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[Canvas]
[Matt Levinson]
[Sunday 10am - Midday]

[creative art/ideas]

Matt Levinson takes you through the best of Sydney art, culture & ideas each week.

Keep up with Canvas on Twitter (@CanvasOnFBi) and Facebook or email us canvas (at) fbiradio.com.

>>25th July

Guests

Liesl Hazelton
Jewellery & Object Designer
www.sydneydesign.com.au

Stephen Page
Artistic Director & Choreographer
www.bangarra.com.au

Reviews

Building Blocks: Jen McMaster - Cockatoo Island
Mainstage: Nick Hose - Like a Fishbone

Playlist

Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Mexican Space Program - Alpha Channel
All We Have Broken Shines - Brightblack Morning Light
Buggin' Out - A Tribe Called Quest
West Coast Recycler - Georgia Anne Muldrow
Theme - Sabres of Paradise
Closer - Steering By Stars
Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Vashti Bunyan
Why Are People Grudgeful? - The Fall
Pastoral Hide and Seek - The Gun Club
Too Young - Phoenix
Cadillac and Mustang - Dan Sultan
Afro Left - Leftfield
Johnny Mathis's Feet - American Music Club
Conscription - 3ofmillions


>>18th July

Guests

Techa Noble
Performance Artist/Designer
The Kingpins
www.thekingpins.com.au

Lynette Wallworth
Media Artist
www.forma.org.uk/artists/represented/lynette-wallworth

Reviews

Mainstage: Nick Hose - A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
Push Play: Alex & Josh - Humpday
The Hanging: Anna Shapiro - ACting Up

Playlist

Kalimba Death Swamp/Kurt Feelings - Dimlite
It's Too Fucking Hot, But We've Still Got Melody - Raven
Art School Girl - The Laurels
A Moment of Despair - The Darling Downs
Particle Bounce - Cleptoclectics
Put It On Wax - Ozi Batla
Hanz High - Koolism
Promised Land (extended version) - Malik Yusef feat Kanye West
Missing You In The Air - Purdy
Goodwin and the Jumpsuit - Paradise Motel
Death Wish - The Gin Club
The Ghost - The Bamboos
Kill Off The Vowels (Cleptoclectics remix) - Collarbones
Divan - Smudge
New Flesh - Ghosts of Television
Untitled #1 [The Western Hour] - Jeff Burch
Am I Weird? - Slimey Things
Words and Images - Great Earthquake


>>11th July

Guests

Greg Godhard
Artist & Film-maker
www.gregorygodhard.blogspot.com

Caddie Brain, Tega Brain & Brendan Phelan
The Ordinary Collective
www.ordinarymagazine.org

Reviews

Mainstage: Nick Hose - West Side Story
Building Blocks: Jen McMaster - Roslyn St Bar & Restaurant

Playlist

latin america - holy fuck
you wanted a hit - lcd soundsystem
solitude is bliss - tame impala
skippin' town - the drums
obey - zeal
ready to start - arcade fire
windstorm - school of seven bells
tribe - bon chat, bon rat
break the rules - killaqueenz
lovalot - m.i.a
bloodbuzz ohio - the national
lonely in your arms - deep sea arcade
fresh hex - tobacco
void - seekae
die slow (tobacco remix) - health
ordinary - red riders
when I'm with you - best coast
one life stand - hot chip

>>4th July

Guests

Fiona McGregor
Writer & performance artist
www.fionamcgregor.com

Zoe Norton Lodge & Vanessa Hughes
Actor & Director
Bambina Borracha Productions
www.bambinaborracha.com
Reviews

Mainstage: Nick Hose - Measure For Measure
The Hanging: AnnA Shapiro - Alfred Stieglitz: the Lake George Years


