Recordings from the radio program Gaywaves, which ran from 1979 to 2005 on Sydney community radio station 2SER 107.3.

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NFSA Series Title No: 337395

2SER's Gaywaves

Beggars Archive: a record label perspective

A Q&A with Lesley Bleakley from Beggars Group in session with Rory Gibb from The Quietus

As part of the Keeping Tracks symposium

British Library Auditorium 21.03.14

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Beggars Archive: a record label perspective

Two & One

Cibi

Sydney gay and lesbian radio program Gaywaves presenter Dietmar Hollman reports in October 1985 from a rally and AIDS Candlelight Vigil, the first held in Sydney, organised by Sydney City councillors Brian McGahen and Craig Johnston. The recording includes discussion of the 1985 Public Health Proclaimed Diseases Amendment Act, speeches from Brian McGahen, Craig Johnston, Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Dennis Scott, a performance from July Glen and vox pops from the crowd.

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NFSA Title No: 818924

2SER’s Gaywaves - Sydney’s first Candlelight AIDS Vigil report (1985)

Sydney gay and lesbian radio program Gaywaves presenter Dietmar Hollman reports in November 1985 on proposed legislation (which would become the 1985 Public Health Proclaimed Diseases Amendment Act) that would require doctors to notify the New South Wales Health Department of HIV-positive patients, featuring interviews with activist John Cazan, Sydney City councillors Craig Johnston and Brian McGahen and New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board president Carmel Niland.

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NFSA Title No: 818914

2SER’s Gaywaves - HIV/AIDS Public Health Amendment Act report (1985)

Greg Reading reports for Gaywaves in 1983 from a march on Oxford Street, Sydney, organised as a response to a second police raid of sex-on-premises venue Club 80 in which eleven were charged with anti-homosexual laws.

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NFSA Title No: 819099

2SER’s Gaywaves - Club 80 police raid rally report (1983)

Dietmar Hollman reports for Gaywaves in December 1986 on the ‘Monsignor Porcamadonna’ affair, after former Premier of South Australia and then chairman of the Victorian Tourism Commission Don Dunstan was photographed at a book launch with gay community Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence member ‘Monsignor Porcamadonna’ (alter ego of Fabian LoSchiavo), attracting criticism from then state opposition leader Jeff Kennett and Italian community leaders. This recording also features an interview with Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence member Mother Inferior (Fabian LoSchiavo).

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NFSA Title No: 818997

2SER’s Gaywaves - Don Dunstan and the ‘Monsignor Porcamadonna’ affair (1986)

Activists Ken Davis and Betty Hounslow interviewed on the 20th anniversary of Gaywaves in November 1999 about the early history of the gay liberation movement in Australia and the first Mardi Gras, held in Sydney on the 24th of June, 1978.

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2SER’s Gaywaves - Ken Davis and Betty Hounslow interviewed about gay liberation history (1999)

Evolve (feat. Jane Tyrrell)

From the album Thoughts Melt In The Air. Available at 
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Melt In The Air by Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi

Taken from Braille Face's debut album Kōya, to be released August 31 via Spirit Level/Inertia.

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The Copeland-Long restoration of the earliest known recording of computer music, recorded at Alan Turing's Computing Machine Laboratory in Manchester in 1951. Read Copeland and Long's fascinating blog account of the all-night programming session which led to its creation, and Turing's reaction on hearing it the following morning:  http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html

First known recording of computer music, 1951

First track from "O.K. Permanent Wave" cassette released through Melbourne label Nice Music. Stream or purchase the whole tape from nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com

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Small Talk

From the album 'Head In The Trees, Heart In The Ground' out through Preservation on limited vinyl, CD and digital - 

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Nowhere by The Singing Skies

Braille Face returns with his first new music in 12 months. "Run For Your Life" is the perfect re-introduction to the vibrant and vulnerable world of Braille Face, aka Melbourne songwriter and producer Jordan White.

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2SER’s Gaywaves - Club 80 police raid rally report (1983)

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