Living in the 70s
by JOY 94.9 - LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex, Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities
Were you born in the Seventies? Join us for the sounds of the 70s every Saturday morning. Martin and Venetia will take you to the decade of denim flares, burnt orange kitchen bench tops and the birth of disco and glam rock! Each week we’ll have a 70’s theme that we’ll explore, such as songs from disaster movies, movement anthems, one hit wonders, daggy duets, funky numbers, and disco tracks that steamed up the dance floor in many an LGBTI venue, to name just a few. The 70s produced some amazing music and we’re here to make sure that music is shared and never lost. NOTE: Due to music licencing requirements this podcast is unavailable outside of Australia.
Episodes
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Move me, baby
Cars, trains and automobiles. This week’s show is all about forms of transport. We’ve got peace trains, midnight trains, pushbikes and other vehicles, all immortalised in Seventies songs. The post Move me, baby appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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What did you call me?
What’s in a name? Some are remembered, some fade into obscurity, but if you really want your name to last, get a famous band or artists to immortalise it in a song! The post What did you call me? appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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It’s all about the money, honey
It’s that time of year again – everybody’s stocktaking, couunting their profits and losses and getting ready to file their tax returns. Well if you’re burning the midnight oil balancing the books, we’ve got the playlist for you! The post It’s all about the money, honey appeared first on Living in...
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Another mix of our picks
It’s another themeless week – just a colleciton of tunes we’re enjoying. We hope you do too The post Another mix of our picks appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Heavy on the groove
This week we decided not to have a theme, but we have ended up with a bit of a groovy feel anyway, with a dash of heavy rock. It’s a pretty classic Seventies mix! The post Heavy on the groove appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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More singer songwriters
On this weeks show we are exploring more of those brilliant singer songwriters of the Seventies. Folks who compose and sing their own songs, some playing thier own instruments. Some are are confessional troubadours, some are more interested in other genres, but all of them contribute something...
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Natural wonder
Where would we be without nature? It nurtures us, it restores us, it even heals us. Life would be pretty sad indeed without the awe and wonder of the natural world, the feelings of sun on our skin and rain on our faces and cool breezes lifting our hair, the salt tang of the sea and the bright…
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It’s the fashion
The fashion scene and the music scene go hand in hand. Musical trends push fashion forward and fashion helps artists create identities and express themselves. In fact fashion helps us all express ourselves. It’s not surpriseing, then, that items of clothing sometimes make an appearance in song...
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News worthy
While many songs are about timeless themes such as love, other songs can be very specific to the time and place where they were created. Like other artists, songwriters and musicians respond to what is happening around them – they hear the news and respond to current events. In the Seventies…
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How’s the weather where you are?
Aaah the weather – the favourite subject of small talk, the topic of concern of farmers and walkers, and also the metaphor of choice for depicting a mood since time immemorial. It’s stormy weather, it’s raining in your heart, it’s a sunshiny day, and so on. Well here’s hoping that the sun comes…
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What we’re listening to
This week there’s no theme, we have just picked a few of the tracks we’ve been listening to this week that we wanted to share with you, our lovely listeners. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. The post What we’re listening to appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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The final frontier
It’s been a great week for space exploration! The Artemis has circled around the moon and back and sent back some spectacular images. So we thought we would put together a little soundtrack of Seventies space themed songs for your celestial enjoyment. The post The final frontier appeared first on...
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Sweets for the sweet
For those wo celebrate it, Hapy Easter! For everyone else, happy long weekend! We hope your egg hunts were plentiful and your hot cross buns were toasty. On this week’s show we are acknowledging the occasion by playing songs all about sweets. As we always say – any excuse for a theme! The post...
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Happy birthday Marty!
It’s Marty’s turn this week to sit back and be pampered for his birthday. Yes, for this week’s play list, Venetia has combed the music of the 1970s to pick tracks she thinks Marty will love. Or at least tracks from artists that she knows he loves, even if the tracks themselves might be slightly...
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Oh no, it’s the ‘m’ word
This week we’re bringing attention to World Water Day, which happens every year on March 22 to highlight the importance of acess to fresh, life sustaining water. So all our tracks this show have something to do with water – tears, streams, rivers, harbours and all things generally watery. We’re...
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A playlist for Venetia
Happy birthday Venetia! Yes, it’s Venetia’s birthday and to celebrate the occasion, Marty has put together a playlist of some of her favourite Seventies tracks. Hopefully some of them are your favourites too. The post A playlist for Venetia appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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All women, all good
It’s international women’s day! It’s only fitting, then, that this week all our tracks are from women musicians from the Seventies. Sisters were doing it for themselves, and often being quite ground breaking as they did it. Maybe because they had to be so much better to even get a foot in the…
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Happy Mardi Gras!
