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One Man Madd Club February video livestream

Madd Club video livestream brings all the inflatable wonder of half baked dancing and retro tunes into your own lounge room. From Ultravox to Pseudo Echo via Donna Summer. Enjoy the party.

Spend some quality good times with Madd Club

Guests this month include Action Ant, Queen Kate, Tim Ferguson and DJ Campbell Drummond (What Double J Should Sound Like).

Ant Kate & Maynard at Moshpit in 2020
Ant Kate & Maynard at Moshpit in 2020
DJ Campbell Drummond
DJ Campbell Drummond

Details of Madd Club gig in Newtown 13th March

Watch our January We Don’t Care Quiz

Bunga Bunga 65 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

Bunga Bunga 65 finds Tim Ferguson and Maynard hard at work making Australia a better place by making sure they don’t get caught.

A pithy Bunga Bunga 65 finds Tim in a mood to tell off ABC legal while Maynard is puzzled at the amount of Barry Crocker records he seems to own.

They also answer the big questions about Tim’s burlesque career, Adelaide, Goth subculture, and what to wear to an insurrection.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard looking serious in Bunga Bunga 65
Tim Ferguson & Maynard looking serious

If I was going to invade Parliament House, I’d dress like Bananas In Pyjamas

Tim Ferguson (insurrectionist)

Victorian listeners will no doubt be especially excited about Tim’s public address to the people of Melbourne. In which he fingers some COVID malfeasance on the part of alleged hipsters.

The “large flightless budgie of New Zealand” that Tim mentioned he drew in this show was a Kakapo. See a less interesting drawing of the Kakapo here.

Kitler spies on Bunga Bunga from his Wolf's Lair
Kitler spies on Bunga Bunga from his Wolf’s Lair

Goths used to be likeable, but now they’re just people who have a lot of Ann Rice novels.

Tim Ferguson (Goth wannabe)
Bananarama Really Saying Something book
Bananarama- Really Saying Something book (not one mention of Tim)
Tim Ferguson with his designer shower curtain
Tim’s cat on his shower curtain, get one people.
The show that influences Tim with what to wear to an insurrection

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Tim’s art available by commission

Bunga Bunga 64

Madd Club show at Moshpit 13th March

All you need to know about The Newcastle Fringe Festival in March

Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2021

Australia’s Coldest 100 returns in January with some world class musical awkwardness that only Australia can produce. From The Bum Dance to Song of Wollongong, this list of 100 songs about Australia or by Australians (who may have received bad career advice) is a must for fans of the musical road less travelled.

The Coldest 100 is the creation of Andrew Sholl. He’s been featuring it on Twitter since 2016 and so far this year the combined worldwide interest in his list has seen 75 million views. So put that in your slouch hat and smoke it.

Every year I’m asked two questions: Where’s Johnny Farnham? and Where’s Alan Jones?

Andrew Sholl

I didn’t know Alan Jones was a singer, and I’m still not sure. But he gives I Am Australian a red hot try.

Any chance Alan gets to perform he’s up it like a rat up a rope.

Andrew Sholl

@Ozkitsch Andrew Sholl has been at this for 5 years now and he shows no sign of running out of Aussie musical oddities.

Look and listen to The Coldest 100 2020

The New Goldiggers give Helen Reddy’s anthem a new look.
John Farnham belts out the joy of shopping in Adelaide
The host of Sounds Donny Sutherland 1977
Miss Piggy as Marie Antonette singing disco

We Don’t Care Quiz show January 2021 – Australian music retro edition.

Maynard’s Mastermind returns as the We Don’t Care Quiz to suit the awkward zeitgeist that 2021 will become. (Trigger warning, two German words appear in this 50 minute show)

We Don’t Care Quiz

Join Maynard, Richard Saunders, and inflatable hippo Anderson Cooper as we test your knowledge of Australian retro music up to 1998.

Questions on everything from Aunty Jack to The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Dickhead. What could be more Australian than that?

If you have any issues with the We Don’t Care Quiz, you have our answer already.

November’s Mastermind Quiz

A Very “2020” Maynard Xmas

2020 as a year was a real shit show. So to deserves a shit show to send it off.

Join Maynard, Tim Ferguson, George Hrab, Lance Leopard, The Darbys, Brigitte Handley, Tony Push, DJ Mark Alsop (& Boo), Richard Saunders, Christopher Laird, Who Are These Podcasts and many other people who should know better.

It’s Xmas time 2020
A Very 2020 Maynard Xmas
A Very 2020 Maynard Xmas

Last year’s 2019 Xmas show. We did warn you…

Feel like you want a new year? The 2021 Maynard calendar can’t be worse.

Travel through the fresh new year 2021 with your Maynard calendar. Your year has to be better.

You’ll see Tim Ferguson, and all the usual Maynard antics that make up what he calls a year in full colour (except January).

Download the 2021 calendar as a 12 page pdf file below:

Download your free Maynard 2021 calendar here

Have it printed in A5, A4 or even A3 for a year of Maynard on the wall or desk of your choice.

Compiled by Richard Saunders from weird photos from Maynard’s scrapbook.

May in the 2021 Maynard calendar
May in the 2021 Maynard calendar

Bunga Bunga 64 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

Bunga Bunga 64 comes live to you from Tim’s lounge room with the help of Richard Saunders. We fully promise that as usual, don’t expect too much.

Tim has been making art, Maynard has been making a nuisance of himself.

You’ll believe a cat can fly after this mystical journey into your murk.

Watch the video of our November Bunga Bunga livestream.

Tim’s art available by commission

Here’s Bunga Bunga 63

A very spooky retro Halloween

Get your panties into a bunch (I pre bunched mine) and prepare to clutch your “pearls” as we scare the gihoodie out of you with this Halloween special from my Rewind show from 1998.

You find this show spooky and kooky. Especially if you find pyjamas terrifying.

“The body count of this show is a little higher than usual.”

Dr Beat Miami Sound System
Dr Beat Miami Sound System

Music from The Romantics, The Rubbettes, Renee Geyer, The Communards, Rod Stewart, AC/DC, even Johnny Hates Jazz.

Paul Lekakis clip
Mr Boom Boom Paul Lekakis is on the show.
Maynard with Halloween mask on head
Put the mask back on!
The body count is high on this Halloween special.
The body count really is high on this Halloween special.

Watch the Maynard 1987 special

Frank Bennett TV Special

Frank Bennett was the swingin’ guest on Rewind on the release of his Cash Landing album in 1999. What a guy, what a sound, what a suit!

An hour with Frank Bennett and friends

Frank’s career spans 2 albums, a cable TV show and live appearances across Australia since 1995. Even multi ARIA nominations didn’t slow him down.

Frank Bennett croons in his local supermarket
Frank Bennett croons in his local supermarket

Everything you ever wanted to know about the big band boy from Bankstown is on this hour special.

Frank Bennett appears
Frank Bennett appears through the door of gratuitous applause

Plus music clips from Nina Simone, Frank, Elvis, even Bob Downe with Pastel Vespa.

Bob Downe & Pastel Vespa sing
Bob Downe & Pastel Vespa turn up on the show for a sing song

Frank Bennett swings live

Frank Bennett Wikipedia page