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Babs Rapeport

‘Square podcast tile image washed in magenta featuring a photograph of a smiling short-haired person with glasses and a suit jacket, and a woman wearing headphones playing air guitar and laughing behind them, overlaid with the text ‘CLAM AND JACKIE BAM / THURS 5:30PM / CRAWL SPACE RADIO’ (credit: none given)

Clam and Jackie Bam: Ep #3, with Chanel, Flippy’s, Didion, Babitz and Swamp Monster (MA15+)

Cameron Hurst & Babs Rapeport, Crawl Space Radio, January 2022

From Twitter Spaces to the zillions of streaming music stations in Melbourne alone, live radio has been quietly clawing its way back one tech platform and DJ mix at a time. In a pandemic context, it’s unsurprising; anything offering the chance for synchronous shared experiences has been given a bump (ahem). What sets Clam and Jackie Bam apart is what always feels fleeting and precarious in the careerist arts: they casually dispense hilarious, blunt critiques that more power-proximate Media Personas wouldn’t touch, and have a genuine sense of absurdity in their arsenal. Do you need more proof? Find the mock John Safran NGV audio tour around twenty minutes in.

How long can this last?

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