Collette had a huge hit in Australia in 1989 with her cover of the Anita Ward disco classic Ring My Bell which was co-produced by Pee Wee Ferris and Kirk Godfrey.
Far from a one hit wonder, Collette Roberts had 2 other charting singles off her first Raze The Roof album and a reasonable amount of nightclub plays for Upside Down & This Will Be (Everlasting Love) from her second album Attitude in 1991.
Always a fun, yet strangely controversial guest on the breakfast show, here we are from December 1990.
Collette spoke with me in studio 217 at JJJ in William St, Kings Cross about her last single “Who Do You Think You Are?” and her new single “Upside Down”. Also discussed were hooded tops, deep house & Fiji. I’ve thrown in some Xmas ID’s and a safe sex message to give you that early 90s feel.
Return to the murky meme infested world of Bunga Bunga live. Act 2 of The Festival of Dumb Ideas.
In which Tim Ferguson & Maynard are still faffing around on stage at The Harold Park Hotel, on 14th November.
They launch a tremendous new quiz show, Well Bunga Me! in which Cheron makes a few mistakes.
Guests: Simon Day (Ratcat & graphic designer) & Carrie Hardie (comedy agent & producer)
Subjects this show include; Australian film, the Catholic Church, Tim’s powerful and compelling artwork and the cat that works at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Two interviews with Melbourne’s Bachelors from Prague, 1989 & 1990. Henry Maas & Andrew Philipp are both up early (twice) to talk about The Energetic Cool and Great albums.
Despite my not really being able to describe their sound or genre accurately, Henry and Andrew are very patient with me. Even going so far as to give me a job offer.
All the important issues are covered, the size of their dressing room, why they don’t wear bright colours and is their manager Mario Macaroni a fictional character?
We even namecheck a few long gone venues like The Harbourside Brasserie and IDs.
Thankyou to Bachelors from Prague for all the very cool good times.
And they are back,so go see them! (and their dressing room)
The Killjoys from Melbourne were always one on my favourite bands from that city. Although musically the opposite of bands like The Bachelors From Prague and certainly TISM, they carried a similar fun loving spirit about their music and live they were always, well, a delight.
On 5th July 1991 I recorded this for the Triple J breakfast show and it has gone unheard since then.
The Killjoys formed in 1987 and at this time in 1991 their album Ruby won an ARIA award for Best Independent Release. If you are a keen scuba diver, you may be able to find that award at the bottom of Darling Harbour near the wharf, as it was dropped accidentally overboard, shortly after it was awarded to the band, while they were on their way to a post awards party. The Killjoys even hired a diver to look for the ARIA award next day.
It has yet to be found.
Get together with Caroline Schwerkolt, Craig Pilkington (who went onto The Blackjacks), Anna Burley and Will Larsen (up the back playing a hell tambourine) to hear One & Only and the sweet Calling Me On.
Start saving up for a vibraphone, because after hearing The Killjoys, you’ll want your own.
AND the best news is that they are back together and you can experience them again.
The Killjoys recording session engineers at Triple J for this were Geoff Overmyer & Chris Norris.
Dave Mulligan brought Dave’s Dud Discs into my life originally in 1986 on Radio Stupid, the Saturday morning show on 2SER-FM. “Rare ungroovy” would be the best way to explain the collection of over 10,000 7″ singles that are in Dave’s collection.
These segments are from the Triple J breakfast show 1988 & 1990 and you will hear these previously unheard discs from the 50s & 60s, perhaps for good reason.
Asiatic Flu – The Uptowns
Taxtime – Cab Calloway (Mr Minnie The Moocher)
The Ballad of the Green Hornet
I Just Can’t Wait – Noel Harrison
The Joker Went Wild – Brian Highland
I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter – Connie Francis
Boeing Boeing – Roger Miller
It’s Summertime USA – The Pixies Three
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg – The Temptations
Ain’t No Surf in Portobello – The Valves
The Rockin’ Teenage Mummies – Ray Stevens
Desafinardo – Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
Just What I Always Wanted – Mari Wilson
Louie Louie – The Surfaris
Isn’t This Just Like Empty Vee? – The Atavistics
September is here in the 2017 Maynard calendar, and to celebrate the burst of colour that is Spring, it’s in full black & white monochrome.