Playlist

Ghost Hardware - Burial
Obstacles (Blackdown refix) - Sizzla
Stardate 2012.1221 - Johnny Telafone
Maternal Hypnosis - Indelible
Attack & Arrest - Calabi-Yau
Black Elizabeth - Ollo
Queen of Pain - The Cramps
Keep a Lid On - Isle Adore
Drink Away The Pain (Situations) with Q-Tip - Mobb Deep
Mental Vortex - Etienne Jaumet
The Man Don't Give A Fu ck (Wishmountain remix)- Super Furry Animals
Open Eyes - Sleepy Sun
The Outdoor Type - Smudge
The Quick Mile - PVT



>>27th June

Guests

Tully Arnot, Charles Dennington and Xiaofu Wang
Ectoplasm Artist Collective
www.underbellyarts.com.au

Reviews

Mainstage: Nick Hose - That Old Chestnut
Building Blocks: Jen McMasters - Australia Square
I See Read: Kavita Bedford - The Savage Detective
Push Play: Josh & Alex - Supanova Pop Culture Expo

Playlist

Knew That I Loved You (Clue To Kalo remix) - Magic Silver White
All The Pleasures of the World (Dan Block remix) - The Crayon Fields
Tribes At War (feat K'Naan) - Nas & Damian Marley
A Bend In The Terror - The Paradise Motel
Face In Grey - Zond
I Saw You Blink - Stornoway
Infinality - Lindsay Phillips
Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis
I Will - Richard In Your Mind
Higher Than The Orb (The Orb extended mix) - Primal Scream
Morgue (K. Keith remix) - Thee Undertakerz
Stilness Is The Move - Solange
Tourist Attraction - Kiosk
The Good Life - Justin Townes Earle
Gold Canary - Cloud Control
Happy Bats - Children of the Wave
Rest Your Head - Lali Puna
Tell 'Em - Sleigh Bells
Like Water In Your Hands - The Bats


>>20th June

Guests

Emma Dallas & Anastasia Freeman
Editor & Art Editor, PAN Magazine
panmagazine.com

Phillip George
Photographer & Visual Artist
www.phillipgeorge.net

Reviews

Mainstage: Nick Hose - Bang
The Hanging: Anna Shapiro - Phillip George's Edge of Empire

Playlist

Hey Ya - Outkast
So Rotton (feat Rohff)- Blak Twang
Bring On The Drums - Nick Thayer
I'll Stay - James Blake
Discipline - Untold
Summer Holiday - Wild Nothing
North to South to East to You - Kyu
Haunted City - The Walk On By
Velvet Pony - Psapp
Funk You Homosapien - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Frazzled - Dizz1
Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed - Silver Jews
At Last I Am Free - Robert Wyatt
Hungry Ghosts (feat WIRE MC & ECD) - Filastine
Firey Stars - Bearhug
The Sun Broke Into Your Heart - Richard In Your Mind

>>13th June

Guests

Vin Ryan
Visual Artist
www.vinryan.com

Claire Lewis
Curator - Taint
www.firstdraftgallery.com

Gotham Chopra
Media Entrepreneur & Liquid Comics Co-Founder
www.xmedialab.com

Reviews

Mainstage: Nick Hose - Circa
Push Play: Josh & Alex - Mad Men 3
Building Blocks: Jen McMasters - Vivid Architecture Walk

Playlist

Burnin' Inside - King Khan & the Shrines
Cloudy shoes - Damien Jurado
Cry Cry Baby - Nina Nastasia
Saved By - Deerhunter
Free To Go - Jason Walker
Mirrorball - Crayon Fields
Plasticities - Andrew Bird
Higher Than The Stars - Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Chase Scene - Broken Social Scene
Nate's Theme - Toni Toni Lee
Chinatown - Emilie Simon
Fainting Spells - Crystal Castles
Gold Soundz - Pavement
Rainbow - Emilie Simon
Troublesome Houses - Bonnie Prince Billy

>>6th June

Guests

Pia Van Gelder
Dorkbot Overlord
Multi-media artist
www.piavangelder.com
www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsyd

Caz Haswell
Visual Artist
www.flindersstgallery.com

Reviews

The Hanging: Anna Shapiro - Biennale @ The AGNSW
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - Bedroom Farce

