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Almost Live From The Castanet Club – Ep 2

Aug 25, 2021 Maynard

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!

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General, Maynard, The Castanet Club, Video

Almost Live From The Castanet Club – Ep 1

Aug 21, 2021 Maynard

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

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

General, Maynard, Retro, Video

Watch the August Maynardarama video livestream

Aug 8, 2021 Maynard

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.

Watch previous Castanet Club based video livestreams from August

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The Castanet Club Comes to YOU! – (Final)

Aug 2, 2021 Maynard

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

Maynard, The Castanet Club

Look busy! Bowling Man is coming.

Jun 18, 2021 Maynard

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Warren Coleman, who played Bowling Man in The Castanet Club, drops in to Maynard International Studios to return his VHS player. Can Maynard look like he has a life with only a Barbara Eden photo and a 1982 calendar?

Not a chance, but enjoy this 2021 episode of The Odd Couple.

Warren has had an illustrious career acting, writing, acting some more, writing some more and then editing and writing. Which won him an Academy Award for Happy Feet in 2006.

Warren and Maynard talk about none of this, but if you want the hot ticket to the best Lost In Space and Star Trek episodes we have them for you.

Warren Coleman as Rick in Casablanca. They Came From The Fun Dimension 1981

Warren Coleman & Maynard. Castanets are go! Sure, not a great photo, but look, marionettes.

Warren Coleman on IMBD

The Newcastle Museum exhibition The Castanet Club: an exhibition you can dance to! opens on July 11th and continues till October 31st. Come see and hear what it was all about from 1982 – 1991.

Sandman remembers The Castanet Club

The big bumper book in full colour on The Castanet Club

The trailer for the Newcastle Museum exhibition and documentary on The Castanet Club

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Bunga Bunga 67 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

May 12, 2021 Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 67 surprises the world with a vision of hope, whimsy and frippery. Just what you need in these trying times.

They could have used Kim Beazley as a battering ram.
Tim Ferguson (insurrectionist)

Learn where Kyneton is, experience the bass guitars of war and get yourself a decent super hero psychologist.

Tim takes a journey to 1990s Canberra in his Tim Tunnel, Maynard defenestrates himself via the 1960s and they both answer the percussion based question that has split the Nation in two.

When the world is forming a band, Australia usually plays the triangle.
Tim Ferguson (geopolitical strategist)

Madd Club Maynard Miss Kate Action Ant — Madd Club crew Maynard, Miss Kate & Action Ant

Having strangers stick money into my underpants makes me feel cheap and expensive at the same time.
Tim Ferguson (failed stripteuse)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8UP9bupjFU&t=8s

Felipe Rose original Village People member talks DISCO

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Tim’s art available by commission

Bun ga Bunga 66

Madd Club at Botany View Hotel 29th May

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Bunga Bunga 66 – Maynard & Tim Ferguson

Apr 18, 2021 Maynard

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It’s Bunga Bunga 66! You know what that means? Tim Ferguson and Maynard are two thirds of the way to the Devil’s number while still being only one third in reality.

This show Tim & Maynard take you on a 30 minute adventure that has bears, baths and bugger all to do with reality. Tim’s been to Adelaide and Maynard has never been to me. Your Crankmail is answered but very little else.

Bunga Bunga 66 Tim Ferguson & Maynard — Tim Ferguson & Maynard attempt serious

Travel in time to explore the lesbian protest “rule of four”, find out what is boring Tim this week and have a look in Maynard’s Bug Out Bag.

What do Daryl Somers and Shintaro have in common? Nothing, but they are both good at hiding and are both hot topics for discussion in Bunga Bunga 66.

Mari Wilson, Miss Beehive album with Maynard — Mari Wilson, Miss Beehive influences Maynard fashion

The OMGWTF show
Bang Bang Bandit Variety show

Tim’s Fake News You Can Trust at New Daily
Contact Tim through his website or Twitter for an art work commissioned.
Help out this show by becoming a Patreon supporter, Tim & Maynard thank you.

Madd Club show on 24th April in Sydney

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Bunga Bunga 65 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

Feb 11, 2021 Maynard

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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

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Have a Madd New Year this New Year’s Eve

Dec 29, 2020 Maynard

Its a Madd New Year from 9pm New Year’s Eve through to 1am. Video livestream LIVE at Mixcloud.

Every Madd Club video livestream from this year. PLUS at midnight Maynard live to air interviews (direct from VHS) at NYE 1987/88 Rage Hordern RAT party.

THEN get your groove on watching the hot retro explosion that was Ant, Kate & Maynard working The Moshpit, Newtown in Septembertill about 1am.

Get your kook on with a Madd New Year.. See you in the chat room from 9pm.

Facebook event for Madd New Year

Maynard Mixcloud live page from 9pm – 1am New Year’s Madd