Maynard hosts 90 minutes of videos from The Coldest 100, 2022
A hungry nation, starved of good news and well meaning carry-on, enjoyed Brain Freeze with 30 odd (very odd) video clips from the 2022 Coldest 100.
From Kylie, to Muppets to Barry Crocker and Melissa Tkautz, it’s 90 minutes YOU don’t have to apologise for.
Keep an eye out for special guests Tim Ferguson, Brigitte Handley, Lesley Fountain/Glenn Keenan & DJ Mark Alsop and others that should know better, drop in to add to the cultural carnage.
@OzKitsch on Twitter has been compiling this list every January for the last seven years. So about time someone made a video show out of it….
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns this Saturday with world class musical shonk that only Australia can produce.
Just look at this list of artists that you’ll never see on the same list or even in the same sentence.
Don Lane, Kyle Sandilands, Liza Minnelli, Ben Fordham, James Reyne, Samuel L Jackson, Barry Crocker, The Muzak Corporation, Wickety Wak, Lorrae Desmond, Frankie J Holden, Wilbur Wilde, Barry Crocker, Dean Martin, Victorian Police Cadets Skipping Team and the Big Brother cast of 2001 for just a start.
As well as wonderful regional jingles that remind you that major hubs of industry such as Toowoomba and Tasmania are still there.
The Coldest 100 knows the intersection of corporate thinking and opportunistic musicians…
After all, any dingbat can put together a list of good songs. It take a certain kind of goose like Andrew Sholl to put together 100 songs of Australian musical flotsam for 7 years in a row now.
The Coldest 100 is songs about Australia, sometimes they just don’t work out that well…
Andrew Sholl
It will all be going down from 9am Saturday 22nd January on Twitter @Ozkitsch Andrew Sholl shows no sign of modifying his musical taste.
If this music irks you, you’re probably on the wrong website. But if you have that clip of Don Lane singing the theme from Hawaii 5-0, let us know so Andrew can put it in next year.
This year Maynard wakes up from his 2020 Xmas show and decides maybe 1982 may be a better Xmas to celebrate.
Our guests dropping by this year include Tim Ferguson, Lesley Fountain, Bridgette Handley, Tony Push, The Castanet Club, Frank Bennett, James Valentine and a few cats.
Maynard thinks 1982 may be a better Xmas to celebrate than 2021.
A Very Maynard Xmas 2021. Lesley Fountain (Glenn Keenan) romances an apple.
What I was playing during the festivities on the final night of The Castanet Club exhibit at Newcastle Museum. Three hours of uncool cool. With smatterings of Castanet Club and Musical Flags tracks.
Steve Abbott & Maynard at The Castanet Club Exhibition
Chit Chat von Loopin Stab and Tony Whittaker have made the best (and only) documentary on The Castanet Club. The Castanet Club Story.
Chit Chat drops in to tell Maynard the story behind the Story.
Warren Coleman, Steve Abbott with Chit Chat 2021. With photo from 1983.
Just look at what he wrote about us…
What The Castanet Club achieved in their 9 years would impact the landscape of Australian entertainment for the next 20yrs. The rise of Triple J, Sandman and Flacco, Young Einstein, Good News Week, Channel [V], Play School, Sale of the Century, Full Frontal, Happy Feet, Fast Forward, Kath, and Kim and even Mambo T-shirts are in some way connected to this remarkable group of unfashionable humans.
Mikey Robins as Elvis with Glenn Dormand in 80s photo by Maynard
Half hour Castanet Club Story documentary with lots of interviews with members and even Tim Ferguson, Paul Livingston, John Doyle & Jane Turner turn up to talk about Castanet Club history and what we are doing now…
Maynard celebrates his opening up, and we all find out how excited the people and cats of Australia are about that.
The whole shabang has a heap of great tunes, fun and foolishness.
Lots of guests, including Tim Ferguson, George Hrab, Tony Push, Richard Saunders (dancing) and introducing Leslie Fountain as our new “choreography correspondent”.
There is an unseen version of Venus from The Castanet Club from 1986 that will give you some lighting tips.
Also thrill to Tea Towel Time and the Smart Ass Quiz with my silent co-hosts hippo Anderson Cooper and teddy Noam Chomsky.
Bring your cat.
I promise average entertainment for no apparent reason.
Maynardarama October 2021 (Maynard Opens Up)
Silent co-hosts hippo Anderson Cooper and teddy Noam Chomsky.
Maynard is questioned about his musical choices by Charlie Fatt. Dig some Electric Six, B-52s, Mari Wilson AND Sammy Davis Jnr finally together on the same show.
Charlie Fatt has Maynard explain Electric Six, B-52s, Mari Wilson AND a huge finish with Sammy Davis Jnr.
After 30 minutes of technical issues on both sides Rob Darby finally get’s me on the phone. Cranky but always ready to talk with Rob Darby about a wide ranging group of issues.
None of which we solve. But I did bring the correct size soapbox.
Be loud, be proud and prepare ye for the third and final episode of Almost Live from the Castanet Club! from the now closed Castanet Club exhibition.
With current public health orders preventing visitors from experiencing our special exhibition The Castanet Club – An exhibition you can dance to! in person, we’re bringing the fun to you with this limited release variety show.
In true Castanet Club collaborative style, we’ve gathered talented musicians, videographers, sound engineers and visual artists to produce a modern take on a classic Novocastrian attitude: get your friends together, have fun, make art and share it!
We bring you a big finish with Newcastle legends Fish Fry getting us off to a roaring start with 24 Hours from Tulsa. Maynard and Zorica demonstrate Rodney Cambridge MBE’s Lamington Recipe (concluding it’s easier to go to the bakery). Finally, Nastassja Bassi haunts us from 1986 with a beautiful version of Wuthering Heights.
Watch our third and final show from Newcastle Museum.
