Amy Taylor is the front woman for high energy punk rock band Amyl and The Sniffers. Amy has already clocked up quite a resume as a songwriter, pocket rocket stage performer, a Gucci billboard ambassador, Aria Award winner, Music Victoria Award winner for best band, best live act and best musician.

September 2021, The Sniffers released their second album Comfort to Me with 13 tracks that pack a punch. Produced by Dan Luscombe (Drones), mixed by Nik Launay (Nick Cave, Idles, Yeah yeah yeahs) and mastered by Bernie Grundman (Michael Jackson, Prince, Dr Dre). 

Ange Kent from BayFM's Northern Rivers Music Box interviewed Amy a week before the album was released and she said the band got total freedom with the album and Amy gave Nik Launay the brief, "I want it to sound like a Lancer. I don't want it sound like a Mazda 3".

NRMB Interviews

Amyl and The Sniffers' Amy Taylor - Front woman weapon

In this episode well-known North Coast based film director and producer Tess Hall speaks out at what she calls the unethical practises of some outside film productions operating in the region.

Tess was prominent in the Byron Bay community's battle against streaming giant Netflix earlier this year over the filming of a reality series called 'Byron Baes'.

More recently there was controversy over Channel Nine’s reality series 'Love Island', after a crew member brought COVID 19 to the area forcing the Byron Shire into lockdown in September.

With the imminent reopening of the state and country there's expected to be an explosion in the number of major film productions coming to the region.

Tess Hall talks about her concerns that without proper controls in place, brand ‘Byron’ will be exploited for commercial gain by big outside corporate interests.

In this extensive interview she spills the beans on her beloved industry in the hope of getting a better deal for the local community.

More Information:
https://www.bayfm.org//shows/above-the-fray/
http://tesshall.com.au/

Film Productions Exploiting Brand Byron - Tess Hall 18.10.21

The floodgates open to outside visitors from today the 1st of November, but is the North Coast ready?

We hear from a major tourism operator who says bookings are full until next Easter, but there aren’t enough staff.

It’s part of a massive shortage of workers that will hamper the ability of local tourism & hospitality businesses to fully open up for the influx.

There are also concerns the Shires lower rates of COVID vaccinations could put us at risk.  We are currently sitting at 83.4 per cent of people who’ve had one dose and 63.5 per cent fully vaxed. 

Hear our interview with Michael Skinner, General Manager of Elements of Byron.

More Information:
https://www.bayfm.org//shows/above-the-fray/
https://elementsofbyron.com.au/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-27/hospitality-crisis-looms-as-sydney-opens-up/100571862

North Coast Prepares for Influx of Visitors - Michael Skinner 01.11.21

A Not Thinking Straight Special - it's a little bit naughty but mostly just nice! A musical show for a change!

NTS CHRISTMAS 2021 SOUNDCLOUD

25th Bluesfest - Cambodian Space Project - Interview #2 - Srey Thy [lead vocals] and Julien Poulson [guitars, vocals] interview  with Last Hippie In Byron Bay 9.99 BayFM

Tracks include in order:

* President Richard [Tricky Dicky] Nixon announces 'Cambodian Incursion' April 30, 1970
* Cambodian Space Project - Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy [I'm Sixteen]
* Interview part one
* Cambodian Space Project - Rom Chong Vat A Go Go [Dancing A Go Go]
* Interview part two
* Astronomy Class mixtape featuring Srey Thy from Cambodian Space Project


“They’re a great band, the singer is amazing, really beautiful, the guitars really jump out at you, very affecting, great stuff” - Nick Cave


Imagine my surprise when the Cambodian Space Project dedicated their next song to Last Hippie In Byron Bay and in front of a packed Delta Stage encouraged eveyone to tune into BayFM before launching into a trippy rendition of 'The Boat', written as a duet by Srey Thy and Paul Kelly about the refugee boat tragedy on Christmas Island in July 2012.

Lead Singer, Srey Thy was born into war and poverty. Like the great Cambodian diva Ros Sereysothea, Srey Chanthy comes from humble beginnings and moved to Phnom Penh some time ago to find work as a singer. By the time she met Julien Poulson, co-founder of the Cambodian Space Project, she had amassed a great song-book of Cambodian music and was ready to try something new. 

