A Very Maynard Xmas 2025 brings you the unexpected festive farce that you’ve come to expect from someone who has inflatable legs for a window.
Here is the link to view A Very Maynard Xmas 2025 for free. It will be live from around 8.15pm Saturday 6th December. Watch along with us and comment like a crazy person.
Low budget has been swapped out for no budget this year as a Xanadu-themed Xmas special brings you the talents of Leslie Fountain (Glenn Keenan), Fat Elvis (Chris Kelly, Ship-o’-Fools) and Olivia Cardboard-John on the Maynard International Studios Mainstage, as well as greetings from around the world and Bexley, plus more impractical outfits and the wonders of Magpie TV.
What you can expect Saturday December 6th from 8.15pm…
Guests include Tim Ferguson (Australian legend), one Wiggle and two Cockroaches and an indeterminate Xmas hand puppet. Leslie Fountain brings his finest Xanadu moves to our stage, Brigitte Handley has issues with technology, Tony Push is poorly lit on a dodgy street in Western Sydney, and George Hrab is all over Xmas like a rash as usual.
It’s the Xmas special that you probably don’t want or need, but you have anyway. Just in case everything else falls through. Where else are you going to get someone in a tree getting excited about Supernaut?
A Very Maynard Xmas 2025 promises you an hour of Xmas entertainment for which you will only have yourself to blame. Musically the show has everything from Swing to The New Seekers in their flares and maxi dresses. Plus, as expected, both the West Germans and that magpie remain permanently unimpressed.
A bit more of what you can expect Saturday December 6th from 8.15pm…
Maynard dances onstage with Fat Elvis. A Very Maynard Xmas 2025
Maynard as the mythical Dr Who Christmas Nimon.
Leslie Fountain is drained while Maynard helps Olivia Cardboard-John ascend.
None of us know what is happening next. Especially Tim Ferguson’s dog Kylie Minogue.
Richard Saunders is the entire crew once again this year.
Listen to a very loose and wild crowd enjoying themselves some Olivia newton-John and a heap of disco after the Xanadu screening at Bootleggers in Newtown. Right after the Xanadu screening at Sydney Underground Film Festival.
Thanks to David Campbell, Sylvia Jeffries and all the crew at Today Extra this morning for getting so excited about our upcoming 45th anniversary screening of Xanadu at the Sydney Underground Film Festival on 13th September.
Maynard presents the second greatest musical from 1980: Xanadu.
Xanadu will be screened for your viewing pleasure in Sydney for one night only on Saturday 13th September, 8.30pm as part of Sydney Underground Film Festival at The Dendy Cinema, Newtown.
Then join us afterwards for the unlikely 1980 Disco afterparty at Bootleggers, upstairs at Kelly’s On King almost next door in King Street, Newtown from around 10.30pm. I’ll be your DJ, so you’ve been warned.
Olivia Newton-John as the Greek muse Terpsichore comes to earth to inspire two guys who are low on their creative juices. One is Gene Kelly in his last big starring movie role, the other one is Michael Beck, hot off The Warriors and coincidentally also in his last big starring movie role.
The Electric Light Orchestra do the soundtrack to a seemingly never-ending festival of flowing drapery and fluoro.
Gene Kelly, 72 years old at the time, risks his life roller skating in the finale that is over the top and under the table at the same time.
Olivia Newton-John was in this film instead of Can’t Stop the Music. Frankly I think she should have been in both, and probably Spice World as well. Every moment she’s on the screen is the best part of the film. Sadly she only gets one outfit for most of it, then gets about 10 different outfits in the final minutes.
This film is for anyone who has stapled a ribbon to a stick and run around the house imagining they are in the rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics. My favourite number is All Over the World, for its blatant over-acting from almost every extra and the special effects that you may have seen in Tron and The Black Hole.
Scholars of Ancient Greek mythology will be bewildered and confused, but potentially entertained.
Xanadu is a much-maligned movie. Unfairly so, considering it was originally conceived to be even more of a roller disco movie than it turned out. It is often given the back handed compliment of being a “guilty pleasure”. Let us absolve you of your roller skate induced guilt! Unless you are Catholic, feel no shame whatsoever and enjoy every ELO-filled moment of movement from a cast best described as disco diverse.
If you came to last year’s Village People screening, you know we encourage singing and dancing, so glide along to Xanadu in what will be the most shameless cinema environment in Sydney. There will be lo-fi but unique prizes for best outfits.
