That time in November 1995 when Australian television changed forever, as I lent my considerable gravitas to Banana Mini-Wheats. All my own stunts.
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Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2024
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Australia’s Coldest 100 returns for 2024 this Saturday 27th 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 on the same list. This is Andrew’s eighth Coldest 100 and he doesn’t see Farnham clips running out anytime soon.
The 2024 Coldest 100 brings you Barnsey, Alexander Downer, Tiny Tim, Cilla Black and a rubber chicken.
If that isn’t enough to incite your antipodean awkwardness, well, bugger ya.
After all, anyone can put together a list of the latest good songs. It takes a certain kind of expert like Andrew Sholl to put together 100 songs of Australian musical hoo-haa for 8 years in a row now.
This is a version of You Are The Voice you may enjoy, or not…
Andrew Sholl
It will all be going down from 10am Saturday 27th January on X and Instagram @Ozkitsch Andrew Sholl shows no sign of ever stopping his annual festival of Aussie awkwardness. So lean into it.
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Look and listen to The Coldest 100 2020
Look and listen to The Coldest 100 2021
Maynard plays you some video clips from The Coldest 100 2022
Maynard plays you some video clips from The Coldest 100 2023
YOU Can Start The Music!
The greatest and longest tradition in Australian history is the screening of Village People’s Can’t Stop The Music every NYE across Australia. So elevate your experience this NYE by tuning in for this pre movie warm up to get you in the mood for the musical extravaganza of 1980. This NYE, CH 9 is playing their VHS copy of Can’t Stop The Music at 11.20pm in NSW.
It’s not New Year’s Eve in Australia till we see Steve Gutenberg over excitedly skating down Broadway!
YOU Can Start The Music will happen at 9.30pm NYE so you have time to prepare yourself for the movie. You know, rearrange seating, send the kids to the casino or something.
AND from 8.30pm to 9.30pm I’ll be screening an encore of this year’s A Very Maynard Xmas 2023, so you can get pre-excited with the rest of us in the live chat.
Watch from 8.30pm New Years Eve on this link
Download your free 2024 Maynard calendar
2024 is going to be a wild ride. Stay in the saddle all year with your 2024 Maynard calendar.
It’s a year of fun and foolin’ prepared by Richard Saunders
Simply download it from the link below and print it any size you like.
Suitable for hanging behind any door, doesn’t have to be yours…
A Very Maynard Xmas 2023 audio podcast version
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Here’s the audio version of the Xmas show this year. To enjoy the full immersive cheapo experience, watch the show on the previous page. But enjoy both, it’s Shatmas.
A Very Maynard Xmas is the highlight of the year for people who don’t get out a lot. It’s just like an old style Xmas variety show, but without the style, or the show.
Our guests dropping by this year include Tim Ferguson getting a surprise gift, Lesley Fountain dancing with a choir, Brigitte Handley hanging out with some creepy German dolls, Christopher Laird eating some sort of donut, Tony Push reading his Bowie inspired Xmas poem, George Hrab becoming a super hero, Rob and Roy Darby supplying some quality original music and other people who should have something better to do at this time of year.
A Very Maynard Xmas 2023 promises you almost an hour of Xmas entertainment that you will only have yourself to blame for. Musically the show has everything from David Essex to The Gibson Brothers and Lulu. Plus a monkey washing a cat.
Watch the video of A Very Maynard Xmas 2023
Watch A Very Maynard Xmas 2022
A Very Maynard Xmas 2023 (in Cheap-O-Scope)
A Very Maynard Xmas is the highlight of the year for people who don’t get out a lot. It’s just like an old style Xmas variety show, but without the style, or the show.
Our guests dropping by this year include Tim Ferguson getting a surprise gift, Lesley Fountain dancing with a choir, Brigitte Handley hanging out with some creepy German dolls, Christopher Laird eating some sort of donut, Tony Push reading his Bowie inspired Xmas poem, George Hrab becoming a super hero, Rob and Roy Darby supplying some quality original music and other people who should have something better to do at this time of year.
A Very Maynard Xmas 2023 promises you almost an hour of Xmas entertainment that you will only have yourself to blame for. Musically the show has everything from David Essex to The Gibson Brothers and Lulu. Plus a monkey washing a cat.
Watch A Very Maynard Xmas 2022
Bunga Bunga 74- Tim Ferguson & Maynard
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Bunga Bunga 74 answers the eternal question “what is art?” with Tim Ferguson and Maynard. “It’s on the wall you goose”, is the only answer you need.
“Art is problematic Maynard. Let’s face it. It doesn’t fucking go with anything.”
Wendy Harmer
Tim Ferguson has been making art, while Maynard has become a librarian. We find out what fridge magnets have to do with painting as Paul Livingston & Tim go big on the cask wine at their big arty opening at The Sheffer Gallery in Darlington. Hear from Wendy Harmer, Andrew Denton, Gretel Killeen, Russell Cheek and plenty of people who actually know what “outsider art” and “gestural” actually mean.
Come for the insults to an iconic Canadian mammal, stay for Herb Alpert’s maracas in your left ear.
Bunga Bunga 74 is the intersection that proves both Oscar Wilde and Wendy Harmer may be right. You don’t get that every day. But what you do get every day can’t be put on a wall with accent lights. It mightn’t be the Bunga you want, but in these contemporaneous times, it’s the Bunga Bunga you need.
Have a look at the artworks of Tim Ferguson & Paul Livingston, there are only a few unsold.
Details here for the online art contest Tim mentioned at the end of the show from Achieve Australia.
Sunday Afternoon Fever 11.7.1993 – Live from a toilet in Ultimo
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30 years to the month after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show from a public toilet in Ultimo for no apparent reason with The Andy 500, Rob Clarkson, and Melissa Tkautz. Even Simon Day sticks his head in.
There’s live music in front of a live studio audience. We even get into some True Crime (at 35 minutes) with a heartfelt plea from Simon of Redfern for his stolen trombone. A very emotional moment for all.
“Really big toilet you’ve got here Maynard.”
Simon Day, 11th July 1993
The Andy 500 dressed up smart and wowed the live audience with their smooth sounds (at around 1 hour 7 minutes). They played four songs including Too Close For Comfort, I Love Your Brain and Touch Me.
Lance of The Hollywood Kids (40 minutes in) goes to the opening of new LA club Babylon and spots Cher, Shannon Doherty, Tori Spelling and James Woods. And you’ll never guess who his dinner date was…..
“Things are getting, really, really WEIRD here Maynard.”
Lance of The Hollywood Kids 11.7.1993 (about 2.49pm)
Melissa Tkautz was about to have a guest stint on Paradise Beach as the resident bitch character. She joins us for a chat (about 1 hour 57 minutes in) and you can imagine how the live audience was wary of a soap star coming on a Triple J show. But a really interesting phenomenon happened as I noted many times in my career. As soon as Melissa entered the studio and talked off air to the audience and was as highly professional as she always is, the crowd fell silent. No smarty bum comments, no looking down their noses at a pop star. It’s as if they realised she was actually talented as well as an actual person. She and Simon Day had a great old chin wag in the green room. She introduces her new single, Is It?
There’s Crappy New Releases (1 hour 50 minutes in), Maynard’s Mastermind Quiz (in which you can win a bow and arrow set to injure the child of your choice) and group Love Boat karaoke. It was a mint afternoon all round.
Join us in this show, the day when Pray by Take That was number one in the UK. In Australia, it was UB40 with Can’t Help Falling in Love. Neither of which are played on this show. But the Triple J feature album is from Paul Westerburg.
You WILL hear music from Matthew Sweet, Def FX, XTC, Straitjacket Fits, Phunk Junkeez and even Jimeoin.
Also the regular (very) odd couple segment of Richard Kingsmill dropping in live ( at around 1 hour 35 minutes) to give a hot take on a very early Burt Bacharach tune from his personal collection.
This tape doesn’t even cover all the show. Digital audio tapes were expensive in 1993, but I recorded this myself because Triple J wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) in the business of archiving most of their content.
So, get down in your underpants and pray to the Church of the Funky Chicken. It’s time for Sunday Afternoon Fever, July 11th, 1993.
Thanks to all our studio guests and especially the live studio audience for singing along with the Loveboat Theme.
Special thanks to the very professional Triple J Producer Anne-Maree Sargeant, Justine Lynch, Scott Whyte, all the studio 227 engineering crew and all at Triple J in 1993.
Sunday Afternoon Fever featuring Sultans of Ping FC
Sunday Afternoon Fever featuring Kate Ceberano
Sunday Afternoon Fever 4.7.1993 – Kate Ceberano
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30 years to the day after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show for no apparent reason with Kate Ceberano, Anthony Morgan, Lance & The Hollywood Kids, Crappy New Releases, Warren Coleman, Richard Kingsmill’s Hot Tip and Getting Your Goat.
