Episode 48 features Melbourne based street photographer Scott. Scott has been documenting the streets of Melbourne for the last five or so years. Shooting predominantly people from all walks of life on their daily commutes. You’ll find him most days walking the CBD and surrounding areas camera in hand. Scott speaks on his process capturing everyday people, living with a disability, what he looks for when shooting, how time plays a role when viewing his photos, how he got into street photography,...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Episode 47 features former Melbourne and current Collingwood premiership player Jeremy Howe. Jeremy grew up in Tasmania before being drafted by Melbourne as a mature ager in his early 20s. Navigating life in a bigger city and the pressures that come with being an AFL player, Howe eventually found his place, going on to win a premiership in 2023 along with various other accolades over his long and still current playing career. In this episode, Howe opens up about handling grief, navigating the fo...
May 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Episode 46 features New Zealand born, Melbourne based filmmaker James Gorter. I had the chance to chat with James about three years ago. We talked about his upbringing and what drew him to filmmaking, if you want to check that conversation out, go to episode 13. Since our last chat, James has continued working with Civic, collaborated with Grace Cummings on two music videos, worked with Amyl and the Sniffers, and started writing his own southern gothic fiction novel. In this episode, we discuss ...
May 11, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Episode 45 features Melbourne-based visual artist Mimi Libro. Mimi has worked across various mediums, including sculpture, painting, screen printing, and more. Her work draws from a distinctive blend of childhood cartoons, cult horror films and novels, the natural world, and paranormal phenomena. Mimi chats about finding her style, her upcoming show at ‘At The Above', her creative process, finding balance, knowing when to let go, and more. You can find Mimi over at: https://www.instagram.com/gri...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Episode 44 features lyricist and musician Marcus Rechsteiner. Marcus has played in multiple bands over the years—most notably as being frontman in The UV Race. More recently, Marcus has joined Daniel Twomey in Hot Tubs Time Machine. In this episode, Marcus chats about his current work as a disability support worker, what music has given him over the years, UV Race, using humour in his songwriting, playing live, and more. Marcus had some beautiful things to say towards the end of this chat! Hope ...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Episode 43 features tattoo artist Philipp Ohme. Growing up in Germany and being influenced by various subcultures, Philipp found his way to tattooing in his teen years, apprenticing and developing his style before moving to Melbourne. Philipp now works out of New Age Tattoo in Carlton. In this episode, Philipp speaks on his upbringing in Germany, his journey as a tattooist, his apprenticeship experience, yoga and more. You can find him over at : https://www.instagram.com/philippohme/...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 49 min
Episode 42 features musician and furniture maker Raven Mahon. Born and raised in the U.S, Raven spent her early years on the West Coast, immersed in graffiti and other art forms before joining post-punk band 'Grass Widow'. She would later move to Melbourne, becoming part of ' The Green Child' alongside Shaun Gionis, Mikey Young, and Alex Macfarlane. Raven shares stories about her early days in San Francisco, discovering graffiti, leaving the U.S, The Green Child , her writing process, and more. ...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Episode 41 features musician, surfer, and painter Creed McTaggart. Creed went pro in his early teens, landing sponsorships with Globe and Billabong. These days, you’ll find him painting in his shed in Yamba, writing music, playing in punk band ' WASH' , making albums under ' Cheap Gloomer' , and putting together surf films. In this episode, Creed speaks on his teen years as a pro surfer, his current painting process, solitude, navigating the digital age, letting go of outcomes, finding peace, an...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Episode 40 features singer, songwriter, and guitarist Zak Olsen. Zak is a member of multiple bands, including ORB, Hierophants, and The Frowning Clouds, and is also making tapes under the guise of Traffik Island. In this episode, Zak shares his love for hip hop, touring, his recording process, how a move to Gippsland shifted his perspective, solo work, and more. Thanks to Zak for being able to record this one before one of his shows, which happened to be in the Docklands of all places. Much love...
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Episode 39 features singer, songwriter, and actor Howard Eynon. Howard has left his mark across multiple art forms and ways of living. Having grown up in the UK before moving to Tasmania, to then pursue acting and songwriting in Melbourne. Over the years, Howard would tour with Hunter S. Thompson, release his 1974 acid-folk album ' So What If I’m Standing In Apricot Jam' , and have a role in George Miller’s 1979 film ' Mad Max'. In this episode, Howard speaks on his journey through life, finding...
