Episode 31 of On The Record ranges from Spielberg’s latest extraterrestrial spectacle to Icelandic cocktail jazz, via Australian festival programming, political songwriting, BBC football commentary and the fragile magic of shellac records. It is a […]
There are plenty of artists happy to spend their careers polishing yesterday’s trophies. Tim Rogers isn’t one of them. Appearing on Episode 30 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie, the You […]
Review by Brian Wise Al Jardine & Pet Sounds Band – Hamer Hall, Melbourne – Sunday June 28, 2026 For two hours at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, Al Jardine and his superb Pet Sounds band transported […]
Now and then, On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie wanders into territory that feels less like a podcast and more like the best conversation you’ve accidentally joined in the corner of a […]
Episode 28 of On The Record finds Michael broadcasting from the Greek island of Kefalonia. Still, the conversation itself travels much further afield—from the cosmic ambitions of Earth, Wind & Fire to the lyrical reflections […]
This week’s On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie begins where most music chats don’t: with a gripe about what the ARIA charts don’t show. Wise is baffled that Emma Donovan’s Take Me […]
Episode 26 of On The Record is the first fully international edition—Brian Wise filing from Melbourne, Michael Mackenzie beaming in from the ancient fortified town of Monemvasia, deep inside the Peloponnese. The contrast isn’t just […]
Episode 25 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie begins where so many arguments in roots music eventually end up: Bob Dylan. Specifically, the minor detail of him turning 85 (born 24 […]
Episode 24 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie opens not in a record shop or a green room, but in the unglamorous reality of domestic collapse: Brian’s gas hot water service […]
By Brian Wise. The Waterboys – The Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Saturday May 16, 2026 With a history dating back to the early 1980s, a catalogue of 16 albums and a string of memorable hits, expectations […]
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