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.
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
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!
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)
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.
In this Rewind show from 1997 you’ll have the usual retro excitement you expect from Maynard on an old VHS tape.
There’s the opening tension of the best plate spinning on cable TV followed by Adam Ant, Human League and The Fat Boys.
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Maynard interviews the mighty Tom Jones for radio Triple J in 1988, just before Tom released “Kiss” in Australia, and then for 2SER, backstage at Sydney Entertainment Centre after his 1995 concert.
Hear the legend, his voice, and his secret of long lasting pants.
I get my trousers specially made. So busted pants for me are now a thing of the past.
Tom Jones 1988
I’ve never taken myself too seriously. If I’m going to do an up tempo song, I’ll have fun with it.
Tom Jones 1988
Tom Jones turned 80 this month……
The fourth One Man Madd Club live stream went off at 8:30 Friday night.
Do the Batusi, or one of the many imaginative dances I cook up.
A cardboard Uma can be your friend too.
Here’s the show in its entirety. Enjoy, and tune in on Friday at 8:30-9:00pm.
Watch on the Maynard Facebook page.
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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.
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).
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.
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Electronique, the 80s retro afternoon that is the best value in town, returns for Mardi Gras weekend and it won’t be back for months.
So I sat down with DJ Mark Dynamix and discussed the importance of Dead or Alive and why they don’t play more Madonna at Electronique.
Mark also brings up that time I played there.
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Join Maynard as he has a top night of 80s carry on with The Human League and Pseudo Echo at The State Theatre, Sydney, December 2017.
Brian Canham with Pseudo Echo were in fine form as the support to The Human League, basically everyone went nuts for two hours.
Hear from the excited crowd as they wait for their favourite song and remember a time when the Dare album was everywhere you went.
Thanks to Monique, Juliet, Jessica, DJ Neil Hume, DJ Mark Alsop, Scott and everyone else bothered by Maynard’s microphone.
But what will The Human League encore song be?
Maynard interview with Brian Canham
Photos: Neil Hume
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The Dynamic Hepnotics cut a rug across Australia & New Zealand in the 7 years they played across your wide brown land. And they are returning for 3 shows only. 1 in Sydney, 2 in Melbourne.
These days they are busy people with busy music careers, so I put my foot in the door of the lead singer and all round playboy, Continental Robert Susz, at his swanky Kings Cross apartment. An apartment that Adam West himself would be jealous of.
Join Continental Robert and myself in the Suszland music room for wine, music, gossip and Undercover Elephant.
If you don’t go to their upcoming shows you truely are a burden to society.
Get up offa that thing!
The Dynamic Hepnotics official site and tickets to their shows.
Soul Kind of Feeling clip (see if you can spot Dave Wray/Frank Bennett)
Get all their remastered tracks at iTunes or Bandcamp
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