The annual Planet Maynard combined staff Xmas Party & Easter Bonnet Parade was just as wild as every other year.
I may have to get a permit for the parade next year. Which is a little regulatory overreach I think.
This is a behind-the-scenes look that non-industry types don’t usually see.
You can still enjoy the excitement and pageantry of a high class office social event, without anyone getting in trouble.
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Prepare ye for an Uncool Yule with Dave’s Dud Xmas Discs, Dave Mulligan brings you a poorly thought out selection of Xmas goose that made the 50s, 60s & 70s what they are today.
These tracks will have you singing, dancing & maybe prancing. But you will feel the secret shame of Santa and wonder about the power of Xmas to compel this kind of music creation.
100% Xmas and 100% shameless, we love it.
Hooray For Santa Claus – Milton De Lugg & the Little Eskimos
Wonderful Day – The Chipmunks
Santa Teach Me To Dance – Debbie & The Darnells
Jingle Bell Imitations – Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell
Monster’s Holiday – Buck Owens
Monster’s Holiday – Bobby Boris Pickett
Surfers Christmas List – Surfaris
Santa Bring Me Ringo – Christine Hunter (1964)
Where Were You Daddy? (When Santa got stuck in the chimney chute) – Christine Hunter (1964)
A Very Maynard Xmas season 2017 has begun!
Get tickets to A Very Bunga Bunga Xmas live show 19th December in Glebe 2037.
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Tijuana Taxi the Sydney sensational Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass cover band are returning to The Camelot Lounge in Marrickville to blow your bolero jacket off.
Tina Harris has been a fan of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass since hearing her parents’ vinyl records as a child.
Great instrumental tracks like Spanish Flea, The Lonely Bull, Casino Royale and This Guy’s In Love With You.
As a party was winding down a few years ago, she put some of those 60s albums on again and was inspired to form Tijuana Taxi. An eight piece band (with marimba) that plays a handful of shows every year to packed houses of people who can’t get enough Herb either.
Maynard quizzed Tina on what to wear to the gig and the best Herb Alpert track to play at a sexy party.
Learn about the inner workings of an eight piece band (with marimba). Including the correct use of latin percussion and the psychology of keeping eight musicians together in the cauldron of the Sydney music scene.
They play The Camelot Lounge in Marrickville on Saturday 8th December.
Tickets for The Camelot Lounge
Herb Alpert singing This Guy’s In Love With You 1968 (with Herb’s preamble)
Tijuana Taxi live at Camelot Lounge in 2017 – Casino Royale
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Fiona Patten, outspoken member of the upper house in Victoria has changed the name of her Sex Party to the Reason Party.
One thing we know is that everybody wants to be reasonable, but no two people can agree on exactly what it is.
Her recent book, Sex, Drugs & The Electoral Roll chronicles her career from Canberra to sex worker to sex industry lobbyist to Sex Party to Reason Party (with photos).
But why didn’t Fiona get married under a fish tank to the B-52s Rock Lobster, isn’t that every girl’s dream?
As a lobbyist for the Eros Foundation, for over 20 years she learned a lot about the inner workings of politics. You get to meet a lot of people and see a lot of things in that job.
Since being elected, she has successfully instigated physician assisted dying laws, an inquiry into drug reform, and the introduction of a bill for both a medically supervised injecting centre and pill testing.
Fiona answers the big questions here as well, such as; “What happens if you sit on the “Queens Chair” in the Victorian parliament?”
AND when will you be able to buy a gram of cocaine from the chemist? (spoiler, not in time for Xmas)
Fiona Patten’s official website.
Fiona’s debate on Sunrise with Family First in 2010
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Does The Melbourne Cup really stop the nation?
Journalist and professional pot stirrer Jack Marx thinks The Melbourne Cup ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Does it really stop everything?
Does anyone care either way and are they willing to bet on it?
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Buster Poindexter (David Johansen of New York Dolls notoriety) took time out from his lunch break while working on new songs with his band. Buster tells you how to dress, how to drink (a martini) and where to live (New York City).
But what do ABBA & Tom Jones have to do with it?
Buster was a regular on Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s as part of the house band. Where his high hair just seemed to be teased that little bit higher every Saturday night.
This interview was recorded for my Triple J breakfast show in 1990. Producer Simon Marnie can be heard recording the tape ID at the beginning, while playing with the tape’s speed controls.
David Johansen still does his Buster Poindexter shtick occasionally around the US and did released four albums under that name.
His sense of humour and ability to go with my unique line of questioning was very much appreciated.
And after hearing this, wouldn’t you want to go to the beach with Buster? Or at least the cocktail lounge?
Here is wonderfully 1980s clip with Micheal Keaton and plenty of finger clicking. Hit The Road Jack
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Bunga Bunga 49 has Tim Ferguson and Maynard heed the call of an Australia and a world in turmoil during dark and stormy times.
They bring you plenty of Dutton, teach you how to be DJ and become a famous comedian, in just one half hour.
What dance tunes does Maynard consider sure fire floor fillers? Why will he never play that Cold Chisel song?
Can Tim explain the Australian political landscape in under one minute for our overseas listeners?
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