Playlist

Ghost Town - The Specials
As We Enter - Nas & Damien Marley
Somewhat? - Dizz 1
I Feel Electric - Rubies
Rabbit Hole - Zeahorse
Indigent - Ben Solo
Kilo - Ghostface Killah
Fugalforce - Pan Sonic
SignauxBeta - Pia Van Gelder
Nude Photo - Derrick May
Deserter - Matthew Dear
Untitled #1 [The Western Hour] - Jeff Burch
Jubilation - Ghosts of Television
We Work In Bars (Simon Bookish remix) - The Chap
Home Away From Home - Arthur Russell
Stillness Is The Move (A Cappella) - Dirty Projectors
Telepathic Head - Machine Translations



>>30th May

Guests

Claire & Rachel Fuller
bams & ted pop-up store creators
http://www.bams-and-ted.blogspot.com/

Luke Cavalan
(Lc Beats)
Claymation animator, beat boxer, graff artist
Kaos in King St
http://kaosinkingst.blogspot.com
Mayhem in Mays Lane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VwihAj-kc

Reviews

The Hanging: Anna Shapiro - Biennale @ The MCA
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - CATS!
Building Blocks: Jen McMaster - Carriageworks

Playlist

Take Me Home (Emmon remix) - Don Juan Dracula
Moments In Love - Art of Noise
Silver Line (Kharkov remix) - Faux Pas
Etched Headplate - Burial
Well If I Ever! - Monk Fly
Beats Fur Die Party - DJ DSL
Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
Zantoria - Avene
Beginning and the End - Circle Pit
Soul Train - The Delta Riggs
Klack - LC Beats
Body Language - Fat Jon
Blue Monday (Jam & Spoon's Andrea mix) - New Order
Lost Where I Belong - Andreya Triana


>>23rd May

Guests

David Vann
Author
www.davidvann.com

Lee Tran Lam @ MCA Zine Fair
Writer, Zinester & FBi Broadcaster
www.theunbearablelightnessofbeinghungry.com

Reviews

Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - Parlour Song
Out & About: Elmo Keep - Lionel Shriver

Playlist

Papersnow - The Heads
Fisherman - The Congos
Little Fears - Voss
Rank Literature - Ivy St
Seasick, Yet Still Docked - Morrissey
Bury - The Fall
Arthritis - Ghosts of Television
Wrapped Up In Books - Belle & Sebastian
Party Animal (Hardhouse Banton Nice Up Remix)- Jammer
Heart Is Breaking (feat Sway and Roses Gabor) - Ty
Do You Believe? - Swamp Dogg
Foxy Lady - Hellmenn
Planet Health - Chairlift
Toes of a Dead Man - Puta Madre Brothers
Books Written For Girls - Camera Obscura
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns - The Cramps
Lift Up Your Weary Head - Gentleforce


>>16th May

Guests

Tom Polo
Visual Artist
www.tompoloart.blogspot.com

Mel O'Callaghan
Performance & Visual Artist
www.grantpirrie.com

Reviews

Building Blocks: Jen McMasters - Surry Hills Library
Push Play: Josh & Alex - Twin Peaks
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - Bug
Out & About: Nell Greco - Angela Ellsworth

Playlist

Hearing Voices - Galaxie 500
Pandanus - Robert Forster
Any Ladies? - Artificial & DJ Toupee
I Thought (Feat Arablak) - Ta-Ku
Pigge Playe - Always
Can You Deal With That? (feat RZA) - I:Cube
Gone Baby, Don't Be Long - Erykah Badu
1055 32 Leaves Dipped In Blackness Making Clouds Forming Altered Carbon - Shabazz Palaces
Kill Off The Vowels - Collarbones
Go Outside - Cults
Skylights - The Unravelling
Everybody Get On The Floor - Itchee and Scratchee
Freaktown Stars - Les Annees
Razor Blades - Ratcat
Keep On Keeping On - Headman
Songbird - The Internal Tulips
Rollerskate - Matias Aguayo