Show broadcast March 01 2026 It’s been pride season in Australia, with Midsumma in Melbourne and Mardi Gras in Sydney. So, in celebration of all things LGBTIQA+, on this week’s show we are featuring queer artists from the Seventies. All of our tracks are performed by at least one person from the...
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The Sound of Philadelphia
Show broadcast Feb 22 2026 Something special was happening in Philadelphia in the 1970s. Thom Bell, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Sigma Sound Studios, the musicians of MFSB (mother father sister brother), Bunny Sigler – all of these folks came together, with a bunch of incredibly talented…
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Gone in 2025
Show broadcast Feb 15 2026 On this show we celebrate music that was released about half a century ago. Inevitably that means that every year some of the folks who made that music pass away. In this week’s show we celebrate some of those artists. What a legacy of incredible music they have left…
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Some of our faves from 1976
Show broadcast Feb 8 2026 As we do near the start of every year, we pick some of our favourite tracks from exactly 50 years ago. This year we are celebrating songs from 1976. This was the year that punk came into being, but disco was also going strong. And, of course, there was some great rock…
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Our all Aussie show
Show broadcast Jan 21 2026 Every year we do a whole show dedicated solely to Australian artists from the Seventies. And what a lot of talent we have to chose from. From soul to rock to psychadelic, we were doing it all, and adding our particular Australian flavour. The post Our all Aussie show...
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Dancing in the new year
Show broadcast Dec 28 2025 Happy new year! 2025 is almost over, and to welcome in 2026 we’re going dancing! It’s no secret that Seventies music still features heavily on any modern party playlist, and for very good reason. It’s pretty hard not to tap your toes, swivel your hips and look to the...
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Smooth tunes for the holidays
Show broadcast Dec 21 2025 It’s almost Christmas. And once again we are foregoing the Christmas themed tunes and instead playing some of our favourite tracks that we love playing on Christmas day. We’ve stuffed the turkey (or in Marty’s case the snapper), and ourselves, we’ve tidied up the…
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Hits of 1975
Show broadcast Dec 14 2025 We are coming to the end of 2025, so on this show we look back 50 years and play some number one hits from 1975. Who made it to the top? Who were we going crazy for back in the day? Tune in and find out. The post Hits of 1975 appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Sizzling summer songs
Show broadcast Dec 7 2025 Ooh it’s hot. We’re sweating. We’re wilting. We’re hydrating. And we’re listening to some great Seventies summer tracks. The post Sizzling summer songs appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Even more names
Show broadcast Nov 30 2025 Sometimes a song is written to a generic ‘you’, sometimes it’s written to, or about, a specific someone. Sometimes, that someone has a name. On this week’s show we continue to explore songs from the Seventies that feature a person’s name. We haven’t run out yet. The…
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Songs that broke through
Show broadcast Nov 23 2025 Every successful recording artists was once unknown, until they had that first hit that took them to the top of the charts. For some it might have been their first release, for others they may have been trying to break through for years. On this weeks show we look back…
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It’s all in the mind
Show broadcast Nov 16 2025 The human mind – mysterious, creative and unknowable. Both the engine that creates songs but also often the subject of songs, including many songs from the 1970s. The post It’s all in the mind appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Science and Peace
Show broadcast Nov 9 2025 It’s international science and peace week. Yes, there is a week for that. So on today’s show, all of our songs are about science or peace. Was a bit too much of an ask to find a song about both, sadly, but taken together I think we have the theme covered. The post…
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All the animals
Show broadcast Nov 2 2025 It’s a menagerie in here! Yes this week all of our tracks have some kind of animal in the title. Furred, clawed, scaled and winged, animals make their way into songs – often as metaphors – just as much as the weather and the environment. The post All the animals appeared...
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Getting daggy with it
Show broadcast Oct 26 2025 The Seventies had some truly great music. Music that has stood the test of time and sounds as relevant and fresh today as it did 50 years ago. However, not all of it was good, or still sounds relevant, or fresh. Some of it, played now, just sounds daggy. But some of the...
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Who’ll stop the rain?
Show broadcast Oct 19 2025 This week we’re getting a little bit wet. It’s Spring, and it’s been a bit rainy in some parts of the country. So we thought we would play some tracks all about the rain. The post Who’ll stop the rain? appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Gone solo
Show broadcast Oct 12 2025 On this week’s show we are playing tracks from artists who went solo after being known for being in a band. Many of them became much more well known after striking out on their own. Perhaps they felt constrained by having to compromise with others, perhaps they felt…
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Happy 6th birthday to us!
