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4ZZZ presents ZED51
Come market another day celebrating the furthering years of our beloved 4ZZZ radio station… and the cultures they generate from that power transmission of a nucleus.

As sure as day becomes night, 4ZZZ slips into the streams of creative diversity, as the risers of this vibrant ZED51 doorstep, cross over into another 50 years of a Brisbane community of media-active cultural spaces. In light of this ever-evolving radio station, and that idiosyncratic warmth of inner glow all were left with post October ‘25 ZED50 celebration… it was hard to not continue this energising inclusive trip into our Meanjin futures.
Presented by 4ZZZ, Saturday 24th October 2026 is ZED51 - 13 bands once again cloaking the hills of Roma Street Parklands with music, stalls, and that incredible community spirit. Two stages, no crossovers, open to all-ages along with markets stalls, food etc running from midday to 10pm. Join us in such humble entreaties…

"Last year 4ZZZ turned 50, to celebrate we hosted a plethora of events, across three months, that resulted in one heck of a birthday party.

One such event was Zed50, a nod to the market days of old and a showcase of the sound of our community - past, present and future. "Do it again next year" the crowd screamed, well, you yelled and we listened, so we are gearing up to do it all again at Zed51.

This year's event promises to be bigger and better than ever. It recognises how far 4ZZZ has come since 1975 and where it is headed post 50th. Music is a universal language and we here at 4ZZZ look forward to sharing some of our favourite acts, from near and afar, with you (our community) at Zed51." – (Nick, 4ZZZ station manager.

MUDHONEY played a show for 4ZZZ in 1990 at East Leagues Club March 10 with Proton Energy Pills and Alien Virus to about 600 people… and then that same year ventured back for the December 8th LIVID FESTIVAL at the RNA along with TISM, Died Pretty, Jackfrost, Falling Joys, Clouds, Xero and more in lieu of the 4ZZZ 15th birthday celebrations. Last year Mark Arm from Mudhoney fronted The Saints 73-78 at last year’s 50th anniversary… and now moments converge with those progenitors of grunge once again heading back to Brisbane to play ZED51. Touch me… this is sick!

Joining them in this burgeoning moment for Brisbane to rejoice in the love of culture will be the pop time goodness of Brisbane’s very own CUSTARD running riot in the apartments caught between having the technology and a Wisenheimer… music is never crap. It is fun. Thank your lucky star for that. Get ready for a full fry up.

A matriarch of rap… proud Malyangapa, Barkindji woman BARKAA takes a good bite from the hand that feeds provoking all with a rollicking air of tiddas time, and a “handle on storytelling that is unshakably confident and honest”. King Brown, Preach, Our Lives Matter, …we up!

THE MARK OF CAIN finally return to Brisbane in the opening salvo of a new era – there is nothing like a good blast of TMOC to start the day and an even better one to finish it off. 25 years on from “This is This” will attribute such rumblings with all that and more. Tell me.

CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS rack up the tunes and knock back the best so no soul is left unturned by these Naarm heavyweights. Cathartic. Communal. With Cash looming hard centre of this emotional storm. "A fu***ng spectacular live phenomenon" (Beat Magazine).

SHONEN KNIFE return from Japan and re-cut their sugar saturated, food obsessed power pop-punk fusion they have been tasting Australian with since their first visit touring the BIG DAY OUT in 1997. Touring off the back of the re-recorded debut album Let’s Knife Re-Cut. Come ride the rocket!

I HEART HIROSHIMA – those dark smouldering skeletons of a Meanjin life without buildings – Sullivan, Matt and Cameron - make this once in their times reformation to torch London in Love, Shakeytown, Punks… like kicking embers down streets of departure. Tuff Teef. The Rip. They were maps of our shadow territories. Witness.

In the provocation of this… erase backgrounds with Meanjin’s TAPE/OFF amid the wild swept oscillation of their 2025 album Fort Sensible; DEM MOB hot off the back of 6 months touring with Regurgitator, imminently about deliver their debut album wake the power of music with the most remote hiphop ever delivered; MITCH, PLEASE crash cats and fizzy drinks in a Disney-whimsical nerd-punk free for all – providing the spicy toppin’ on the 2025 4ZZZ HOT 100!

