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Planet Maynard
by Maynard
Maynard from Australia. Take a journey through pop culture with no clear purpose or destination. Always shameless.
Episodes
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Bizarre Newcastle Soundtrack
Bizarre Newcastle was a wonderful one off night hi-lighting some of the bizarre culture of Newcastle. King Street Hotel was the venue as part of the New Annual festival. Onstage was Pucko, Christa Hughes and Steve Abbot. As well as the documentary Bizarre Newcastle that looked at some odd...
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Starstruck movie after-party soundtrack
The greatest Australian movie musical of 1982 featuring a tutu, a cockatoo and Max Cullen, was a huge hit when we presented it at Sydney Underground Film Festival on Saturday. 300 people over 2 cinemas turned out to laugh and sing along to Gilliam Armstrong’s Starstruck, a film rarely screened in...
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Dr Cara Santa Maria – Skeptics Guide To The Universe
Dr Cara Santa Maria has been with The Skeptics Guide To The Universe podcast for over 11 years now. Along with the rest of the crew, she recently visited Sydney, Australia for NotACon, hosted by SGU and Australian Skeptics. The three day skeptical festival was full of science and science adjacent...
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 15.11.1992 – International Village People Day, Hollywood Kids Gossip, Mrs Sinatra missing at the buffet.
Sunday Afternoon Fever, Triple J live to air 15th November 1992 and I’m heavily celebrating International Village People Day. We had original Village People members David Hodo (Construction Worker) and Felipe Rose (Native American) live in the studio to take listeners’ questions and take some...
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 14.11.1993 – Dannii Minogue, Denis Leary, Mrs Sinatra, Maynard & Madonna Live Competition
Sunday Afternoon Fever, Triple J live to air on 14 November 1993 and what a line up! Dannii Minogue is back in Australia, engaged to Julian McMahon, and she has a new album to play us. Denis Leary is chuffed with the success of his No Cure For Cancer album and his song Asshole, which SAF was the...
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 18.4.1993 – ARIA Awards, Jim Rose Circus, Toni Pearon, Andrew Denton, Steven Wright
Triple J live to air 18th April 1993 and despite the ARIA awards being on the Wednesday, it seemed the Australian music industry was still missing in action on Sunday Afternoon Fever as I brought to Australia everyone that would talk to me on the night, from the Sydney Entertainment Centre....
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Gene Pitney 2003
Gene Pitney toured Australia in October 2003. It was his last time in Australia as he died while on tour in the UK in 2006. I caught up with him at the beginning of that 2003 tour in Sydney. He told me the stories behind some of his iconic songs, from 1961’s Town Without Pity to his collaboration...
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Elvira’s Haunted Hills
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark shot her spooky movie in Eastern Europe in 2001 with her then partner Mark Pierson (they divorced in 2003) and was more than happy to tell me ALL about it. (the movie, not the divorce) Elvira and Richard O’Brien acting up in the woods. Maynard: Cassandra Peterson. Why...
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What were The Porkers drinking in 2008?
Pete Porker drops by in 2008 to fill us in on all things Porker. The Porkers are the mightiest ska band to hail from Newcastle and then end up playing US and Japan. They were never meant to be taken lightly. Despite the title of their videography “Persistence Is Futile”. What is their history?…
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The Spotfull James Valentine. Free of domestic guilt.
In 2007 James Valentine revealed to me why he is free of domestic guilt. His book Spotfull was out, as a reaction to people who spend their entire weekend cleaning their white goods. This is from the Maynard International Studios 2007 archive in the hope that James may persuade you to have a bath...
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A Very Maynard Xmas 2025 – audio version
The audio from A Very Maynard Xmas 2025 for those that find all of my suits are a bit hard on your eyes.. A Very Maynard Xmas 2025 brings you the unexpected festive farce that you’ve come to expect from someone who has inflatable legs for a window.Low budget has been swapped out for no... The…
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Brigitte Handley CyberNation
Brigitte Handley has a new release out, as well an EP of vinyl featuring unreleased Dark Shadows live tracks. In between all her German shenanigans she’s been recording again and pondering the evil sound that is autotune. Time to talk about that ominous looking splatter vinyl pressing, the...
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Tim Ferguson told you so!
We catch up with the legend Tim Ferguson. Unsurprisingly he has a lot to say in just 12 minutes. Hear his predictive powers for the last 9 Federal elections, why improvisational comedy has to go and the importance of an Australian pope. “I think a bit of starvation and anger will create more...
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Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2025
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns for 2025 this Saturday 25th January with @ozkitsch presenting 100 tunes you won’t find easily anywhere on any continent. Just look at this list of artists that Andrew Sholl has curated that you’ll never again see in the same room. This is Andrew’s eighth Coldest…
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Happy 50th Birthday Triple J !
Triple J staff celebrated 50 years of Triple J on Sunday 19th January. Even the ABC itself did the same thing later that day. Hear from Rusty Nails, Dr Karl, Sarah Macdonald, Craig Donarski, Andy Marinos, Dame Lush, Hannah Thompson and other ex ABC staff and current Triple J listeners. The...
