8Mb. 96kbps mono 11 minutes.

Final day of Mardi-Grass, the Hemp Olympics, the combi-procession and the Big Parade have all happened. Now it's time for speeches, and star of the moment was Lisa Yeates, long term activist for the environment and drug law reform with a record tracking back to the 1970s. Lisa tells it like it is through word and song.

Tim Winton has built The Permaforest Trust as a not for profit education centre and demonstration farm near Barkers Vale in the Tweed Valley. He is well known as a speaker on Permaculture, Peak Oil and Post Carbon Transition.

recorded 2007-10-18 Byron Bay by Wolfi [ in difficult acoustic circumstances ]

length: 32:42 mins 64 kbps mono 14.9 MB

Shadow minister Tony Burke [ALP] came to the Nimbin Hotel to 'campaign', and support Justine Elliot, local member of Tweed Shire. BTW, she hardly spoke herself. Since I didn't get an exclusive interview for community radio - I just recorded his 'pitch'. Maybe he just doesn't care anyway - you'll be the judge.

length: 7:45 mins 128 kbps stereo 7.1 MB

Scan Dot Org presents: A report about film and video art in and around Nimbin with interviews and the award night.

http://www.nimbinfilmindustry.org/

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mashj50&search=Search

length: 30 min 128 kb/s stereo 27.4 MB

Aboriginal Hip Hop
recorded live in Nimbins main street August 24th
Thanks to J.B. and Bob from Nim Fm for the timely tip
credits:
www.munkimuk.com 
www.streetwarriors.com.au
length: 30 mins. 128 kb/s stereo 26.7 MB

Live recording from a benefit night for community radio 2 Nim Fm 102.3
Featuring interviews with founder, and longtime radio maker Paul, former station co-ordinator Mark, voxpops of the public [ages 6 and up]. Martin Preedy skillfully conducts an auction, raising badly needed funds. A true Nimbin experience, a striptease of nimfm, revealing history, anecdotes, and secrets of the "founding fathers".
Credits: 'The Shed', 'Stipsky'
length 48 mins.
96 kb/s stereo 33.2 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

 

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.

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.