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The Meanies have always been outlandishly funny - this never stood in the way of their musical talent as Australia's punk-rock stalwarts. As longstanding PBS favourites, they have visited the station in various capacities over the years, always bringing their special brand of high energy wit and humour to the airwaves. You can hear this in their early sessions on PBS, like

PBS revisits Studio 5 Live sessions with a return to past broadcasts. Tune in to Radio City on Thursday February 3 as we revisit The Pink Tiles' 2017 session.

As we head into the first week of test broadcasting at the new Collingwood Yards station, we take a fond look back at some of the amazing times we've had at number 47 Easey Street.Legend has it, way back when, PBS had 13 weeks to build new studios. Materials were largely donated and labour was mostly volunteered. In this short window of time, broadcasting commenced on November

PBS revisits Studio 5 Live sessions with a return to past broadcasts. Tune in to Radio City on Thursday December 23 as we revisit Courtney Barnett's 2014 Drive Live performance.

PBS revisits Studio 5 Live sessions with a return to past broadcasts. Tune in to Homebrew on Monday December 6 as we revisit Jaala's 2018 Drive Live session.

PBS revisits Studio 5 Live sessions with a return to past broadcasts. Tune in to Headhunters on Monday October 11 as we rewind back to Danika Smith's 2020 Studio 5 Live session.

In 2015, Melbourne band Black Cab was one of the 15 local acts that performed at Drive Live, PBS’s annual celebration of live music. During this week-long mini-festival, three bands go live to air in each day’s drive program. Following on from indie band Lowtide and electro-pop duo Black Cab headlined the performances on The Afterglow with a brooding, droney set of new wave magic that captivated the in-studio audience.   Formed in 2004 by Andrew Coates, and currently joined by Wes H...

All News is Good News, Coburg’s favourite sons of cinematic soul Surprise Chef hit Studio 5 for the final evening of Drive Live 2020.  Now in 2021, with festival appearances booked at RISING and Good Times Festival it seems like a great time to re-visit this session and get it back on the PBS airwaves. Featuring a jazz infused mix of dark landscapes, analogue synth-laden funk and left-field library music stylings, Surprise Chef kicked off the Friday evening Drive Live session in 2020 with a...

Cash Savage and The Last Drinks are one of Australia’s hardest working live bands and also longtime favourites of us here at PBS. Fresh from rocking Boogie Festival recently, Cash Savage and The Last Drinks have just been announced on the line-up for June’s Good Times Festival in Tocumwal. For Studio 5 Rewind we re-visit a sweltering set from the band performed in Studio 5 at PBS as part of our Drive Live event in Feb 2017. Tune in to The Afterglow on Wednesday April 28 to re-live the ene...

Cable Ties released their second LP Far Enough, an album that brings a towering wall of 70s hard rock and proto-rock to songs that explore hope, despair, and anger but offer no easy answers. Taking the three-minute punk burner and stretching it past breaking point, the trio of Jenny McKechnie (guitar, vocals), Shauna Boyle (drums), and Nick Brown (bass) deliver feminist anthems that are at once smouldering and urgent.  Far Enough encapsulates the passion and defiance in Cable Ties’ songwri...