So This is Permanence : Joy Division's Closer
We look back on an album that turned 40 in July 2020: Joy Division's second album Closer is a wonder of durability, continuing to influence, continuin...
Ushers to Ashes: Alternative 80s
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This podcast is about often overlooked or under appreciated aspects of popular culture in the 1980s with a focus on popular music, art, film and television. Early episodes concentrate on The Australian alternative music scene in the 1980s.
Brain Space: Alt Comedy in OZ
Having reminisced about the impact and legacy of the Young Ones in the last episode, we turn our attention to Australian comedy in the 1980s. Sketch c...
Post-Punk Comedy: The Young Ones
Comedians like Rik Mayal, Alexie Sayle, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were an integral part of alternative culture in the 1980s. And In many ways,...
Music for Evenings: Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth
Glenn and Peter talk about one of the most influential albums of the 1980s, released at the very start of its first year. The unassuming trio from Car...
Bright Lights, Big City: 80s Melbourne
This episode pays tribute to Melbourne's eclectic alternative music scene in the 80s. COVID 19 has put a temporary halt to the city's normally vibrant...
80s Arthouse Cinema: Repo Man
1984. Newspaper columnists were playing Spot the Orwellian Overtone. Hawke in Australia but Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in America. A young filmmak...
80s Arthouse Cinema: Liquid Sky (1982)
If you stood in the margins of culture in the early 80s you marvelled at the sound of the ragged punk larvae metamorphose into an atmosphere of new cr...
Insecurity City: 80s Brisbane
Peter talks about his experiences coming to a monocultural Brisbane ruled by a repressive government and politicised police force where the dissent wa...
The Sound Alternative: 80s Perth
Presented by Glenn D'Cruz and Peter Jetnikoff, this episode focuses on Perth's alternative music scene in the 1980s. In a city dominated by cover band...