Jack Off Archive

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Luluc return to Jack Off with Jack Shit – exploring the expat experience that followed their relocation to the Big Apple and proffering a…

During a tour leg, They Might Be Giants dropped into the studio for Jack-Off with Jack Shit to share some respectable opinions on the…

Life comes full circle: countless years after debuting their first demo (Trampoline) on-air, Jack Shit welcomed the irrepressible energy of…

The forthcoming album by Cash Savage was born out of an incendiary indignation at the appalling plebiscite foisted upon Australia by a…

“I was away on a writing trip in 2015 and I met some new people…and they were like, ‘So, are you in love with anyone?’ I was like, ‘No, I’ve…

Listen to these extraordinary stories from some of the key artists featured in Homeground Festival’s Sorong Samarai – a production rooted in…

Get walloped by the fabulous force of nature that is Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes, performing two raw live songs – one from her…

Shoeb Ahmad has made some bold changes in the past year – somehow transforming the trauma of experiencing a burglary at an interstate hotel…

Madness have always manifested a quintessentially English form of storytelling – characterised by humble yet acute observations of the…

American folk enthusiast Sam Amidon took time out from his Murder and Redemption tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra to chat to Jack…

The buff one-man boy band who made this country what it is today has gone global. Spod banged down the bloody door and is now the subject of…

Sprightly Virginian songstress Natalie Prass joins us on her first jaunt to Sydney, performing sublime renditions of ‘Why Don’t You Believe…

Detroit’s Guilty Simpson toured Australia with his Sydney-based collaborator Katalyst last year. On the final day, they swung by FBi to…

Indigenous icon Vic Simms hails from La Perouse – the initial point of contact between white and black Australia. He was raised in a mud…

On ANZAC day, FBi was honoured to welcome two exceptional singer-songwriters to share the air. New Zealand’s Aldous Harding and Australia’s…

You wouldn’t guess it from meeting her but it seems Elana Stone IS one for doing things by halves! This Friday the multi-talented Sydney…

At the beginning of this year some of Sydney’s favourite sons, Youth Group, reconvened for the first time in over four years. The plan was…

Who could foresee, at the tail-end of 2015, that within just a few weeks we’d lose all-time musical greats like Lemmy, Stevie Wright and now…

Fourplay started out reinventing rock songs for strings in a UNSW band comp almost two decades ago – yet they recently released their first…

A couple of months ago Remi and crew (Sensible J, Dutch and mates) visited FBi, set up some drums and MPCs – and proceeded to bust out some…

Shit got real when America’s Mykki Blanco took time out, from her debut tour of Australia, to visit FBi. Direct from performing at Dark Mofo…

Like many broke musos, Blackie is a very busy man. When he popped into FBi recently he was touring with the Hard-Ons to celebrate their…

Clare Bowditch and Adalita appeared separately on the same edition of Jack Off the last time they visited FBi – and it was clear then that…

Sometimes a slight delay in posting once-live radio broadcasts can yield a more evocative and redolent listen… Jack Shit received an advance…

Effervescent indie upstarts Frente! were a breath of fresh air when they arrived on the scene in the early 90s – like the first hint of…

Canada’s irrepressible Saidah Baba Talibah toured Australia earlier this year, playing the Blues and Roots Festival in Byron Bay, then…

Community Radio on community radio – of course! Sydney’s unassuming masters of melody (and recent FBi Unsigned Artists of the Month) are on…

Hilarity was always gonna ensue when Hunx and his Punx met Jack Shit in the FBi studios – but we got more than we bargained for when Shannon…

Local act The Necks are one of the most distinctive groups in modern music. For 25 years they have been improvising every note they play…

Over 450,000 views and counting: not too bad for a crappy phone camera clip, but it’s amazing how many clicks a conservative PM making a…

Regular guest Amanda Palmer brought her ukelele in to FBi to deliver another intense piece live on Jack Off. She also spoke about her…

Jack Shit talks with Sofie Loizou AKA Anomie about her new album as well as what to expect from her set at Subsonic Music Festival.

The Queen of Rockabilly did us the great honour of visiting the FBi studios – and spending nigh on an hour on air. With her husband of 5…

Catcall (Catherine Kelleher) drops into FBi to debut a stripped-down version of her hit ‘Satellites’. She talks to Mr. Shit about the song’s…

In between two Sydney shows, The Pretty Things squeezed into the studio for a chat with Jack Shit. Includes two songs performed live in the…

Who wouldn’t want to live here? Martin writes from the beautiful serenity of Hill End… Having broadcast since FBi began, Jack Off has…

On the eve of their last-ever show, Belles Will Ring discuss why they have decided to cease playing together as a band, and drop a few clues…

Tim Rogers joined Jack Shit to discuss his ever-evolving creative pursuits, brim-full of good-natured sarcasm and swagger from the outset…