On a post- Parrtjima roll, Alice Kings take aim at supporting Baker Boy this Saturday at the Alice Springs Brewery. Check it out on their insta and help these Young Prodigies make their dream come true! IllMatty and Dan the Underdog represented on 8CCC Brekky for the crew: IllMatty, King O, Brotha Blinky, Rian & Russell. Nightcliff Seabreeze up next!

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Rosie Ballard's debut EP Bright As Your Eyes is this week's 8CCC Feature Album and she visited 8CCC Brekky Show to tell us about the steps towards its release. Local cellist and fellow member of Red Bird, Chris Bird joined us in the studio ahead of their gig on Friday night as part of the Top Half Folk Festival at Ross River Resort.

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Danzal Baker joined us on 8CCC Brekky Show ahead of his all ages gig at Alice Springs Brewing Co on 2 May 2026. Better known as Baker Boy, the Yolŋu artist spoke about his Grandmother, for whom he named his 2025album DJANDJAY, as well as his excitement to be back playing live in Mparntwe Alice Springs. Following a call out for a local support act, there'll be many local talents waiting in anticipation.

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Author and lawyer, Brooke Forbes visited 8CCC Brekky Show to chat about her new book Survival is an Instinct, being launched on Saturday 2.30pm at Red Kangaroo Books. This book is a personal essay on survival, recovery and reclaiming your future; embedded with a series of short stories written from Brooke’s early university days to her post-psychosis reality. The short stories focus on how big small relationships are, turning points and the beauty within the suburban sprawl. The personal essay shines a light on the importance of creativity and expression in recovery.

"a courageous and deeply moving work that gives voice to the realities of sexual violence, mental illness, and recovery." We Gotchu Girl blog

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Community Engagement Coordinator, Meret MacDonald and Anti Fracking Campaign Coordinator, Hannah Eakin from Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) came in to share the latest news and events from ALEC. This Thursday 30 April, join them at The Roastery from 6pm for campaign updates, and community workshop: Spotlight on Buffel. ALEC supports both Eastside and Westside gardens and we chatted about working bees on every Sunday 3pm at Westside. There will also be a screening 6pm at Alice Springs Cinema on 7 May of a documentary exposé on the US military as the world's biggest polluter.

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Isadora Roberts, NTG Regional Youth Services Program Coordinator, joined Brian Coleman in the 8CCC Tennant Creek studio to update the community on what's happening in sport in the Barkly. Softball, Soccer/Footy, AFL are just some of the sports covered.

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A roadside maintenance mishap has been flipped into a celebration of art, community and horticultural passion in East Side, Mparntwe Alice Springs as the Alice Springs Town Council honours Geoff Miers  with an art installation by Chris Scott on the UndoolyaRd/Lindsay Avenue roundabout that has displayed a profusion of Sturt Desert Peas for over 23 years. The event begins at 7am this Sunday 26 April, with speeches just after 8 broadcast live on 8CCC, followed by market stalls and 8CCC Cafe open to the community throughout the morning.

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April 2026 at the Alice Springs has been going full bore and Kate Lyons-Dawson caught up with René Sutton, General Manager at Alice Springs Cinema to find out what we have to look forward to.
Get in fast to join in the screening and Q&A of Wolfram as tickets for the 3 May session are going fast. Check out the other Australian offerings as well as the wide range of multicultural movies.

What about a new initiative? Settle into the relaxing Craft-a-noons - watching older movies that you vote on and bring a work in progress or start something new - first session is 27 Dresses. Check out the website to find out more.

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Watch this Space’s current exhibition is CRISÁLIDA, an interplay between artificial and natural, the artists wrestle with their relationships to time, intimacy, landscape and money through the lens of the body. A first collaboration between dance artist Ashleigh Musk and video artist Ivan Trigo Miras, CRISÁLIDA is an immersive installation blending video, sound and the body to create a space for introspection. Sound design is by Anna Whitaker.

Ash and Ivan will be in the space on Saturdays and the exhibition goes until 7 May. WtS Gallery is open Wednesday to Friday, 12—5PM; Saturday, 10AM—2PM

8 Gap Rd, The Gap NT 0870

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Serge Ou, director of a powerful WWII documentary film Under a Bamboo Sky, joins 8CCC's Kate Lyons-Dawson to delve into the unexpected direction surrender affected soldiers in the Asian conflicts, where mateship became a necessity for survival and humanity was never the same again. The conditions and events the POWs experienced have been brought to life in the testimonies and remarkable footage, coloured and digitally manipulated, years in the making. You can check it out for yourself this Sunday 19 April 3.30pm at Alice Springs Cinema.

British-led forces surrendered to the Japanese in Singapore in Feb 1942, but what do we really know of the Australian POWs? That they were sent to Japan coal mines or worked on the wharves alongside Japanese civilians, encountered the Allies’ bombing raids and the two atomic bombs? Who learned that in school? There were 15 000 initial Australian POWs, with another 7 000 joining later from Java, Timor and other actions, and only two thirds returned home. Hear 63 voices captured 50 years after the war reflect on that important time in our history.

Under a Bamboo Sky was produced by WildBear Entertainment in recognition of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, financed with the assistance of the ACT Government and Screen Canberra, The Returned & Services League of Australia and the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ Saluting their Service Commemorative Grants Program. Supported by the Australian War Memorial.

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