Wow – 300 shows. We often talk about how much we have learned about Seventies music since we started doing this show, and also how our musical tastes have gathered both breadth and depth. So to celebrate this milestone, we thought we would share some of the songs that we have discovered along the way that have now become firm favourites. If you have been on this journey with us since our first show, some of these choices may surprise you. I think they would have surprised us.

Aaaah love. It makes the world go round, no doubt, and has been the inspiration for songwriters since songwriting first began. Sadly, many of the resulting ditties are less than memorable. Some love songs, however, truly do stand the test of time and are destined to be sung plaintively into a damp pillow, danced to joyfully at weddings or shyly shared in a DM. These are just a few of our hosts favourites from the fabulous Seventies.

In the Seventies, not all great tracks were released as singles. So if you didn’t buy or borrow a band’s albums, there would be a lot of material that you might never get to hear. On this show, we can sometimes be guilty of playing an artists best known songs – usually single releases – and skipping over plenty of other great tracks. So we thought we would fix this and showcase some lesser known tracks that could only be found deep in the albums.  We think we’ve found some bangers.

This weeks show is all about dreams. Day dreams, night dreams, wishful thinking and fantasies, these are things all humans experience and of course have provided the inspiration for song writers and story tellers since we first gathered around a fire.  So what better theme for a show than songs about dreams.

On this week’s show, Marty and Venetia are getting heavy and rocking it out to explore the music of Seventies rock bands. In honour of the passing of that heavy rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne, the show features two Black Sabbath numbers as well as tracks from other heavyweights such as Aerosmith, AC/DC and Kiss.  It’s a blast of a show!

So. Many. Great. Girl. Groups. There, enough said 🙂

A few weeks ago we did a show featuring songs all about rural life. Well this week we’re moving to the big smoke with its  mean streets and gritty alley ways. It’s our city and we’re living that street life and it’s enough to give us the inner city blues. Taxi!

It’s the middle of winter and feeling a bit chilly down here in the South. The woolly hats and scarfs are out and it feels like we may never see the sun again. So this week we’re featuring songs about winter and being cold. Brrr!

On Sunday this week it was World Rural Development Day. So of course on today’s show we are playing tracks about living in or being in the country. There’s nothing quite like feeling the fresh air in your lungs, hearing the birds calling and seeing the leaves of the tress rustling in a breeze. Many songwriters in the Seventies felt the same and waxed lyrical about the charms of country life. Or, couldn’t wait to leave it to head to the big smoke. Some aspects could do with developing, after all.

This week we are celebrating the end of the financial year by playing Seventies tracks all about money, honey.  Yes, filthy lucre, bread, dough, cash, that stuff that makes the world go round. We give little bits of metal and paper and plastic a made up value and then slave all of our lives to make sure we have enough of it. No wonder we also write songs about it. Here’s hoping that your books are balancing this week and your stocktakes are coming out even.

This week we are revisiting a previous theme and playing more Seventies covers of Seventies songs. It wasn’t unusual in that decade for a few different artists to release the same songs not very far apart. Sometimes the same song could be a hit for different artists, but occasionally a song that languished in relative obscurity would be reinterpreted  a made into a hit by somebody new.  That’s the beauty of music – so many possible ways of creating magic.

Last week your hosts were a bit miz. Yes, we were riddled with lurgies and as moist and watery as our theme. Not very fun. Luckily, this week we are recovered and we felt like celebrating by playing Seventies tracks that always make us feel good. You know, those tracks that always lift your mood and bring a little joy and sunshine into your life. We love them. Hopefully you do too.

Once again it’s World Ocean’s Day and we are having a show in celebration of all things watery. All of the tracks on this week’s show have something to do with waterways (yes, not just oceans, some are about rivers – we like to be inclusive).  Welcome to Seventies wet week!

On this weeks show, we pay tribute to a great Australian musical partnership, performing, songwriting and producing duo Harry Vanda and George Young.
Vanda and Young met at an immigrant hostel in NSW when they were teenagers and went on to be part of the internationally successful band the Easybeats, writing all of the Easybeats’ later songs including the hit Friday on My Mind. Towards the end of the band’s career, they started producing and they went on to become  in house producers for the Albert Productions record label in the early 1970s. During that decade they contributed, as producers and/or songwriters, to about 20% of the music on the Australian charts, including tracks by Stevie Wright, Ted Mulry, John Paul Young and ACDC. In the late Seventies they returned to working on their own music, forming the band Flash and the Pan. Australian music would not have been the same without this powerhouse partnership.

So many fantastic debut albums came out in the Seventies that we thought we would bring you our third show featuring some of our favourites. This time we hear from some classic Australian artists, some big time soul artists, and also feature a track from one of the best selling albums of all time. It’s all classic Seventies, so you know its good.

As Marty is currently cohosting all the way from Malta, and the Eurovision song contest is in full swing, we thought that on this week’s show we would focus on European artists from the Seventies. Some of these songs were well known here in Australia, others may have been a little more niche, but all of them are by artists who were very successful in their own countries of origin. It’s a different kind of flavour this week. A little sweeter in general, a little more poppy, but altogether it’s a tasty smorgasbord of European treats.

As this weeks show went to air on May the 4th, we decided to be inspired by the Star Wars movies and feature songs that have something to do with space. Yes, the final frontier, the place with the groovy bars, with even groovier bands,  where no one can hear your playlist, and where we’d like to all  get lost. Turns out space inspired music is out of this world

This week, as has become tradition here on our show, we are featuring tracks from Australian and New Zealand artists in honour of ANZAC day.  Some of these songs will be very familiar to you, but hopefully we have als0 managed to sneak in a few blasts from the past that you haven’t heard for a while. just a little reminder of the immense talent that emerged from the Antipodes back in the day.

This week it’s our Easter show, and just in case you haven’t yet had  sugar overdose on chocolate eggs and hot cross buns, we thought we might add just a little more sweetness to your system. Yes, all our songs this week are sweet as – but amazingly calorie free.

Some weeks we just aren’t feeling a theme. So instead we just pick a handful of songs each that we have lying around and put them together to make a show. And some how, it’s always magic. This week it’s your hosts’ choice. Five tracks from Marty, five from Venetia, and ta da!