Nim Fm community radio is gigging for funds Saturday June 10th at the Nimbin Bushfactory.

Music by "Stipsky", "The Shed", "Blue Mango"

At 8 pm Nim Fm radio awards will be presented followed by homegrown auction with Martin Preedy.

The Bush Theater provides warm meals and snacks during the evening.

length: 1:17 mins. 128 kb/s mono 1.2 MB

 

 

John & Frank discuss ...

in the AFL ...

all the national & Summerland league's teams + a big hello to our International AFL teams over there in Finland & Netherlands + reminiscing on previous football trips.

in the SOCCER ...

the World Cup is about to start.

in BOXING ...

a different side to Anthony 'Choc' Mundine.

John & Frank give you all the news on ...

..the AFL, both national & Summerland league.

this week bad boy Rex Hunt is in the news + the boys have a 'WenDILL' competition + there's a new way of betting + in CRICKET ... there's a Bangla Desh tour summary.

Scan Dot Org "Talk Tank"
Live Chat on the weekly news in Australia
with Ian, Martin, and Tanya at Nim Fm studio
Music: Mayano [local artist]
media clips by 'The Groove Tube' [melbourneindymedia.org]
'Blair Terror' [radioindymedia.org]
Nim Fm clips
length: 55:17 mins. 13 MB mono 32kb/s

New Texas by G. W. Bush

45 secs. 128 kb/s stereo 0.666 MB

German language news from Nimbin
Wolfgang spricht ueber die Fussball Weltmeisterschaft, und der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund und Angelika Merkel.
length: 8:55 mins
64 kb/s stereo 4.24 MB

14.4 Mb. 30 Mins.

For 13 years, police have tolerated Nimin's Annual Mardi-grass Pot Festival, where revelers behave as if the herb is not prohibited.

Enough! thundered the area's new top cop, threatening that this year's gathering would be policed by a force oc 200 to enforce even minor breaches of the drug laws.

Was he kidding? How would the hippies react? Could there be a riot at the 2006 Nimbin Mardi-Grass.

Produced, recorded and narrated by Don Sharpe

Omega continues her report from the Easter Weekend at the goldmining site Lake Cowal.

Live music clips and Stop The Cyanide, Timbarra CD, Earth Reggae,

Also Bo Kaan live on the Nimbin Sunday market

length: 60 mins. 32 kb/s mono 14 MB

Kieran and Miriam are hosting yjis program with news, and guest Benny Zable speaking on Lake Cowal Australia, and Chile, also on activism.
music: Stop The Cyanide, Durga Babies

length: 60 mins. 32 kb/s mono 14 MB

 

Kieran and Miriam are hosting this new program. Info, music and guest John Seed speaking
music: Goldmining CD

http://www.peacebus.com.au

length: 60 mins. 32 kb/s mono 14 MB

Satirical text. This letter to the editor by Graham Ferguson sums up the 2006 Mardi Grass experience with the Governments BIG STICK policies.

length 2: 25 mins. 64 kb/s mono 1 MB

 

 

Raw sound files of the speeches made at the end of the day after the grand parade. Michael Balderstone, Lisa Yeates, Joseph, and others have their say. Mardi-Grass and Nimbin, present past and future in a 4-pack of speakers.

10Mb 45 mins.

Final updates on the Mardi-Grass gossip news, tall tales and true. An amused look back with a forward looking attitude.

10Mb 42 mins.

Bob and Jack with some final words for the representatives of Law and order and District Commander Bruce ('Bluey') Lyons. A good wrap up for 14th Mardi-Grass.

 

13.5 Mb 49mins

Update!  Updates!   Updates! Post Mardi-Grass Self Recognition! Cops'n Fukennippies!  And !!!!  Hilarious Happenings! Kewl Stories and a call for more ...  UnCool Stories ...   (If you have a story, drop it into the Dream Pool  - nimfm@nimfm.org )   

Post Mortem[s], other death threatening attitudes and Post Mardi - Modus Vitae  ... Media power and disinformation and the Rugged Joys of Subterfuge. Excellent review of the  Media Manipulation of the Nimbin Mardi-Grass in an openly celebratory mode. Nice.

11.5Mb 49 mins

Nimbin Hemp Show Pt. 2:   Slipping and flipping along with some Future  Projections of Australian History which may look like the 1973 Chile Stadium revisited. Pre Pinochet ... but just in time, a timely visit from Dr. Andrew and an aural view of the comedy Festival at the Oasis Cafe.

A poetry reading and the Magic Band! But wait! there's more! A repeat of an open invitation for Mardi stories (don't let the ossifiers of the law forget!). An Anglo Aussie recognition of the Latin American continent, and its role in Anglo Amerika detriment ...  a great review of the Aussie National Headlines, and what it might be costing us all ...

Wolfgang reports about Mercedes carmaker sacking 6000 workers, and re-employing 1000 Euro guest workers with depressed wages,
Bundes Nachrichten Dienst scandal [phone tapping agency]
US Pentagon movie released with inconclusive evidence of any plane hitting the building.
German language
length: 10:16 mins.
48 kb/s mono  3.7MB

Deutsche Nachrichten aus Nimbin May 5-7 Mardi Grass 2006
Wolfgang reports about the Mardi Grass 2006 festival.
Alcohol abuse, police protection, threats, and more...

