Jim McCarthy and Denise Rosenberg met in 2006 — by pure chance and the wonders of the internet.

Jim was in a wild New York proto-punk band called The Godz, active from the mid-sixties through to the early seventies. Denise was a member of the fierce and brilliant Primitive Calculators, born out of Melbourne’s post-punk scene in the late seventies.

When the Primitive Calculators’ first live album came out in 1981, Calculator’s member and sleeve designer, Dave Light, quietly added a small message at the bottom: "to Jim McCarthy."

Fast-forward a couple of decades. Denise builds a Calculators website, Google does its thing, Jim searches his own name — and boom — he finds it. He sends Denise an email about buying a CD copy, and that’s how the friendship started.

This year, Denise brought Jim out to Melbourne — his first time ever in the southern hemisphere — to get him out of trump’s version of the U.S. for a while and to see what the other side of the world looks like.

Both bands have a lot in common, they were cult favourites that confused more people than they pleased, each had just one video filmed by a friend, they’re barely mentioned in the history books, and they both made a whole lot of gloriously weird noise.

To read the complete story and find out more, head to primitivecalculators.com — to view a plethoria of fascinating information about the history of Melbourne’s creative experimental underground music world.

Denise Rosenberg and Jim McCarthy joins Dr Gonzo to talk about their shared history and introduce a selection of music tracks from The Godz, Primitive Calculators, Use No Hooks, Denise & Dave Sing and many more rare and unreleased tracks on And This One’s Introduced By…