Pancakes is Always Better Than Goodbyes

Alex Anastas will be creating live art, you can take home this week https://fb.me/e/4hVlH8s3U Friday, 10th June at Almost Fridays s02e05! Come along from 6pm to see what happens when the worlds of indie music, visual arts, and electronic music collide with extreme prejudice. Come join the family. Alex Anastas & Ryan chat moleskins, creativity, what it's like to do live artwork at Almost Fridays, donation wars, being an ex-pat New Yorker, living in Sydney, live remixing, making art without a net, and generally get along as well as you would expect, when a bush-fire meets a brush-fire. Keep an eye on Alex' instagram to stay a-full-breast of his adventures. Alex Anastas was born and raised just outside of NYC, but has lived in Sydney off and on since 2006. Dabbling in a bit of everything with art over the years, he mainly makes art based around the concept of synesthesia. Often this manifests itself as literal but gestural real-time sketches in pen while at concerts. If it is a 2 set affair the second set will be more surrealist expressive as to what is being felt from the music. In recent times, Alex has been commissioned to make live art at concerts by the promoters, venues and musicians themselves. The music you heard on this episode is from Really Nice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reallynicepodcast/message

On top of the voice of an angel, Chris Neto has the rapier wit of a musketeer / pirate, & he is one of the amazing musicians who are sharing their work with us this week https://fb.me/e/dtk7xZyHy at Almost Fridays s02e02! Come along from 6pm to see what happens when the worlds of indie music, visual arts, poetry, and electronic music collide with extreme prejudice. Come join the family. Chris Neto chatted with Ryan this week, old friends becoming fast friends, covering topics from musical influences, plug-ins, finger drumming, to writing methods, & collaboration. As always, we take a walk down Lujan’s Alley, and find our insecurities have moved to Nantucket. Keep an eye on Chris’ instagram to catch his imminently released project in collaboration with Gargantini & Lola Sola as mentioned on-pod. The music you hear in the tops and tails is When You Found Me by Chris Neto available where all good music is streamed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reallynicepodcast/message

Season 2 of Almost Fridays kicks off on April Fools this this week https://fb.me/e/7hABZtoFQ! & we have something of a first! What is it, you ask??? One of our Live Remixers: Adrian Elmer, AKA The Boy Who Held His Breath (TBWHHB) https://theboywhoheldhisbreath.bandcamp.com/album/modes-of-limited-transposition, is launching his mini album in an entirely novel way, novel like LOTR trilogy. Here’s how: Within the context of Live Remixing ie. recording samples of our musical artists, and creating original beats & soundscapes, TBWHHB will be interleaving his freshly baked creations into a layer cake of pieces from his album! Is it a melange, or is a meringue?

Season 2 of Almost Fridays kicks off this week https://fb.me/e/1VvlPwWW2! To celebrate: Ryan fails to pronounce French phonemes

This week we change it up a bit, the inimitable Stevie Lujan turns the mic on Chels & Ryan from Really Nice to get some insight into their philosophies about their personalised values around creativity, and it's offspring. Who lives in your house of art? Who built it? Who appreciates it for all it's worth. This chat took place before the first night of Almost Fridays, and it's quite historic, as we found ourselves in "Lujan's Alley" for the first. What's that? Listen to find out. Lujan's Alley led us to take an architectural / familial metaphor way further than any metaphor should ever be taken, and we loved every second of it. Really Nice https://www.instagram.com/reallyniceband/ will be performing THIS WEEK https://www.facebook.com/events/911195659617461 alongside the formalised Casual Fan https://www.instagram.com/casualfanmusic/ & the Buckley-esque Jackson Carroll https://www.instagram.com/jacksoncarrollaus/ Reserve your ticket HERE https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=708721 Intro Song by Really Nice ALL OVER https://open.spotify.com/track/2wUPRR0LT2lFpciYDFL9VF?si=xTWhuEe0RAui-4DzKS8aaw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reallynicepodcast/message

This week it is our pleasure to present a short, but sweet convo with Fringes, AKA Stevie Lujan (say it right). Stevie is SO much more than an act who plays at Almost Fridays & our resident MC. We roll deep with this chat, but we also have a good old chuckle. We got Nacho Libre references, spiritual discussion, what matters most to the artist presenting / performing their work while we take a walk down "Lujan's Alley". What's that? Listen to find out. Fringes will be performing THIS WEEK alongside the part Elf Chris De Souza & the downright brilliant Timothy James Bowen. Reserve your ticket here. Intro Song by Fringes Sister,I --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reallynicepodcast/message

A new multi-arts community in Sydney. Almost Fridays: Week 1 Event // Insta // Facey --- Mentioned in this episode: The realest mountain-man in the game: Karl-Christoph All about that life visual artist: Jay-Kay Travel quarantine restrictions put the kibosh on our secret guest. Thankfully we have the even better multi-disciplinarian artist: darby Fringe dweller: Fringes Unidentified Sydney band: Really Nice --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reallynicepodcast/message

Our new band! https://open.spotify.com/artist/4JWLxEMfu9JvCKknjbYoy7?si=ddlJi-cMQt6gmC3jsnO36A This week: Our heroes join in on all the fun of the COVID19 Pandemic // Getting out of bed in the morning: How do you do it!? We've got the answers. + Marijuana vs Alcohol, Mandela syndrome & most importantly: Was George Clooney in Grey's Anatomy or not? Come & get your truth. HOTLINE QUESTION OF THE WEEK - WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO RESIST THE SLOW BUT INEVITABLE SHIFT INTO MADNESS THAT COMES FROM SELF QUARANTINE? Call the h

We're back for Season 2! This week: Our heroes discuss Shia LaBeouf (extensively), Kinetic energy, what is it?! Tune in to find out. Plus cop some updates, more logical fallacies, and we learn just how easy it is to be a professional freestyle rapper. HOTLINE QUESTION OF THE WEEK - CAN YOU FREESTYLE RAP? SPIT SOME STRAIGHT FACTS AT US! Call the h

What I S this? More like what I S N ' T this!?

This week: in a chillful, playful repartee Chelsea and Ryan talk about their pie fingers, logical fallacies, and various w r a p s. QUESTION OF THE WEEK - WHICH ENNEAGRAM DO YOU WISH YOU WERE? Call the h

In this week's exciting instalment: an over-caffeinated Ryan overplays the soundboard causing a plague of epidemic-level distractions to sweep through an otherwise pleasant episode. QUESTION OF THE WEEK - WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE MEME??? LETTUCE KNOW & WE'LL GIVE IT A SPIN

QUESTION OF THE WEEK - WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT PERSONALITY TYPES??? Call the h

WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THE SHOW??? Call the h