5 years ago today, Australian show biz got a little less nice.
RIP Richard Marsland
1976 – 2008
An inspiration for anyone who’s ever written a joke. Panelled a radio show.
Or worn a cape.
I was fortunate enough to interview Richard Marsland in December 2007:
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He’s been a big influence in my life and career. Ever more so with each passing year.
Wish he was still with us.
Yours sincerely,
David M. Green
In response to new Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s comments last week RE: again abolishing compulsory student services fees at Australian universities, I wrote an opinion piece for ABC’s The Drum website about my own experience last time it happened and the impact it had on student media.
Read my thing here: Student media needs student fees to survive.
The good people at Radio Adelaide – where my media career began – saw the article and invited me onto their breakfast show on Monday to have a chat with Radio’s Angus Randall. It was slightly too early in the morning for me, but you can listen to the audio here.
Always too happy to give back to Radio Adelaide, the station that gave me everything. Including an award, which they have since misplaced.
If anyone sees the 2007 South Australian Community Broadcasting Association “Bilby” Award for Best Station ID 2007 anywhere, would you let me know?
Kind regards,
David M. Green
And good to hear The Empire Times is back up and running.
Alan Brough joins me on the latest episode of David M. Green and Other Famous People. You can download the podcast from iTunes or listen below for Alan Brough’s circa 2007 thoughts on fridges, acting, comedy, Spicks and Specks, Kevin Rudd vs. Julia Gillard and early 90s New Zealand butter commercials.
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New episode of my other podcast The Good Show coming very soon.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
In pod form.
Every man and his dog has a podcast these days. I now have 3. Podcasts, not dogs.
But my latest one is perhaps a little more relatable than four nautical-themed characters prattling on about old timey things or two guys irritating Michael Caine…
David M. Green and Other Famous People!
It’s a collection of interviews, all of them featuring me and another famous person. The first two episodes are now available on iTunes for your downloading pleasure.
Episode 1 is my 2006 interview with Tony Martin. I’ve also managed to dig up an ID he recorded as John Howard, which I’d completely forgotten about and hasn’t seen the light of day since it first aired on the now non-existent Flinders University Student Radio.
Episode 2 is my first interview with Shaun Micallef. And I’ve also included the ID he recorded, which won me the 2007 South Australian Community Broadcasting Association “Bilby” Award for “Best Station ID” for some reason.
If you’re not a fan of iTunes (I’m certainly not), you can hear the episodes RIGHT HERE:
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But hey, don’t think this’ll just be a junk yard for my 6-year-old Radio Adelaide interviews. I’m planning on recording some NEW interviews with NEW famous people. Stay tuned.
And if you’re wondering what ever happened to that podcast I was doing with Anthony McCormack – The Good Show – we’ve been struggling to find adequate studio facilities and nice people to let us record there for free. It looks like I’m going to have to bite the bullet and buy my own equipment so I won’t be faced with this problem again.
It’s quite ridiculous the history of trouble I’ve had with getting access to recording facilities.
SAFM said I could use their studios when I worked there in 2008, but they wouldn’t give me a computer login, so I could record but I couldn’t get the audio off the computers. Around the same time I was making sketches for 891 ABC Adelaide, but they wouldn’t let me record the sketches there, which were FOR THE ABC. Ridiculously, we had to use community radio facilities at Radio Adelaide, until Radio Adelaide found out we were recording non-Radio Adelaide things. They didn’t like that.
For a brief time when I was working at MTR, I had access to their fabulous studios. Until they shut down in March. Fun Fact: “Studio Pleasant” is now the SEN news booth.
I feel like Monet without a steady supply of canvases. Or Beethoven without his hearing.
So I guess I’m saying I’m Beethoven.
Kind regards,
David M. Green
My kingdom for two microphones and a mixer?
Yes! I’ve finally managed to bribe the good people at iTunes HQ to allow the water-breaking comedy show “On The Yacht” on to their respected… place of podcasts.
I mean, this isn’t a new radio show. The episodes have been available here since they aired on Radio Adelaide 101.5FM in the summer of 2008/09. But you know the kids these days. They’re are all about the iTunes…
So you can now find and subscribe to the hilarious On The Yacht podcasts on iTunes, either by searching “On The Yacht” or by clicking this link directly: http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/on-the-yacht/id495443318
Join Adam – avid seaman & show anchor – billionaire ladies’ man Norman Vine, socially conscious academic Dr Kevin Goodall & Voice-Over’s Tim Wray in the newsroom for pedantic conversation, special “expert” guests, callers, quizzes, fictional commercials, soft rock & smooth jazz.
Tune in for laid-back chat and a satirical homage to the medium: AM style with FM sound. Come ride the radio waves… On The Yacht…
The first 3 episodes are up there. The rest are on their way.
I’m also panelling (and “producing”, apparently) the new topical podcast by the fabulous Lawrence Mooney & Adam Rozenbachs. Subscribe to “Eye of the Storm” on iTunes here. It’s a comedic, uncensored look back at the week’s events.
PLUS… be on the look out for a brand new well-panelled and completely UNtopical podcast featuring myself and the hilarious Anthony McCormack! But more on that one later…
Kind regards,
David M. Green
That’s… 3 podcasts I have.