APPS NOW CLOSED If you are an artist who would like to perform live in our studios contact the Anything Goes team on mornings@skidrow.com.au ‘LIVE TAKEOVER’ 2RSR 88.9fm is on the lookout for local bands, solo musicians and spoken word artists to be on a new show, LIVE TAKEOVER. If…
Dear sisters, mothers, aunties, neighbours, friends, cousins, grandmothers, lovers and comrades: Radio Skid Row is looking for women of colour to contribute to a new podcast series The series aims to challenge the false representation of our lives and struggles. So often we are simplistically represented as victims of our…
When Radio Skid Row reporter, Em Couch went to interview Cathy Nisbit from Kogarah Community Services about her work, Cathy wasn’t sure if she considered herself an activist. ‘I just never thought of an activist as having painted nails and wearing lipstick,’ she said. Cathy is a part-time community worker…
n 1977, the Nigerian Army raided the Kalakuta Republic, Fela’s large commune. Fela was severely beaten, the women were raped, houses burned, and his mother was thrown from a window and killed. Written after the raid, Coffin for Head of State reiterates Fela’s stance on the corruption of the Nigerian government, a…
A few years ago, a corner shop in the heart of the Vietnamese shops on Illawarra Rd in Marrickville started to change. Everyone watched with interest at what would happen to the old tailor shop with the window that hadn’t been cleaned in years. Slowly it was cleaned up and…
To our community, Many people within the Radio Skid Row family care for people who are at high-risk for contracting COVID-19. Radio Skid Row believes it has a responsibility to not contribute to the spread of the virus and will be taking measures to ensure the health and safety of…
Hailing from Guinea Bissau, Dede was a presenter on Afrika Connexions in the 90s. There is no doubt that Dede’s contribution to Afrika Connexions was his brilliant choice of music and his deep questioning of the African psyche. Dede’s programs took Afrika Connexions to East Africa especially introducing some of…
The Cycle Re-cycle Club, sometimes known as the Nunnery Bike workshop, is a group of volunteers who spend their time fixing old bikes. Cycle Re-cycle accepts donations of old and broken bikes and then put the bits and pieces together. What we like best about them is that they give the fixed…
Frederic Naboya from Burundi was one of the few Afrika Connexions presenters who had any prior media experience before doing the program. As a journalist Fred compiled the news every Sunday and dropped in to read it at 1 pm sharp. This is the only photo we could find of…