Rhythms Magazine

In this encore episode of On The Record, we worship at the altar of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings with guest Andy White joining the chat. 

The conversation widens into stagecraft: tuning mishaps, the art of filling dead air, and the delicate question of whether you should tell stories between songs or let the song do the work. 

You’ll also hear Brian and Michael bickering over the relative merits of a British crime series spoken mostly in Scottish Gaelic.

Important Links

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Tiny Desk Concert

Andy White - James Joyce's Grave (live at Abbey Road)

The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Live At The Wiltern)

Billy Bragg - A New England (Later... with Jools Holland) 

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert | Official Main Trailer 

Paradise Season 2 | Official Trailer | Hulu

An t-Eilean | BBC ALBA trailer

RTÉ | These Sacred Vows trailer

Blue Lights | Trailer - BBC

BILL FRISELL TRIO - "You Only Live Twice" @ XJAZZ Festival | LIVE FROM BERLIN

Bill Frisell's New Album In My Dreams

Bill Frisell - In My Dreams (Live / Visualizer)

Bill Frisell - A Change Is Gonna Come

Guy Clark - Desperados Waiting For A Train

Episode 37 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie travels from Melbourne International Film Festival screenings to the changing state of music journalism, with a detour through elite sport, television drama and the strange joy of old-fashioned telephones.

Show Notes

CONGO BOY Trailer

TOMORROW I'LL BE BRAVE trailer 

Joy Bubbles KSTP 

Dead Man's Wire Trailer #1 (2026) 

Official promo video for Dave Marsh's new anthology KICK OUT THE JAMS...35 YEARS OF MUSIC WRITING 

Rolling Stone Tribute to Dave Marsh 

THE BEATLES: The SECRET, Folk-Rock 'RUBBER SOUL' Studio SESSIONS You NEED To HEAR! (Rare Outtakes)

Mojo Mag article on Rubber Soul Redux 

Rubber Soul - khttps://youtu.be/RfBEqiEhCgM?list=PLycVTiaj8OI9Ptzsl9nzxfwUgZ0jx-Hyb

Judy Collins In My Life 

The Beatles - Michelle (Take 1 / Visualiser) 

Josh Rouse - "January Sky" [Official Audio] 

Episode 36 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie moves from the car parks of a Grateful Dead revival to the piano stool of one of rock’s great behind-the-scenes players, with Don Walker’s new album providing the local centre of gravity.

Show Notes

Summer Tour At Miff 

The Session Man | Nicky Hopkins: The Unsung Hero Behind Rock's Greatest Hits | Full Documentary 

Sympathy for the Devil (Isolated Piano) 

Link Wray: The Rock Prophet on SBS

Don Walker Darwin 

Shakespeare Always (2026) - Official Video - Icecream Hands

Episode 35 of On The Record begins where last week’s conversation left off: with Glen Hansard. 

Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie watch the Irish singer-songwriter’s funeral, a ceremony that made plain the depth of affection held for the Frames frontman, Once star and inveterate musical collaborator.

Mackenzie was especially struck by the accounts of Hansard’s generosity, the presence of his battered, road-worn guitars in the church band, and the closing performance of Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young”. 

From there, the mood shifts to the Espy, where Mackenzie joined the winning team at the latest live Rock Quiz.

Show Notes

Funeral of Glen Hansard in Dublin | RTÉ News 

Sunnyboys My Only Friend (2014 Remaster) 

Ted Lasso Season 4 - Official Trailer (2026) 

George Costanza's Greatest hits 

PouredOver: Patrick Radden Keefe on London Falling 

Gary Stewart: I Am From The Honky-Tonks 

Gary Stewart She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)

Episode 34 of On The Record opens in sombre territory, with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie remembering Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter, Frames frontman and Once star who died aged 56 following a motorcycle accident outside Dublin.

Hansard’s career stretched back to the formation of The Frames in 1990, before his work with Markéta Irglová as The Swell Season, and a substantial solo catalogue. But it is the memory of his live shows that looms largest here. 

Wise recalls a performer who gave audiences everything, including the habit of leading crowds from the venue and into the street for impromptu singalongs. Hansard’s concerts, he says, had the uncommon ability to turn a room full of strangers into a temporary community.

Show Links

Glen Hansard meets Van Morrison in Glen’s words 

Flamin' Groovies Shake Some Action 

Mick Jagger Can’t Name One Good Thing About Getting Older | The Interview 

Sir Tom Jones & Peter Donegan's 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again' |Blind Auditions| The Voice UK 2019

Fiona Apple – "Horns of a Bull" from the Apple TV show 'Lucky' 

The Rapture Trailer 

Believe Me Trailer 

The episode opens with the passing of saxophonist Plas Johnson, 94, a player whose name might not mean much outside musician circles but whose sound is embedded in popular culture. 

