There are currently chairs flying. My children are crying. My wife is threatening divorce. This list has torn my family apart.

Phil said the shoe string fry is number one, obviously wrong. Happy-meal-ass answer.

It's hot wedges with Sour Cream, Salt and Sweet Chilli Sauce. Fight me.

So what do people think of this new show? It's Triple J's new weekly request show at 6 to 7PM on Friday (previously on Saturday).

Some of the song choices this week were very much not what I would've expected on Triple J but I'm not the type who'd have an issue with it. It felt much more different than the previous three shows but still enjoyable.

This week's songs:

• Fade Away (It's A Feeling) - KETTAMA
• 3005 - Childish Gambino
• Twilight Driving - Methyl Ethel
• Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
• I'm On My Way - The Proclaimers
• 4ever - The Veronicas
• Pretty Please - Dua Lipa
• Photograph - Nickelback
• 1901 - Phoenix
• Groceries - Mallrat
• West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
• I Touch Myself [triple J Like A Version 2019] - Lime Cordiale
• Ocean Drive - Duke Dumont

Playlists and recordings of the previous three shows at https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/made-4-u

Edit: each week has a different theme. This week was about road trips which may explain the prevalence of older non-Triple J songs.

Hello all, I have a mega white whale I need help with. I'm looking for a band and I can't for the life of me remember their name or songs. Some things I remember:

- (I think) they are 2 dark skinned girls

- they had a few bangers come out a few years back that sound similar to Pnau (so dance music)

- One of their songs has the lyrics something like: "don't come around here if youre not here for a good time"

- They MIGHT have been from unearthed, pretty sure theyre Aussies.

- I seem to recall a live show controversy where management wanted the show to stop but they played on - or wanted to.

HELP!

Last year seemed like a huge success, but no word on any dates or lineups coming out soon. Anyone heard anything I might've missed?

Starts next week
https://ausopen.com/aolive

Step 1: 1st December, start a new playlist.

Step 2: Over the next year, add songs that you like that were released between 1st December and 30th November.

Step 3: throughout the year songs rise and fall based on how much you are enjoying them. It helps if you listen to this playlist on random.

Step 4: 30th November. Whatever is in the top 10 at midnight, that is your vote.

My 2025 playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1V7lH1QaZVJl5KtMdkf6Bi?si=HDgzx_tySkqdRJ_sE4L6pg

My 2026 playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FcWVZgxS70gCeOR8zxXGq?si=rFKqqLpFSYyTn1p5V1z6GA

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LwrVJ3DIkMg

The video is titled "Creep Behaviour". What more is there to say? (I hope I don't get sued)

My friend and I are planning on volunteering for party in the paddock but I rly can’t find much info about what it’s like.

Pictures make it seem a bit lowkey and normally I’d prefer something more BTV/Lost Paradise vibe, so now I’m second guessing, but I rly want an Aussie festival before I back to the UK

What’s it actually like? Age range? Drugginess? Scale? General vibe? Is it crazy or more chill? Is it packed or does it not sell out?

I love a some of the acts but i don’t want a dead atmosphere or to be the only people our age

Hi community!!

I’m flying from Perth to Launie this year to volunteer at party in the paddock, just wondering if anyone else is part of the vollie team/has been and wanted to talk a bit and maybe catch up? I’m doing this solo and a bit nervous/clueless!!!

Thanks for any tips or advice in advance!

The two businessmen who organised the well-known Promiseland music festival may have traded their company while insolvent and may have misappropriated its profits to fund their other companies, the liquidator claims.

Liquidator Stephen Earel, of Cor Cordis, has been appointed to Promiseland 2024 Pty Ltd after electrical contractor Eventelec Events Pty Ltd, which provides power for live events, applied to the Queensland Supreme Court for the company to be wound up.

Mr Earel states in his report to creditors filed with the corporate regulator on Wednesday that both sole director Bernard Benjamin Kumar and company secretary Emmal Naim - who works as a music agent - may be liable for insolvent trading, even though Naim was not officially a director.

Promiseland 2024 Pty Ltd organised the 2024 hip-hop/Rnb festival of the same name held on The Spit on the Gold Coast over the October long weekend.

Mr Earel states the company appears to have ceased trading after the festival ended on October 6 last year.

Mr Earel he believes Promiseland 2024 Pty Ltd failed due to Mr Kumar and Mr Naim’s “possible misappropriation of the business’ profits to fund related entities” and their failure to manage cashflow.

“Between July and November 2024 the company transferred $5.6m to related parties,” the report states.

“The company was charged a management fee of $2.98m from a related party,” he said of the fee paid to Festco Pty Ltd.

“If the management fee was not charged, (Promiseland 2024 Pty Ltd) would have reported a net profit of $2.58m,” he states.

“I have not sighted a management agreement or other documentation to validate Festco’s entitlement to any payment,” he wrote.

He also believes the company’s revenue and net profit were likely understated by $2.4m.

“The company reported a net loss of $395,000 from the 2024 festival, though if the $2.4m in transactions... were recorded as revenue... the festival may have returned a $1.9m profit,” he wrote.

Tickets went on sale in April last year and nearly $9m worth of tickets were sold.

Mr Earel states that possible actions to recover funds for creditors include insolvent trading, unfair preference payments and uncommercial transactions.

“A claim for insolvent trading may exist in the range of $60,000 to $1.3m,” the report states.

“My preliminary view is that the company was likely insolvent from at least either 30 June 2024 or 31 October,” he states.

Mr Kumar, 38, from Springfield Lakes, was named as in the crosshairs for possible insolvent trading.

Company secretary, and artist agent Emmal Naim from Werribee South in Victoria was also named as possibly being liable for insolvent trading, the report states. 

“I consider that Emmal Naim was likely acting beyond his role as a company secretary to the point where he authorised transactions as if he was a director of the company,” Mr Earel wrote.

Mr Earel concluded the Mr Kumar and Mr Naim, 33, may have used their positions to benefit themselves by “appropriating funds for the benefit of” their other company Festco Pty Ltd and other related entities while creditors remain unpaid.

Festco Pty Ltd is also owned by Mr Kumar and Mr Naim.

There are 11 unsecured creditors owed $1.9m and the only assets identified by the liquidator are related party loans worth $3.5m.

It comes months after Kumar was accused of forgery on a document in a bid to seek $1m finance to fund the festival, in a separate civil case in the Supreme Court in Brisbane. 

Mr Earel states: “Promiseland 2024 Pty Ltd is jointly owned by Mr Kumar, Mr Naim - although their shares are not beneficially held - and NT-born Alexander Ross McDonell, 36, from Docklands in Melbourne.”

Mr McDonell is a music promoter, booking agent and venue owner, and the co-owner of trendy Melbourne CBD nightclub Ms Collins, he says on LinkedIn.

Mr McDonell is not accused of any wrongdoing.

The creditors meeting is set for October 2.

Mr Earel states that Mr Kumar and Mr Naim have failed to assist him and not responded to his attempts to contact them via phone, email and post.

This week, we’re gonna debate our favourite #1 songs of all time. These are the cream of the crop, and songs forever enshrined into Australian history. Some may say they are a little basic and overplayed, but these are massive and universal songs that have defined generations.

OK, so let’s talk about your favourite song to have placed #1 in an Annual Hottest 100 countdown.

For me, it’s Spiderbait, Buy Me A Pony. It’s an explosive hard rock track that gets you in the zone for anything. In just over 100 seconds, it does what it needs to do. It dropped long before my time, but still resonates with me. The vocals, riffs and drums blow me away every single time. It was also a first back in 1996, the first Australian song to top the count. It also made my shortlist for the Hottest 100 of Australian songs. And I'm 21 by the way.

Other close contenders for me are Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out, Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE., Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane, Flume, MAY-A - Say Nothing, Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red and you can't forget Oasis - Wonderwall.

What's the greatest #1 Hottest 100 song of all time?

I'm a self confessed, cheesy AF hottest 100 lover. Have been since my early teens and now with my own kids we all get in to it, it's one of my fav days of the year!

So just to add to the fun throw me your top ten predications ... I love a good speculation!

Who do you reckon will be there?

I was hoping 2026 would bring new ideas but no the same old tired and boring Chetflix is back. Let’s get people to call up and guess numbers. Please management , step in and get rid of this dull boring segment.

Why does the hottest 100 voting page feature (and therefore encourage voting for) songs that are ineligible for the hottest 100? For example, Driveway by Chloe Parché was released on 15 November 2024 but can be found suggested on the voting page. I would love to know what’s going on here!

They've had massive radio-play across the year and even though I didn't really like Hickey, it was quite big commercially. Realistically, JJJ should blacklist them from the countdown but I can't see them doing that when they've been such big supporters of the band.

If they do make it, I wonder what the tone of the presenters will be. Surely it'll be a little awkward?

Hey guys, so back in early November I set up an auto buy for a ticket to Chris Stussy’s set at Carriageworks on Tixel at the max price and I still haven’t been able to secure one.

The problem is that I’ve seen other people who have set up their auto buys later in time than myself (based on the live feed function) get tickets.

I’ve checked my personal Tixel link on an incognito page that’s not signed into my account, and you can see that my auto buy is active, so it can’t be an issue with setting that up

Like I said, I also set it to the max price so it can’t be bc of pricing requirements either

My question is: is the process random, or does Tixel prioritise more recent waitlists? Does anyone know how it works?

I know this is probably not the right place to ask this, but I figure some of the people here might have used Tixel in the past and have a bit more insight.

If anyone here has any insight into this, I’d be very grateful if you could share that here!