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Almost Live From The Castanet Club – Ep 3

Be loud, be proud and prepare ye for the third and final episode of Almost Live from the Castanet Club! from the now closed Castanet Club exhibition.

With current public health orders preventing visitors from experiencing our special exhibition The Castanet Club – An exhibition you can dance to! in person, we’re bringing the fun to you with this limited release variety show.

In true Castanet Club collaborative style, we’ve gathered talented musicians, videographers, sound engineers and visual artists to produce a modern take on a classic Novocastrian attitude: get your friends together, have fun, make art and share it!

We bring you a big finish with Newcastle legends Fish Fry getting us off to a roaring start with 24 Hours from Tulsa. Maynard and Zorica demonstrate Rodney Cambridge MBE’s Lamington Recipe (concluding it’s easier to go to the bakery). Finally, Nastassja Bassi haunts us from 1986 with a beautiful version of Wuthering Heights.

Watch our third and final show from Newcastle Museum.

Watch The Castanet Club Comes to YOU!

The Castanet Club facebook page

Get your Castanet Club full colour 110 page book with over 200 photos you haven’t seen…

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Almost Live From The Castanet Club – Ep 2

Sit back, put on your loudest shirt, and enjoy! Newcastle Museum is proud to bring you Almost Live from the Castanet Club!

With current public health orders preventing visitors from experiencing our special exhibition The Castanet Club – An exhibition you can dance to! in person, we’re bringing the fun to you with this limited release variety show.

In true Castanet Club collaborative style, we’ve gathered talented musicians, videographers, sound engineers and visual artists to produce a modern take on a classic Novocastrian attitude: get your friends together, have fun, make art and share it!

In today’s show Maynard goes on a deep dive into the complex history of and uses for bunting with Newcastle Museum’s head bunter Emma and ask who on a Royal Navy ship is known as the “bunts”? Lance Norton overcomes a shambolic start to a Tom Jones classic at the Sydney Trade Union Club in December 1984, and we finish off with high operatic drama from the Nutbush Seating Limits singing The Legend of Xanadu!

Watch our second show from Newcastle Museum.

Watch The Castanet Club Comes to YOU!

The Castanet Club facebook page

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Almost Live From The Castanet Club – Ep 1

Sit back, put on your most outrageous jumper, and enjoy! Newcastle Museum is proud to bring you Almost Live from the Castanet Club!

With current public health orders preventing visitors from experiencing our special exhibition The Castanet Club – An exhibition you can dance to! in person, we’re bringing the fun to you with this limited release variety show.


In true Castanet Club collaborative style, we’ve gathered talented musicians, videographers, sound engineers and visual artists to produce a modern take on a classic Novocastrian attitude: get your friends together, have fun, make art and share it!


For our first episode of Almost Live The Medley Sisters join us from 1988 and get into a banjo duel – except with a violin and an accordion. Maynard makes a special Castanet Club themed cocktail with scientist Catherine and Sprout Catering & Kitchen bartender Harry (they also chat about sedimentary rocks). We round off this electric experiment in almost live entertainment with The Lairs, who take us all the way to Las Vegas!

Watch our first show from Newcastle Museum.

Watch The Castanet Club Comes to YOU!

The Castanet Club facebook page

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Watch the August Maynardarama video livestream

Saturday night Maynardarama broadcast to the world a message of foolishness and colourful tea towels wrapped in the grooves that are so needed these days.

Watch all the action live from Maynard International Studios

Enjoy a trampoline with Ann-Margret, a casually undone bow tie with Tom jones or maybe marvel at Mari Wilson changing her outfit in under 25 seconds on live TV. Tim Ferguson drops in to monkey around AND International (but mainly NSW) Tea Towel News.

Tim Ferguson on Maynardarama
Tim Ferguson on Maynardarama
Maynard with Mari Wilson pink tea towel
Maynard with Mari Wilson pink tea towel

Watch previous Castanet Club based video livestreams from August

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Maynardarama video stream Saturday night

A final video livestream to finish off this current series of live broadcasts from Maynard International Studios.

A show full of videos, foolishness and fluff that I found down the back of my couch.

Expect some Ann Margret, Tom Jones, Doug Parkinson going wonderfully cowboy in 1979, Tim Ferguson and yes Mari Wilson and her tea towel.

Here’s the link to watch that will be active around 8.30pm Saturday:

https://www.mixcloud.com/live/dj-maynard/

Watch the previous shows featuring The Castanet Club video and photo archives.

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The Castanet Club Comes to YOU! – (Final)

Maynard brings the colour and movement that was The Castanet Club 1982-1991 into your home (Final show)*.

Tune in one last time. Hang onto your Lana Caruso hat, because you’ll need it for this show.

Videos and songs from Castanet Club archives, as well as some photos even we’ve never seen. See the Newcastle Museum exhibition from afar, close up and live from Maynard International Studios. Plus videos of a few of the artists that influenced The Castanet Club.

See what can be done with just some really old slide photos and VHS tapes.

Lance, Rodney, Warren, Kid Paganini, Nastassja Bassi, Jodi Shields and Leslie Fountain will be on our final show this Saturday night.

*show may not go as planned. Some viewers may be underwhelmed.

Here is the second show from Saturday 31st July, the final Castanet Club Come to YOU!

Enjoy the second (and final) Castanet Club Comes to YOU!
A real hi-light from the final show Nastassja Bassi (Jacqueline Amidy) singing Wuthering Heights. It’s as good as the book and a lot shorter.

Watch the first Castanet Club comes to YOU!

Newcastle Museum Exhibition

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We Don’t Care Quiz – April

The We Don’t Care quiz returned briefly to only ask questions from 1988 – 1992 for some reason.

Expect questions about The Pixies (which no one got correct, shame) Kylie Minogue and Melrose Place of course.

Join Maynard, Richard Saunders and Anderson for some non intellectual Easter fun.

This April we are the fools.
There was that question about Skippy
We Don't Care quiz April fist
We Don’t Care quiz April fist

January We Don’t Care Australiana quiz

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We Don’t Care Quiz show April 2021 – very Good Friday edition.

The We Don’t Care Quiz will make your Good Friday a very Good Friday with a video livestream that no one will be proud off in the morning.

Join Maynard, Richard Saunders, and inflatable hippo Anderson Cooper as we test your knowledge things you really shouldn’t have remembered in the first place.

Questions on everything retro pop and trivial and things even less important. Show no shame and feel no intellectual pain.

Join us live at 8.30pm Friday night here

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

January’s We Don’t Care quiz

Maynard on smoko break during Maynard's mastermind quiz
Maynard on smoko break during We Don’t Care quiz
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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

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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