Julian Poulson had already made several trip to Cambodia before and had dedicated time to making recordings and short films exploring the traditional music of Cambodia as well as the instruments of the Khmer ensemble but like many from the West, had an ear open for Cambodian Rock and was keen to create music that would fit in a space between what once was and what is occurring today. The Cambodian Space Project’s debut single is Knyom Mun Sok Jet Te "I'm Unsatisfied" by Pan Ron. Pan Ron herself was once upon a time, number two in line to the pop music throne and was considered more ‘edgy’ than Ros Sereysothea the Golden Voice of Phnom Penh.

The Cambodian Space Project is the first band to release a 45rpm single in Cambodia since 1975 - the year Pol Pol implemented the insane Year Zero policy of the Khmer Rouge and trashed all Cambodian culture while inflicting one of the worst genocides in human history. 


Discography

Albums
2011: A Space Odyssey ?(CD, Album, Dig)	
2013: Not Easy Rock & Roll ?(LP)
2013: Love Like Honey	

Singles & EPs
2010: I'm Unsatisfied ?(7", Pic, EP)
2012: Three Songs For Human Rights


Biography

The stratospheric rise of The Cambodian Space Project has caught those witnessing the spectacle of this cosmic cross-culture rock band (CSP) as it blasts across the dusty highways of Cambodia by surprise. In Cambodia, The CSP has landed like an unexpected meteor and has made an immediate impact on enthusiastic local audiences with its festival-like live shows. To date, the CSP has performed in venues ranging from chic city clubs to rural villages, schools and orphanages, even an elephant’s 50th birthday party! For the musicians, 

The Cambodian Space Project is a troupe bonded not only by the diversity of its members’ backgrounds but by an artistic vision to bridge cultures while exploring new musical frontiers. In 2007, Australian musician/producer Julien Poulson, travelled to Cambodia on an Asialink artist residency, with the intention to learn about and record traditional Khmer ensembles. Sometime later Poulson met Srey Thy and immediately recognised her talent as a performer - A singer and dancer who grew up in the rice fields and who had never been to school but possessed a unique vocal style and a song book to match. 

The band name The Cambodian Space Project was chosen as it not only suggests something highly improbable - A space project occurring in the jungles of Cambodia but also suggests a taste of the CSP’s artistic vision - A cosmic, psychedelic rock band with Hendrix grooves coupled with the hypnotic Khmer dancing and singing traditions, and original music with Srey Thy’s story-telling lyrics about her homeland. The CSP often plays a two-hour live set - expected by rural audiences in Cambodia - mixing 60’s Cambodian Rock with Khmer Surin dance grooves, hints of the blues with French gypsy accordion music, acid rock with reggae. It’s a heady mix but no-one leaves without dancing. 

Background Story: 

For the past five years Srey Thy has worked as a singer in the Karaoke clubs of Phnom Penh supporting her entire family on her income of less than $100 a month. In a chance encounter, Srey Thy meets Australian music producer Julien Poulson who suggests she try something very different, together they form The Cambodian Space Project. In 2009, Poulson enlisted the help of friends to form a band around Srey Thy with members hailing from Cambodia, France and Australia. 

The CSP has recently attracted the attention of award winning film maker Marc Eberle whose documentary based on Srey Thy’s life story, is set for international release through ARTE Germany. 

Thy began her career as a young Khmer woman who five years ago moved away from her impoverished village to seek out a better life in Phnom Penh. Srey Thy has always idolized the songs of pre-war times. Singers like Ros Sereysothea and Pan Ron who both tragically disappeared in the Killing Fields. Srey Thy’s story is one that is typical of Khmer village girls, hers is a story of rural migration set against the stark reality of the urban experience that confronts so many young Khmer women drawn from the rice fields of Cambodia to the bright lights of Phnom Penh. Thy was born into poverty and famine around the time the Khmer Rouge was finally driven from power by the invading Vietnamese ‘liberators’; this was also a time when biggest baby boom in the world’s history occurred. Srey Thy’s father, then a tank driver, lives today in the same impoverished village in Prey Veng province, Cambodia’s poorest, where he proudly points to a faded photo hanging from the flimsy wall of the family’s thatched hut. The photo is a black and white image of a handsome young officer in 70’s flares and sunglasses, standing next to a naked baby girl, both are listening attentively to a transistor radio… perhaps even listening to the psychedelic Cambodian Rock of the late 60’s and early 70’s. 