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A Very Maynard Xmas 2024 Audio version
The audio from A Very Maynard Xmas 2024 for those that find all those colours hurt their eyes. Broadcasting from the main arena at Maynard International Studios, just opposite the Gilmore Girls Memorial Auditorium, it will bring the magic of Santa’s grotto back into our lives. Hopefully in the…
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George Hrab is a dancin’ fool.
In the Thermopylae of modern life, occasionally you encounter someone who is beyond a journeyman, way past a Renaissance man. In fact, George Hrab has gone straight through the Renaissance, leapt over the Napoleonic Wars, and now has his head currently right up the Jazz Age. I first met and...
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Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2024
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns for 2024 this Saturday 27th January with @ozkitsch presenting 100 tunes you won’t find easily anywhere on any continent. Just look at this list of artists that Andrew Sholl has curated that you’ll never again see on the same list. This is Andrew’s eighth Coldest…
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A Very Maynard Xmas 2023 audio podcast version
Here’s the audio version of the Xmas show this year. To enjoy the full immersive cheapo experience, watch the show on the previous page. But enjoy both, it’s Shatmas. A Very Maynard Xmas is the highlight of the year for people who don’t get out a lot. It’s just like an old style Xmas variety...…
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 17.10.1993 – Kirk Pengilly
30 years ago this week, on a Sunday far, far away Sunday Afternoon Fever blasted across the 1993 landscape of Australia on Triple J… Kirk Pengilly, world famous saxophonist from INXS was my special guest taking questions from live callers Molly, Lance, Rick, Damien, Jenny, Claire (Darwin), Fran...
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Bunga Bunga 74- Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 74 answers the eternal question “what is art?” with Tim Ferguson and Maynard. “It’s on the wall you goose”, is the only answer you need. “Art is problematic Maynard. Let’s face it. It doesn’t fucking go with anything.” Wendy Harmer Tim Ferguson has been making art, while Maynard has...
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 11.7.1993 – Live from a toilet in Ultimo
30 years to the month after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show from a public toilet in Ultimo for no apparent reason with The Andy 500, Rob Clarkson, and Melissa Tkautz. Even Simon Day sticks his head in. There’s live music in front of a live studio...
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 4.7.1993 – Kate Ceberano
30 years to the day after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show for no apparent reason with Kate Ceberano, Anthony Morgan, Lance & The Hollywood Kids, Crappy New Releases, Warren Coleman, Richard Kingsmill’s Hot Tip and Getting Your Goat. Kate Ceberano…
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Sunday Afternoon Fever 16.6.1993 – Sultans of Ping
30 years to the day after the original broadcast, here’s Sunday Afternoon Fever, Maynard’s Triple J show in all its unlikely glory with Tlot Tlot, Mrs Sinatra, Sultans of Ping FC and Anthony Ackroyd. Set your dial for plenty of 1993 goodness. “When radio shows were properly and lovingly put...
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Brigitte Handley in Köln
Brigitte Handley of The Dark Shadows has returned to Australia to let Maynard know what he is missing on German television. Also to remind all of us of the educational value of the work of Falco (even though he was Austrian). She’s been exploring a new range of sounds there and has been working...
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Bunga Bunga 73- Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 73 has you wading fearlessly into the intellectual end of the inflatable kiddie pool with Tim Ferguson and Maynard. You will soon learn your lesson in ethics as topics impetuously covered in this show include comedy, Gumby, cheese, poo and Peter Dutton. Tim is writing a book, quelling…
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Jon English interview 2002
Jon English was a towering professional in the Australian theatre and music world from his first national appearance as Judas in the 1972 production of Jesus Christ Superstar. I first met Jon when he was working on his musical Paris and he dropped in to the Triple J breakfast show a number of...
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Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2023
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns for 2023 this Saturday 28th January with world class musical curiosities that only this wide and very beige land of Australia can produce. Just look at this list of artists that Andrew Sholl has curated that you’ll never again see on the same list. This is Andrew’s...
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Jane Gazzo – Sound As Ever – Australian music 1990-1999
A new book from longtime music industry insider Jane Gazzo fills in Australian music history from a time before oversharing became endemic. Sound As Ever: A celebration of the greatest decade in Australian music (1990-1999), a book with Andrew P Street covers most things that you should know…
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Bunga Bunga 72 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Tim Ferguson & Maynard return to face their recent recriminations. Tim is making art. Maynard finds his art in a Glebe back alley. Contains occasional casual burlesque. The Nitty Gritty dance that blew Tim’s mind is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3Yt-NxY0E The version of Moon River is...
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Mari Wilson – Just What She Always Wanted
Mari Wilson, 80s UK pop glamourpuss, is our guest in this possibly career defining show for Maynard. From Neasden to New York, from “Just What I Always Wanted” to “The Eyes Have It” via “Ecstasy” and much carry on over the decades, Maynard and Mari have a grand old chinwag. Joining fellow Neasden...