SUPERHOTEL are 5 pieces of meanjin strained through observational poetry and alt-country rock – recently caught guestin’ with Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie; the atypical STILL FULL FROM LUNCH embrace the biggish band play off while 14 arms swing free from the hills hoist… with 7 of them this is vast, and all termites; and Grace from Nice Biscuit returns with the psychedelic folk of her side project BABY COOL shimmering in light of latest album Infinity Baby.

Power this all up for another lush day of community transmission!
Spread that feeling.

ZED51
Onwards to more years of that people powered radio 4ZZZ

SAT 24 OCT 2026
ROMA ST PARKLANDS
Albert St, Spring Hill, Brisbane
TWO STAGES no crossovers ALL-AGES*
Tickets from OZTIX – JUNE 23 sign up for preregister
4ZZZ Subscribers only presale: Wednesday 24 June midday
General Public Onsale: Thursday 25 June midday
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/.../a104674f-86bd-47a1-8a0c...
This is an all-ages event. As a condition of entry, all persons under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

featuring... MUDHONEY (from the US), BARKAA, CUSTARD, THE MARK OF CAIN, CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS, SHONEN KNIFE (from Japan), I HEART HIROSHIMA (one show reformation only), TAPE/OFF, DEM MOB, MITCH, PLEASE, SUPERHOTEL, STILL FULL FROM LUNCH, BABY COOL.
https://www.instagram.com/zedfifty/
Tape/Off DEM MOB Baby Cool Mitch, Please SUPER HOTEL Still Full From Lunch 4ZZZ Oztix

TUES 23 JUNE 8.15am 4ZZZ
SONIC ALIEN: listen!

DAVE McCORMACK’s TRS-80
tis' a bonafide classic YOUR FRIENDS WILL TRY TO KILL YOU - play it and it won't let you go.

Visual accompaniment is best served here: YOUR FRIENDS WILL TRY TO KILL YOU

"Your Friends Will Try to Kill You" by DMc's Exploding TRS80 Modem Here is actual documentation of the people mentioned in the DMc's E...

DEM MOB are at it again. Hot off the 6 month journey with Regurgitator they take to LEAPS & BOUNDS. The Yarra. Melbourne. The Tote. Currently in the APY delivering their education programs they will trek across country to entertain you all.

JULY 25 - LEAPS & BOUNDS program
THE TOTE BANDROOM
plus Crooked TP and Torres Green
https://www.lbmf.com.au/2026-program/dem-mob

Tickets from here:
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/691007d8-257b-478b-a589-b3b2142aec6c

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival The Tote

DAVE McCORMACK’s TRS-80
No Context for Old Men and some topographical information… out and about FRI 3 JULY featuring bonafide classic YOUR FRIENDS WILL TRY TO KILL YOU - play it and it won't let you go.

David McCormack tends to slip out from the cracks in this world… as perception shifts around us and across time travelled he takes the hubris we are left to roll in at times, and leisurely cuts it up into the rhymes we drag behind us. With latest incursion into the barbed labyrinth of musical decorum TRS-80 - he has enlisted Adele Pickvance (GoBetweens, Chandeliers on bass/keyboards) and Nick Naughton (Biro, Anchors on drums) to help hunt down the foes of our musical imagination and turn out a swathe of delicate numbers to balance our everyday emotions upon. Sometimes your friends will try to kill you… with reflections and humour.

The fruits of these labours come to bear in latest episode NO CONTEXT FOR OLD MEN - all formats unleash the byproducts of different cover art: a 33rpm 7 inch vinyl with 4 of them tracks… a CD with 6 in total… and the digital is anyone’s game. Visual accompaniment is best served here: YOUR FRIENDS WILL TRY TO KILL YOU https://youtu.be/VeNVQruOHTk

To further this fantasy David, Adele and Nick take flight over the month of September. Details are below.