Johnson’s cool, slinking work on Henry Mancini’s Pink Panther theme is his best-known contribution, but the wider CV is properly formidable: Frank Sinatra, B.B. King, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, The Beach Boys, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville all appear on the roll call.

how Links

Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther Theme (Official Audio) 

Plas Johnson - I Hadn't Anyone Till You 

Plas Johnson obit in Rolling Stone 

Dr John Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 

Tom Waits - "Heartattack And Vine" 

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival website

Silo — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV 

Evolver 62 | Official Trailer | The Beatles’ Breakthrough Year That Changed Music Forever | Out Now! 

EVOLVER:62 Beatles and cakes in the village hall 

The Odyssey - Official 'Completely in IMAX' Behind the Scenes Clip (2026)

Othello, The Black Commando 1982 full movie Max H. Boulois Tony Curtis 

Aaron Lee Tasjan - The Real (Official Music Video) 

There are few things more reliable in popular culture than a World Cup penalty shootout inspiring arguments about fairness, a Rolling Stones album being handled carefully, or Bob Dylan inspiring precisely no usable information from anyone who has worked with him.

Episode 32 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie covers all three, plus a handy mid-year listening list, a salute to two much-loved cultural figures, and Daniel Lanois production lore.

Show Notes

Emma Donovan - Grandma's Hands (Official Visualiser) 

Ruby Jones - Souvenir 

Leah Senior - Mothersong 

Vika & Linda - Bliss (Official Video) 

Australian Music Vault Vika & Linda | Long Play Series 

Sharper | Official Trailer HD | A24 

Futurebirds - Sleepless in the Cage 

The Rolling Stones - Rough And Twisted (Official Audio) 

The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover 

Hunt for the Wilderpeople Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Sam Neill, Rhys Darby 

Bryan Brown & Sam Neill open up about acting, friendship and growing old | 7NEWS Spotlight 

Playwright Barry Dickins shares the importance of family in overcoming his struggles (R U OK?) 

Daniel Lanois - Warp Sustain (Official Video) 

Episode 31 of On The Record ranges from Spielberg’s latest extraterrestrial spectacle to Icelandic cocktail jazz, via Australian festival programming, political songwriting, BBC football commentary and the fragile magic of shellac records. 

It is a wide-ranging conversation, but not a random one. Beneath the digressions sits a recurring question: what makes art endure when fashion, technology and attention spans keep moving on?

Show Notes

Disclosure Day | Official Trailer 

Star City — Official Trailer | Apple TV 

Laufey - From The Start (Official Music Video)

k.d. lang - Miss Chatelaine (Official Music Video) 

Dylan Mattingly: The Wild Heart The Transmutation Notebooks: II. Notes for Another Life 

Julian Lage Talking Drum ft. John Medeski, Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen (Official Video) 

The Teskey Brothers - I Get Up (Official Video) 

Fred Wesley & The New J.B.'s | Live at Moods 

Melbourne International Jazz Festival website 

Margo Price - San Marcos (Official Audio) 

Heat Restaurant scene || Deniro, Pacino 

There are plenty of artists happy to spend their careers polishing yesterday's trophies. Tim Rogers isn't one of them.

Appearing on Episode 30 of On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie, the You Am I frontman could easily have spent an hour reminiscing about the band's landmark 1996 album Hourly Daily, now celebrating its 30th anniversary. 

Instead, Rogers repeatedly steers the conversation back towards what comes next.

That restless curiosity becomes the defining thread running through one of the podcast's most engaging interviews.

Show Notes

Sugar — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ 

Shelter - Official Trailer (2026) Jason Statham, Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie 

The Rookie (ABC) Trailer HD - Nathan Fillion series 

Blood Sucking Maniacs (Terry Allen & Family) - "Blood Sucking Maniacs" 

You Am I - Hourly Daily full album 

ELO - 10538 Overture 

23 Minutes - The Mods Live With MITS TV 

You Am I - Strung Up Tour tickets available now 

The Ravens Theatre Company in Castlemaine 

Now and then, On The Record with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie wanders into territory that feels less like a podcast and more like the best conversation you've accidentally joined in the corner of a music festival bar.

Returning Australian listeners may be forgiven for assuming Neil Young devotees are a niche tribe. Not so, according to Belfast singer-songwriter Andy White, who drops in from Ireland with a story that sounds almost too good to be true.

Show Notes

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts - Cortez the Killer (Bergen, Norway, 20.06.2025) 

Andy White The Walking Wounded 

Andy White - Empty Streets of Florence / nelle strade deserte di Firenze 

Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show, in 1959, reciting a passage from "On The Road." 

David Holmes - Ruben's In OST Oceans 11 

Joni Mitchell - Blue (Full Album) [Official Video] 

Joni Mitchell- Dog Eat Dog 

Prince - A Case Of U 

The Big Lebowski - Gutterballs 

Andy's website 

Andy's books 

Andy's podcast