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Radiothon 2008: Turn it Up!
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Radiothon Prizes
1st Major Prize Hi-Fi system & 70 CDs thanks to Simply Hi-fi & Universal Music
2nd Major Prize Honda Today 50 Scooter thanks to West Coast Honda
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Reviews
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Thursday 4th September 2008
The Flairz - Black Fox
There’s always the potential to label teenage groups as novelty acts. But Dion and John Mariani, Scarlett Stevens and Georgia Wilkinson-Derums of The Flairz deserve to be heard in their own right (with two EP’s under their belts already). Their first… more »
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Tuesday 2nd September 2008
Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us
Subpop
Death Vessel has a plethora of interesting sounds at their disposal to launch into their brand of country/gospel/blues tunes. But instead of aiding their cause, the arsenal is more of a hindrance, making their songs unnecessarily complex and tiresome to listen to… more »
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Saturday 30th August 2008
Sunshine Brothers – Greenpoint
InertiaFourteen songs. Five days. One legendary studio. The recording of Greenpoint must have been a white-knuckle ride for Perth’s Sunshine Brothers, but if they felt rushed, it doesn’t show. They couldn’t sound… more »
Around Town
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The Dandy Warhols
Modern day psychedelic, pop/rock icons The Dandy Warhols return to WA for the first time in over three years in support of their new album Earth To Dandy warhols.
After skyrocketing to success in the late ‘90s with their hits Not if You Were The Last Junkie on Earth and Bohemian Like You The Dandy’s became a force to be reckoned with on the touring scene… more »
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Midnight Massacre
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York Jazz and Soul Festival
stories
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Thursday 28th August 2008
Aboringinal Educator speaks out on Literacy
Every Thursday on Morning Magazine, Meri Fatin celebrates Australia’s oldest culture by examining a different issue within the Indigenous community…. more »
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Wednesday 27th August 2008
A Wolf on the Radio
The best-selling author of the blackly comic, frightening and compulsively readable ‘Running with Scissors’ has done it again…. more »
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Wednesday 27th August 2008
King Prawn Laksa
I awoke with a hankering for Prawns then thought of Breakfast’s uber-chef Luke Bolton. I rang him – King Prawn Laksa!’, I bellowed and he quivered for a moment then replied, ‘Yes Master’…. more »
On the Air
Presenters
Damian Smith
Damian likes a good pun, and in fact put this on this resume when applying to volunteer at RTR. He failed to realise others might not want to hear puns quite as often as he can come up with them. Despite this, the station decided graciously to take him on and he has been distracting various office staff since December 2007…
Top Tracks
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Out To Lunch
- MCanadia
- Because of Ghosts
- This Culture of Background Noise
- (Patrick Pittman)
- TPartial Glowing
- Charge Group
- Escaping Mankind
- (Sarah Tout)
- WMothwings
- Tape
- (Andrew Ryan)
- TSugarman
- Rodriguez
- Cold Fact
- (Dave Cutbush)
- More Tracks
- Out To Lunch »
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Full Frequency
- TAprolpills
- Adultnapper
- (Travis)
- WLook Inside (Nu:Tone remix)
- 4Hero
- (Dart, Sardi)
- T80's
- Joker
- (Declan Doherty, Ben Elliott)
- More Tracks
- Full Frequency »
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Drivetime
- MThe Number Song
- DJ Shadow
- (Simon Pigliardo, Anthony Princi)
- TJoe's Waltz
- The Dodos
- (Sarah Delfante)
- More Tracks
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Opinion
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Friday 22nd August 2008
Movie Squad - Tropic Thunder, Persepolis, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Ben Stiller returns to the directors’ chair for the first time since Zoolander, and the results are….. more »
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Friday 15th August 2008
Movie Squad - The Visitor, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Man learns how to love himself through the rhythms of the djembe? That sounds awful, doesn’t it? Surprising then that Patrick finds The Visitor to be, in its own subtle way, one of the finest films of the year… more »
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Friday 8th August 2008
Movie Squad - Pineapple Express, Stop-Loss, Female Agents
Stoner dudes, explosions, slackers — we take a look at the latest Judd Apatow joint, in which James Franco is all kinds of wasted fun… more »