>>9th May

Guest presenter Anna Burns

Guests

Jonathan Walker
Writer
www.jonathanwalkervenice.com

Dean Sewell & Steven Siewert
Photographers Oculi Collective
www.oculi.com.au

Reviews

Big Screen: Sam Clarke - I Love You Too
Stuff on Walls: Anna Shapiro - Bill Henson
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - Waiting for Godot

Playlist

feeling without touching - glass candy
fader (pivot remix)- the temper trap
people - james murphy
not getting there - blonde redhead
tomorrow in a year - the knife feat mt sims & planningtorock
when it comes - high places
kaili - caribou
you dance, and you dance - lessons in time
past lives - parades
I can't go for that - the bird and the bee
ghost story - cloud control
remember - lali puna
blood buzz - the national
hearts - oOoOO


>>2nd May

Guest presenter Lexi Savvides

Guests

Nike Savvas
Visual Artist

Nils Crompton
Film Maker
www.nilsio.blogspot.com

Reviews

Big Screen: Sam Clarke - Iron Man 2
Building Blocks: Jen McMaster - Balast Point
Stuff on Walls: Anna Shapiro - The Problems of Asia
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - Honour

Playlist

most wanted - cults
mexico - martin craft
let me infuse - anikiko
you stopped making sense - the radio dept.
watch the waves - taken by trees
angel echoes - four tet
hot trash - tin can radio
del hombre a hombre - gotan project
guillotine - faux pas
light summer dress - ma
new york kid - bright red
dancing on silk - canyons
knitted soup - denim owl
the truest faith - korallreven
leipzig - matthew herbert
kong - bonobo


>>25th April

Guests

Adrian Wills
Writer/Director
www.sydneyoperahouse.com/About/Program_Message_Sticks

Lucy Simpson
Textile Designer
www.carightway.ning.com

Reviews

Push Play: Alex & Josh - Wilfred2
Big Screen: Sam Clarke - Bunny and the Bull
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - The Power of YES

Playlist

>>18th April

The Oneness of Juju - African Rhythms
Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
Astrid Gilberto - Bim Bom (Psapp remix)
The PI Boyz with Desert Pea Mob - Aboriginal Justice
Burning Spear - Run Come Dub
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #2
Big Scary - Autumn
Mapletons - Today We Play
Faux Pas - Dawson Mode
The Delta Riggs - Soul Train
Holly Miranda - Waves
Freshwater - Mingaan
Sherlock's Daughter - Sons and Daughters
Birth Glow - Palm Tree Ukelele
Warumpi Band - My Island Home
Institut Polaire - We Can't Wait No More


Guests

Glenys Osborne
Author & Editor
www.cloudsofmagellan.net

Mickie Quick
Artist & Culture Jammer
www.mickiequick.com

Reviews

Push Play: Alex & Josh - Dr Who
Big Screen: Sam Clarke - Beneath Hill 60
Take Me To The Theatre: Nick Hose - Macbeth at Darlinghurst Theatre

Playlist

Has It Come To This? - The Streets
Futterman's Rule - Beastie Boys
Dead Seamen - The Brutals
Genocide Matinee - Fionn Regan
Hiding From The Sun - Clear Spacemen
Pills - Rat Vs Possum
Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson
The Ship Song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Tidal Waves Uprising - Daedalus
I Got A Feeling - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Stereotype (feat Goldilocks) - Tinchy Stryder
Pretend Mink Jaguar
Lovesick - Lindstrom & Christabelle
Umleitung - Cluster
Eating Noddemix - Young Marble Giants
Work It Out - Orca! Straight Ahead
Crow - Voss
Order of Things - Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
You've Got the Love (Live) - Florence & The Machine & Dizzee Rascal


