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Bunga Bunga 58 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Desperate times call for a highly entertaining and consummate Bunga Bunga.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard are the right duo up in the right place to get down at the right time. Join them as they cower in place in the lofty heights of Tim’s Fortress of Arrogance. But don’t worry, Maynard’s Bug Out Bag has been ready for years, full of questionable cultural content.

Even gossip king Lance Leopard phones in to the show from his ivory tower of scandal, to solve a burning social issue. You know, the Kylie/Madonna one.

Hold the line Australia. Hold the line.

Tim Ferguson

Bunga Bunga 58 contains advice, laughs, wisdom and a little bit of comfort food as Tim & Maynard pirouette on the cutting edge with things that are SO early March, that no one is talking about any more: micro plastics in teabags, waxed baking paper usage and that Greta.

If you can’t lick anybody else, you might as well lick yourself.

Maynard

Learn about yet another emerging threat to Australia from Northcote. Be alert and maybe a bit alarmed about the scourge of overly earnest poetry about to swamp a nation that has already suffered enough.

Kitler 2 oversees the production of Bunga Bunga 58
Kitler 2 oversees the production.

You aren’t the only one tired of being part of a major historical event. So let’s discuss Julie Andrews in the bathroom, Tim & Maynard’s career having eerie similarities to the Australian economy right now and poop on a plate.

First ever Bunga Bunga live video

13 Minutes to the Moon, Season 2 – Apollo 13

So, Ruby don’t take your love to town. It’s shut. Settle in with Bunga Bunga 58. But remember…..

Don’t Take Pandemic Advice From A Podcast

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Sunday Afternoon Fever, Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992

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Hear a time capsule from the Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992. Sunday Afternoon Fever live across Australia on Triple J, 5th April 1992.

Maynard and guests, Wendy Harmer, Bachelors From Prague, Doug Anthony All Stars, Stomp, Mark Little, Found Objects, Chris Lynam, Lily Savage, Corky and The Juice Pigs, Lance & The Hollywood Kids, bring you a music and mayhem filled 3 hours from just one Sunday afternoon that was very 1992.

Found Objects, perform on Sunday Afternoon Fever Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992
Found Objects, perform on Sunday Afternoon Fever, 5.4.1992

ABC Studio 320 in Broadcast House, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, was the venue for an afternoon of goofin’ off featuring the house band for the show Bachelors From Prague. It was their last public appearance before leaving for Italy.

Bachelors From Prague with Maynard dancing. Triple J, Sunday Afternoon Fever, Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992
Bachelors From Prague with Maynard dancing. Triple J, Sunday Afternoon Fever, Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992

This 3 hour show includes all the interviews and performances, as well as the flavour of the 1992 music groove.

Stomp perform on Sunday Afternoon Fever Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992
Stomp perform on Sunday Afternoon Fever Melbourne Comedy Festival, April 1992

This was the first year Stomp toured Australia and before Wendy Harmer began her very successful commercial radio career in Sydney in 1993.

Richard Fidler helps out. Tim Ferguson relaxes live Maynard Triple J Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992
Richard Fidler helps out. Tim Ferguson relaxes live with Maynard, Triple J, Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992

DAAS had just been on The Big Gig and upset ABC viewers even more than usual. Chris Lynham was wonderfully surreal and gave some of the best non sequitur answers ever.

Maynard plays trombone again with Bachelors From Prague. Triple J, Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992
Maynard plays trombone with Bachelors From Prague. Triple J, Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992

All of these performers are still around, all every bit as entertaining as in this show. Seek them out, it’s worth the journey.

Maynard works the crowd. Sunday Afternoon Fever show. Triple J Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992
Maynard works the crowd. Sunday Afternoon Fever show. Triple J Melbourne Comedy Festival 1992

Thanks to all our guests. Special thanks to the very professional Triple J Producers Chris Norris, Anne Marie, Phil McKelar and all at ABC Melbourne 1992.

Sunday Afternoon Fever show rundown list 5.4.1992

Bachelors From Prague on Facebook

6 other Sunday Afternoon Fever shows for your listening pleasure

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Bunga Bunga 57 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 57 brings poor advice and even worse lifestyle choices into your hearing once again.

We hear from Tim on his new cat, Star Trek’s best movies, burlesque as a tax dodge, inappropriate dress for time travel and why cows and mining don’t mix.

Tim and Maynard also dive deep into the burning social issue of feline appropriation.

We also put our political predictions where our Trump is, by calling the results of the US election. Tim does anyway. Maynard is busy thinking about his Pseudo Echo support gig in March.

Kitler 2 takes an important FaceTime call.
Kitler 2 takes an important FaceTime call.

Tim’s live shows around Australia

Maynard supports Pseudo Echo March 7th

Last to Die, the non fiction book Maynard is reading

Tijuana Taxi interview, what a band!

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Bunga Bunga 56 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Bunga Bunga 56 returns for 2020 to save you from an expensive haircut.

Tim Ferguson is sporting the latest look in Summer festival fashion, his sustainable “conflict haircut”. No one died for the look he has this month, described by Green Left Weekly as “no justice, no pants”.

We introduce you to the newest member of the Bunga Bunga family:

Kitler 2, Tim's new cat.
Meet Kitler 2. As Tim says in the show; “He’s just like the second Titanic you never thought you’d see”. Here we see him judging Charlotte.

