Definitely No Relation

31/07/2024

We out here. Patch is back.
New music from Golden Sunbird, I Think They Hate Me and Bully Hay, as well as The Wolfe Brothers and Mankind!
Right now!

30/07/2024

Well, Ben and Josh warmed up a brand new studio space ahead of Definitely No Relation's major announcement. And rightly so, it's a chaotic mess.

The new TV Exploder album, "It's A Pity You Live," drops on 9th August. Presave link in comments.

27/07/2024

Hey Olympics, we have some ideas for Brisbane 2032... hit us up.

24/07/2024

It's another show packed full of Tasmanian goodness!
> We've got that new rap-infused one from Koh-Dee
> There's a brand new track from Dont Come Monday
> The third of the new singles from Tom Fowkes' upcoming album
+ A weird three to blow the house off your block of land!
+ Josh joins in for an episode of chaos.

Listen in from 10pm on City Park Radio!
103.7fm, 96.5fm or online!

23/07/2024

An insanely powerful album.
Come join me this evening.

It is truly remarkable, the ways in which an album can change your life in a matter of moments.

Blackshape's self-titled album from 2021 appeared to me immediately after a phone call that told me my father-in-law was to pass away within 48 hours.
After hanging up this phone call that awoke me, I laid for a moment in silence and decided to find some music to get me up and into the day.

Another artist, Gesaffelstein, had just released a song which I opened on Youtube using Facebook's native browser, which is something I never do. The suggested video underneath it was a song title from this album, "ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL." It's a long song with an intriguing title, so of course, I check it out.

Reading the description while the beginning of the song played, I found they are a Utah-based instrumental band, but this song had words. The only song of theirs, in fact, to have lyrics.
Those lyrics, acronymised into the song title, echoed through the next 48 hours as if they had become etched into my brain;
"If this is it, if this is all there is, I hope you live, I hope you live."

Tonight, I will play this album for an hour.
It is one song broken into many parts, written to be an endless loop. We will hear one complete loop.

In memory of Ray, 1964-2024.

The Long Play airs tonight at 10pm with me, Ben Barwick, on City Park Radio - 103.7fm and 96.5fm, or online via the online streams.

17/07/2024

TONIGHT...

> The ever-enchanting Louie Oddity returns to the program to talk all things curious, and draw the winner of a two-ticket giveaway to their event, Showcase of Curiosities. See the comments to find out how you can win!
> New Tasmanian tunes, including material from Teens' debut album, more goodness from Tom Fowkes and a brand spanker from A. Swayze & the Ghosts!
> There's a VERY special weird three tonight from a very VERY special guest that long time listeners won't want to miss...

Tune in at 10pm on City Park Radio, or one of those fancy schmancy online streams. It's a big show tonight, you'd be a darn fool to miss it.

103.7fm | 96.5fm | Online

10/07/2024

if any of you like The Silverbeets or GRACE CHIA MUSIC or Teens or Base Varlet or Tom Fowkes or Frances Cameron - Music, then you maybe just maybe wanna tune in to the show right now because wowee, those bands are going to be played.

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09/07/2024

Very exciting! Ben's 100th episode of The Long Play airs tonight at 10pm. 🎉

🎉 100th episode! 🎉

Celebrate this milestone episode of The Long Play at 10pm tonight, by listening to one of Australia's greatest long-form storytellers, Nick Cave and his wonderful Bad Seeds.

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"When Muse's track "Knights of Cydonia" won Triple J's Hottest 100 in the mid 2000s, I was surprised even at age 12 to find that it was the longest song to win the countdown by that point at six minutes, seven seconds. I was even more surprised to see the official CD release of that countdown only included the four-and-a-half minute radio edit.

So much goes missing in that radio edit. The pacing, the progression, the story... it's all cut short. Musicians don't just write songs for the radio, they write songs for much bigger reasons, and I think it's only fair that those songs get the airtime they deserve, at the length they were supposed to be. That is the idea of this program, and that is what it has and always will be. Who cares if a song is long? If a book can be 1000 pages, or an artwork 25 feet wide, then a song can be 40 minutes long if that's what the artist's vision is. The Long Play accommodates that, and I'm beyond proud to play those pieces in full, in the manner the artist intended them to be heard."
- Ben Barwick

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Who wants some stats?

Over 100 episodes...
🔴 In 100 hours, we've heard just over 570 songs, averaging under six songs per hour.
🔴 The shortest song so far was Inanimate Sensation by Death Grips at 6 minutes, 4 seconds. This doesn't count the constituent parts of Porcupine Tree's album "The Incident," which is one song in 14 parts.
🔴 The longest song so far has been dlp1.1 by William Basinski at a whopping 1 hour, 3 minutes, 35 seconds. This is not counting songs that are technically infinite, such as the AI Generated Funk episode or Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.
🔴 The oldest song so far has been Bob Dylan's "Talkin' World War III Blues" from 1963 (6m 25s).
🔴 There has been less than seven hours of talk break, making an average of only 4 minutes per hour of the program not focused on the music.

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Tune in at 10pm after New Brew - Tuesdays 8pm with Jase and Jo, on your favourite community station: City Park Radio!
103.7fm, 96.5fm, online digitally. 📻

03/07/2024

Bing b**g, music time!
> Brand new banger from Dvrkworld
> We've got the debut single from Bully Hay
> Some Hobart hardcore from Seven Inch Stare
+ a bunch of other stuff, coming up at 10pm tonight.

Catch it all on City Park Radio - 103.7fm and 96.5fm, or online on one of those cutie patootie lil' online streams, wherever they are these days.