German language
length 9:30 mins.
48 kb/s mono  3.4 MB

It's post-Mardi-Grass & quiet in Nimbin.

Only Frank tonite.

In AFL ...

... all the national AFL games, sides, details & tips. What about Brownlow medalist 'Ackers' being dropped? + the Pies' Buckley ... is he or isn't he?

+ local AFL, including how Frank's Lismore Swans went.

Rugby ...

... in Super 14, it's Brumbies v Crusaders.

+ R. League: who's v who on the weekend.

+ all the swappings including Mark Gasnier?

+ City v Country.

+ locally there's a brawl between Lismore & Uni.

 

(Sorry to regular Demons podcast fans for this late posting but I had Mardi-Grass overload. Ed.)

John, Frank & Chris discuss:

AFL ...

local Summerland AFL results. Frank's Lismore Swans won & he gives us the happy details. + what about the SAFL's future?

+ all the national AFL games, sides & tips.

Rugby ...

... all the swappings. + in R. League it's Kangaroos v Kiwis

Soccer ...

... its countdown to World Cup & time to give their Socceroos anthem a go.

Horses ...

... police have brought their anti-riot nags to town to celebrate(?) Mardi-Grass.

 

 

25 Minutes 17Mb.

A review of the police presence in Nimbin before, and during (certainly not after) the Nimbin Mardi-Grass. Regional commander 'Bluey' Lyons gets a gong, and tells the locals what he did to made them happy. According to his interview with regional ABC radio, the locals were begging him for more police, but not everyone agrees. Hear the actuality, police disinformation, and what really happened, and then sit back and enjoy the original Daddy Cool play cops'n hippies with the Bumble Boogie.

 

Omega takes us through this program show-casing some of Nimbin's unique festival acts and speeches

music: Earth Reggae, Red Eyed Frogs,
live music: Local Reggae Boys, Tule, Donato and Friends

live speakers: Steve Bolt, Lisa Yates

length 60 mins. 32 kb/s 14 MB

Mardi Grass 2006 Special part 2
Omega continues the Mardi Grass 2006 coverage
live music: Donato and Friends, Bo Kaan, One 4 One, Organic Soundsystem, Greg Sheehan, Lake Cowal CD, Spliffmasters, Rusty Harris. Live footage of different events, media clips,
studio guests: martin on botched police ballet performance,
Janelle reporting about some live performances

length 60 mins. 32 kb/s 14 MB

Hemp Hour 1 Friday 2006-05-05
Nimbin Masrdi Grass 2006
featuring Bob, and Gerald talking not just drugs, replacing the killjoy vibes of blue with informative banter and heretic hippy music

length: 53 mins. 32kb/s mono 12.7 MB

Featuring Bob, Andrew, Gerald, all trying to lift the spirit against a depressing police presence during the last 3 weeks
more songs of heresy and info on Nimbin's Mardi Grass 2006

length: 42 mins. 32 kb/s mono 10 MB

45Mb 45mins. 128kbs

'Wadzy' - indefatigable champion of sustainable options lends his expertise to the nimbin radio network, chanelling through the ByronBay (BayFM) radio station. Wadzy was up to Nimbin this weekend to speak about the economically and environmentally sustainable options offered by hemp culture at this year's Nimbin Mardi-Grass. Hey  - we might think Byron Bay is a yuppie enclave, but Wadzy certainly makes his point, and he lives there!

 

 

Yes  - it's Mardi Grass again, I'm afraid ( I'm not really, and  ... ) it's Police Presence, Police Presence, and Police Presence.  Cute remarks about the NSW Police Ballet Squad, what the Mardi-Grass is really about, watching the Ballet Squad .... " .. the machine easily masters the grim and ridiculous  ... "  Apparently they can't stop the music, and Green politician Lee Rhiannon agrees ....

Jack pursues thoughts on chemical smokescreens, but gets back on the  track with an aside on the Hispanic uprising in the southwestern States of the (so far) United, States of America. Not molotov cocktails, but a refusal to buy cocktails of any kind! Scarey for US pub owners. Not only pub owners, but Wal Mart, and a host of other consumer outlets who depend on the millions of otherwise 'illegal' immigrants from Mexico  ...  A consumer strike! Just the thing for illegal workers! Shock waves in the US retail 'industry'.  Jack niftily segues into a the corollary  -  credit addiction!. Bob provocatively suggests a link between credit addiction and the 'pay buy' date, and incidences of domestic violence.

All very confusing for the thin blue line of police who are watchfully watching the ideologically illegal drug law reformistas dancing to didgeridoo based star crafted bands with perhaps, a twinge of envy, in the central park of Nimbin. (as I upload this file).

A teensy bit of self-adulation for our little community radio station 2nimfm, with a whiff and whurry-som scents emerging from the preproduction room. District police officer Bluey and the thin blue linedancers, and a wrap up with with a tribute to the true and blessed ganja faeries.

And by the way   -  Have a good weekend ....