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Episode 38 features singer songwriter Jarrod Quarrell. Jarrod has been making music since his teens, playing in various punk bands through his youth and 20s before releasing albums Ex Tropical (2011) and You Yang (2016) under the guise Lost Animal alongside Shags Chamberlain. On this episode Jarrod speaks on getting clean, nature, recording new music, his writing process, keeping a clean mind, meditation, moving away from the city and more. Much love to Jarrod for letting me come into his place ...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 40 min
Episode 37 features Melbourne based painter and sculptor Melissa Grisancich. Melissa is the owner and curator of Springtime, an annual art show that highlights artists at various stages of their careers. The exhibition showcases works across diverse mediums, including painting, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture. Currently, Springtime 6 is showing at Backwoods Gallery in Collingwood, so go check it out! On this episode, Melissa speaks on patience, her daily practices, the process of curating Sprin...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Episode 36 features Jackson Reid Briggs. In this episode, i sit down with Brisbane-born frontman Jackson Reid Briggs. From his early days in Brisbane being influenced by bands such as The Saints, Jackson's music journey led him to Melbourne, where he formed several bands, including the more recently formed Split System and Jackson Reid Briggs and The Heaters. On this episode Jackson speaks on how Split System came about, growing up in Brisbane, the challenges of balancing fatherhood with band to...
Sep 20, 2024•54 min
Episode 35 features Jaydon Martin, a Brisbane-born filmmaker currently residing in Melbourne. Jaydon's debut feature film Flathead has just recently been screened throughout MIFF. The docufiction film follows Cass Cumerford a man in his later years , who finds his way back to the region of Bundaberg, the place he grew up in. The film follows Cass and the thoughts that spring from being a man in his later years, working through grief and mortality. The film showcases the vunerability of what it i...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Episode 34 features Dev, a Melbourne-born musician and animator. Dev makes music under the name Death of Labour, releasing his debut album this year, 'Wurundjeri Spur Is Burning'. I was first introduced to Dev through Wilhelm Philipp, a Melbourne-based photographer. Wilhelm published a story on Dev, 'A near miss with the abyss,' which gave Dev the first real chance to talk in detail about a skating accident that occured in 2021. Dev was out one night with some friends skating when his head hit t...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 46 min
Episode 33 features David Mirra. Mirra's story is pretty unique and special, having spent 8 years at Box Hills VFL program becoming the club's longest-serving captain, playing 150 games, attaining two premierships, and winning himself a couple best and fairest. Just as Mirra was ready to hang up the boots and make his way to local football, he got the call from Hawthorn and had his AFL dream come true at the age of 27. Mirra's story is one of persistence and the motto of just showing up. Mirra s...
Jul 13, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Episode 32 features Melbourne-based musician and visual artist Paris Richens. Paris is a member in the bands Parsnip and Hierophants and also goes by the solo guise of PP Rebel. Parsnip's album 'Behold' releases this week via Anti Fade Records. On this episode, Paris speaks on Kriya yoga, chanting/meditation, touring, her writing process, current practices, daily living, Parsnip, ego, collaboration, and more. Find Parsnip's new release here: https://parsniphq.bandcamp.com/album/behold Find Parsn...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Episode 31 features Buddhist practitioner and teacher Damian Auton. Damian has been a practitioner and teacher for over a decade, teaching at Kadampa's meditation centre in the Dandenong Ranges and also teaching weekly classes in Hampton. Damian lived a life of travelling, teaching, rock climbing, and cycling before turning to Buddhism. Damian speaks on his journey, Buddhist teachings, meditation, current practices, how to limit distractions, the modern world, and more. You can find Damian over ...
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Episode 30 features Peter Milne, a Melbourne-born photographer and visual artist. Milne's early photography documented Melbourne's punk scene through the 70's and 80's. Milne would also later document Melbourne's early comedy scene, capturing the likes of Bill Hicks and more who would float through and tour Australia. Milnes current work tends to engage more montage and collage influences, which often circulate as sort of photo narratives and dream-like sequences. Milne speaks on why he was alwa...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Episode 29 features Mikey Young, guitarist and member of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Green Child, Ooga Boogas, and Total Control. It's a bit different to do a write-up here on Mikey, as he's sort of become this underground music mystic who's had his hands in countless well-respected albums and recordings and, as of more recent years, has had international artists, labels, and bands reach out to him to have their work mixed and mastered. In this chat, Mikey speaks about the early days of E...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Episode 28 features Emily Jans, a boxer, kickboxer, and drummer in Australian hardcore band Straightjacket Nation. Emily, who won the 2012 Australian Amateur Boxing title and now retired, is training and coaching others in her new clinic, 'Off the Wall', a boxing community space in Collingwood also run by Kristy Harris, a x4 time National Boxing Champ. In this episode, Emily speaks about finding the drums as a youth, her boxing and kickboxing journey, how Straightjacket Nation formed, why she fe...
