘The doctors at the Peter MacCallum Institute were absolutely mesmerised by his humility and his strength.’ Ninevah Hooper, Brian Hooper’s widow, and Andrew McGee, his producer, chat to Jonathan Alley about Brian’s death…
How to Make an Album — Paul Kelly’s Recipe
First you have to build a team. Then you can introduce collaboration. Make sure you stay open-minded. The stalwart Paul Kelly joins Brian Wise on Off The Record to chat about the creation…
Eat It: A Statesman of Hospitality
Last Friday a random attack by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali claimed the life of Melbourne restauranteur Sisto Malaspina. Following a car explosion on Bourke St the 74-year-old rushed forward to assist before being…
Why Channel Tres Deserves the Hype on Stylin’
Self-described as a ‘melting pot of music’, Channel Tres joins Ennio to offer a much-anticipated window into the man behind ‘Controller’ and ‘Jet Black’. Straight off the plane from LA, he lets us…