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Kylie Minogue, Enjoy Yourself tour, Sydney 1990

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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.

Kylie Minogue’s set list from the night

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.

Kylie Minogue Enjoy Yourself tour crew list 1990
The people who worked on the Enjoy Yourself tour 1990
General, Retro

DJ Mark Alsop – Moving forward, glancing back.

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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.

DJ Mark Alsop on the Navigation cruise 2007
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:

https://www.markalsop.com

There’s that time he was filmed in bed with a woman as well:

Mark Alsop and Maynard go aft during the Navigaytion cruise 2007:

Maynard & DJ Mark Alsop, Leather Pride Fair Day 2005
Maynard & DJ Mark Alsop, Leather Pride Fair Day 2005
DJ Mark Alsop & DJ Sandi Hotrod Sydney Leather Pride fair day 2004
Leather Pride Fair Day 2004 Mark Alsop Sandi Hotrod
Mark Alsop with Paul
Mark & Paul
Maynard, Retro

Maynard’s Loveshack – October 26th

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.

80s dancers at Loveshack
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!

Loveshack Facebook event

Couple at Loveshack
Shom and Rebecca with their New Romantic party hats.
Bunga Bunga

Bunga Bunga 55 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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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.

That Flying High scene we talk about

Tim’s weekly Fake News in The New Daily

Maynard backstage with Village People in 2010

Maynard presents Can’t Stop The Music

The kind of thing Tim complains about in his rant about men

Where you can catch Tim’s show around Australia.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard bring you Bunga Bunga 46
Tim Ferguson & Maynard wintering in Glebe.
Be mesmerised by Omar on his mighty Hammond organ
Lance Leopard, Maynard, Retro

U Gotta See This! Can’t Stop The Music (1980)

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!

Maynard supports Village People, Enmore Theatre 2005

Maynard promises great Village People stories and clips from his pop culture collection of disco.

Facebook event for U Gotta See This! Can”t Stop The Music

General, Retro

Maynard’s weekend with Absolutely 80s

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My first weekend with Absolutely 80s working in Sydney (they are back in August) was a reintroduction to Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men), Scott Carne (Kids in the Kitchen), Dale Ryder (Boom Crash Opera) & Sean Kelly (Models). The Dee Why and Cronulla shows showed the kind of 80s glam I don’t get to see first hand all that often.

Brian Mannix onstage at Dee Why during Absolutely 80s show.
Brian Mannix onstage at Dee Why during Absolutely 80s show.

Brian Mannix was all about the Barbara Streisand 1976 sound track to A Star Is Born. But not in a good way. We have some good things to say about Adelaide, but THEN…the interview was cut short due to circumstances beyond our control. You’ll hear why.

My first interview ever with Scott Carne covers the reason why he is still drawing crowds in 2019. We talked about the iconic status of the 1985 Shine album. That album had 6 singles that charted in Australia and it was double platinum in Australia. Having a record producer in a pink jumpsuit was considered a good thing in 1984.

Scott had a solo career and and some long lived and eclectic residences at Inflation Nightclub in Melbourne with Human Zoo & Priscilla’s Nightmare, during which he discovered the joy and financial freedom of being his own manager.

Sean Kelly onstage at Dee Why, Absolutely 80s show.
Sean Kelly onstage at Dee Why, Absolutely 80s

Sean Kelly has discovered his inner showman working with Absolutely 80s as it’s a rare chance for him to perform without playing guitar. He explains why he doesn’t read social media and we explore the hitherto unconsidered similarity between AFL and being a musician. I convince him that there has never been a more opportune time to make that move to MySpace.

Dale Ryder onstage, Dee Why, Absolutely 80s show.
Dale Ryder (Boom Crash Opera), Dee Why, Absolutely 80s show.

If you feel like you missed some fun shows, well, you did. But Absolutely 80s returns north on 9th August to Newcastle & 10th August to Castle Hill.

Lance Leopard, Maynard, Retro

Maynard’s Loveshack 4 – August 17th, Red Bar

If you like your retro sounds eclectic, this is the night for you. Maynard, the retro DJ behind the Madd Club and Lance Leopard the guy behind all sorts of Oxford St antics in the 90s, present a night of shameless sounds that celebrate the pop and pretentiousness of the late 20th century.

DJ TC will be playing his Australia vs England set from 8pm. As exciting as Eurovision!

