Firewater - PBS FM

Firewater - PBS FM Firewater is on PBS 106.7FM between 5-7pm Tuesdays. www.pbsfm.org.au/firewater for playlists The show covers dirty rock n roll and southern influenced blues.

Claire Stuchbery plays swamp rock, which is a loose description for bands with beards essentially. Traversing the genres of alt country through to stone rock, Firewater plays anything that sounds a little bit swampy, a little bit dirty and has a chugging beat. There’s a lot of guitars in this two hours. From RL Burnside to Jeff The Brotherhood, The Black Keys to Downhills Home and Sharon Jones to Fu Manchu, Bass Drum of Death to Eileen Jewell. Firewater sounds rough, but is smooth on the ears.

06/11/2025

I love Phil

Ugh, Facebook wasn't keen on how many bands I played in today's episode of Firewater. Too many to share apparently. So i...
28/10/2025

Ugh, Facebook wasn't keen on how many bands I played in today's episode of Firewater. Too many to share apparently. So if you wanna know what went down, you can find it over here. https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-10-28/17-00-00

While you're there, grab yourself one of these fancy tote bags with a PBS membership. Get in before 1st November to get yours!

Phil MacDougall has been a friend and mentor to me since 1996, but I'd heard him on the radio years before that. He has ...
14/10/2025

Phil MacDougall has been a friend and mentor to me since 1996, but I'd heard him on the radio years before that. He has been presenting Sunglasses After Dark on PBS for 45 years and we're celebrating his incredible contribution to the Melbourne music scene with a huge party at The Tote on Sunday 26th October. Today I spoke to Phil about his enthusiasm for finding new music, a lifetime mission for Phil and many of us. The Prince of Darkness, OG PBS community, living legend. Have a listen via the link below today's playlist:

Prewn - Cavity
The Maggie Pills - Hearts Enduring Lingering Loss
Arabella and The Heist - Maraschino
Echo Social Club - Kiss The Pavement
We Are The Kill Sounds - Just Create It
Portugal. The Man - Denali
The Wraylettes - Rum Ball
Interview with Phil MacDougall
Digger & The Pussycats - Motorbike
The Pink Tiles - Work it Out
Big Special - Hug A Bastard
Benny J Ward - Televisions
Molly Horses - BABBA
CLAMM - And I Try
Shepparton Airplane - Angry
Public Enemy - Siick
Little Simz - Lion
Beastie Boys - Something's Got To Give
Otis Wilkins - Joni Mitchell was Punk
Davey Lane - Mach IV

See you at the Tote on the 26th!
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-10-14/17-00-00

I got to share a conversation between Phil MacDougall from Sunglasses After Dark and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on ...
07/10/2025

I got to share a conversation between Phil MacDougall from Sunglasses After Dark and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on the radio. You can hear it too by hitting the link below today's program playlist...

Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything
Interview with The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, with excerpts of RL Burnside, Andre Williams and Sick of Being Sick tracks
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Wrong
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms
Eddy current suppression ring - Hard to be Moved
Maquina Peligrosa - Death Tube
Split System - On the Street
Mud Grief - Deep Fried Mud
CLAMM - Something New
Rise Against - I Want it All
Prewn - Dirty Dog
cleopatrick - Guts
HOON - Trainspotting
Shepparton Airplane - Someone to Blame
Bleak Squad - Let Go Of Love
The Slingers - Payphone Man
Jake Lloyd & Otis Wilkinson - Bubble Shuffle
The Boojums - Wings of Fire
Gut Health - Beat to Beat
Ben Mastwyk - Chemical Attraction
Benny J Ward - I Only Want to be With You

Catch it back here: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-10-07/17-00-00

Photo: Phil MacDougall & Jon Spencer. Credit Kurt Eckhardt

Sonny & the Sunsets are on my mind following a really interesting chat about the album they have coming out in November ...
30/09/2025

Sonny & the Sunsets are on my mind following a really interesting chat about the album they have coming out in November and their upcoming shows at The Curtin. You can listen anytime by hitting the link below the playlist here:

Cash Savage and The Last Drinks - So This Is Love
Lost Fire - Ain't No Fun
Milly Strange - Don't Call My Name
Taylah Carroll - Sometimes Good People Do Bad Things
Ruby Gill - Some Kind of Control
Bleak Squad - Lost My Head
Sonny & the Sunsets - The Lonely Men
Interview with Sonny Smith
Sonny & the Sunsets - Love Among Social Animals
Clinkerfield - Someday We'll Get Married
Why Bonnie - Headlight Sun
Cope & Drag - Die Young
Mexico City - Sometimes I Wonder
T. Hardy Morris - Write it in the Sky
The Bruthers - Bad Way To Go
Benny J Ward - Tell Me Tell Me
Big League - Neverlandfill
Spoon - Guess I'm Falling in Love
Skegss - So Excited
Molly Horses - Family Meal
Sprints - Better
Future Kings of Spain - So Wrong
Kerosene Heights - Sunsetting

