Tim Ferguson and Maynard bring you A Very Recalcitrant Xmas 2019, the Xmas show that doesn’t really want to be here.
Tim wants Lego for Xmas, Maynard doesn’t even want Xmas for Xmas.
Ferguson has his usually spot on predictions for next year, remember he has correctly called every Australian election this century.
To help along the way we have podcast friends from around the world dropping in to make this the most recalcitrant show of your festive season.
Lance Leopard, The Darbys, Karl & Andy from Who Are These Podcasts?, George Hrab, Christopher Laird & Tony Push all bring us their reality of Xmas. See if it matches yours.
From all here at Planet Maynard we wish you A Very Recalcitrant Xmas 2019
It’s a selection of music and Xmas musings in A Very Maynard Xmas 2000 from Channel V on Foxtel from 2000.
Keep an eye out for Jabba, Yumi, Kyla, Mary, Mike, Andrew G, James Matheson and Andrew Mercardo, as we enjoy a getaway near an open fireplace with some moments from Channel V in 2000.
Dave Mulligan brings you an uncool yule when he returns with 3 great songs for the holiday season, or so he thinks.
Dave Mulligan is a 50s and 60s record collector, mainly 45s, and every year Maynard asks him to share a few that you don’t normally hear at this time of year. Or ever really.
Maynard and Dave Mulligan apologise and wish you a very Uncool Yule.
In 1998 we found out when Foxtel’s Channel V assigned Mary Datoc and Maynard to dig up clips and music from around all Foxtel channels in a way that would never happen now.
All the Channel V presenters of the time turned up at Maynard’s for an afternoon and this show was the result.
Unseen since 1998 Planet Maynard presents A Very Maynard Xmas (an El Cheapo production)
Kylie Minogue’s Enjoy Yourself tour played Sydney on 5th February 1990. I was there to cover it for my Triple J breakfast show the next morning. Some of the interviews you’ll hear in this audio never made the breakfast show that next morning (the Dad from Stroud for example).
People who can spot talent realise Kylie’s not trying to preach from a soapbox. She’s just a young chick who’s having a good time and pleasing a lot of people with her music.
Richard Wilkins MTV Feb 1990
At Kylie Minogue’s third only live show in Australia, you’ll hear Ms Minogue herself, Ray Medhurst (Rockmelons), Nick Ferris (Ten Wedge), Alan Jones (you know him), DJ Pee Wee Ferris, James Freud (Models and bass in Kylie’s stage band), Richard Wilkins (MTV etc), Glen A Baker, even Dave Mason (The Reels). Not to mention the sometimes blunt opinions of the overexcited audience that paid the 1990 price of about $30 a ticket at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
But there was a lot of “Kylie cringe” going on still at the beginning of 1990. Regardless of this, a lot of groovers and hipsters from around Sydney were in the audience to see her show that February night, even though some of the black clothing set looked a bit uncomfortable outside Kings Cross and Darlinghurst.
I think there should be more shows like this. It’s unpretentious in so many ways. It’s really honest. It’s showbiz.
James Freud, Feb 5th 1990 (about 11:30pm backstage)
Supported by Indecent Obsession the Enjoy Yourself show played to a capacity Sydney Entertainment Centre crowd that didn’t stop screaming and singing along all night. Most of the music you’ll hear was recorded by me in the middle of that deliriously screaming crowd, which might give you a feel of what it was like to be there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUF-IFJR36Q
Watch the show we saw that night…
Prior to Kylie starting her show, what looked like Jason Donovan in the seated audience section caused a chorus of shrieking just before the show started. Once the show started everyone quickly forgot the Jason incident and had an opinion about Kylie’s black velveteen catsuit (as you will hear, it was her favourite outfit of the show).
Kylie Minogue, performing in concert, Enjoy Yourself Tour, La Cigale, Paris, France, Tuesday 8th May 1990. (Photo by NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
Thankyou to the producers who helped produce this, some of which never made it to air on the morning of 6th Feb 1990. Chris Norris & Simon Marnie.
Enjoy Yourself, you’ll hear we ALL did that night.
The people who worked on the Enjoy Yourself tour 1990
DJ Mark Alsop has been a favourite DJ across Australia for 36 years. He started in Oxford Street, Sydney and is a valued member of the GLBT community. In this show he has some stories, dirt and music to share. So listen up and meet his dog, Boo Boo.
Boo Boo isn’t spoilt. He’s just well looked after.
Coming to you from Mark’s undisclosed location, it’s a podcast full of tales you might not have heard and just some of the music Mark loves. We perhaps answer that burning social issue; What is the gayest track ever?
With decades of experience in the Sydney DJ box, here’s sure fire advice on the one thing NEVER to do in a club:
Don’t type your request out in size five font on your phone that only a fifteen year old can read, then wave it around in front of the DJ booth like a monkey.
You can see his backwash.
His views on marriage:
I’m a big homosexual. What would I be doing marrying a woman?
AND finally find out how we feel about people asking for requests:
People asking for requests… that never ends well.
DJ Mark Alsop’s comprehensive website, including his remixes and podcast:
If you like your retro dance sounds eclectic, this is the night for you. Maynard, the retro DJ, presents a night of shameless sounds that celebrate the pop and pretentiousness of the late 20th century. We play both sorts of music Disco AND New Romantic.
A Loveshack good time.
DJ TC will be playing a supporting set of disco dance tracks from 8pm. On the 26th his set will all about “forgotten classics”. Expect to hear Melissa Tkautz “Read My Lips”, Cathy Dennis “Touch Me”, Sigue Sigue Sputnik “Love Missile F1-11” and Mel & Kim “Showing Out”. So get your Disco on early.
Dancers get the Loveshack vibe.
Let’s get straight to the biscuits! What can you expect to hear at Maynard’s Loveshack?
A lot of rushing, hushing and flushing as the famous Loveshack Rocket blasts off into orbit.
Jump on board and get your groove on to cosmic music like this:
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You -Boys Town Gang
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Stop – Spice Girls
Venus – Tom Jones
Jump Around – House of Pain
Respectable – Mel & Kim
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy- Bette Midler
Shocked – Kylie Minogue
Express Yourself – Madonna
To Cut A Long Story Short – Spandau Ballet
My Own Way – Duran Duran
Tijuana Taxi – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
So, come along, dress like it’s whatever year YOU want, and check your cool at the door!
Tim and Maynard return with Bunga Bunga 55 just in time to advise the Australian Labor Party on their future AND blame their election loss on the catchy jingle they DIDN’T use.
Tim is going to Hobart, Maynard is going Village People (again).
Bunga Bunga doesn’t obsess over popular culture, we obsess obsessively over UNpopular culture.
We raise trivial issues of great importance including (but are not limited to):
Sir Lawrence Olivier, girl guides, Law & Order’s obsession with our podcast, what happens when Batman goes on holiday, Tim in a barrel, the sanctity of marriage/Star Wars, Apollo 11, the Hammond organ and the unearthly sound of Maynard’s possibly haunted harmonica.
Movie buff Lance Leopard and movie bluffer Maynard present the greatest disco musical starring Olympian Bruce Jenner & Village People CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC (1980)
Tuesday night 3rd September at Red Bar.
Lance and Maynard both have what can only be described as an intimate knowledge of this musical. They’ll combine their knowledge for what will be a unique group viewing experience, U Gotta See This!
