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A Very Maynard Xmas 2000 Channel V

It’s a selection of music and Xmas musings in A Very Maynard Xmas 2000 from Channel V on Foxtel from 2000.

Keep an eye out for Jabba, Yumi, Kyla, Mary, Mike, Andrew G, James Matheson and Andrew Mercardo, as we enjoy a getaway near an open fireplace with some moments from Channel V in 2000.

If you liked the earlier Maynard Channel V Xmas show, this will give you that same funny feeling in your water.

Uncool Yule 2 – More Dud Xmas Discs

Dave Mulligan brings you an uncool yule when he returns with 3 great songs for the holiday season, or so he thinks.

Dave Mulligan is a 50s and 60s record collector, mainly 45s, and every year Maynard asks him to share a few that you don’t normally hear at this time of year. Or ever really.

Maynard and Dave Mulligan apologise and wish you a very Uncool Yule.

Andy Williams does a variety show version of Music To Watch Girls By in 1967
The German BublĂ©, Tom Gaebel  2012. Note the outfits and set influenced from 1967 show.

Video – A Very Maynard Xmas 1998

But what would A Very Maynard Xmas look like?

In 1998 we found out when Foxtel’s Channel V assigned Mary Datoc and Maynard to dig up clips and music from around all Foxtel channels in a way that would never happen now.

All the Channel V presenters of the time turned up at Maynard’s for an afternoon and this show was the result.

Unseen since 1998 Planet Maynard presents A Very Maynard Xmas (an El Cheapo production)

Kylie Minogue, Enjoy Yourself tour, Sydney 1990

Kylie Minogue’s Enjoy Yourself tour played Sydney on 5th February 1990. I was there to cover it for my Triple J breakfast show the next morning. Some of the interviews you’ll hear in this audio never made the breakfast show that next morning (the Dad from Stroud for example).

People who can spot talent realise Kylie’s not trying to preach from a soapbox. She’s just a young chick who’s having a good time and pleasing a lot of people with her music.

Richard Wilkins MTV Feb 1990

At Kylie Minogue’s third only live show in Australia, you’ll hear Ms Minogue herself, Ray Medhurst (Rockmelons), Nick Ferris (Ten Wedge), Alan Jones (you know him), DJ Pee Wee Ferris, James Freud (Models and bass in Kylie’s stage band), Richard Wilkins (MTV etc), Glen A Baker, even Dave Mason (The Reels). Not to mention the sometimes blunt opinions of the overexcited audience that paid the 1990 price of about $30 a ticket at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Kylie Minogue’s set list from the night

But there was a lot of “Kylie cringe” going on still at the beginning of 1990. Regardless of this, a lot of groovers and hipsters from around Sydney were in the audience to see her show that February night, even though some of the black clothing set looked a bit uncomfortable outside Kings Cross and Darlinghurst.

I think there should be more shows like this. It’s unpretentious in so many ways. It’s really honest. It’s showbiz.

James Freud, Feb 5th 1990 (about 11:30pm backstage)

Supported by Indecent Obsession the Enjoy Yourself show played to a capacity Sydney Entertainment Centre crowd that didn’t stop screaming and singing along all night. Most of the music you’ll hear was recorded by me in the middle of that deliriously screaming crowd, which might give you a feel of what it was like to be there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUF-IFJR36Q
Watch the show we saw that night…

Prior to Kylie starting her show, what looked like Jason Donovan in the seated audience section caused a chorus of shrieking just before the show started. Once the show started everyone quickly forgot the Jason incident and had an opinion about Kylie’s black velveteen catsuit (as you will hear, it was her favourite outfit of the show).

Kylie Minogue, performing in concert, Enjoy Yourself Tour, La Cigale, Paris, France, Tuesday 8th May 1990. (Photo by NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

Thankyou to the producers who helped produce this, some of which never made it to air on the morning of 6th Feb 1990. Chris Norris & Simon Marnie.

Enjoy Yourself, you’ll hear we ALL did that night.

Kylie Minogue Enjoy Yourself tour crew list 1990
The people who worked on the Enjoy Yourself tour 1990

Bunga Bunga 55 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

Tim and Maynard return with Bunga Bunga 55 just in time to advise the Australian Labor Party on their future AND blame their election loss on the catchy jingle they DIDN’T use.

Tim is going to Hobart, Maynard is going Village People (again).

Bunga Bunga doesn’t obsess over popular culture, we obsess obsessively over UNpopular culture.

We raise trivial issues of great importance including (but are not limited to):

Sir Lawrence Olivier, girl guides, Law & Order’s obsession with our podcast, what happens when Batman goes on holiday, Tim in a barrel, the sanctity of marriage/Star Wars, Apollo 11, the Hammond organ and the unearthly sound of Maynard’s possibly haunted harmonica.

