This episode of Urban Dreaming features the deadliest of the deadliest of Australian Indigenous music including: Waiting (Kian), Strangers (Tia Gostelow ft LANKS), Rabbit Hole (Pirra), Marryuna (Baker Boy), Native Tongue (Mojo Juju), OG Luv Kush pt.2 (Kaiit), Shade Away (Electric Fields), Been Waiting (Jessica Mauboy), Djarimirri (Gurrumul with Sydney Symphony Orchestra), Black Boy (Emily Wurramara), Can’t Blame Me (Dan Sultan).

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Elaine Crombie, singer/song-writer and actor discusses her career and her current role in Astroman, Described as “the ultimate love letter to the 80s, the play written by Albert Belz is currently showing at Arts Centre Melbourne.

We also talk about YAPENYA – a new Dja Dja Wurrung ceremony celebrating song, dance, language and culture. This new event will share Dja Dja Wurrung stories from the stars, that are reflected onto country. Using song, dance, language and storytelling YAPENYA is a celebration of Dja Dja Wurrung ancestors, history, culture and presence.

Music in this episode includes: Greatness (Rush Wepiha feat. DJ Spell), Mission Famous (Tasman Keith), and Heartbeat (Deline Brisco).

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Steven Rhall joined Suri in the studio to talk about his exhibition at The Substation in Newport – Defunctionalised Autonomous Objects. Musically we feature Bapa (Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu), Father Said (Thelma Plum), Real Talk (Philly), and Don’t Go Walking Away (Robbie Miller).

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James Howard (Jaadwa) is a Melbourne-based musician, whose practice approaches connection to land through sound. He is joined by John Wayne Parsons (Yugerra and Meriam) and Fred Gesha (Meriam, Kalkadoon and Vanuatu) on the Deadly Fringe show, Singe The Fringe.

Musically this episode: OG Kush Pt. 2 (Kaiit), Friends with Feelings (Alice Skye), Black Face (Ziggy Ramo), Molotov (Kira Puru)

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Deadly Fringe is part of the Melbourne Fringe and we speak with two artists who will be performing in partnership with the ILBIJERRI Theatre company in this year’s program: Declan Furber Gillick an Arrernte man performing his one-man story, Big House Dreaming a piece of theatrical storytelling about the experience of a young Aboriginal person in the NT Youth Justice System; and Sandy Greenwood a Gumbaynggrir, Dunghutti and Bundjalung woman performing her show Matriarch, a work fusing music, storytelling, archival footage and hip-hop to tell the true stories of four generations of First Nations Women.

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Candy Bowers is a South African woman born on Wurundjeri Country and is presenting a workshop on The Art of Decolonisation as part of the Melbourne Fringe. Candy presents the workshop along with the cast of The Fall – the story of the #RhodesMustFall movement that sought to bring down the statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes, in protest of the white, Euro-centric cultural experience which dominated South African student life.

The entire program consists of the feature (The Fall), a Q&A after the show on Wednesday night, a listening event (Decolonising Stories) and the workshop (The Art of Decolonisation)

Music by Jessica Mauboy, Viola, Juice and Mojo Juju feature in this podcast.

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Following on from the National Indigenous Music Awards held on August 11, this podcast episode features Australia’s amazing new work from Indigenous artists Thelma Plum, Kian, Baker Boy, Mojo Juju, Ziggy Ramo and DRMNGNOW.

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Ursula Yovich – actress, singer and playwright – talks about her career, discovering her voice, the creative process, and her work on Man With The Iron Neck. Ursula grew up in the Northern Teritory and is of Serbian and Aboriginal background.  As well as a Helpmann Award winner, she is also well-known for her TV roles in Redfern Now and Gods of Wheat Street.

Music in this episode includes Waiting by young and deadly musician Kian and three other songs by Ursula: I Am Just A Child (written for her siblings), Without You (a break-up song), and Pieces (written about her mother and performed live in the studio).

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Caleena Sansbury is a freelance dance artist and a Ngarrindjeri, Narrunga and Kaurna woman from South Australia. She graduated from NAISDA in 2013 and is currently performing in The Man with the Iron Neck and is one of the First Nations emerging producers at the 2018 Melbourne Fringe.

Val Flynn is a Brisbane/Meanjin-based musician whose influences include: Aaliyah, Paul Mac, Rihanna, Cardi B, Tink, George Michael.

Music in this podcast includes: Waiting (Kian), Shifting Sands (Tom E Lewis), Stuck on Repeat (Val Flynn), Lonely (Casey Donovan).

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In tonight’s show, we speak with Jub Clerc and Joe Williams.

Jub is a Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman from the Beagle Bay and Broome regions of the Kimberley in WA. Graduating from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Jub spent many years as a theatre performer and is currently writing her first play, Dust. She has worked as casting director, extras casting coordinator, dramaturge and associate producer on award-winning productions including The Circuit 1 & 2, Bran Nue Dae, Mad Bastards, Satellite Boy and Jandamarra’s War. Most recently, Jub has been performing as a soprano in the world’s first Aboriginal Opera, Pecan Summer.

Joe is a proud Wiradjuri, man from southern New South Wales. Joe played in the National Rugby League for South Sydney Rabbitohs, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury Bulldogs before switching to professional Boxing in 2009. Joe is a 2x WBF World Jnr Welterweight champion and in 2014 won the WBC Asia Continental Title.  Joe recently called out Trevor Noah for his attempted humour that denigrates Aboriginal women and called on Australians to boycott his next tour OZ.

In this show we include music by: Jessica Mauboy, Alice Skye, and Jessica Wishart.

Photo credits:

Jub Clerc:  Andrew McDougall/Damian Sullivan from MIFF

Joe Williams:  www.joewilliams.com.au

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