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Ratcat celebrated 30 years as a band with Toys Went Berserk & Spod at The Factory in Sydney on 14th October. Maynard was on hand as DJ/MC and the night went a bit nuts. Hear from Simon Day, Nic Dalton, Andy Jarvis, Coo Bennett and a lot of over excited fans.
Go onstage, upstage and backstage with me. Your name is on the door.
Friday night in Sydney at The Factory, Ratcat and Toys Went Berserk celebrate 30 years of making noise and music.
I’ve been invited to be the DJ and MC for the night and I’ll be playing some of my favourites from the 90s.
Just a small sample includes Clouds, Bjork, The Sharp, Caligula, Frente, The Cardigans & TISM.
Here’s the Facebook event details
Have a listen to Simon Day back in the day, 1993.
Simon Day interview last year looking at the history of the band from a nearby bus stop.
See you there on Friday night!
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First in a series of interviews with the audience and artists recorded during the Totally 80s tour across Australia in July. Dave Sterry is Real Life who performed Catch Me I’m Falling & Send Me An Angel during the show. He has some great stories to tell. I spoke to him backstage in Perth.
You’ll also hear from perhaps the wildest show of the tour in Sydney, as I braved the overexcited thousands of Totally 80s fans to find out how THEY enjoyed the Enmore Theatre show.
This tour is just getting started….
Thanks to the cast and crew of Doctor Doctor for letting me in to lend some great legal support to Hugh in his time of need.
Think of me as the Dr Nick of lawyers.
Sometimes you don’t have to say anything to get your message across.
In 1995 Ogilvy & Mather hired me to front a series of four 15 second TV ads for Equal sweetener.
Keep an eye out for Jenny Hope, as an indignant mother, she has been a long time Micallef regular and producer of kids quiz show Mind Twist I hosted for Channel 10.
I did like yelling “epicureans” from my passing VW.
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I was lucky to interview James Freud a number of times in the 80s and 90s, this tape I found recently was the last radio interview I did with him after the release of his Step Into The Heat album in 1990. Mushroom had spent a record amount on the album, something that James hadn’t intended as you will hear.
I asked him to pick any track off the album to play, something I always like to do as often singles aren’t chosen by the artist.
James chose Lets Get It On from the album, perhaps because it was the closest track on the album with the sound he originally intended for the entire album.
He mentions his son Harrison, then 2 and an incident with Madonna that we never did find out about.
This was not a great time for James, but his natural charm and sense of humour shines through as always. He is missed on the Australian music scene to this day.
On a technical note, the interview was for my Triple J breakfast show so wasn’t as long as it could have been, the open reel tape suffers from overprinting towards the end, hence the echo effect. Original production by Chris Norris.
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The big opening night party before the Sydney launch of Tim Ferguson’s movie Spin Out. Lots of excitement about ute driving and free drinks. Paul Livingston, Paul McDermott, Ted Robinson & hordes of Tim’s fans had something to say to Maynard.
McDermott and Livingston give Maynard the first reports of the Doug Anthony All Stars shows at The Edinburgh Festival and London last month. The first there in more than 20 years.
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What Double J Should Sound Like celebrated its 2nd birthday and over 118 shows last Friday with a bang up party at the Sydney Gaelic Club. Join Miss Death and Maynard as they warm up the crowd early in the evening. Miss Death with her signature spooky sounds and Maynard as he takes a dip in his pop vault.
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Maynard is on the set of Tim Ferguson’s new movie Spin Out in Shepparton. Meet the crew, the cast, the dog, and the local police as Maynard talks Utes and circle work.
Hear from Tim Ferguson, Morgan Griffin, Xavier Samuel, PiaGrace Moon, Lisa Kowalski, Thomas Blackburne, Travis Jeffery and other members of the cast and crew shooting in Shepparton that cold weekend.
Learn great movie and showbiz terms like “video village”, “data wrangler” and “banned from the set”.
Finally, Maynard gets schooled in the answer to the question all of Australia has been asking since the appearance of the V8 engine; Holden or Ford?
Language warning; one really rude filthy word, every ten minutes or so.
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Tim Ritchie has been involved in the musical life of Sydney since the 70s. He has fallen into early morning photography (via bicycle) for a few years now and his first exhibition is open all this month at Folonomo Gallery in Bourke St.
Let’s get arty, talking with Tim Ritchie, Paris from Groovescooter, DJ ADHD, Jay Katz, Miss Death & Tony Push at the opening night.
Music: Optimism by On The Area Steps
Check out Tim Ritchie’s exhibition this month as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.
