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Sunday Afternoon Fever – Brady Bunch Special

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From September 1992 it’s Sunday Afternoon Fever celebrating all things Brady in a bumper 3 hour episode with music, interviews and a special Brady Maynard’s Mastermind. We also let the people of Australia decide, by voting for their favourite Brady member.

Mrs Fred Sinatra of Las Vegas is along to give advice on love, Lance of The Hollywood Kids has gossip about the opening night of Fire Walk With Me, as well a the exciting new Drew Barrymore TV project with Aaron Spelling 2000 Malibu Road.

We speak with Christopher Knight, Peter Brady himself about being the fictional middle child and how he feels about the opening night of The Real Live Brady Bunch.

The Soloway sisters join us with Warren Coleman to talk about the afternoon they came up with the idea for The real Live Brady Bunch show in their lounge room (their mum thought it would get them in trouble). Jill Soloway has since gone on to write Six Feet Under among many other projects and Warren has won an Oscar.

Andrew G takes questions from the listeners on all things Brady while in between we hear some music from Caligula, Screamin” Jay Hawkins, Def Fx, The Shamen, Utah Saints, Cracker, Stray Cats and more. Quite the afternoon of listening ahead of you.

We miss you Florence Henderson.

Florence Henderson with Maynard 1990s
Florence Henderson with Maynard 1990s

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Totally 80s Tour, Part 2 – Stacey Q

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Second in the series recorded as I hosted the Totally 80s tour across Australia in July, this show takes you from Perth via Adelaide to Hobart.We hear from excited fans as well as Terri Nunn (talking Giorgio Moroder), Paul Lekakis (giving lifestyle tips), Robyn Loau (taking you on a journey to the darker side of Adelaide) & Stacey Q.

Stacey Q had two huge worldwide hits in 1986 with Two of Hearts & We Connect. She was under an illness cloud for some of the tour and I managed to interview her in-between bouts of flu.

Does it sound like we are having fun?

We are.

The tour continues…

Maynard cuddles Honey the Koala while Dave Sterry waits his turn. Adelaide July 2016.
Maynard cuddles Honey the Koala while Dave Sterry waits his turn (with the Koala). Adelaide July 2016.
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Video – Maynard Avengers 60s Special

The Avengers was one of the greatest UK crime fighting shows ever. Emma Peel and John Stead took on cold war camp enemies every week with style.

Maynard presents some great 1960s music clips with the help of Tabitha on Channel V from 2000.

Beatles, Stones, Lulu and some great action packed scenes from The Avengers themselves, you’ll be amazed at what Maynard can do with an umbrella.

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Whigfield on tour across Australia

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Whigfield (Sannie Carlson) best known for Sexy Eyes & Saturday Night is touring across Australia in November with The Vengaboys, Crystal Waters, Sonique, Tina Cousins & Joanne. So it’ll be a huge 90s party around the country, cheesy and loud.

Whigfield explains why she is happy to be touring Australia at this time of year (the English weather) the dangers of Swiss Chocolate and what we can learn about making video clips from Duran Duran.

If she can get her stage outfit through Australian customs, it’ll be a party every night (with chocolate).

Here are the tour dates that aren’t sold out across Australia.

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Ratcat celebrate 30 years

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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.

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30 years of Ratcat

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!

Ratcat 30 years celebration poster
Ratcat 30 years celebration poster

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My last interview with James Freud

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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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Spin Out movie opening night party

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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.

Maynard, Paul Livingston and Richard Saunders at Spin Out movie premiere
Maynard, Paul Livingston ANd Richard Saunders at Spin Out movie premiere
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Miss Death & Maynard live @ WDJSSL 2nd Birthday Party

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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.

DJ Miss Death warms up the crowd at WDJSSL 2nd Birthday party
DJ Miss Death warms up the crowd at WDJSSL 2nd Birthday party

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