Dec 22, 2023•55 min
Episode 27 features Ben Clement, a photographer, director, filmmaker, and the founder of Good Sport magazine and AM:PM.RC. Ben's work is centred around sport and movement. Having worked with the likes of various brands and well-known athletes, as well as local runners and smaller sporting communities, Ben has intertwined his early love of different subcultures and music scenes and is now bringing forward new ways of capturing movement and sport, often through still shots, showing intensity and r...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 42 min
Episode 26 features Melbourne-based street photographer Chucky Edge. Chucky documents a lot of his travels around South-east Asia. Photographing people and communities on the outskirts of society, often capturing the things he is most drawn to from hardcore shows, tattoos, and real-life happenings around Melbourne. Chucky speaks on his recent travels around India and Thailand, his recent show 'City of Joy', the importance of documenting all he can, eastern cultures, and more. You can find and co...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Episode 25 features Steph Hughes, a Melbourne-based illustrator, musician, artist, and community art collaborator. Steph has been a part of various bands over the years, including Dick Diver and the Boomgates. Has made gig posters for the likes of Courtney Barnett and The Feelies, and continues to collaborate with people of all ages through community artworks and murals, via a range of different workshops and projects that promote connection through art making. Steph speaks on becoming a mum, he...
Oct 14, 2023•1 hr 59 min
Episode 24 features Sam Octigan, a painter, artist, and frontman in Melbourne hardcore band Iron Mind. On this episode, Sam speaks on Melbourne’s hardcore scene, straight-edge culture, how he stepped into the role as a frontman, early influences, solitude, social media, and more. You can find him over at : https://www.instagram.com/samoctigan/ I appreciate anyone who has been tapping into these chats, enjoy!
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Episode 23 features Brendan Huntley, painter, sculptor, and frontman for Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Brendan’s roots run deep within Melbourne's music and art scenes. Growing up in a creative family and exploring graffiti in his youth, before turning to lyrics, painting and sculpture, Brendan has always used different mediums to express himself to the fullest, switching forms when it feels intuitively right to do so. On this episode, we chat about Brendan's early life, mentors, therapy, being...
Jul 31, 2023•2 hr 5 min
Episode 22 features Campbell Somerville, a professional boxer from Melbourne currently holding a 3-1 (2KO) professional record with 75 fights as an amateur (x3 time Australian amatuer champion) and who was fortunate enough to represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games and World Championships. Campbell speaks on how he got into boxing, his teen years, the surgeries that delayed the start of his professional career, gratitude, mental challenges, and more. Find Campbell over at: https://www.inst...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Episode 21 features Mark Lording, a tattoo artist who is currently working out of Frankston Tattoo. Mark's work is heavily based on the environments and areas he grew up in, tattooing pieces that he is familiar with and that go back to his roots, such as Australian icons, animals, trees, train lines, beaches, and more. On this episode, Mark speaks on how being amongst various subcultures influenced his early life, hardcore shows, early mentors, how he found his love for tattooing, and more. This...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Episode 20 features Anu Kumar. Anu is a photographer born in India and raised in Australia who has used photography as a medium to connect her two homes. In 2022, Anu released a book titled "Ghar", a series of photos that contemplate the complexities of "home" and all that comes with that. Most of the photos in the series capture the inherent familiarity of home, family, and connection. Anu spent most of her 20s going back and forth between Australia and India, curating this book, which would la...
May 28, 2023•58 min
Episode 19 features Toby Zoates, a Melbourne-born artist, author, animator, and filmmaker now based in Sydney. Toby has created animations and films like "Darling It Hurtz" and "The Thief Of Sydney." He has written books about his experiences living within Sydney’s public housing and spiritual adventures in India. Toby has also designed various early punk gig posters and flyers. Toby is a genuine free spirit and continues to create and push his art to this day. His artwork and films have been sh...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 19 min