His Highness of Camp, Lance Leopard will be choosing the music from 9pm and will keep making an entrance, till he is noticed. He will make himself available to anyone who wants to debate his choice of music.

Come along, dress nice, and check your cool at the door!

Loveshack 4 Facebook event

Maynard and dance floor Loveshack 3
Maynard and dance floor groovin’ at Loveshack 3. Love those glow stick bunny ears.
Maynard & Lance Leopard, Loveshack 3
Maynard & Lance Leopard at the end of Loveshack 3
Maynard with his stylists at Loveshack 3
Maynard’s stylists turn up, Melissa & Zoe aren’t pleased with what he’s done with their work.
Zoe smiling holding sign that says Gay Bit
Zoe makes her feelings known.
Tony Push as the human information booth at Loveshack 3
Tony Push as the human information booth at Loveshack 3
Bunga Bunga

Bunga Bunga 54 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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What kind of a CD does an adult buy? Tim & Maynard have no idea. What kind of music wins an academy award? Maynard & Tim can only guess. Badly. Have Australian politics demystified, and find out which one of these two floats in Bunga Bunga 54.

Tim is on sale and Maynard is going out the door at below cost as BB54 whistles a happy tune, warns you of Tim coming to a street near you and answers your Crankmail.

All stock must go!

Maynard’s next Loveshack night June 22nd

Maynard & Lance Leopard present Flash Gordon July 2nd

Where you can catch Tim’s show around Australia.

General, Lance Leopard, Maynard

Desperately Seeking Lance

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Those desperately seeking Lance Leopard need listen no further than this podcast as Lance returns to talk all things fashion, faux pas and fabulousness.

Maynard is desperately seeking legendary Oxford St legend Lance Leopard in his credenza filled rooftop garden ivory tower of gossip. There are movies, dancing, some singing, and of course talk of Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor.

Lance Leopard reads yet Madonna book in the rooftop garden of his ivory tower.
Lance Leopard reads yet another Madonna book in the rooftop garden of his ivory tower.

Lance recommends a few lesser known Elizabeth Taylor movies for us as well as reciting by heart her complete range of fragrances.

Listener mail has Lance answering questions on…

Fashion mistakes he has made: “I don’t know what you are talking about”.

The cyclical nature of fashion: “The 1980s has already come and gone three times already this century. Things can come into fashion for one evening now, if someone has a good enough party.”

If you’d like to join Lance Leopard and myself at Barbarella on June 4 at Red Bar, details and tickets are here.

Lance also finds time (as his mother is staying with him) to review the recently renovated Midnight Shift, now known as the Universal. But he still has a soft spot for The Palms (previously Scooters) as he used to DJ there regularly.

The next Loveshack comes your way for your complete cocktail dancing experience on Saturday 22nd June. Facebook event here.

Although Lance’s claim of a needle mark on Marilyn Monroe’s body after death isn’t on the 1962 coroner’s report, her toxicology report does raise some questions that weren’t answered.

Lance didn’t like madonna’s 2012 fragrance or the bottle it came in. Make up your mind about the bottle.

Lance Leopard in gold dressing gown and pink headband
Lance Leopard in gold dressing gown and pink headband
Lance Leopard's disco Chinese lantern in his rooftop garden
Lance Leopard’s disco Chinese lantern in his rooftop garden
General, Maynard

What Double J Should Sound Like lays an Easter Egg

A bumper 2 hour musical Easter egg for you all!

Maynard, Ant Banister, DJ ADHD & Tony Push bring the most eclectic music selection you’ll hear on any public holiday.

You’ll love this aural journey:
Exactshit – Sound of Muzak
Def Fx – Headfuck
Throbbing Gristle – AB7A
Sonia Jones – Brian’s Song
Ghost – Crucified
Lunar Module – Syncromesh
Dani Ury – Sex & Drugs & Party
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – Taxi Mary
Beasts Of Bourbon – Ten Wheels For Jesus
Sounds Like Winter – He Was Gone
Scritti Politti – Sweetest Girl
Eileen Wilson (for Susan Hayward) – I’ll Plant My Own Tree
Crashland – Plastic Jesus
Flowers – Icehouse
The Reels – Quasimodo’s Dream
London Symphony Orchestra – Into The Groove

Listen to the Sound of Easter
It's What Double J Should Sound Like Time.
It’s What Double J Should Sound Like Time.