Even they can’t believe this movie!
Actual roller skates are not encouraged at the screening. Think of them as a signifier, or a metaphor, on how your life could be if you hung out with the guy from The Warriors (Micheal Beck).
What other film offers so many genres of music, with so much colour and roller-skated movement? It’s FUN in the extreme.
If you still have criticisms of this misunderstood masterpiece, you’re the one with issues, not us. We’ll be dancin’ at the after party …
Tickets are limited, as are the number of discerning people who love this leg warmer of a musical. There is nothing quite like sharing the enjoyment of the unique film with a loud cinema of like minded people. To quote Olivia herself from the film “I thought we were going roller skating.” Well you are, but without the bruising.
Brigitte Handley has a new release out, as well an EP of vinyl featuring unreleased Dark Shadows live tracks.
In between all her German shenanigans she’s been recording again and pondering the evil sound that is autotune.
Time to talk about that ominous looking splatter vinyl pressing, the implications of releasing music on cassette tape and who the hell presses 7″ picture singles.
We meet at the scenic Madame Frou Frou Cafe to discuss Brigitte’s new releases and the implications of recording acoustic guitar in the same room as Shirley Bassey’s vocals.
We catch up with the legend Tim Ferguson. Unsurprisingly he has a lot to say in just 12 minutes.
Hear his predictive powers for the last 9 Federal elections, why improvisational comedy has to go and the importance of an Australian pope.
“I think a bit of starvation and anger will create more interesting comedy.”
Tim Ferguson (married man that owns a dog AND a cat)
Tim is running his monthly stand up comedy night at The Harold Park Hotel in Glebe, as well as creating his artworks and generally telling people how to be funnier.
Prepare yourself for the video of the warmest parts of The Coldest 100, 2025.
Maynard hosts a video of Australia’s own Coldest 100 – 2025. Mostly picked by Andrew Sholl, it will features world class musical “issues” only Australia can produce.
The Coldest 100 is songs about Australia, or by Australians that sometimes didn’t turn out as planned…
Expect to see Good News, Kamahl, Kylie, ONJ, The Cockroaches, Collette, Simon Gallaher, Nick Cave and a lot of marsupials doing their bit to get on the show. Guest appearances from fellow Aussie travellers Paul Field, Bronwyn Mulcahy, Lesley Fountain (Glenn Keenan), Tony Push and the man in a tree (newly promoted with a desk).
Prepare yourself for the video livestream of the warmest parts of The Coldest 100, 2025.
Maynard hosts a video livestream of Australia’s own Coldest 100 – 2025. Saturday 29th March 8.15-9.30pm. Mostly picked by Andrew Sholl, it will feature world class musical “issues” only Australia can produce.
Join us in the live chatroom as we watch together in awe.
The Coldest 100 is songs about Australia, or by Australians that sometimes didn’t turn out as planned…
Expect to see Good News, Kamahl, Kylie, ONJ, The Cockroaches, Nick Cave and a lot of marsupials doing their bit to get on the show. Hopefully we’ll have quest appearances from my fellow Aussie travellers Paul Field, Bronwyn Mulcahy, Lesley Fountain (Glenn Keenan), Tony Push and the man in a tree (newly promoted with a desk). The UTC time is 9.15 for those unlucky enough not to be in this wide brown land.
See you then! Cobber…..
A look at what you can expect to see on Saturday night…
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns for 2025 this Saturday 25th January with @ozkitsch presenting 100 tunes you won’t find easily anywhere on any continent.
Just look at this list of artists that Andrew Sholl has curated that you’ll never again see in the same room. This is Andrew’s eighth Coldest 100 and he doesn’t see Farnham clips running out anytime soon.
The 2025 Coldest 100 brings you Sophie Monk, Des O’Connor, Shirley Bassey, Charo, Johnathon Coleman and a singing chicken. That’s just for starters.
Don’t like it? Then there is a rough end of a banana for you.
After all, anyone can put together a list of the latest hottest tracks. It takes a certain kind of expert like Andrew Sholl to put together 100 songs of Australian musical shock for 8 years in a row now.
“Things don’t always turn out the way they were intended…”
Andrew Sholl
It will all be going down on Saturday 25th January on X and Instagram @Ozkitsch Andrew Sholl shows no sign of ever stopping his annual festival of Aussie awkwardness.
