Makeshift Swahili is a music program on 106.7 PBS-FM, broadcast from Melbourne, Australia.

I tend to play lesser-known underground rock - noisy, inventive, unconventional, experimental and eccentric sounds.  
Local demo/ self-released/ unreleased recordings and small label releases are regularly featured on the show, and from time to time you'll also hear interviews, live-to-air performances, and band / label specials.

Does your band fit the bill?  Do you write for a Fanzine?  Send your stuff to

Makeshift Swahili
c/o PBS FM
P.O. Box 2917
Fitzroy MDC 3065

Recording quality is not super-important.  If I like, I play... 
Music-based zines are preferable to comics etc. 'cos a) that's what I tend to read anyway, and b) PBS is a music-based station.

Front Of Van
Go Genre Everything  
Fire Witch  
BadCopBadCop  
Hawaii Dragon and the Drama Queens of the Silver Screen  

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Makeshift Swahili wouldn't be the same without...

Record Shops:
Aquarius Records----Djangos----Missing Link----Rockinghorse Records----Synaesthesia Records

Radio Shows:
Brian Turner, WFMU----John Peel, BBC Radio 1 (R.I.P.)----Let Your Freak Flag Fly, 3CR

Reading Material:
The Baffler-----Sound Collector (R.I.P.)----Arthur magazine-----Perfect Sound Forever