89 7FM Perth

89 7FM Perth 89 7FM is a community radio station broadcasting to the northern suburbs of Perth.

19/07/2025

No Sunday Sounds with Alan Griffiths for rest of July as he's on holiday! Chris Webb will do odd fills from 2-4pm in his absence

19/07/2025

GRACE & TRUTH & HYMNS WE LOVE with John Shriver every Sunday morning from 6am here on 89.7FM.

Wake up early and take a pew for the many sounds of the church and choir with an hours worth of divine songs of praise to start off your early morning. 🙂

Studio textline: 0418-897-897.

19/07/2025

SUNDAY CHILL 8 till 10am

For a laid back, cruisy music ride, please do join me Margaret Meadows this Sunday morning between 8 and 10 on 89 7FM for Sunday Chill.

Great music, trivia, news, sport and weather. Tune in to 89 7FM community radio, or check out our website 897fm.com.au

The program is available on podcast after broadcast, and you can live stream the station anywhere in the world on 89 7FM so you never miss a single program.

19/07/2025

COUNTRY ROADS with Steve Willis on Sundays from 10-12pm.

Country Roads is a blend of country and folk music, and all related sub genres from Australia and beyond!

Steve plays an eclectic mix from decades past and today’s great sounds throughout the course of his two-hour program.

Regular segments include “On this Day in Country Music” where he plays tracks with historical significance and his trademark segment “Odd But Even” where he ventures into another musical genre and plays a track that is odd in nature but even in quality.

Naturally... A John Denver number is never far away! 👍

Studio textline: 0418-897-897.
Studio #: 08 6244 33 22.

19/07/2025

The Sunday "ROCKIN' RADIO - WALL OF SOUND SHOW" from 2-4pm.

Hosted by that "rebel without a pause"... Chris Webb - our local yokel! 😄👍

Musically-speaking... Anything goes, so kick up your heels to a jukebox selection of anything from good 'ole rock' n 'roll, soul, beat, surf, rockabilly, jive, country, glam and classic rock, pop, bubblegum, jazz...etc.

Whatever takes the man's mood on any given Sunday! Join in the music merriment as there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on! 🙂

Studio textline: 0418-897-897 / Studio phone: 08 6244 3322.

19/07/2025

SUNDAY EVENING HERE ON
89 7FM - "PLAY THE BLUES" from 6-8pm. Hosted by your convivial blues-loving, master of ceremonies, Derek Cromb. 🙂

Celebrating a mammoth 24 years on the airwaves, do join Derek for another two-hour extravaganza of local and international Blues and Roots music, with always a strong emphasis on new releases and Perth blues happenings/events.

If you can't dig the blues, then you gotta hole in ya soul!

Studio textline: 0418-897-897 / Studio phone: 08 6244 3322.

19/07/2025

BACK IN THE DAY from
8.00pm - 10.00pm with Mark and Jasmine is your portal to the past every Sunday Night.

Re-live the 70s, 80s, and 90s as Mark and special guests discuss good times and play great music.

Dripping with nostalgia and hopefully a few laughs, we’ll fill your Sunday evenings with memories from live gigs, all-nighters, boom-boxes, and blue light discos.

BACK IN THE DAY is bound to bring back great memories for you on a Sunday evening!

Studio text-line: 0418-897-897
Studio # 08 6244-3322

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551637299449&mibextid=

19/07/2025

NEW YORK JAZZ - hosted by Tom Parker (no, not that one!) on 89 7FM, 10-12am, Sundays.

Take a trip down memory lane with Tom Parker as he showcases the very best in Jazz from New York and cities across the USA.

Not only that, but Tom delves into some select Australian jazz releases from time to time also!

Cast yourself into a world of late-night American jazz clubs and be charmed for two hours by a man of style who lives in New York but still calls Australia home.

Take a bite out of “The Big Apple” with NEW YORK JAZZ, late Sunday evening.

19/07/2025

Happy Birthday today to legendary guitarist Brian May, born in Middlesex, England, on this day in 1947 (July 19)

Without question, Brian May is one of the greatest guitarists in the history of rock.

As long-time guitarist with one of the biggest bands on the planet, May has written numerous hits for Queen, including rock anthems like "We Will Rock You", "I Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", and “Hammer to Fall", and his guitar solos on "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Brighton Rock" have been rated in Guitar World in the "top 50 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time" ( #20 and #41 respectively).

He also has the respect of his peers.

Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai said,

“When you break it down and when you look at it from a guitar player's point of view, it's unique, and nobody to this date could do what he does and make it sound like that.
He is an iconic player.
I can listen to any player and pantomime their sound, but I can't do Brian May. He's just walking on higher ground.”

