The greatest and longest tradition in Australian history is the screening of Village People’s Can’t Stop The Music every NYE across Australia. So elevate your experience this NYE by watching this anytime before you watch the movie, anywhere, anytime, to get you in the mood for the musical extravaganza of 1980.
It’s not New Year’s Eve in Australia till we see Steve Gutenberg over excitedly skating down Broadway!
Madd Club podcast supporting Village People at Enmore Theatre 2015
The greatest and longest tradition in Australian history is the screening of Village People’s Can’t Stop The Music every NYE across Australia. So elevate your experience this NYE by tuning in for this pre movie warm up to get you in the mood for the musical extravaganza of 1980. This NYE, CH 9 is playing their VHS copy of Can’t Stop The Music at 11.20pm in NSW.
It’s not New Year’s Eve in Australia till we see Steve Gutenberg over excitedly skating down Broadway!
YOU Can Start The Music will happen at 9.30pm NYE so you have time to prepare yourself for the movie. You know, rearrange seating, send the kids to the casino or something.
AND from 8.30pm to 9.30pm I’ll be screening an encore of this year’s A Very Maynard Xmas 2023, so you can get pre-excited with the rest of us in the live chat.
Watch from 8.30pm New Years Eve on this link
Australia has always enjoyed an inordinate ability to laugh at itself, so needing a good laugh and well meaning carry-on, enjoy Brain Freeze with 30 odd (very odd) video clips from the Coldest 100 – 2023.
With two big shows over two Saturday nights, it is Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2023. Hand picked by Andrew Sholl, it features world class musical shonk that only Australia can produce. From Marlene Dietrich to Steven Farnham via Skippy. The Coldest 100 is songs about Australia, or by Australians that sometimes don’t work out that well…
Appearances from Tim Ferguson, Lesley Fountain (Glenn Keenan), Brigitte Handley, Charlie Fatt, Tony Push, Richard Saunders and (time permitting) Noam Chomsky the communist teddy bear arts lawyer.
Just look at this list of artists that Andrew Sholl has curated that you’ll never again see on the same bill. The Coldest 100 – 2023 brings Bud Tingwell, Germaine Greer, Tina Arena, The Singing Citizens of Macarthur, Johnny Raper, Ian Turpie singing some Nirvana, and the legend himself, Steven Farnham.
From Skippy to The Muppets, Kamahl, Young Talent Time, Julia Morris and Melissa Tkautz, it’s two shows YOU don’t have to apologise for.
Going out as livestreams in HQ with a pre show, here are the edited versions for you.
Keep an eye out for special guests Tim Ferguson, Brigitte Handley, Lesley Fountain/Glenn Keenan, Charlie Fatt and others that were sucked in to add to the cultural carnage.
@OzKitsch on Twitter has been compiling this list every January for the last eight years. This year his clips were so good we made the show twice…
Follow OzKitsch on twitter for all year round Aussie goodness.
Listen to Andrew Sholl & Maynard playing some of The Coldest 100, 2023
Use this link on Saturday 1st April from 8.15pm Sydney (9.15 UTC)
Weird Al Yankovic rocked the very foundations of Australian society during his recent tour of the continent. With his hot accordion and even hotter band he left little doubt who wears the Hawaiian shirt in his relationship with his dedicated fans. Maynard interviewed Al and some of his fans at Enmore Theatre, Sydney 14th March. Watch along live and join us in the chatroom for an show no sane adult should be party to.
Facebook event link for livestream on 1st April from 815pm -ish
It will all happen at https://www.mixcloud.com/live/dj-maynard/ with a pre show starting at 8.15pm (9.15 UTC). It’s free to watch and you can join all the fun in the live chatroom so be in on it.
Watch Maynard’s Weird Al clip special
Weird Al Yankovic fans in Sydney go nuts during his last tour here
To celebrate the “Weird Al” Yankovic epic biopic release worldwide, let’s watch some Weird Al clips. From the vault in the famous Maynard International Studios in Australia, Maynard will showcase some of his favourite Weird Al material.
Tim Ferguson will also throw some easy Weird Al questions at you, and we screen Maynard’s previously unseen interview with Al during his first tour of Australia in 2003. (He didn’t do any shows during his 1990 UHF promotional visit.)
Weird Al and Maynard first met in 1990 at Flinders Street Railway Station on Al’s 30th birthday for Maynard’s Triple J breakfast show. Below is the scene shortly after Maynard rubbed Al’s birthday cake over himself.
PS He gave Al a second one as pictured!
To celebrate the release of the long awaited Mari Wilson collection on CD, Maynard presents a video livestream of more Mari Wilson video clips than you ever thought possible. There will be Mari music clips from all over the place, special guests, not so special guests, a tea towel, press clippings, dancing and a legal disclaimer.
Join Maynard, Bob Downe, Glenn Keenan (Lesley Fountain), George Hrab and Noam Chomsky the teddy for show full of fun and fabulous outfits.
Use this link on Saturday 22nd October from 8.15pm Sydney, 10.15am Neasden
To celebrate the release of the long awaited Mari Wilson collection on CD, Maynard from far flung Maynard International Studios in Australia presents a video livestream of more Mari Wilson video clips than you ever thought possible.
There will be Mari music clips from all over the place, special guests, not so special guests, a tea towel, press clippings, dancing and even some surprising Mari adjacent music clips.
It will all happen at https://www.mixcloud.com/live/dj-maynard/ with a pre show starting at 8.15pm (10.15 Neasden). It’s free to watch and you can join all the fun in the live chatroom so be in on it.
Facebook event for Mari! Mari! Mari!
Listen to Mari Wilson interview to catch up on what she has been up to.
Olivia Newton-John was one of the most talented and nicest Australians around and to celebrate her work let’s have two video livestreams over the weekend of 26th-27th August.
Maynard International Studios will present her Maynard interview and many of her music clips plus extra surprises on a video livestream on Saturday night at 8.30pm. Expect guests popping in to show their Olivia love.
But on Friday night at 8.30pm (10.30 UTC) it’s Tell Me About It, Stud!, the video livestream quiz show where you get to show off your quirky Olivia Newton-John knowledge against everyone else watching and playing along.
It will all happen at https://www.mixcloud.com/live/dj-maynard/ with pre shows starting at 8.15pm (10.15 UTC).
There will be a live chatroom both nights, so feel free to play along on Friday or comment during the show on Saturday.
Link for both nights will be live from 8.15pm (10.15 UTC)
Facebook event link for Friday night quiz
Facebook event link for Saturday night interview and clip show
To warm you up for the video livestream spectacular (Lesley Fountain’s Wonderful World of Dance) Maynardarama goes live from one corner of my room Batman pyjamas and all (with fly sewn up) for some 1997 retro sights and sounds.
WARNING: contains unexplained facial hair (a goatstache).
Maynard features the mighty Tom Jones in an hour with Tom goodness and Tom voice, and featuring the Tom moves that makes him the legend he is today.
This show has everything: dancing, prancing and panting in the time honoured fashion of everything Tom. Enjoy! (We did.)
You’ll see some of Tom’s biggest and most exciting songs as well as friends and collaborators over the years: The Cardigans, Barry Crocker, Talking Heads, even an interview by a slightly confused Molly Meldrum.
Maynard interviews Tom Jones in Australia in 1988 and 1995