David McCormack’s TRS80
No context at all TOUR… well maybe.

SAT 4 JULY - SONIC SHERPA instore EP LAUNCH!
2.00pm - free entry.

FRI SEPT 4 - LAST CHANCE ROCK N ROLL BAR Melb
Plus guests
Doors 7.30pm. Tickets from oztix
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/6802cf91-502f-4f59-9d98-45f6867a39cc

FRI SEPT 11 - MIRRORBALL Bris
Plus guests
Doors 7.30pm. Tickets from Humantix
https://events.humanitix.com/dave-mccormack-s-trs80

FRI SEPT 18 - PETERSHAM BOWLS CLUB Syd
Plus guests
Doors 7.00pm. Tickets from Humantix
https://events.humanitix.com/david-mccormack-s-trs80

David McCormack’s TRS80
- No Context For Old Men” OUT JULY 3
thru VALVE/MGM and online etc etc
Bandcamp too - https://consumevalve.bandcamp.com/album/dave-mccormack-s-trs-80-no-context-for-old-men

ORDER HERE:
VINYL https://www.valverecords.com.au/shop/product/david-mccormacks-trs80-no-context-for-old-men-ep-on-7-inch-vinyl/
CD https://www.valverecords.com.au/shop/product/david-mccormacks-trs80-no-context-for-old-men-ep-on-cd/

VIDEO
https://youtu.be/VeNVQruOHTk

IMAGE https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rofti2yzkwn2rv2b4svfj/David-McCormack-2.jpg?rlkey=bcp2n0dwsrvv6swilktued63c&dl=0
SINGLE https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2gb8japifo61u9jafg79n/DavidMcCormack_V182V_7inchcover.jpg?rlkey=4nyctpskzrq52xis5ururim5i&dl=0
CD https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2vbo2mdjv0zme4sj12o8j/CDcover.jpg?rlkey=nlydvaigqtu4f31pjpwngskvj&dl=0
DIGITAL https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7knate51h0o3onoslu3oy/TRS1streamingtile.jpeg?rlkey=w0b3b5ivimpmxg4t8ua3pkn5e&dl=0

Basic blurb relative to factual considerations:

David McCormack’s TRS80 blurb
In December 2025, David McCormack (Custard, Polaroids, Bandit in Bluey) was doing his annual DAVO Xmas spectacular in Brisbane. This time he decided to recruit Adele Pickvance (GoBetweens, Chandeliers) on bass and Nick Naughton (Biro, Anchors) on drums. This combo proved to be magic and David McCormack’s TRS80 was born.

Cut to January 2026, the band convened at Incremental Studios in Ashgrove to drink beer and bash out 6 songs in 4 hours. That’s the sounds of “No Context For Old Men” - sweaty with a day-drinking beer buzz.

Available on 7 inch 33 1/3 rpm vinyl (4 tracks), CD (6 tracks) and digital via Valve Records JULY 3

Thanks for your time.

The unbelievable fracking truth of the Kimberley... do any of these people whom aspire to govern have any care for anything beyond greed and self-destruction for that sake of gain? Something has broken in their brains.

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The wave of community support for last year’s ZED50 was nothing short of incredible and one thing we kept hearing after the event was how great it would be to do it all again. Well, get ready to mark your calendars Meanjin, for ZED51. October 24th, 2026 at Roma Street Parklands. Full lineup and ticketing details soon…

Presented by 4ZZZ and the same folks that brought you ZED50.
Regurgitator Custard

David McCormack’s TRS80
- "No Context For Old Men” EP
on 7" VINYL, CD and DIGITAL
Coming your way on JULY 3 thru valve.
Pre-order CD and VINYL here:
VINYL https://www.valverecords.com.au/shop/product/david-mccormacks-trs80-no-context-for-old-men-ep-on-7-inch-vinyl/
CD https://www.valverecords.com.au/shop/product/david-mccormacks-trs80-no-context-for-old-men-ep-on-cd/

Announcing an instore at SONIC SHERPA - SAT 4 JULY @2.00pm
Get in it!

