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)
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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.
Voice of the Beehive on Wikipedia.
Voice of the Beehive on Myspace.
Have some fun with Melissa & Tracey as the show off their fashion and dance moves 1988 style.
Voice of the Beehive join a top lineup to play Indie Daze in London, October 4.
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/
That time I thought I was a crime fighter
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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.
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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.
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.
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
Over 2000 people participated in the March For Science Sydney.
I was there with Dr Karl, Julie McCrossin, Richard Saunders and plenty of fellow travellers in support of Science.
Here’s the full video from the day, you might see someone you know.
The music podcast that always makes my long weekend better, What Double J Should Sound Like (WDJSSL) had me as guest once again and we offer you an hour of musical satisfaction.
There’s Negativeland,The Crass, Public Enemy, ABC, Right Said Fred, Hayseed Dixie, Dario G, B-52s und more..
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
