Ramblings on the good, the bad, the ugly, the sublime, and the ridiculous of music — with Harry Coulson - musician, composer, educator, and general ratbag and Nicole Chvastek - former ABC journalist and radio/TV presenter.
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n a country where sport is paramount to religion I get the shits everytime I see the MCG packed out with 60k punters to watch a ball bounce back and forth while top notch local bands struggle to get 100 crew to a gig. I have a good old whinge and go full Trump, suggesting that we ban sport completely before Simon jumps in and tells me to "suck it up". Nikki as always plays the graceful mediator. Also I totally misuse the term egalitarianism, show my complete ignorance of economics and get bourgeies and prollies confused, and maybe - just maybe I might be bitter because I always sucked at sport
We make awesome music and musicians in Australia, yet it seems to get constantly drowned out by the footy scores. Nikki and I go through some of our favourite Aussie musos that don’t get half the kudos that they deserve and Georgie makes the mistake of coming home in time to get a microphone thrown in front of her for her reccy’s as well. We should all thank her for it though - cause what she brings is one of the best things i’ve heard in a long time. You should also go and follow/listen/buy anything you can from every artist listed here, we’ll chuck all the links in the show notes.
Nikki stumbled across an AI generated soul cover of "Without Me" by Eminem and was disgusted at herself for liking it, so we listened to Sam Cooke to make it better. Nikki expresses her concern that AI generated slop will rob hardworking muso's of recognition and recompense, and I am mildly optimistic that it could possibly lead to a greater appreciation of real human driven creativity. To prove my point, I play her something by Clown Core... Spoiler alert... She hates it! Cover image is absolutely not AI and represents a true and accurate representation of the daily activities and overall cha
We’ve (Nicole and I) got the band back together! Though our departure from the airwaves of the ABC was nothing to do with substance induced barneys, incarcerations or good old fashioned death, and we stayed on good terms throughout the whole thing - which is hardly rock and roll. There have been a few notorious band bust ups over the ages, as well as some notable reunions - some better than others!
Harry introduces Nicole to "Whamageddon" and misinterprets the meaning of the song title "Blue Christmas". Nicole goads Harry into performing his own "Christmas" song, and then points out that it's a tenuous attempt at a Christmas song at best and suggests that Harry is only trying to market it as a Christmas song in order to make money... to which he openly admits.