 

Police presence revisited  - Police security and running commentary on Micael's run through the Dog Squad  -  with a little help from the DogFather. Live, white, and naked, and a special request, played especially for the Blueys.

 

 - And Michael, in a rare and sombre serious note, tells us what we might expect for the Mardi-Grass. 

29Mb 1hr. 25 Minutes

PlaySpace, and Jack's back from his Easter 'break' at Lake Cowal where Barrick's mines are heading for a big bust on their mining venture. Jack has the real dope on the company, the lake, and the sacred land of Lake Cowal.

Bob moves us on to the latest outrage against the police presence in Nimbin, after some post-Anzac Day ruminations. While we celebrated the iconic history of Anzac, local authorities were planning the removal  of the last surviving remnants of an iconic piece of local Nimbin history - under police protection, of course.

Bob rarely needs an excuse to study the behaviour of the police, and he shares his observations of the behaviour patterns of the imported swat squad uniforms  - which seems to be becoming assimilated into a kind of driftward mindset.

A bit of sci-fi speculation on human behaviour in general, and not quite snide comments of Australian fashion week, winding up with the latest update on the Mulgum House affair. Great radio!

9Mb.
Bob and Michael in the lead up to the 14th annual Mardi - Grass in the little alternative lifestyle village of Nimbin, where up to 10,000 visitors gather annually to agitate for Australian drug law reform. But this year, under the watchful eye of an increased police presence, who watches the watchers?

10.6 Mb

Bob, Michael, and others bravely hold the fort in the tension filled build up to Nimbin's 14th annual Mardi-grass

MADNESS RULES Nimbin

music: www.hilltophoods.com,
Earth Reggae, Nimbin
length 29:40 mins.
64kb/s mono 13.8 MB

45 Mb 65 Minutes stereo.

The full interview with Ian Brown. Ian takes us on a tour of Australia's tropical North. With a background soundscape of tropical rainforest storm sounds we hear his travelogue and experiences of life in the far north of tropical Australia, and images of the rich and varied flora and fauna as seen through the sensitive eyes of a trained environmentalist. Click here for a text version of his Cape York Peninsula experience.

" ...Cape York  -far northern Qld. Hi, I'm Ian Browne, also known at Nimbin Radio as Shamrock. Having spent many a heat rash filled day in Darwin and the surrounding tropical savanna and glorious monsoon rainforest ecosystems, studying, playing-rejoicing in Australia's extreme diversity, I can only lick my lips at the thought of indulging in a journey through Cape York's sparse tropical landscapes. From its sparkling snow like sand dunes, to its tropical; almost equatorial type rainforests and wetlands, reminiscent of nearby Papua New Guinea with its shared flora and fauna species. Yes, sheer paradise indeed, but not for the faint hearted. Suffocating tropical heat, sinister fiery storms and crocs the size of a pair of the surfing King of Tonga's long boards."

 

With JOHN & FRANK & CHRIS

In AFL ...

... all the big games +  local North Coast AFL talent report.

+ the boys predict the weekend results. How accurate are our lads?

In SOCCER ...

...there's big fines in Europe + a big build up to the World Cup in which our Socceroos will be heading soon.

In Rugby ...

... players are being poached

 

 

 

2Mb 10 minutes

Ian Brown presents us with his fascinating research on the unique environment of the Cape York Peninsula in Northern Australia; the importance of this unique heritage area, and the threats to its delicate ecosystem.

Omega continues with live recordings from Lake Cowal. Goldmining corporation Barrick Gold is under further public pressure. Aboriginal speakers are: local custodian Mark, Bell on the opening ceremony and an anonymous Aboriginal couple speaking at the sacred fire.

Music supplied by: Bo Kaan, Helen Rodriguez [ Bundjulung Nation ], Tule, MC Pythons, Timbarra CD, Combat Wombat

more info : savelakecowal.org   -   rainforestinfo.org

 length 60 mins. mono 32 kb/s 14 MB

 

 

 

PlaySpace Pt 1. Nimbin Mardi Grass is coming up. Bob and Jack are following the trends, with one eye over their shoulder at what the rest of the world might be up to.

 

PlaySpace Pt2.

Bob and Jack followup on the leadup to the MardiGrass

7 Mb.  40 minutes 

Hemp Show Part 1 

 Bob and Michael reviewing some of the local issues here in Nimbin in the lead up to Mardi Grass, topped up splendidly with a series of skits, parodies and satires by Martin and his team.

 

Hemp Show Part 2. Bob and Michael reviewing some of the local issues here in Nimbin in the lead up to Mardi Grass.

Bob's Easter Reflections.

Bob does the Easter Playspace solo this year, while Jack is away at Lake Cowal trying to save sacred aboriginal sites and wildlife from the multinational corporate gold mining desecration taking place there.

Respectfully irreligious, Bob does some delving of his own, into the vestiges of the Gnostic tradition in the history of the Christian Church   -  who was Philip? Why don't we hear a 'Gospel according to Philip'? Surely this exclusion wasn't politically motivated. Or was it?  And surely the persona of Mary Magdalen wasn't 'doctored' to fit official doctrine?  Keep your fingers crossed and hold your buns.