Catch it here mates: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-09-30/17-00-00

SO FUN TO BE BACK ON THE RADIO today! Much rock n roll love coming through the airwaves. Here's a picture of Shepparton ...
23/09/2025

SO FUN TO BE BACK ON THE RADIO today! Much rock n roll love coming through the airwaves. Here's a picture of Shepparton Airplane from Saturday night and the playlist from today's episode of Firewater. Hit the link below to listen back anytime you like...

Smirk featuring Ross Farrar - The Son
lawn. - Lonely River Blues
The Maggie Pills - Goths of Disgrace
Echo Social Club - My Brother Ego
Monster Magnet - Snake Dance
Kerosene 454 - Anti-magnet
Jobber - Clothesline from Hell
Special Guest - Nausea
Shepparton Airplane - Septic Dream
Nuzzle - The Sorting That Evens Things Out
Split System - Memory
Mud Grief - Alcoholic
The Antics - Takings
CLAMM - Blinded
HOON - Rinsed
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Rise Against - Sink Like A Stone
Spoon - Chateau Blues
Eagles Of Death Metal - Solid Gold
Agatha is Dead - No Love to Prove
The Kreep 500 - Watch Out
Double Pumper - Annachodey
Speed Week - Subdivision
Public Opinion - Finale Rack
Danko Jones - Something Better
Budd - Kairos

Catch it back here mates: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-09-23/17-00-00

Mates, I’ve been away from the microphone for a few weeks traveling in the US for my day job. I managed to sneak in some...
20/09/2025

Mates, I’ve been away from the microphone for a few weeks traveling in the US for my day job. I managed to sneak in some visits to iconic music places like Sun Studio, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Stax Records, Goner Records, Vintage Vinyl - St. Louis, National Blues Museum and Robert Johnston’s crossroads.
From St. Louis down the Mississippi blues trail via Muscle Shoals, Memphis and Clarkesdale to a whole lotta jazz in New Orleans.
I’ve been stocking up on tunes and stories to share and have an inbox full of goodness that I’m looking forward to playing on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, here are some photos in case you’re interested in where I’ve been…

Meandering through some new tunes in all kinds of genres on today's episode of Firewater. Thanks to everybody who got in...
19/08/2025

Meandering through some new tunes in all kinds of genres on today's episode of Firewater. Thanks to everybody who got in touch to say they were enjoying the selections, it's always nice to know when a collection of tunes is landing well. If you missed it you can listen back via the link below this playlist:

Milly Strange - Under My Skin (pictured)
Kick - Some Velvet Morning
Death In Vegas - So You Say You've Lost Your Baby
Car Seat Headrest - Equals
TFS Band - Teeth Marche
Kim Gordon - Bye Bye '25
Jehnny Beth - Broken Rib
The Hives - The Hives Forever
CLAMM - More Serious Acts
Mold - Elevator!
Shepparton Airplane - Hell No
Big Special - The Mess
Jack Phemister - June
SNAPPED ANKLES - Raoul
Little Simz - Flood
Brother Ali - D.R.U.M.
Public Enemy - Confusion (Here Come The Drums)
Bloodshot BILL, Lammping - Anything is Possible
Skegss - State of Hawaii
Gotye - Smoke and Mirrors
Hobsons Bay Coast Guard - Landslide
Georgia Knight - Desire
Cope & Drag - Heaven vs Halo
Rich Webb & The Liars - Mess of It
The Barr Brothers - Run Right Into It
The Cthulus - What Lurks Beneath

Listen back here anytime: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-08-19/17-00-00

Getting dark with Claire Birchall on Firewater today, talking synth gateways and Northcote Social Club celebrations. Lis...
12/08/2025

Getting dark with Claire Birchall on Firewater today, talking synth gateways and Northcote Social Club celebrations. Listen any time you like via the link below...

Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs
Shepparton Airplane - Saw You Coming
bar italia - Cowbella
Big Thief - Incomprehensible
Romanie - Uh Oh
The Mean Times - Hell
Sprints - Beg
Jehnny Beth - Obsession
Claire Birchall - Sea of Silence
Interview with Claire Birchall
Claire Birchall - Running in Slow Motion
Echo Social Club - Come Close
Wombo - Danger in Fives
Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me to Be
Peak Park - Heartless Animal
Big Special - Thin Horses
Arab Strap - Sleeper
Cong Josie & Garry Sacred - I'll Be Gone
Filthy Heart - Smack Me
Schvendes - Small Mercies, Sweet Graves
Geese - Taxes
Cordrazine - Smalltown Boy
Queens of the Stone Age - Running Joke Paper Machete
Georgia Mulligan - Split

Listen here anytime: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-08-12/17-00-00

So many great albums coming out at the moment, I was really happy to share a few of them on the radio today, and a few s...
05/08/2025

So many great albums coming out at the moment, I was really happy to share a few of them on the radio today, and a few sneaky throwbacks in the mix too. You can listen back on the link below the playlist if it catches your fancy...

Whiskey Go Go's - 2 Cent Girl
Lifeguard - It Will Get Worse
Molly Horses - Beatty
Big Special - Professionals
Special Guest - SSRI
Screaming Target - Screaming Target
Split System - Ringing in my Head
COFFIN - City Sun
Bu****le Surfers - Devil Dust
HOON - Mitsubishi Pills
CLAMM - Time
Shepparton Airplane - Scribbles and Noises
Straight Arrows - Smoke
Everclear - Santa Monica
No Cigar - Under the Surface
Gyasi - Snake City
Faith No More - A Small Victory
Sprints - Rage
Echo Social Club - Sly Machines
The Kreep 500 - Ghastly
The Beasts of Bourbon - Chase the Dragon
Birdcage - Snake Valley
The Tombstone Ramblers - Catch Me If You Can
Jungle Jim Smith - Swampfoot Sally
Benny Walker - Small Mind
The Black Keys - Same Old Thing
Queens of the Stone Age - Suture Up Your Future
The Ikettes - I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)
P***o For Pyros - Pets

https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-08-05/17-00-00

Great to catch up with Greg Rietwyk from Press Club on the program today. Here's the songs we heard and the link to list...
29/07/2025

Great to catch up with Greg Rietwyk from Press Club on the program today. Here's the songs we heard and the link to listen back is below...

SnarskiCircusLindyBand - You're So Adorable
Television - See No Evil
Loose Tooth - Buy Into Something
Leatherman - Love Really Hurts Without You
HOON - Glizzy
Lifeguard - A Tightwire
Sleater-Kinney - Six Mistakes
Press Club - Champagne & Nikes
Interview with Greg Rietwyk from Press Club (that's Greg and I in the photo above)
Press Club - No Pressure
Jobber - Nightmare
Echo Social Club - eCowboy
BIG NOTER - Talk Straight
Tom Morello & The Nightwatchmen - Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine
Thulsa Doom - Sins of the Next Man
Split System - End of the Night
Molly Horses - Ball Gag
CLAMM - Heavy Fines, Loss of License
Shepparton Airplane - Stereo Youth
The Hentchmen - Accusatory
Michael Beach - Sick Country
Trash & The Treasures - Can’t
Skegss - I'm Not Lost
Thirteenth Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
Merpire - Leaving With You
Bernadette Novembre - Sliding
Bloodshot BILL, Lammping - Won't Back Down

Catch it here if you're so inclined: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-07-29/17-00-00

Today's episode sounded like this photo of Split System, captured by Jacob McCann at a recent show in Berlin. You can ge...
22/07/2025

Today's episode sounded like this photo of Split System, captured by Jacob McCann at a recent show in Berlin. You can get amongst it via the link below the playlist here...

Split System - Hit Me
ZOOBOMBS - South Central Rock
Les Kitschenette's - Le Poison
Todd Snider - Mission Accomplished (because you gotta have faith)
Dom Mariani - Apple of Life
Loose Tooth - Suffering
The Wildhearts - Possum Kingdom
Ammonia - Sleepwalking
Rodeo Boys - Speedway
Violent Soho - Slippery Tongue
Shepparton Airplane - Forecast
Eddy current suppression ring - That Time of Day
Mold - Wait For the Weekend
Earth Cadet - Ladder
Dead Mall - Superliminal
Winnebago Deal - Manhunt
Sprints - Descartes
The Grogans - Oh Boy
Hoon - Pay Your Tick
Bu****le Surfers - Dancing Fool
CLAMM - Pigs Don't Read
Official Motörhead - Motorhead
Molly Horses - L Train
Amyl and The Sniffers - Snakes
Turge - Much Ado about F**k All
Beat Happening - Red Head Walking
The White Stripes - Hello Operator
Cordrazine - Hey Man

Catch the show here: https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/firewater/2025-07-22/17-00-00

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