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Wheels & Dollbaby’s Wild Ride
In an overcrowded world of fashion choice, just off the top of my head I can think of Black Milk, What Katie Did, Kitten d’Amour, L’ecole des Femmes, even some old Mambo stuff second hand. But look, Wheels & Dollbaby has always been a bit special. Across the road there in Sydney at the time,...…
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Bunga Bunga 71 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 71 reaches across the aisle to goose your jaded pooka. Tim Ferguson calls the upcoming Federal election. It was when Labor was ahead by 10 points. But he’s probably right, yet again. Maynard risks COVID by going out and working Electric Dreams on the 30th. In a show described by media...
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Bunga Bunga 70 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
This time on the enlightening falsehood that is Bunga Bunga 70, Tim Ferguson and Maynard lead you on a wild goose chase down the rabbit hole of froth and bubble. You’ll encounter manic expansionism, lack of credibility, confused animals, three word headlines and The Brothers Gibb. Tim insults the...
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Bunga Bunga 69 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Get to Bungary as Bunga Bunga 69 welcomes 2022 with a wink, a smile and its pants down. Tim Ferguson & Maynard journey across the world and their lounge-room to bring you the truth of a 2022 that Tim feels will be better and Maynard that knows it will be worse, a lot worse. Read... The post Bunga...
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Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2022
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns this Saturday with world class musical shonk that only Australia can produce. Just look at this list of artists that you’ll never see on the same list or even in the same sentence. Don Lane, Kyle Sandilands, Liza Minnelli, Ben Fordham, James Reyne, Samuel L…
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Bunga Bunga 68 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 68 drags you out of lockdown and into the bright light of something shiny but cheap. Tim Ferguson & Maynard will lift you spirits and lift your shirt. They will tell you what happened, what is happening and what will happen. Sweden is insulted. Support Bunga Bunga and Planet Maynard…
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The Castanet Club Story story
Chit Chat von Loopin Stab and Tony Whittaker have made the best (and only) documentary on The Castanet Club. The Castanet Club Story. Chit Chat drops in to tell Maynard the story behind the Story. Warren Coleman, Steve Abbott with Chit Chat 2021. With photo from 1983. Just look at what he wrote...
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The show-stopping Nastassja Bassi of The Castanet Club.
Nastassja Bassi (Jacqueline Amidy) who I haven’t seen for more than 30 years drops into Maynard International Studios to deconstruct and celebrate her time with the Castanet Club 1985 -1990. Jacqueline Amidy in NY 2004 The Castanet Club was more than theatrical, it was cinematic.Natassja Bassi...
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Look busy! Bowling Man is coming.
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…
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What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Bob Downe
Viva Bob Vegas is the first live tour in six years for legendary Australian (very) funnyman Bob Downe. Relax as Bob takes Maynard on a tour of his career and his favourite moments from his latest show. Touring now to Brisbane, Brunswick Heads, Sydney & Melbourne. Bob Downe’s very showy website…
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Bunga Bunga 67 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
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…
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Bunga Bunga 66 – Maynard & Tim Ferguson
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... The post...
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Amateur bunnies gone wild!
Join us for all the scary large rabbit fun…. WARNING! This video contains inappropriately sized Leporidae and may cause very poor homemade costumes to be made… See you at Electric Dreams 30th April The post Amateur bunnies gone wild! appeared first on Planet Maynard.
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Bunga Bunga 65 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
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... The post...
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Australia’s Coldest 100 – 2021
Australia’s Coldest 100 returns in January with some world class musical awkwardness that only Australia can produce. From The Bum Dance to Song of Wollongong, this list of 100 songs about Australia or by Australians (who may have received bad career advice) is a must for fans of the musical road...
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Bunga Bunga 64 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 64 comes live to you from Tim’s lounge room with the help of Richard Saunders. We fully promise that as usual, don’t expect too much. Tim has been making art, Maynard has been making a nuisance of himself. You’ll believe a cat can fly after this mystical journey into your murk. Watch...
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Bunga Bunga 63 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 63 brings the joy of film, music and maritime safety right up your astral plane. Tim Ferguson and Maynard hold aloft their disappointing splendour of sound. This time it’s serious film critic vs comedy and Tim takes it personally. Maynard ponders that Whitney might have saved the...
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Bunga Bunga 62 – Tim Ferguson & Maynard
Bunga Bunga 62 ponders the imposing amount of Crankmail that was slipped under the front door this week. Tim Ferguson & Maynard soothe a troubled nation using the well known therapeutic tools of cocaine, cats & Canberra. We argue over dancing, and laugh at a well known Australian capital city. We...
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George Hrab – Bond, Bee Gees & Baths
George Hrab has been a favourite of mine to interview since first meeting him in 2010 at TAM (The Amazing Meeting) Australia. George is the fun filled science communicator-adjacent, overly-talented musician from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I have known George for 10 years, but only met him 3 times.…
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Maynard from Australia. Take a journey through pop culture with no clear purpose or destination. Always shameless.
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