>>11th April

Guests

Craig Schuftan
Author, Broadcaster
schuf.wordpress.com/


Chip Rolley
Author, Artistic Director

Push Play

Alex & Josh - The Pacific


Playlist

Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal
Rollin' and Scratchin' - Daft Punk
Can You Feel It? - Mr Fingers
You've Got The Love - Florence & The Machine
Skylights - The Unravelling
Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
I Feel Better - Hot Chip
Negatives - Sleepwalks
9.865881 - Infinite Decimals
The Saddest Sound - Devastations
Time Can Break Your Heart - Toby Burke
Fox - Danimals
Angel Echoes - Four Tet
Leilani (Nite Club remix) - Hotels


>>4th April

Guests

Chris Bosse
Architect
www.chrisbosse.de
www.l-a-v-a.net

Angus Wood
Visual Artist
www.ngart.com.au/artists_wood

Cinnamon Lee
Silversmith, Jewellery & Object Designer
www.cinnamonlee.com

Out & About

Elly King - Make Do Garden City
www.makeshift.com.au/journal

Playlist

The Splendour - Panta Du Prince
Gangamang - Yucuna
Morning Prayer - Spartak
Ensemble Of Four - Mapstation
Kings Cross - The Bamboos
If You Catch Me Stealing - Eilen Jewell
There Are Listed Buildings - Los Campesinos
Propel - Ben Swire
Tuning Out - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Ghost At The Crossroads - Crow
Forever Untitled - Abe Duque
Order of the Golden Dawn - Daedelus
Sleeping Through Alarms - The Small Hours
Near The Desert, Near The City (Tin Man Remix) - Hotels
Rearrange - RuCL

>>28th March

Guests

Keg de Souza
Visual Artist
www.allthumbspress.net
kegdesouza.blogspot.com

Owen Craven
Curator & Deputy Editor of Artist Profile Magazine
www.hazelhurst.com.au
www.artistprofile.com.au

Guy Maestri
Painter & Curator - CarriageArtworks
www.carriageworks.com.au
www.timolsengallery.com

Georgie Meagher
Performance Artist - Monthly Friend
catmeatandcandy.blogspot.com
bakesaleforart.blogspot.com

Reviews

Sam Clark - Big Screen - Mic Macs
Josh & Alex - Push Play - Boondock Saints 2

Playlist

If You're Going Out I'm Going Out Too (feat Blaze & Triggs) - Wiley
Tip My Canoe - Dengue Fever
Outer Suburbs of the Soul - Sister Jane
Islands - Daniel Wang
I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine - Beth Orton
Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
Please Visit Your National Parks - Oxford Collapse
Bicycle Groove - Clocked Out Duo
Canoe - Ukiyo-E
Out The Window - Violent Femmes
Aboriginal Justice - The PI Boyz with Desert Pea Mob
Pouring Milk Out the Window (Tin Man Spilt Milk Remix)- Apricot Rail
The Outdoor Type - The Lemonheads


>>21st March

Guests

Mikaela Burstow
Architecture Photographer
www.mikaelaburstow.com

Olivia Martin-Maguire
Photographer - Sleepers
www.oliviamartinmaguire.com

Jill Greenberg
Photographer
www.manipulator.com

Reviews

Sam Clark - Big Screen - Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Playlist

Ring The Alarm - Fu Schnickens
Ready or Not (feat Dank)- Space Invadas
Forgive - Mala
Bogota - Yucuna
Forest Hats - Yucuna
Shady Lane/J vs. S - Pavement
Television is About Pictures - Paint Your Golden Face
On Giving Up - High Places
Piano and Ambience 1 - All India Radio & Josh Roydhouse
Forwardness - To Rococo Rot
Nouveau Western - MC Solaar
Hollywood Divorce - Outkast
1:49 - Fabulous Diamonds
Bible - Jack Ladder
Overspeed - The Daisygrinders
Where Are My Pants? - Roger Loves Betty
Young and in Love - Martin Craft
Held - Smog