In December 2025, DAVID McCORMACK (Custard, Polaroids, Bandit in Bluey) was doing his annual DAVO Xmas spectacular in Brisbane. This time he decided to recruit Adele Pickvance (GoBetweens, Chandeliers) on bass and Nick Naughton (Biro, Anchors) on drums. This combo proved to be magic and David McCormack’s TRS80 was born.

Cut to January 2026, the band convened at Incremental Studios in Ashgrove to drink beer and bash out 6 songs in 4 hours. That’s the sounds of “No Context For Old Men” - sweaty with a day-drinking beer buzz.

TONIGHT AT The Tivoli Brisbane - OPEN SEASON commences with:
Gil Scott-Heron by Brian Jackson(USA)
Presented by Astral People & Open Season
Mon 25 May 2026 - The Tivoli
https://openseason.live/events/gil-scott-heron-by-brian-jackson-and-yasiin-bey

And in response the full version of text:

The revolution will not be terrorised: reflections on a presence of Gil Scott-Heron

Gil. Scott. Heron. The first time I heard his baritone command of language as an instrument of awakening… as a motivational barricade of revolutionary action... was as a teen plundering the illicit airwaves of community radio 4ZZZ. An alternate-seeking youth back in the late hanging 70s, it felt like you were way out of the mainstream box, harbouring some hidden special oasis of music and thought. Scheming your way through a sonic earhole into the dark ebb of a rogue world of wild anarchy - as much as it wasn’t. It felt transgressive and transformational - that as an outsider teen I had found some taboo doorway only accessible to those on the outer realms. I felt validated in this edge of society membership, called out like the scions of pirates of old to reach for the political schisms that would shake the s**t out of the capitalist fog that we all seemed doomed to. Yeah… like I was somehow privileged in youth to join that battle against the somnolent status quo. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was a calling card and I reached deep into the powerful intoxicating rhymes of Scott-Heron with all the force that it resonated with. It struck like a molotov of poetic freedom I had suddenly found a match for… a match of rebelliousness. But I was just another wh**ey over the moon transfixed by the aural majesty of wearing this subversive refrain of musical political subculture loud and proud.

But was it even speaking to me? My youth never even questioned that - of course it must be. At the time, it more likely spoke to my shallow recourse growing up in the clownlike shadow of the corrupt puppet show of Joh and the rotten gerry-mandered Nationals, that had this state in a grip of vice posing as moral certitude. Although, it would be hard to call it “dangerous” when compared to the actions of the vile genocidal nature of the current Israeli government or even the idiot slob ruling over the rapidly compromised USA. I was also inoculated from the extreme criminal injustice by skin colour… born into the privilege of being white and male. Anything outside of that most definitely was subjected to the more dangerous overreach of an unjust constabulary hell bent on their abuses of power… deaths in custody and other such acts of racist thuggery.

All the same standing in solidarity as allies with those violently oppressed left to some small degree an exposure to this right wing goose overstep marching down our streets. Gil Scott-Heron was a call to stand up and fight for all of our rights… a calling that screams just as loud today with our current version of the Joh days and the uncritically minded latest sham hoard holding their paper mache throne, swallowed up in the corrupt manifestation of fascist farce theatre. The revolution will not be terrorised - no matter where you sit on the fence stand up for the civil well-being of our society held hostage to such charlatans.

Then in 1995 I found myself in even greater cultural fortune - suddenly handed the opportunity to promote a performance of this most inspiring piece of my teen political ambitions - presenting a live show of Gil Scott-Heron. It seemed like a dream alignment moment of trenchant opportunism. Yes… was the only answer to such a possibility. Now I truly was on the moon. In all humility... to be handed not only the opportunity to fund and deliver such a wonderful artist in this city of tepid revolutions, but to occupy the immediate rarefied proximity of a rhythmic orator of such aspiring orientations. Caught speechless in the face of rap’s poetic progenitor. The awe left me high and everything caught up in the spirits of being face to face with this pedastaled master - grounded like the meat of my being in the presence thereof, I had to stay in order and not allow myself to spin wildly in a excess of sycophancy. Play it cool… in the face of utter coolness - his voice filling the air with such power of prosaic presence.

