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General

Australia’s Scorched Earth Plan- Sue Rosen

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In 1942 the Japanese invasion of Australia seemed imminent and inevitable. Scorched Earth plans to deny the Japanese invaders were drawn up across Australia and Sue Rosen uncovered the very detailed New South Wales Scorched Earth plans that had been forgotten and misfiled at the end of the Second World War.

The plans drawn up included everything from starting aggressive bush fires to hinder the Japanese and using sharpened Ironbark as improvised bayonets to making sure no soldier of Japan captures your tennis shoes.

December 1941, Australian Women's Weekly, What To Do in an Air Raid. This advice also holds good when your housemate has a rave at your share house.
December 1941, Australian Women’s Weekly, What To Do in an Air Raid. This advice also holds good when your housemate has a rave at your share house.

Sue Rosen’s Scorched Earth page with extra details and maps

General, Retro

The Dynamic Hepnotics are back (one show only)

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The Dynamic Hepnotics cut a rug across Australia & New Zealand in the 7 years they played across your wide brown land. And they are returning for 3 shows only. 1 in Sydney, 2 in Melbourne.

These days they are busy people with busy music careers, so I put my foot in the door of the lead singer and all round playboy, Continental Robert Susz, at his swanky Kings Cross apartment. An apartment that Adam West himself would be jealous of.

Join Continental Robert and myself in the Suszland music room for wine, music, gossip and Undercover Elephant.

If you don’t go to their upcoming shows you truely are a burden to society.

Get up offa that thing!

The Dynamic Hepnotics official site and tickets to their shows.

Continental Robert Susz site

Soul Kind of Feeling clip (see if you can spot Dave Wray/Frank Bennett)

Get all their remastered tracks at iTunes or Bandcamp

Become a Patreon of Planet Maynard and be a big shot podcast Producer, you’ll love it.

Robert Susz boxing in 1970s
Robert Susz boxing in 1970s. “I stopped boxing because I didn’t like getting hit.”
General

What Double J Should Sound Like turns 150

The latest What Double J Should Sound Like has the groove brought to you by myself and DJ ADHD. Here’s a list of the tunes you’ll find inside episode 150.

Episode 150 track list

Go Home Productions – Essex Doves (David Essex vs The Doves)
La La Land cast – Another Day of Sun
CCS – The band played the boogie
James Brown – Get up offa that thing
Shellyann Orphan – Shatter
Coach Dave Daubenmire – Cropped Hair Wide Bottom Girls
Band of Holy Joy – Route of Love
Scott Edgar & The Universe – Trapped in a Constable
Cut Slash Kill (Philip Brophy) – The Many Deaths Of Andy Warhol
Ru Paul – Back to my Roots
The Evolution Control Committee – DJ Pantshead – Fock It
Alison Moyet – Invisable
The Cure – The Walk (Razormaid mix)
Tlot Tlot – Box O’Gods
Pulp – This is Hardcore [Tipsy’s Swedish Erotica Remix]
DJ Paul Holden interview

General

Planet Maynard wins podcast award!

Planet Maynard wins the Cast Away Australian Podcast Award on Saturday night for Comedy & Entertainment, surprising his parents, his neighbour and his agent.

Saturday night the “who’s who” of “who’s that?” in the Australian podcasting scene turned out for the inaugural Cast Away Australian Podcast Awards, after welcoming a large group of podcasters on the mini red carpet Maynard thanked the holy trinity in his acceptance speech, Adam Curry, Tim Ferguson & John C Dvorak (the Holy Ghost).

The other shortlisted podcasts in the category The Ginni Show & We Facted Up were strong competition as they seem to know what they are doing.

Maynard’s acceptance speech went something like this:

I never thought I’d be accepting an award from an ABC employee.

ABC management told me my podcasts were “over produced and self indulgent”. Have you heard the 702 Drive show?

I’d like to thank the Holy Trinity; Adam Curry, Tim Ferguson and the Holy Ghost, John C Dvorak.

The Ginni Show and We Facted Up are both really good shows which makes this award even more surprising.

Thanks also to The Skeptic Zone, What Double J Should Sound Like, my Patreon supporters & Byson & Hume for keeping Planet Maynard’s lights on.

We all know why we podcast. Bicurious males and chicks dig podcasters.

My advice for podcasters everywhere? Two things, never throw away your archives, ever. And always try to enter an Awards show the first year it’s held.

Full list of finalists and winners so you can have your own awards night

General, Retro

Totally 80s Tour, Part 3 – Limahl

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Final part of the backstage antics during the Totally 80s tour across Australia last winter. Limahl has a drink and tells us what it was like working with Georgio Moroder to produce the song Never Ending Story.

In fact let’s all have a few drinks and meet everyone backstage.

In this show you will hear from:

Paul Lekarkis (just back from shopping)
Dave Schulz, Chris Olivias, Terri Nunn of Berlin (they have sock envy)
Ivan Doroschuk (very elusive)
Dave Sterry Real Life (he knows where the bodies are buried)
Johnno Smallman (artist liaison, I’ll let him explain it)
Katrina of The Waves (poodle and pub talk)
Martika fans from Portland in Victoria
Paul Gray (our musical director and Mr Waa Waa Nee)
Simon Shapiro (bass player and Mr 1927)

Slight mix up backstage by Maynard, holding Kamahl album, with Limahl on Totally 80s tour.
Slight mix up backstage by Maynard, with Limahl on Totally 80s tour.

General

B*Witched back to tour Australia

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Keavy Lynch is touring Australia with B*Witched, Atomic Kitten & East 17 and having a great time.

B* Witched sold over 3 million albums before being unceremoniously discarded by Sony music. Keavy talks about the busy C’est La Vie days as well as the B*Witched return and her work with veterans suffering from PTSD.

B*Witched, Atomic Kitten, S Club 3 & East 17 tour dates here

BWitched Atomic Kitten S Club 3 East 17 tour poster
BWitched Atomic Kitten S Club 3 East 17 tour poster

General, Video

Maynard, Mrs Sinatra and Bob Downe on Foxtel

Maynard was the host of Planet Fx, a Sci-Fi comedy/geek/music/variety show every weekday afternoon for 2 years when Foxtel first started in Australia in 1995 & 1996, before he went of to host music television (remember when that was a thing) on Red Tv and Channel V.

Here are two clips from the Planet Fx show one with Bob Downe (Mark Trevorrow) singing Xanadu (to a backing track, he is not lip syncing) and one featuring a phone call to a Triple J regular Mrs Fred Sinatra of Las Vegas (who is actually lip synced, as you’ll see from the video).