Show broadcast Oct 5 2025 It’s our birthday! Yes we have been doing this show for six whole years. In fact, our fist show was broadcast live on this exact date – October 5 – in 2019. Oh what eager newbies we were back then! So much to learn. So much to experience. We like to think we are a bit…
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Self titled
Show broadcast Sep 28 2025 It’s an odd tradition, really, but sometimes an album will simply be called whatever the name of the artists is who made the recording. Often this means it’s a debut album, but not always – sometimes it can be a reintroduction to the market after an artist changes…
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More of our faves
Show broadcast Sep 21 2025 This week it’s another show where we take a break from themese and just pick a few tracks we feel like listening too and sharing with you all. The post More of our faves appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Singer songwriters
Show broadcast Sep 14 2025 The Seventies ushered in the era of the Singer Songwriter. These double threats (usually triple threats, because they could play an instrument or two as well) liked to go their own way, often throwing out formulas to create their own unique sounds. On this week’s show…
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Add a little colour
Show broadcast Sep 7 2025 On this weeks show we are adding a little colour to our lives. Yes, we love to get colourful here on Living in the 70s, so we picked some tracks that all have a colur in the title. The post Add a little colour appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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It’s our 300th show!!
Wow – 300 shows. We often talk about how much we have learned about Seventies music since we started doing this show, and also how our musical tastes have gathered both breadth and depth. So to celebrate this milestone, we thought we would share some of the songs that we have discovered along the...
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Lovey dovey
Aaaah love. It makes the world go round, no doubt, and has been the inspiration for songwriters since songwriting first began. Sadly, many of the resulting ditties are less than memorable. Some love songs, however, truly do stand the test of time and are destined to be sung plaintively into a…
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Tracks we might have missed
In the Seventies, not all great tracks were released as singles. So if you didn’t buy or borrow a band’s albums, there would be a lot of material that you might never get to hear. On this show, we can sometimes be guilty of playing an artists best known songs – usually single releases – and...
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Dream a little dream
This weeks show is all about dreams. Day dreams, night dreams, wishful thinking and fantasies, these are things all humans experience and of course have provided the inspiration for song writers and story tellers since we first gathered around a fire. So what better theme for a show than songs...
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This podcast rocks!
On this week’s show, Marty and Venetia are getting heavy and rocking it out to explore the music of Seventies rock bands. In honour of the passing of that heavy rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne, the show features two Black Sabbath numbers as well as tracks from other heavyweights such as Aerosmith, AC/DC...
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Girl groups
So. Many. Great. Girl. Groups. There, enough said 🙂 The post Girl groups appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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City living
A few weeks ago we did a show featuring songs all about rural life. Well this week we’re moving to the big smoke with its mean streets and gritty alley ways. It’s our city and we’re living that street life and it’s enough to give us the inner city blues. Taxi! The post City living appeared first…
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Baby it’s cold outside
It’s the middle of winter and feeling a bit chilly down here in the South. The woolly hats and scarfs are out and it feels like we may never see the sun again. So this week we’re featuring songs about winter and being cold. Brrr! The post Baby it’s cold outside appeared first on Living in the 70s.
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Going up the country
On Sunday this week it was World Rural Development Day. So of course on today’s show we are playing tracks about living in or being in the country. There’s nothing quite like feeling the fresh air in your lungs, hearing the birds calling and seeing the leaves of the tress rustling in a breeze.…
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It’s money that we love
This week we are celebrating the end of the financial year by playing Seventies tracks all about money, honey. Yes, filthy lucre, bread, dough, cash, that stuff that makes the world go round. We give little bits of metal and paper and plastic a made up value and then slave all of our lives to…
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We’ve got you covered
This week we are revisiting a previous theme and playing more Seventies covers of Seventies songs. It wasn’t unusual in that decade for a few different artists to release the same songs not very far apart. Sometimes the same song could be a hit for different artists, but occasionally a song that...
About this show
Were you born in the Seventies? Join us for the sounds of the 70s every Saturday morning. Martin and Venetia will take you to the decade of denim flares, burnt orange kitchen bench tops and the birth of disco and glam rock! Each week we’ll have a 70’s theme that we’ll explore, such as songs from disaster movies, movement anthems, one hit wonders, daggy duets, funky numbers, and disco tracks that steamed up the dance floor in many an LGBTI venue, to name just a few. The 70s produced some amazing music and we’re here to make sure that music is shared and never lost. NOTE: Due to music licencing requirements this podcast is unavailable outside of Australia.
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