In 2005, a Planet Rock poll saw May voted the seventh-greatest guitarist of all time, in 2012 he was ranked the second-greatest guitarist in a Guitar World magazine readers poll, and Total Guitar voted him the greatest guitarist of all time in 2020.

Most of May's electric guitar work live and in the studio is done on his legendary “Red Special”, which he built with his father, an electronics engineer, when he was sixteen years old.

It was famously built with wood from an 18th-century fireplace, and was composed of household items such as mother-of-pearl buttons and shelf edging.

May also added,
“The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the k**b at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.”

A lifelong student of science along with his work as a musician, May earned a PhD degree in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2007.
He was also Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013, and was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission.
He is also a co-founder of the awareness campaign Asteroid Day.

May has also been extremely active in animal welfare and conservation throughout his life.

He continues to play with Queen + Adam Lambert.

In 2001, May was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Queen and in 2018 the band received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Equally adept behind an acoustic, click on the link below to watch him and Freddie do “Love of my Life” live:

https://youtu.be/vLcF4tkuc6M?si=UtZNbotxYrJXt-ys

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

19/07/2025

On this day in 1981, the Bob Marley & The Wailers single “No Woman, No Cry” peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #8 (July 18)

The 1974 song hit the charts again in the UK following Bob Marley’s death in May 1981.

Although Bob Marley wrote this legendary song (from the “Natty Dread LP), in typical fashion a songwriting credit was given to Vincent "Tartar" Ford, one of his friends from Jamaica who helped him out when he was very poor and ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, in Kingston, Jamaica, where Marley grew up.

The royalty payments received by Ford from the song, ensured his efforts would continue.

This became a common practice for Marley…

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the "Government yard in Trench Town" refers to the Jamaican public-housing project where Marley lived in the late '50s.

The live version of the song ranked #37 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

In 2005, the live version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In 1975 it went to #22 in the UK, #23 in the Netherlands, and #97 in Australia.
In 1981 it went to #8 in the UK, and #30 in New Zealand.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/mZ6VezKMoRY

, , , , ,

19/07/2025

On this day in 1966, The Beach Boys single “God Only Knows” was released (July 18)

The love song from the groundbreaking “Pet Sounds” LP only made it to #39 on the US charts, but decades later it is considered a classic.

It was ranked #25 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".

The song was written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, who was an advertising copyrighter and lyricist that Wilson worked with on songs for “Pet Sounds”.

It was potentially controversial, as referring to “God” by name in a pop song was definitely not the done thing at the time.

Asher said that he and Wilson had "lengthy conversations" about the lyric, "because unless you were Kate Smith and you were singing 'God Bless America', no one thought you could say "'God' in a song. ... He said, 'We'll just never get any air play."

Asher believed that Wilson agreed to the title after being told by other people that it was "an opportunity to be really far out [because] it would cause some controversy, which he didn't mind."

After the song’s release, Brian Wilson said, “I gave the song to Carl because I was looking for a tenderness and a sweetness which I knew Carl had in himself as well as in his voice. He brought dignity to the song and the words, through him, became not a lyric, but real words.”

Listening to Carl sing it in this live clip, it’s easy to see why Brian made the decision….

https://youtu.be/n8qZMFFDYa0

, , , , , , , , , , ,

19/07/2025

On this day in 1980, the Queen LP “The Game” went to #1 on the UK Albums Chart (July 19)

The album also went to #1 in Canada, Argentina, and the Netherlands, #2 in Norway and Germany, #5 in Austria and Japan, #7 in Sweden, and #11 in Australia and New Zealand.

It also became the only Queen album to reach #1 on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart, and contained two US #1 singles, “Another One Bites The Dust” (the longest running top ten song AND the longest charting song of 1980) and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.

“Another One Bites The Dust” also won an American Music Award for Favorite Rock Single.

There’s also other excellent tracks on the album such as “Play The Game”, “Save Me”, “Rock It (Prime Jive)”, and “Dragon Attack”.

At the Grammy Awards in 1981, Queen and Mack were nominated for Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) for the album, while "Another One Bites the Dust" was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

It was famously the first Queen LP on which synthesizers were used, an instrument the band had previously taken great pains to avoid using.

Click on the link below to watch “Dragon Attack”:

https://youtu.be/_gAhvNCGK0s?si=xeg8Hz9mbdYNaeNc

, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Address

Joondalup, WA

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when 89 7FM Perth posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to 89 7FM Perth:

Shortcuts

Share

Category