Some Of My Best Work
Ever wonder how an artistic high point is reached in a creative career? Music and culture journalist Jane Rocca speaks with artists about how they came to create some of their best work. It need not be their most well known or popular work but it is the artists' choice. If you're enjoying the show please tell a friend, leave a review on Apple Podcasts and share a link to the podcast on your socials.
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During a 1990 Christmas tour break, in a New South Wales home studio with his band, and a phone number from Michael Gudinski, Jimmy Barnes created some of his best work.
Rock singers have long been inspired by soul singers.
In this case, the rock singer became the soul singer.
The song, released over 30 years ago, is a personal high for Jimmy Barnes.
There’s a re-release of the album celebrating 30 years, out now.
Soul ...
Hannah Crofts has already had an extensive music career, notably with the four piece band All Our Exes Live In Texas.
But it’s a song off her debut album under the name Baby Velvet that’s been chosen as some of her best.
The song’s not new. It’s been on the Exes set list for years, starting with a gig at South By South West, pre-pandemic.
Hannah Crofts of Baby Velvet and the story of her song “Best ...
Glenn Wheatley was a legendary Australian talent manager, promoter and musician himself in The Masters Apprentices.
Known for his reach across both music and media, he steered both John Farnham and Delta Goodrem to the top of Australian music.
In February 2022 he died from health complications caused by Covid.
Now his son, Tim Wheatley, has released a version of The Masters Apprentice’s hit, Because I Love You.
Wagons had be building a cult-like following throughout Melbourne pub live music scene in the 2000s.
Atop this wave of local fandom came some of his best work, Goodtown, released in 2009.
From there the Glen Waverly kid and his band were invited to play the Big Day Out - a rare booking for a country music outfit.
Goodtown is from Wagons' fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Goodtown.
About the host Jane Rocca
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Looking back Tim’s song should’ve been the single on their second album released in 1993.
The mood of the day was for heavier song, and Wrote You Off was sidelined.
Wrote You Off, Screamfeeder, 1993
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"It's like Pride and Prejudice but rather than Mr Darcy it's a gay man and two museums" - Chris Parker
A touching story of passing time during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns in New Zealand.
Actor and comedian Chris Parker was sent out for supplies and returned with a felting kit.
Documenting the process on Instagram became hugely popular.
But when he'd felted his way through the animals on the instructions, collective enthusia...
With the Trump Presidency news bearing down on us all Alice Fraser decided to split reality and create a daily news podcast about another world.
The Last Post became an escape that garnered a cult-like enthusiasm from the audience and jokes that persist to this day.
But there's a single sentence from an episode, inspired by Mills & Boon, that is the highlight for Alice.
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...It began on the couch, in front of Q&A on ABCTV, with Lawrence impersonating Malcolm Turnbull, casually berating the other panelists.
On the suggestion of his wife, Lawrence began including the impersonations of Sydney's eastern suburbs Member of Parliament in his stand up shows.
Minister Turnbull, soon became Prime Minister Turnbull and knowledge of his pronunciation was even more widely known.
So grew the impersonation tha...
Branching out from artists and bands we're doing a short run featuring comedians talking about their best work.
The format is a little shorter but the stories are just as transformative.
First episode features Lawrence Mooney.
Out this weekend.
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"I was just thinking about what it means to be a Latin immigrant in the US" - Gaby Monero
In her Los Angeles living room the song, Fronteras, came to Gaby quickly.
Gaby has long and productive career across genres, mediums and playing live across the...
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Geelong in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a hotbed for musical creativity.
Right in the mix was Darren Smallman and Warped, a band he joined as the bass player.
International punk rock acts filtered through Victoria's second city, through the rough bars ...
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A single tragic event among many in northern New South Wales lead to the inspiration for Roger's chosen song, Token Angels.
Wendy Matthews knew Roger from his time in Models, and was working on a solo studio album when she came across the song.
It was releas...
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‘What’s My Scene’ represented the frustration of figuring out your place in the world among everyone else.
Dave says when you were in the 80s you thought it was a dull time, but it was the decade his band formed and looking back he witnessed...
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It’s 2008.
Kav Temperly and the band are in a tunnel waiting to go on stage in New York.
Minders around them pass on some breaking news.
News that would lead Kav to create some of his best work.
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Jessica Cerra a.k.a. Montaigne had just agreed to something that was said to be mutual, but wasn't.
She wanted to be with the other person when they'd agreed to stay friends.
Thankfully there was an upright piano in the hallway of her share house
In t...
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Strictly Business finally made it onto Client Liaison's latest album, Divine Intervention.
Apologies for the audio. It was recorded during the big Delta lockdown and we all know how much that got in the way!
Check out the video clip here on YouTube
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Go is from Public Service Broadcasting's 2015 album The Race For Space, launched at the UK’s National Space Centre in Leicester.
It features samples from communications from NASA’s Mission Control supporting the Apollo 11 crew (first manned missio...
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“It’s Alright” has since opened doors for Mark around the world.
From a humble start as demonstration sounds for a family member, to those same sounds being played at festivals across Australia, Europe and the USA.
Fracture’s latest e...
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Peter Black is a founding member of influential punk band Hard-Ons.
Joey Ramone would even play the Hard-Ons on his radio show.
As of 2021 Tim Rogers is the new lead singer of the band.
They’ve recently released an album - I'm Sorry Sir, That Ri...
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It’s not often you hear of a song inspired by an Instagram post but that’s where it all started.
Some of Amy Sheppard’s best work and the story of her song Kiss My Fat Ass.
Find the hashtag that started it all here - https://www.instagram.c...
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