22/06/2024

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22/06/2024

You guys are missing right now.

12/06/2024

Tunes incoming! 🎵
> Base Varlet new single is here...
> GRACE CHIA MUSIC bringing you some power...
> Lucy has some music recorded especially for your earholes...
+ a Weird Three to get you wondering "is something wrong with my radio?"

I mean... why wouldn't you listen? 🤷‍♀️
10pm AEST on City Park Radio! 📻

07/06/2024

Who else caught the legends tonight? Stellar performance, and their incredible new EP "Sunbreather" is out now! Check it!

05/06/2024

Huge show tonight, featuring another sneak peek from the yet-to-be-released Teens album, that amazing new Sumner song and another track from the upcoming Goldthrone release ahead of its launch on Friday.

Weird three from Patch this eve, get amongst it!
10pm on 103.7fm and 96.5fm, or online!

29/05/2024

some say there's a show afoot

some are correct

28/05/2024

28/05/2024

A sudden thud wakes you from your slumber. "What was that?" you mutter, clambering for your phone on the bedside table. You switch your phone torch on to be confronted with an ominous figure standing at the foot of your bed: a large, shadowy spectre with glowing green eyes.

It speaks to you in distant echoes, but you can't quite hear it. You look down to your phone to call for help, when you notice your screen is still on the Facebook feed you fell asleep staring at.

However, a new post is at the top of the feed that you haven't even refreshed. The post is authored by a community radio program that you listen to on Wednesday nights, and as you read it, the words slur out of the spectre's mouth... As clear as mud, but as understandable as the breath seeping past your lips... You don't quite believe it, but you know you heard the words, as if they were uttered by your own consciousness. You read it again, and the spectre copies along once more, and this time you know you heard it...

"b̷i̷g̷ ̸t̴h̵i̸n̴g̸s̸ ̸c̸o̵m̶i̸n̶g̷ ̷s̷o̸o̵n̴"

22/05/2024

Tunes abound!
> Fresh jams from Elvis Smith
> New material from the lovely Nuria
> A long one Observers (All India Radio Band)

+ more stuff from I Think They Hate Me, Brad Gillies Band and The Silverbeets' newest releases;
+ we get a look at the weird side of Patch as they offer their first Weird Three!

Tonight at 10pm on City Park Radio xo

14/05/2024

The Long Play is back!
EBM from 10pm tonight.

Cybergoths, unite...
The Long Play is back, at the new time of 10pm almost every Tuesday!

Tonight, an exposition of EBM: Electronic Body Music. A heavy electronic dance soundtrack for your Tuesday evening. Tune in!

08/05/2024

SHOW. Big one. Do not miss.
> .moon
> .house.band
>

Patch is back, Declan is back, Patch is staying but Declan is not... Declan's got to go do some stuff for a few months, and Patch is going to help out by filling in!
Come say "seeya soon" at 10pm.

01/05/2024

Technical difficulties hindered us last week, so...
Let's try that again, shall we?

We've got , Observers () and coming up tonight, as well as a sneak peek at some pre-release .namesakes material.

10pm! Declan's back! Yaa! City Park Radio!

17/04/2024

It's gonna be a hell of a show!
Declan has contracted the The Big C, so Ben has pulled together an armada of guests. Well... some guests.
> Tessa Lee Music is dropping by to have a chat and, in a DNR first, play some live music on the show!
> The weird three shall stun, amaze, and make you think "oh wow, this is weird."
> We'll meet special guest host, twitch streamer Patch from ttv/WatchPatchDoThings.
> Certainly, shenanigans!

Tune in at 10pm on 103.7fm or 96.5fm locally, or online via the webbernets. City Park Radio

14/04/2024

SUPPORT GRASSROOTS FESTIVALS!!
These guys have been running a donation-entry festival in Frankford and they need your help to keep it that way.

Hi there, my wife and I have been running a small music festival on our property in Frankfor… Bevan Williams needs your support for Keep Frankie Fest Alive!!!

10/04/2024

More local acts at festivals... just my opinion.

Written by Ben Barwick10/04/2024—Everything ever is over. Sorry. … I felt for a moment that I could end this article there and then. But like that busker from the Brisbane St mall in Launceston who kept getting booted out every day in 2010 for playing Pink Floyd deep cuts without a permit, I wil...

10/04/2024

Great new tunes coming up at the park tonight!

> We're hitting that new track from Hobart-based .nischlerrr
> is on a hot streak with a bunch o' tracks
> has returned from the studio to give us a brand spankin' single ahead of his new album

plus a bunch more!
Tune in at 10pm tonight. Declan's feelin' weird and it's time to get him feelin' weirder.

06/04/2024

Ben's a bit excited for this one tonight.
Incredible Tassie electronic deity is all you'll hear on The Long Play this evening.

03/04/2024

Fresh choons! Teens and Tessa Lee Music and Daniel J Townsend, oh my! 10pm! City Park Radio!

28/03/2024

Dale helps Tassie music.
Let's help Dale.
Donate if you can.
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Our dear friend Dale has recently experienced a devastating loss – his home, his belongings, h… Icky Brothers needs your support for Get Dale back on his feet

27/03/2024

Brand spankin' new tunes from the ever-limber Drenched, the insanely talented I Think They Hate Me and the delectably spaced-out Golden Sunbird.
All this and more from 10pm tonight on your fave community station, City Park Radio xo

20/03/2024

A social post? Ben's back? New music? Better believe it. Plenty of stuff in a jam-packed show including , .lst and .and.co. Get around us at 10pm tonight on ###xx