Strangely all this time later I have one strong memory standing at the back of the room in my favoured spot near the mixing desk, seeing/hearing the age-old presence of Gil Scott-Heron, in my applying all the cliche sentiments I tinker with here, lost in the smooth jazz steam emanating from this archetypical breath of uttered poetic resistance. 400 or so of those awakened to the non-televised all held aloft in his transcendent sway. I purchased his books of poetry to further indulge the weight of incandescence of this short lived screen of tacit connection. The ephemeral sounds and presence left to the witness of my mind. There is a power in the transcience of moments received, grasped with meaning in profound ways… as against the current superfluous excess of capturing every moment to media eroding the value of that lived experience. It may no longer be televised but that excess of digitisation defies our being plugged into those moments, as that expanding archive of catalogued memory and self-surveillance tunes us out to the urgency of any change.

And then - I’m New Here… the final 2010 document stewarded by Richard Russell aka XL is a master statement of finality on par with David Bowie’s musical exit Blackstar. It swept me asunder when I first heard it… it truly had a strong sense of newness to the “post-industrial blues” backed verbal tone of such an understated master of political/musical convection finding growing pace in a differing world, his being freed from the back of incarceration. His voice made me feel I was touching his mind all over again but this time with greater sensitivity. It left me humbled and awakened in the same manner as the past. It's touch on all those that felt this didn’t stop, with further reinventions forged by Jamie XX and his ingenious remix release We’re New Here… and then more recently 2020s We’re New Again’s reimagining by one of the great modern jazz/hiphop-esque drummers Makaya McCraven (whom I had good fortune to witness playing to a handful of people in the back streets of Milton some years ago). Someone possessed of a shared aura of creative existence deep in the now of lived moment.

And now we have this revisitation on our cards, dealt by original collaborator, pianist Brian Jackson together with Yasiin Bey… take hold of this with the ears and hearts one touches such commitments, and know the living is in creative evocations. The revolution will not be eulogised but renewed through cyclic reinventions. No instant replays… no reruns… where any chance of a revolution will always be alive!

Yep... the stupid american f**k s**tting on the throne of the USA is backfiring his slop magnificently. In his trying to control the global fossil fuel energy network and his aggressive shut down of post-fossil sustainable energy for all (and not just the well off) his attempt to take over the Iranian control of oil and gas with his co-conspirator Netanyahu is supercharging global shift to renewable. Seriously... sometimes it takes a stupid dumb f**k to come in gloating with their fat arse catastrophe of greed to accelerate the change away from their selfish mayhem.
Cry, motherf**ker... cry!

"Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?" - George Monbiot
The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable. Environmentalists are now being seen for the pragmatists that they are
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/18/fossil-fuel-trump-green-revolution-us-iran-renewable-energy

On that note highly recommend this great book by NICHOLAS BEURET publisher by the excellent Verso:

"Or Something Worse:
Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition"
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3253-or-something-worse
"The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Nicholas Beuret's incisive critique and actionable strategies empower us to fight for a truly sustainable and equitable future.

Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Greening the economy has become a one-sided war, as governments and businesses squeeze the living standards of ordinary people. We need to seize control of the transition in order to reshape it to equitable ends.

Existing policies won’t limit global heating to anything close to a safe level. Claims of sustainability disguise a zero-sum battle where the powerful profit and everyone else foots the bill. Green growth was supposed to bring increased wealth for all. Instead, work has been degraded, energy bills have soared, and the most basic necessities have become expensive and scarce.

We need to disrupt green capitalism. Nicholas Beuret follows those already fighting back through ‘don’t pay’ campaigns, blockades of fossil-fuel infrastructure, and community counter-planning. He shows we have the tools not only to stop climate change but to build a fairer future."

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot