The Lo’ Sound is a radio show on Edge Radio 99.3, produced in Hobart, Tasmania. Encompassing the many sub genres of Doom Metal and Stoner Rock. Each week we present a running theme to the show and try to collate music and bands that fit said theme.
The Lo’ Sound started in October 2023 by Stu after the concept came to him whilst conversing with an intergalactic space goat during a period of trans-dimensional sleep apnea. The goats name was Andy.
Regular Guests and Contributors
Dr. Dan Doom
Dr Dan Doom is The Lo’ Sound’s resident expert on absolutely everything — medicine, science, history, death, disease and whatever other deeply questionable subjects cross his desk. Appearing once a month, Dr Doom delivers wildly confident explanations, questionable expertise and just enough facts to make you wonder if he actually knows what he’s talking about. He probably doesn’t. But that’s never stopped him before.
Stu Balls
Stu Balls has spent years immersed in the low-frequency world of stoner rock, heavy psych, doom and sludge, a lifelong love affair with music that sounds like it was recorded somewhere beneath a mountain.
His broadcasting journey began more than 12 years ago, taking him from RTRFM92.1 in Perth WA to Edge Radio 99.3 in Hobart, Tasmania, where he continues to unleash the heavier, fuzzier and stranger side of the musical spectrum.
Before the radio waves, Stu was also behind a sludge-driven cooking show on YouTube, combining his two great passions: ridiculously heavy music and ridiculously good food.
From the kitchen to the studio, Stu has spent over a decade championing underground sounds, digging up obscure riffs, crushing fuzz pedals and introducing listeners to the weird, wonderful and downright filthy world of heavy music.
Andy Static
Andy Static is a veteran of the Tasmanian underground, with a long and noisy history of playing in punk, fuzz rock and heavy music bands across the island.
Years spent surrounded by amplifiers, feedback, distortion and questionable musical decisions have given him an encyclopedic knowledge of the heavier corners of the scene.
With Icelandic blood running through his veins, Andy brings the fiery spirit of a Viking of musical knowledge to everything he does, fiercely passionate, endlessly curious and always ready to dig deeper into the riff.
Andy is also the founder of City Boy Studios in Hobart, which he has built from the ground up into a successful recording and creative business. More than just a studio, City Boy has become an important part of Tasmania's live music community, supporting local bands, artists and the broader underground scene.
Wayne Bruce
Wayne Bruce is The Lo’ Sound’s charismatic super-sub, swooping in whenever duty calls with his sharp wit, larger-than-life personality and seemingly endless depth of general knowledge. He may not know much about Stoner Rock, but ask him about almost anything else and there’s a good chance Wayne has an answer — or at least a very convincing theory. Always ready to step into the breach, Wayne brings his own unique brand of chaos, curiosity and conversation to The Lo’ Sound.
Doug Sludge
Doug Sludge cut his teeth as The Lo’ Sound’s very first apprentice, learning the dark arts of radio, heavy music and questionable broadcasting decisions from the ground up. Now he’s graduated to his own show, Tales from the Script, on Edge Radio, where he continues to spread the good word with his own distinctive style. From apprentice to full-blown radio host, Doug Sludge is living proof that sometimes you really can let the wrong person near a microphone and get away with it.
Bert
Bert is the drummer for Mountains of Madness, Tasmania’s beer-fuelled, fuzz-drenched good-time merchants, and a walking encyclopaedia of the local scene. If there’s a band, gig, venue, musician or questionable story doing the rounds in Tasmania, Bert probably knows about it — and probably has a better story to go with it. A fixture of the local heavy music underground, he brings the knowledge, the banter and, naturally, the occasional concussion-inducing drumbeat to The Lo’ Sound.