Kate Ceberano calls us from her Melbourne sauna to let us know about her upcoming mini tour. She also has a problem with the audience applause audio on her Kate Ceberano & Her Septet album.
“Now I’m giving up smoking, it feels like I’m singing through mucus.”
Kate Ceberano, 4th July 1993 (2.43pm)
Lance and the Hollywood Kids segment reports on the hot new sex club in LA and who Whitney is suing this week. Lots of people calling in from around Australia. Bronwyn in Tasmania is using a new fangled mobile phone on a chairlift while Kevin Markwell in Paddington, Sydney has a farting Ren doll he thinks we need to hear. Jose calls in with news that Kate Ceberano’s 1989 Brave album has just been released in Argentina and is selling well.
Melbourne comedy legend Anthony Morgan is back on the stand up circuit after a bit of time away. He’s talking personal poverty and marching bands.
“I’ve had a lot of practice at being poor when I was younger and we thought it was a political statement.”
Anthony Morgan 4th July 1993 (3.41pm)
Join us in this show, the day before Absolutely Fabulous went to air for the first time in Australia. A show that asks the eternal question, “why can’t Dire Straits make music as good as the Magilla Gorilla theme?
Also the regular (very) odd couple segment of Richard Kingsmill dropping by to give a hot take on the upcoming release from Urge Overkill.
This tape only covers about half the show. Digital audio tapes were expensive in 1993, but I recorded this myself because Triple J wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) in the business of archiving most of their content.
So, get down in your underpants and pray to the Church of the Funky Chicken. It’s time for Sunday Afternoon Fever, July 4th, 1993.
Thanks to all our guests and callers.
Special thanks to the very professional Triple J Producer Anne-Maree Sargeant, Justine Lynch and all at Triple J in 1993.
Maynard at 1992 Melbourne Comedy Festival
Maynard on Foxtel Rewind Aussie Women special
Sunday Afternoon Fever 16.6.1993 – Sultans of Ping
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30 years to the day after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show in all its unlikely glory with Tlot Tlot, Mrs Sinatra, Sultans of Ping FC and Anthony Ackroyd. Set your dial for plenty of 1993 goodness.
“When radio shows were properly and lovingly put together and interviews were entertaining.”
Jane Gazzo 2023
This is very much a regular sounding Sunday Afternoon Fever (SAF) show from my final year at Triple J with mostly contemporary music, plenty of comedy and relatable retro thrown in.
Regular Mrs Fred Sinatra showcases a new pair of purple shorts. Lance and the Hollywood Kids segment reports on the MTV movie awards with Duran Duran, Whitney Houston and Rod Stewart gossip.
A few King Missile inspired comedy moments turn up with Molly Meldrum Was Way Cool and Detachable Trombone.
My Australian guests on this show are Tlot Tlot, one of my favourite 90s bands, who came into the studio to promote their pistolbuttsatwinkle’atwinkle album which included a guest vocal from Angie Hart. I had witnessed their “reverse stage diving” at their Hobart gig and still stand by my conclusion during this show that they are “the future of Australian music”.
We enter the confusing world of Sultans of Ping FC. I had been playing them for about a year on import and in 1993 they still hadn’t been released locally. Their drummer Morty McCarthy had phoned into SAF the previous week and after I quizzed him on air as to his identity with Ping trivia questions, I invited him onto the show.
Jane Gazzo called the studio during the show, I gave her his number and they are still great friends to this day. So if this SAF show achieved anything, there is that – and maybe we also convinced Sony to eventually release their music in Australia.
Anthony Ackroyd was fresh off the release of the Yahoo Serious movie Reckless Kelly, and announced his Reckless Ackroyd tour across Australia with Haskel Daniel supporting. We discover where he got those loud shirts from and learn he was “just to big for that movie”.
Also the regular (very) odd couple segment of Richard Kingsmill dropping by to give a hot take on the upcoming release from Fishbone.
And this tape only covers about half the show. Digital audio tapes were expensive in 1993, but I recorded this myself because Triple J wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) in the business of archiving most of their content.
So, get down in your underpants and pray to the Church of the Funky Chicken. It’s time for Sunday Afternoon Fever 1993.
Thanks to all our guests.
Special thanks to the very professional Triple J Producer Anne-Maree Sargeant, Justine Lynch and all at Triple J in 1993.
Maynard at 1992 Melbourne Comedy Festival
Maynard on Foxtel Channel V at 2000 Melbourne Comedy Festival