Do you recognise everyone pictured?
There’s Stuart Wagstaff & Rachael Beck from my appearance on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. The Teen Queens when they dropped in on Mind Twist one Saturday morning. DJ Sveta and myself DJing at Sydney Mardi Gras Fair Day, and a publicity shot from Triple J breakfast show.
If you have really, really dirty, filthy vinyl to clean, try the Maynard method and say; “dirt be gone”.
In three minutes you’ll know the secrets of recovering those important Yazz or Polka records if you are ever in a flood. (works for most other musical artists & genres as well)
Voice of the Beehive played toured Australia in 1992 and rocked my world during their Sydney shows in 1992.
Voice of the Beehive sisters Tracey Bryn & Melissa Brooke Belland, as well as Daniel “Woody” Woodgate (Madness) blew into the Triple J studios one Friday afternoon. Wearing fairy outfits and waving magic wands with Woody sporting a huge grin, I knew this interview was going to be fun. It was. The songs I Walk The Earth, Perfect Place, Don’t Call Me Baby, Adonis Blue and their power pop cover of I Think I Love You are some of my favourite pop songs of the late 80s/early 90s.
Voice of the Beehive played Enmore Theatre and the northern beaches while in Sydney in 1992 and I never have found out the secret about the possible surfer guy or why Woody always has a clean white t-shirt on tour.
Having only met George Takei the once, last time he was in Sydney, I found him to be a total charmer and exactly the kind of guy you’d love to meet at a cocktail party. No matter what planet it was held on.
These clips should give you something to talk about with him on top of his constant media presence for the last 50 years, alleged difficulties with William Shatner, support of same sex marriage worldwide, reality TV show and his outspoken opinions on the new Sulu character in Star Trek.
We’ll be taking the Planet maynard podcast to George Takei’s shows in Sydney, so if you see us there don’t be shy. George won’t be.
All ahead full stop!
George Takei has had to postpone his Australian visit due to him getting actual movie work in July.
NOW HEAR THIS (write it in your Captain’s Log)
The New Dates now for An Evening with George Takei are:
MELBOURNE TOWN HALL
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16
SYDNEY STATE THEATRE
MONDAY NOVEMBER 20
OH MY COCKTAILS WITH GEORGE TAKEI
THE ESTABLISHMENT BALLROOM SYDNEY
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25
Adam West was fond of saying that the 1960s were about the three Bs; Beatles, Bond and Batman. While that may be an over simplification, I am overly simple. So I’ll go with that.
I’ve curated a short video list of Adam West performances below that are well worth your screentime.
The mere idea that William Shatner AND Adam West could have starred together in weekly series of Alexander The Great in 1963 should have been sign of big things to come. Big camp 1960s things.
The Last Precinct was a little seen police sitcom that had a short run in 1986 and was a good vehicle for Adam West’s surreal side. A side that would be explored in full as Lookwell and Mayor Adam West.
Ty Lookwell, as the capsule description from 1991 states, was a “washed-up TV action detective hero who falsely believes he can solve crimes in real life.”
I enjoyed the obvious serious psychological issues that Lookwell has and how the voice of the Shakespeare statue he regularly visits helps him (accidentally) solve the case. How this would have been treated with Robert Smigel (Triumph The Insult Comic Dog) and Conan O’Brien (everything good in this world) writing the ongoing series would have been a festival of wrongness to say the least.
Lookwell was green lighted and was due to go into production for NBC, but the pilot didn’t do well with audiences and the network never took the series up.
Enjoy these few snippets of Adam West. We can all take the advice of Ty Lookwell when being unceremoniously removed from the police commissioners office, as he admonishes a junior police officer for not recognising him from his 70s detective show;
“Maybe if you watched more television, you’d be better at your job.”
To the Batpole…
The Last Precinct
Lookwell
Alexander The Great
They May Be Drinkers Robin..
The Batusi
Batman surfs
Mayor Adam West and his cat launcher
Some more of Mayor Adam West
Great interview with Adam West from 2016
http://www.gilbertpodcast.com/adam-west/
