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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Ce Benedict |Ellie Parnell |Bec Cushway
Metal, marimbas, vampires and EDM: ABBA’s Lay All Your Love On Me as you’ve never heard it before, with producer Paul Mac and composer Alice Chance. This is the first episode of Cover Story, a new series from The Music Show in which Andy and his guests take songs of the popular music canon and examine their cover versions, for better, worse, and weirder.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Ellie Parnell |Ce Benedict
British singer and songwriter Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78. In 1996, Andy spoke to her about finding her true voice, why she was drawn to the music of Kurt Weill and the Weimar Republic, and why she was wrong about The Rolling Stones. Armed with homemade instruments and a larrikin spirit, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band were mainstays of Melbourne's alternative music scene in the 1970s.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Ce Benedict |Rudi Bremer |Jared Richards
Sydney Festival finished up over the weekend, capping 23 days of music, performance and a little bit of magic. It was the final festival of outgoing director Olivia Ansell, who leaves to helm Luminato Festival in Toronto. And it was mostly successful. It brought women, queer and culturally diverse talent to the forefront, and art into underused spaces in Sydney, like the Darlinghurst Courthouse for A Model Murder.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Ce Benedict |Ellie Parnell
“Ships become obsolete; fine furs are ravaged by moths, faded by the sun, worn by rubbing against show cases; garments go out of style; the gold watch grandfather handed down is replaced by a thin one. Change and decay is all around—except in violins. Death rarely comes to the violin.” So wrote Arland Weeks in 1929, in The Scientific Monthly. Dr Laura Case gives Andy a potted history of the violin in Australia, from 1788 to 1914 – and beyond.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Ellie Parnell |Ce Benedict
Country singer songwriter Andy Golledge cut his teeth in Sydney’s Inner West band scene before returning to his hometown of Tamworth a local hero. He and his band have racked up thousands of kilometres of touring, and whether it’s in the back room of a country pub or in the biggest concert hall in town, they put on one hell of a show.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Ce Benedict |Ellie Parnell |Bec Cushway |Andrew Ford
American composer Caroline Shaw’s latest album, a collaboration with Sō Percussion, is called Rectangles and Circumstance. It’s a collection of ten songs run through with words by Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, William Blake and Christina Rossetti, as well as Caroline herself. She joins Andy from her home in the US to talk about her collaborators and her co-poets.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham |Ce Benedict
Your survival guide to arts and culture in Australia and across the globe, Arts in 30 with Daniel Browning is a new digest of the big stories in arts and entertainment from across the globe. Get up to speed with the news you need to know, plus the best stories and conversations from the Radio National arts desk, and new tracks for your playlist from music correspondents across the ABC’s music networks..
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Niall Edwards- FitzSimons |Ellie Parnell |Ce Benedict
Forty years on, to the day, from when Do They Know It's Christmas? stormed the UK charts and remained at number #1 for five weeks, Bob Geldof is a guest on The Music Show to talk about the song's complicated legacy, how he looks back on Live Aid, and why he thinks pop music doesn't unite us like it used to.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Niall Edwards- FitzSimons |Ellie Parnell |Ce Benedict
We’re used to seeing him with a guitar strapped to his chest or playing keyboards on stage with Midnight Oil, but Jim Moginie returns to the Music Show to sit at the grand piano this time. He’s joined by drummer Hamish Stuart to play songs from his latest solo album Everything’s Gonna Be Fine. He’ll reveal the importance of optimism, irony, and telling personal - not just political - stories. A life spent in hip hop has culminated in Kultar Ahluwalia’s most recent show and EP The Mixed-Race Tape.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Ford |Ellie Parnell |Ce Benedict |Niall Edwards- FitzSimons
Paul Kelly’s 29th (!) album Fever Longing Still is a modern twist on the contemporary Paul Kelly formula. An “attempt to present all kinds of love songs into one forty minute album”, it features his devoted band, vividly drawn characters, and a mature sort of melancholy. Paul performs live in The Music Show studio and talks to Andy about the album, his community of great and often young collaborators, and the How To Make Gravy film.