Only the big issues in Bunga Bunga 56. We answer your Crankmail, find it more difficult than usual to launder money thru Westpac, and ask Tim if he owes Scott Morrison an apology.

This year’s Coldest 100 tunes mentioned in the show.

Tim’s live shows

The Sydney Hellfire Club story Tim keeps asking about.

Maynard supports Pseudo Echo, March 7th.

Newcastle Fringe Festival program

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DJ Mark Alsop – Moving forward, glancing back.

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DJ Mark Alsop has been a favourite DJ across Australia for 36 years. He started in Oxford Street, Sydney and is a valued member of the GLBT community. In this show he has some stories, dirt and music to share. So listen up and meet his dog, Boo Boo.

Boo Boo isn’t spoilt. He’s just well looked after.

Coming to you from Mark’s undisclosed location, it’s a podcast full of tales you might not have heard and just some of the music Mark loves. We perhaps answer that burning social issue; What is the gayest track ever?

With decades of experience in the Sydney DJ box, here’s sure fire advice on the one thing NEVER to do in a club:

Don’t type your request out in size five font on your phone that only a fifteen year old can read, then wave it around in front of the DJ booth like a monkey.

DJ Mark Alsop on the Navigation cruise 2007
You can see his backwash.

His views on marriage:

I’m a big homosexual. What would I be doing marrying a woman?

AND finally find out how we feel about people asking for requests:

People asking for requests… that never ends well.

DJ Mark Alsop’s comprehensive website, including his remixes and podcast:

https://www.markalsop.com

There’s that time he was filmed in bed with a woman as well:

Mark Alsop and Maynard go aft during the Navigaytion cruise 2007:

Maynard & DJ Mark Alsop, Leather Pride Fair Day 2005
Maynard & DJ Mark Alsop, Leather Pride Fair Day 2005
DJ Mark Alsop & DJ Sandi Hotrod Sydney Leather Pride fair day 2004
Leather Pride Fair Day 2004 Mark Alsop Sandi Hotrod
Mark Alsop with Paul
Mark & Paul
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Bunga Bunga 55 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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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
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Bunga Bunga 54 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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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.

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Bunga Bunga 52 – Maynard & Tim Ferguson

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Bunga Bunga 52 brings a feast of things you can’t put in your mouth.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard bring you the Moby Dick of podcasts. Without the Moby. You listener, are the whale. Bunga Bunga 52 is full of bad advice, bad language and questionable haircuts.

Tim is touring to Adelaide & Brisbane. Maynard is going to his Loveshack in a hand basket.

We talk about the Moon, bananas & Superdog pooping. What more can a rational listener want?

Maynard’s Loveshack on Saturday night

Tim’s upcoming live shows

We recommend the opening credits of this Ann-Margret 1966 classic.
Tim Ferguson art prints await his live shows.
Tim Ferguson art prints await his live shows in Adelaide & Brisbane.
The Cat From Outer Space was criminally passed over for an Academy Award.

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William Shatner charms Sydney

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William Shatner charmed the frankly overexcited crowd that came from far and very wide to see his live solo show at The State Theatre in Sydney in October 2018.

I grabbed my best Shatner tie and my 1969 BBC Star Trek puzzle book and knew I was going to be among my kind of people.

Maynard wearing his William Shatner tie for William Shatner live in Sydney.
If I can’t wear this tie tonight. Then when?

The resulting Planet Maynard podcast is from the dozen people I spoke with at The State Theatre that night.

The many shades of Shatner mentioned included:

The Outer Limits, TJ Hooker, Miss Congeniality, The Twilight Zone, Shit My Dad Says, Tribbles, Gorn, Kingdom of the Spiders, Canada, Red Shirts,Flying High 2, Star Trek 2 (but not Star Trek 5). Yet not one person could even hum the theme to one of my favourite works of The Shatman, Barbary Coast.

Here’s Bill in a mauve smoking jacket as he turns out to be a man of many disguises in the opening credits.

That theme tune!

Thanks to the Red Shirts, Belinda and her mum Robyn from the southern tablelands, Kevin Williams and the disgruntled Canadian.

Look At His Butt podcast (the all Bill all the time Star Trek show)

Maynard loves the musical career of Mr Shatner

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Bunga Bunga 51 – Maynard & Tim Ferguson

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Bunga Bunga 51 brings you all the hope and excitement of 2019. Thus making you really nostalgic for 2018 almost immediately.

Tim Ferguson & Maynard or Maynard & Tim Ferguson, but probably all four of them, have the starts and the smarts to show you a good time in January as we venture into a very certain uncertain political landscape.

Maynard is starting a new Saturday night of retro grooves in Sydney at Red Bar in March and Tim is taking his new solo show on tour across Australia.

Bunga Bunga 51 also leads you down the comedy back alleys less travelled as we meet Richard Wilkins, an unattended chicken and wake up to smell the cupcakes (or is that onions?).

Our highly festive 2018 Bunga Bunga Xmas Xmas show (in case you missed it)

Groove to the scary sounds of The Vinyl Dungeon with Christopher Laird

Who Are These Podcasts? review an Australian vegan podcast.

Where you can see Tim’s live show.

The Ferguson Report in The New Daily – Fake News You Can Trust.

Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine meets TISM & Kylie

Bob, the painting Tim talks about in Crankmail.

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