Today, Srey Thy is a singer on a mission. As the vocalist for The Cambodian Space Project, Srey Thy has found her voice and her contribution to this exciting cross-culture rock group being lauded in Cambodia and beyond. Thy’s original songs such as Mondulkiri and If you Go , I Come Too have caught the ears of record producer Lindsay Gravina who has joined the project by offering his mixing skills pro bono and has helped the band shape a sound style somewhere between Cambodian Rock and the atmospheric sound of The Velvet Underground. 

For Srey Thy, the journey from the rice fields to centre stage has not been easy. Off stage, Srey Thy wants to talk and speaks candidly about her personnel journey. Hers is a journey full of harrowing stories that include being forced into slave labor, of long hours in garment factories, of a time she was kidnapped and almost forced into working in a brothel by being handcuffed to a bed; a situation from which she was lucky to escape, and only after an older girl heard her protest and came to her rescue by helping release her. Sitting at a cafe in Phnom Penh, Srey Thy points to workers on a nearby building site and tells of how she worked as a labourer, carrying bags of cement, she laughs and says: “I am small but I work same, same like men… I work because if I don’t have money, mamma, pappa, young brothers and baby don’t eat…” 

In Srey Thy’s village, the old people are waiting up late into the night for the disco to finish; they want to listen to Srey Thy sing. When she begins singing, the old folks tell us she reminds them of Pan Ron – one of the most distinctive singers of pre-war Cambodia. On another visit back home Srey Thy is accompanied by her band, The Cambodian Space Project, surprising the locals who are stunned to see so many ‘barangs’ coming and performing. 
The Cambodian Space Project is a dichotomy of the Cambodia Diaspora with a mix of Cambodians, Cambodian American, Cambodian French and a couple of members from Tasmania, Australia. The band brought with it a new generator to donate to the village, its first task however, was powering up a concert for the locals. 

During the performance attended by the entire village, Srey Thy Apsara dances in the same fields where she once spent many long hours laboring, while young girls mirror her movements. Meanwhile, The Cambodian Space Project fires up with long instrumental, a droning minor chord groove, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of The Doors. Srey Thy begins singing in Khmer, a storytelling song about the trip back home “…have so many foreigners come to visit, don’t have red wine…have WHISKY CAMBODIA!”


www.cambodianspaceproject.com

www.myspace.com/thecambodianspaceproject


25th Bluesfest - Cambodian Space Project Interview & Tunes with Last Hippie In Byron Bay 99.9 BayFM

25th Bluesfest - Nahko Bear - Nahko & Medicine For the People in conversation with Last Hippie In Byron Bay 99.9 BayFM.

You may have caught Nahko and Medicine For The People on Xavier Rudd’s last tour, delivering his message with a powerful set, ably assisted by the tribal percussionist Hope Medford and guitarist Chase Makai. Oregon-native Nahko, born a mix of Apache, Puerto Rican, and Filipino cultures' adopted into an American family and now living in Hawaii, brings his own unique meld of World, Folk and Urban Roots to Bluesfest for the very first time.

He leads Medicine For The People by example - on a musical mission to ‘create healing and activate people to change things’. His latest CD, reflecting his growing influence, debuted at #4 on Billboard’s Top Alternative New Artist chart – and at #6 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

He’s toured with SOJA, Xavier Rudd, and played festivals like Electric Forest and Wakarusa in the US and The Bali Spirit in Indonesia, and The Byron Spirit Festival. Most recently Nahko and Medicine For The People shared the stage with Michael Franti at the Soulshine Festival at Christmas in Bali.

BRISBANE SHOW

Singer, songwriter, guitarist, philanthropist and Bluesfest favourite, Michael Franti and Spearhead along with the dynamic, spiritual and moving Nahko and Medicine For The People will be in Brisbane for a special, one-off Bluesfest sideshow at the Tivoli on Wednesday 23rd of April 2014.

NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE ARE ALSO PLAYING IN MELBOURNE, SYDNEY AND PORT MACQUARIE

25th Bluesfest - Nahko - Nahko & Medicine For the People with Last Hippie In Byron Bay 99.9 BayFM

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Quentin Watts tells the story of how other people's dreams came to mean so much in her life.  So much so that she became a dream analyst, then took it one step further to radio on 2JJ.  Quentin still interprets dreams, broadcasts her own jazz program, and is the president of BAYFM Byron Bay. [in conversation with Michael Schubert, mindwaves.net.au]

Quentin Watts Dream Analyst

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Christopher Dean is part of a group wanting to create a strip of organic agriculture 1 km wide, down the entire length of the Ganges River!!  What kind of person wants to be part of a 40 year project?  What motivates him and how does he view his place in the world?  A deeply rewarding and open conversation to listen to. [in conversation with Michael Schubert, mindwaves.net.au]

Christopher Dean (Philanthropist)

Paul Yore with David Hunt
Maya with Dione Green
Sinead O’Connor funeral. Black boys on Mopeds.

9 Aug 2023 NTS  SOUNDCLOUD

Shels Place 04 nov 2014

Untangling the Yarn is a new audio documentary series highlighting the personal stories of people living with dementia and other memory loss conditions. One in 12 Australians over the age of 65 are living with some form of dementia, and the primary goal of this series is to help remove the stigma and fear surrounding this condition, and to raise awareness that it is still possible for people with dementia to live fulfilling lives. In this episode we meet Glenys - the Lady in Orange from Orange.

Untangling the Yarn Episode 1 - Glenys

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Mitch's Two Up - Layla - Eric Clapton

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First bass radio from the heart of Byron Bay, this week dropping some heavy d'n'b, dubstep and breakbeat both old and new.

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The Arcane Ear traverses the genres with a common thread in psychedelia. Visit ground-breaking artists of the 60s and 70s and the underground artists of today who find their inspiration in times gone by.

We'll take a sonic journey through tracks by forgotten pioneers and uncover rarities, obscurities and absurdities from popular icons of the past. We'll also illuminate current artists from Australia and beyond - unsigned, underground, unknown and unimaginably brilliant.

From folk to post-rock, pop to noise, garage to drone, and even further left of field and time - connect the dots and uncover the mysterious sounds of psychedelia with host Kimberley Galceran.

The Arcane Ear 2.1 What Is Psychedelia

Burning river attracts national and international attention

29/04/16 - Rob Osborne with the latest coal seam gas news

Aboriginal people need to be involved in solving our own problems – the Elders are the ones that hold on to the culture and the lore, and are the most important aspect of healing our people. Cultural education is what will hold them strong through their lives no matter what the choose to do or where they choose to go.  This audio series brings together the voices of the Elders and community leaders from affected communities wishing to speak publicly about the causes and solutions needed to address this issue. 

CULT 010 - Culture is Life - Youth Center

Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when the government moved her people from Sunday Island to the mainland outback town of Derby.  Their dislocation is an experience shared by many Indigenous Australians who were forced off their land. To survive, she speaks of the need for young people to find the balance between our two worlds with ongoing cultural education.

CULT 012 - Culture is Life - Lorna Hudson

There has been a massive and unprecedented increase in Indigenous youth self-harm and suicide that has occurred over the past 20 years across Australia.  Our elders speak on behalf of all of us in addressing the deep need for cultural awareness within our communities. James Gaykamangu from Millingimbi NT speaks to the need to educate our kids through Aboriginal culture, to demonstrate tradition, Lore and order, and to educate our youth how to live in a society with respect and how to treat others well.

CULT 022 - Culture is Life - James Gaykamangu

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Community Newsroom 02/09/16

Man charged over Kalgoorlie death - Reporter Ursula Da Silva

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Community Newsroom reporter, David Hickson, was in Mexico recently, staying in the Centro Historico district in the heart of Mexico City. While there he spoke with local businessman, Juan Carlos, about Donald Trump, the US elections and how Mexico is perceived by the world.

Report From Mexico

Sounds Of Africa February 26 2017

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