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. Music details:Lay All Your Love On MeComposed by Benny Andersson & Björn UlvaeusOriginally recorded by ABBA for the album Super Trouper (1980) on Atlantic RecordsCovers by:ErasureBrian David GilbertBentley RoblesAmberian DawnPale HoneySiv JakobsenCaroline Shaw & So PercussionPaul Mac’s Tekno Train: The Album is out now. German vocal ensemble Sjaella perform works by Alice Chance in July:Hobart Festival of Voices 1/7/25, 2/7/25Ballina 6/7/25Brisbane - QPAC 10/7/25Sydney - Utzon Room 13/7/25Adelaide - Ukaria 19/7/25, 20/7/25Canberra 23/7/25Melbourne Recital Centre 25/7/25The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country. Technical Production by John Jacobs and Bethany Stewart
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The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and remembering Marianne Faithfull
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. Brothers and founding members Jim and Mic Conway are the subjects of a new documentary film by Fiona Cochrane called Whoopee Blues. Mic and Fiona are on The Music Show to reflect on band's clowning, costumes and chaos, and how it helped shaped the blues, rock and children's music that came after.
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The Violin in the Colony
“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. It's a history of class and gender lines in the colony but it's also about how the violin has been an instrument of both assimilation and resistance by First Nations violinists.Music at the start of the show:Title: Etude No. 1Composer: Rodolphe KreutzerArtist: Elizabeth WallfischAlbum: 40 EtudesLabel: CPOTitle: Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23; No. 3; i. PrestoComposer: Ludwig Van BeethovenArtist: Elizabeth Wallfisch, David BreitmanAlbum: Beethoven: The Sonatas for violin & fortepiano Nos. 1-5Label: NimbusTitle: The Highlandman SetComposer: trad.Artist: Chris DuncanAlbum: Fyvie’s EmbraceLabel: ANC MusicTitle: Was There Anything I Could Do? Composer: The Go-BetweensArtist: The Go-BetweensAlbum: 16 Lovers LaneLabel: MushroomTitle: Biamanga Juxtaposed, Sound of Past with Future; ii. Ancient ImprovComposer: Eric AveryArtist: Eric Avery, Ensemble OffspringAlbum: Biamanga JuxtaposedLabel: ABC ClassicMusic in the interview with Laura:Title: Duos Op. 64; No. 1; B.509 – iii. Adagio - CantabileComposer: Ignaz Josef Pleyel Artist: Indira Gonzalez, Emmanuel SiffertAlbum: 6 Duos, Op. 64Label: VDE-GalloTitle: High Road to LintonComposer: TradArtist: Sharon ShannonAlbum: The Winkles TapesLabel: Kata SongsTitle: Maritana, Act 1: Opening ChorusComposer: William Vincent WallaceArtist: RTE Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Proinnsias O DuinnAlbum: MaritanaLabel: NaxosTitle: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major; Op. 30, No. 3; iii. Allegro vivaceComposer: Ludwig Van BeethovenArtist: Anne-Sophie MutterAlbum: Beethoven: The Violin SonatasLabel: Deutsche GrammophonTitle: Hermit of Killarney & The Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat’s EyePerformed live in studio by Dr Laura CaseTitle: Biamanga Juxtaposed, Sound of Past and Future; iii. Eagle and CrowComposer: Eric AveryArtist: Eric Avery, Ensemble OffspringAlbum: Biamanga JuxtaposedLabel: ABC ClassicMusic at the end of the show: Title: Go To Sleep (The Legend Of Ŋamini Baŋ’ Baŋ’)Artist: Andrew Gurruwiwi BandAlbum: Sing Your Own SongLabel: Independent releaseTechnical production by Nathan Turnbull. The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country.
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Tamworth's prodigal son Andy Golledge, and Australians in America with Lisa Moore and Lloyd Van't Hoff
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. Andy is our ears on the ground at Tamworth Country Music Festival which ends this weekend, and he’s up for two Golden Guitar Awards for his latest album Young, Dumb & Wild.Pianist Lisa Moore and clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff are two Australian musicians who’ve spent much of their lives overseas. Their new album My Place brings together Australian and American composers works either written or arranged for piano and clarinet. Lisa and Lloyd join Andy to talk about how a nation finds its sound – or doesn’t.Andy Golledge performs at Tamworth Country Music Festival on Saturday 25 January at 9pm.
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Percussionists and poets in Caroline Shaw's music; David Keenan's Irish Songs
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.When Irish singer songwriter David Keenan came onto the scene he was described as “the sound of Tim Buckley and Brendan Behan arguing over a few jars, while Kavanagh deals Dylan a suspicious hand of cards, and Anthony Cronin and Jack Kerouac furiously try to scribble it all down” – so no pressure there. He talks about wearing those comparisons, writing songs about Ireland, and the story behind his guitar as well as performing new music live.
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