That Flying High scene we talk about

Tim’s weekly Fake News in The New Daily

Maynard backstage with Village People in 2010

Maynard presents Can’t Stop The Music

The kind of thing Tim complains about in his rant about men

Where you can catch Tim’s show around Australia.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard bring you Bunga Bunga 46
Tim Ferguson & Maynard wintering in Glebe.
Be mesmerised by Omar on his mighty Hammond organ

U Gotta See This! Can’t Stop The Music (1980)

Movie buff Lance Leopard and movie bluffer Maynard present the greatest disco musical starring Olympian Bruce Jenner & Village People CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC (1980)

Tuesday night 3rd September at Red Bar.

Lance and Maynard both have what can only be described as an intimate knowledge of this musical. They’ll combine their knowledge for what will be a unique group viewing experience, U Gotta See This!

Maynard supports Village People, Enmore Theatre 2005

Maynard promises great Village People stories and clips from his pop culture collection of disco.

Facebook event for U Gotta See This! Can”t Stop The Music

Bunga Bunga 54 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

What kind of a CD does an adult buy? Tim & Maynard have no idea. What kind of music wins an academy award? Maynard & Tim can only guess. Badly. Have Australian politics demystified, and find out which one of these two floats in Bunga Bunga 54.

Tim is on sale and Maynard is going out the door at below cost as BB54 whistles a happy tune, warns you of Tim coming to a street near you and answers your Crankmail.

All stock must go!

Maynard’s next Loveshack night June 22nd

Maynard & Lance Leopard present Flash Gordon July 2nd

Where you can catch Tim’s show around Australia.

Desperately Seeking Lance

Those desperately seeking Lance Leopard need listen no further than this podcast as Lance returns to talk all things fashion, faux pas and fabulousness.

Maynard is desperately seeking legendary Oxford St legend Lance Leopard in his credenza filled rooftop garden ivory tower of gossip. There are movies, dancing, some singing, and of course talk of Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor.

Lance Leopard reads yet Madonna book in the rooftop garden of his ivory tower.
Lance Leopard reads yet another Madonna book in the rooftop garden of his ivory tower.

Lance recommends a few lesser known Elizabeth Taylor movies for us as well as reciting by heart her complete range of fragrances.

Listener mail has Lance answering questions on…

Fashion mistakes he has made: “I don’t know what you are talking about”.

The cyclical nature of fashion: “The 1980s has already come and gone three times already this century. Things can come into fashion for one evening now, if someone has a good enough party.”

If you’d like to join Lance Leopard and myself at Barbarella on June 4 at Red Bar, details and tickets are here.

Lance also finds time (as his mother is staying with him) to review the recently renovated Midnight Shift, now known as the Universal. But he still has a soft spot for The Palms (previously Scooters) as he used to DJ there regularly.

The next Loveshack comes your way for your complete cocktail dancing experience on Saturday 22nd June. Facebook event here.

Although Lance’s claim of a needle mark on Marilyn Monroe’s body after death isn’t on the 1962 coroner’s report, her toxicology report does raise some questions that weren’t answered.

Lance didn’t like madonna’s 2012 fragrance or the bottle it came in. Make up your mind about the bottle.

Lance Leopard in gold dressing gown and pink headband
Lance Leopard in gold dressing gown and pink headband
Lance Leopard's disco Chinese lantern in his rooftop garden
Lance Leopard’s disco Chinese lantern in his rooftop garden

What Double J Should Sound Like lays an Easter Egg

A bumper 2 hour musical Easter egg for you all!

Maynard, Ant Banister, DJ ADHD & Tony Push bring the most eclectic music selection you’ll hear on any public holiday.

You’ll love this aural journey:
Exactshit – Sound of Muzak
Def Fx – Headfuck
Throbbing Gristle – AB7A
Sonia Jones – Brian’s Song
Ghost – Crucified
Lunar Module – Syncromesh
Dani Ury – Sex & Drugs & Party
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons – Taxi Mary
Beasts Of Bourbon – Ten Wheels For Jesus
Sounds Like Winter – He Was Gone
Scritti Politti – Sweetest Girl
Eileen Wilson (for Susan Hayward) – I’ll Plant My Own Tree
Crashland – Plastic Jesus
Flowers – Icehouse
The Reels – Quasimodo’s Dream
London Symphony Orchestra – Into The Groove

Listen to the Sound of Easter
It's What Double J Should Sound Like Time.
It’s What Double J Should Sound Like Time.

Bunga Bunga 53 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

In true Bunga Bunga fashion, Tim and Maynard get stuck into Tim’s huge new secret art project. It’s very big, very ambitious and very Ferguson.

The two are very impressed by Madonna’s acting/hair colour. Tim confesses his personal 1985 journey from Punk to Madonna devotee.

Maynard helps Kitler the Nationalist cat feel better. Recreational drugs aren’t just for mice anymore.

They also reveal how Tim can deliver The Liberal party a huge win in the coming election.

In a bonus to all listeners Tim reveals his previously deeply guarded secrets of financial investment in the only recession proof investments. Star Wars toys and Captain Marvel merchandise. You’ll thank us in your retirement.

Tim’s new show in Sydney

Maynard’s next Loveshack night May 4th