The LOLA Show

Canadian composer, pianist and visual artist John Kameel Farah was featured in the very first issue of LOLA Magazine back in 2016. John splits his time between Berlin and Toronto, and in Berlin, he’s best known for his concert series ‘Music for Organ and Synthesizers’.He has toured throughout Europe, the UK and North America, collaborated with ballet stars and astrophysicists, and has released several albums of original music. John met with LOLA editor Dan Cole to talk about the unusual origins of his passion for music and how Berlin influences his life and work.

Joel Dullroy is an Australian journalist who has been living in Berlin for over a decade. He’s a co-founder and presenter of the brilliant Radio Spaetkauf, a Berlin news podcast in English, which has yielded two spin-off podcasts - How To Fuck Up An Airport and Rent Freeze. Joel met with LOLA Editor-in-Chief, Jonny Tiernan, to talk about what brought him to Europe, why he continues to be fascinated by the stories of Berlin, and how his life in the city has evolved and progressed over the years.

Many people know of Pornceptual from their sex positive parties, which have been taking place regularly in Berlin for more than six years. But there is much more to Pornceptual than just parties. They bring art to the world of porn, presenting queer, diverse and inclusive porn through their website and magazine. Pornceptual founders Raquel Fedato and Chris Philips met with LOLA Editor Dan Cole to talk about the origins of the project, and why porn and partying are more revolutionary than you might think.

Sophia Hoffman has been a Berliner for more than ten years, but her path to becoming such a well regarded vegan chef and food activist was not a straightforward one. She has published three books to date, and her most recent, Zero Waste Küche, or Zero Waste Kitchen, focuses on how to approach food and cooking in the most sustainable way possible. Sophia met with LOLA Editor Dan Cole to talk about her journey, including the high, the lows and the challenges of running a business in Berlin’s food scene.

Whereas most 70-year-olds are content to draw a pension and relax, Robot Bennett prefers to be behind the decks of Sisyphos’ Hammerhalle at 3am on a Monday morning. Delve into his amazing story and find out how he became a DJ in his late 60s and why he uses his proximity to death as a selling point.

Welcome to Season One of The LOLA Show, a brand new podcast from LOLA Magazine. Subscribe to enjoy the new episodes as they drop, every two weeks. In Season One you'll be hearing from 70 year-old techno DJ Robot Bennett, vegan chef and food activist Sophia Hoffmann, the founders of the sex-positive movement Pornceptual, journalist and renowned Berlin podcaster Joel Dullroy, and Canadian pianist and composer John Kameel Farah.Be sure to join us and for more from LOLA visit lolamag.de