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Past guests include: Lloyd Swanton (The Necks), Harold David (photographer), JUMBO & ZAP, Matt Chan (Scale Architecture), Reif Larsen (author, The Selected Works of TS Spivet), Louise Hawson (www.52suburbs.com), Kalinda Ashton (author, The Danger Game), Ivan Ruhle & Stephen Russell (Bababa International), Doug Gibson (Mountain Fold Music Journal), Michelle McCosker and Alasdair Nicol (I Heart Kings Cross), Matthew Hopkins, Kat Hartmann (www.kluster.com.au), Tanya Visosevic & Guy Ben-Ary (www.biokino.net), Julian Meagher (www.julianmeagher.net), Geoff Manaugh (bldgblog.blogspot.com),, Daniel Mudie Cunningham (www.danielmcunningham.com), Bernadette Mansfield and Merran Esson (www.australianceramicstriennale.com), Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell, (www.greedyhen.com), Steven Amsterdam (www.stevenamsterdam.com), Meow Meow (www.meowmeowrevolution.com), Susy Pow and Maddy Phelan (zines.wordpress.com), Kenzee Patterson (photographer, artist and curator), Rachael Cassar (www.rachaelcassar.com), Nick Pickard (www.artsjournalist.blogspot.com), Joe Snell (architect, www.smartlightsydney.com), Zanny Begg and Keg de Souza (www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org), Justene Williams (artist), Thomas Jeppe (www.nownow.com.au), Pamela Fox (Google developer, http://imagine-it.org/), Marita Fraser (www.maritafraser.com), Adam Elliot (Harvey Krumpet, Mary & Max), Ron English (www.popaganda.com), Kenzie Larson (www.kenzielarsen.blogspot.com), Samuel Hodge (www.truth-beauty-cock.blogspot.com), Patti Huntington (http://frockwriter.blogspot.com/), Amanda Maxwell and Sarah Larnach (author/illustrator, Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These), Mari Velonaki (http://mvstudio.org/), Gail Priest (editor, Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia), Nick Garner (www.rococoproductions.com/dsp.html), Michaela Gleave (artist and curator), Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney (www.webuyyourkids.com), Jaki Middleton (www.runway.org.au), Charlie Garber, Claudia O'Dougherty & Nick Coyle (Pig Island, www.myspace.com/hellopigisland), Elke Kramer (jewellery designer), Brown Council (http://browncouncil.blogspot.com) Fergus Linehan (Sydney Festival director), Nam Le (author, The Boat), Meryl Tankard (director/choreographer), Amanda Brown (composer, Son of a Lion), Ian Darling and Sascha Ettinger Eptstein (directors, The Oasis), George Gittoes (director, The Miscreants), Antony Loewenstein (author, The Blogging Revolution), David Page (composer, Bangarra), Phil Lloyd (Review with Myles Barlow), Richard Goodwin (architect/artist), Angie Abdilla (Film Maker, 'Wanja'), John Aslanidis (artist), Jeff Burch (The Spring Press), Lisa Corsi (curator, 'SafARI'), Claire Edwardes (Ensemble Offspring), Lena Nahlous (director, ICE: Information Cultural Exchange), Daniel O'Toole, Max Berry and Jamie Nimmo ('Oh Really' magazine), Emma Ramsay (Quarterbred), Bree van Reyk (Synergy Percussion), Reif Larsen (Author) and Wendy Were (director, Sydney Writers Festival).

Representing galleries and venues including: Ambush Gallery, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace, At The Vanishing Point, Australian Centre for Photography, Belvoir Street Theatre, Black & Blue Gallery, Blender Gallery, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Chalkhorse Gallery, Darlinghurst Gallery, First Draft, 4A Gallery, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Gallery 9, Griffin Theatre, Hazelhurst Gallery, Helen Rose-Schausberger Laboratorium, Locksmith Project Space, MCA, Metalab, Monster Children Gallery, MOP Projects, Mori Gallery, Oh Really, Old Fitzroy Theatre, Palmer Projects Gallery, Penrith Regional Gallery, Performance Space, Powerhouse Museum, Red Rattler Theatre, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Roxbury Hotel, Sarah Cottier, SBW Stables Theatre, SCA Galleries, Serial Space, Sherman Gallery, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Theatre Company, Tap Gallery, Urban Theatre Projects.