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The Music Show

All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

  1. Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me

    3 DAYS AGO

    Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me

    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 Me Composed by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus Originally recorded by ABBA for the album Super Trouper (1980) on Atlantic Records Covers by: Erasure Brian David Gilbert Bentley Robles Amberian Dawn Pale Honey Siv Jakobsen Caroline Shaw & So Percussion Paul 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, 2/7/25 Ballina 6/7/25 Brisbane - QPAC 10/7/25 Sydney - Utzon Room 13/7/25 Adelaide - Ukaria 19/7/25, 20/7/25 Canberra 23/7/25 Melbourne Recital Centre 25/7/25 The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country. Technical Production by John Jacobs and Bethany Stewart

    54 min

  2. 4 DAYS AGO

    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.

    54 min

  3. JAN 26

    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. 1 Composer: Rodolphe Kreutzer Artist: Elizabeth Wallfisch Album: 40 Etudes Label: CPO Title: Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23; No. 3; i. Presto Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven Artist: Elizabeth Wallfisch, David Breitman Album: Beethoven: The Sonatas for violin & fortepiano Nos. 1-5 Label: Nimbus Title: The Highlandman Set Composer: trad. Artist: Chris Duncan Album: Fyvie’s Embrace Label: ANC Music Title: Was There Anything I Could Do?  Composer: The Go-Betweens Artist: The Go-Betweens Album: 16 Lovers Lane Label: Mushroom Title: Biamanga Juxtaposed, Sound of Past with Future; ii. Ancient Improv Composer: Eric Avery Artist: Eric Avery, Ensemble Offspring Album: Biamanga Juxtaposed Label: ABC Classic Music in the interview with Laura: Title: Duos Op. 64; No. 1; B.509 – iii. Adagio - Cantabile Composer: Ignaz Josef Pleyel  Artist: Indira Gonzalez, Emmanuel Siffert Album: 6 Duos, Op. 64 Label: VDE-Gallo Title: High Road to Linton Composer: Trad Artist: Sharon Shannon Album: The Winkles Tapes Label: Kata Songs Title: Maritana, Act 1: Opening Chorus Composer: William Vincent Wallace Artist: RTE Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Proinnsias O Duinn Album: Maritana Label: Naxos Title: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major; Op. 30, No. 3; iii. Allegro vivace Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven Artist: Anne-Sophie Mutter Album: Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Label: Deutsche Grammophon Title: Hermit of Killarney & The Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat’s Eye Performed live in studio by Dr Laura Case Title: Biamanga Juxtaposed, Sound of Past and Future; iii. Eagle and Crow Composer: Eric Avery Artist: Eric Avery, Ensemble Offspring Album: Biamanga Juxtaposed Label: ABC Classic Music at the end of the show:  Title: Go To Sleep (The Legend Of Ŋamini Baŋ’ Baŋ’) Artist: Andrew Gurruwiwi Band Album: Sing Your Own Song Label: Independent release Technical production by Nathan Turnbull.  The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country.

    54 min

  4. JAN 24

    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.

    54 min

  5. JAN 19

    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.

    54 min

  6. JAN 18

    Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan

    The Music Show explores the legacy of the late Ruby Hunter – short in stature, a giant in music, and a mentor and parental figure to so many First Nations musicians in subsequent generations. We’ll hear Ruby from the archives, and catch up with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan, both of whom have sung a tribute to Ruby Hunter alongside their fantastic new albums.

    54 min

  7. JAN 12

    Folk singers and the FBI

    Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan were being surveilled and, in some cases, blacklisted by the FBI due to their political activism and ties to the U.S Communist Party. Writer and historian Aaron J. Leonard has written several books on the subject and is in to reveal why the US Government was so fixated on musicians in the 1940s and 50s, and what he unearthed from the FBI files he gained access to.  Aaron J. Leonard's books on this subject include The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956 and Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression - 1955-1972, both published by Repeater Books.

    54 min

  8. JAN 11

    Ziggy Ramo's exploration of dark histories and big questions

    Ziggy Ramo returns to The Music Show with a new album that’s more than just an album. Human? is a new and beautifully contradictory sound for Ziggy. It blends folk (with guest vocals from Vonn) and his signature rap, precipitated by Ziggy picking up the guitar for the first time in the wake of his 2021 single Little Things.  Ziggy joins Andy to talk about the project - which spans the album, the book, and a related exhibition. It's an exploration of dark histories and big questions. The book is called Human? A Lie That Has Been Killing Us Since 1788.

    54 min
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All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

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  • Years Active
    2006 - 2025
  • Episodes
    943
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