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Di Spillane is the Host/Creator of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. An in-depth Music Interview podcast where you will hear musicians having real conversations, discussing their musical journey, and answering questions that many have never been asked before. Di has a vast musical knowledge, a real interest in people, and likes to know who she is interviewing, which means that she researches each guest prior to the interview making this a unique podcast listening experience. Season 1 vario ...
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Popular music in the UK and the United States was a bunch of disparate genres, performed by amateurs, often to audiences of teenagers – or adults who weren't exactly discerning, in the case of folk music and mainstream American pop music – and whose musicians didn't have much to do with each other. At the end of the 1960s, it had undergone a change identical to the fracturing of “classical” and “jazz,” only in a far more rapid fashion than either of the art genres discussed did. The Beatles ...
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S4 E5 Peter Allan joins BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator Di Spillane to discuss his band The Honey Badgers and what they will be doing at this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival. If you have been listening to this season’s episodes you would be very aware by now that the Port Noarlunga Blues Festival commences next week on Friday the 2…
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S4 E4 ZKYE Compson-Harris. Zkye & Damo Port Noarlunga Blues Festival 2023.Listen for the BAND IT ABOUT scoop announcement during this episode! Zkye is a 2x SA Blues Awards Female Vocalist of the year, whose powerhouse vocals have earned rave reviews and a devoted following of fans both here in Australia and overseas. Zkye will be performing at the …
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S4 E3 Chris Finnen joins Di Spillane to discuss this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival. About Chris; Chris began to play the guitar when he was 10. Migrating with his parents from the UK to Australia in the late 60’s, it was in the state of Victoria that he started his 'musical apprenticeship' - learning how to play and getting gigs where he cou…
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S4 E2 Multi Award Winning Singer/Songwriter/ and Multi-Instrumentalist Steve Eales of Steve Eales and The Open Road is this weeks BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series guest. During this weeks episode Podcast Host/Creator Di Spillane asks Steve what he will be performing during his first appearance at the festival, has an in depth conversation with Steve …
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S4 E1 PORT NOARLUNGA BLUES FESTIVAL, Interview with Sue and Danny Filmer from SUEDAN. Danny and Sue Filmer join host/creator Di Spillane for Season Four Episode One of the limited series of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series to discuss their involvement in this year’s Port Noarlunga Blues Festival which runs over 3 days starting on Friday the 24th …
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Season 4 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series starts Friday the 20th of October, 2023. This limited season will include interviews with some of the organisers and performers for this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival which starts on Friday the 24th of November running through to Sunday the 26th of November 2023. The Port Noarlunga Blues Festiva…
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Episode Notes Do you think I proved it? Please check out Alan W. Pollack's Notes on... series and The Beatles Bible for more information about the Beatles. Thanks to Srdan of Able Noise for audio editing. Support The Beatles are the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and I Can Prove It by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the…
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Episode Notes The Beatles vs. The Beach Boys The Beatles vs. The Byrds The Beatles vs. Bob Dylan The Beatles vs. Elvis Presley The Beatles vs. The Kinks The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones The Beatles vs. The Velvet Underground The Beatles vs. The Who The Beatles vs. Frank Zappa Support The Beatles are the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and I Can Pr…
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Episode Notes Yellow SubmarineGet Back"Get Back""The Ballad of John and Yoko"Abbey Road Check out Alan W. Pollack's Notes on... series. Support The Beatles are the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and I Can Prove It by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-beatles-are-the-greatest-r…
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Episode Notes "All You Need is Love""Hello Goodbye""Magical Mystery Tour"/Magical Mystery Tour Please read Alan W. Pollack's Notes on... series. Support The Beatles are the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and I Can Prove It by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-beatles-are-the-greatest-r…
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Episode Notes "Love Me Do"Please Please Me"From Me to You""She Loves You"With the Beatles"I Want to Hold Your Hand"Please check out Alan W. Pollack's Notes on... series Support The Beatles are the Greatest Rock Band of All Time and I Can Prove It by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-beatles-are-the-greatest-r…
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Episode Notes Before I discuss the Beatles, album by album, single by single, I want to familiarize you with the band. I figure if you don't care about the Beatles or don't think much of them, then you can't really know much about the Beatles themselves. So think of this as a brief primer, a way of letting you know approximately what each guy did, …
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Episode Notes How can we go about understanding the historical importance of any band?Perhaps the biggest hurdle is how to know what music in a period before we lived was actually like. Nothing – no piece of art or scholarship – can truly put us into another time. If it succeeds at invoking feelings, they are either nostalgia – from those who were …
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Episode Notes The thesis of my book and this podcast is that culture evolves in time and that there are certain moments in time when dominant movements in culture forever fracture into different pieces, and we can never go back to the before times, when there was just one, or a couple, movements. The Beatles’ central place in the history of rock mu…
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Roger Smith is a South Australian harmonica player who has been playing with his Blues/Rock band The Bluescasters for the past 16 years. Roger began his musical journey playing the djembe in a world music band called 'Fuego' with his good friend Glen Reynolds. Roger has always loved the blues and was really interested in learning how to play the ha…
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S3 E8 Snooks La Vie (Paul Wimbles) is a South Australian born blues/soul/country vocalist and harmonica player who first began to play the harmonica after finding a brand new Hohner Marine band harmonica that was underneath a former partners bed. He began to teach himself how to play whilst sitting outside in his Monaro. He first started out playin…
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Bonus Episode; BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator Di Spillane released her debut blues/gospel single “The Underground Railroad” on the 22nd of September to raise Narcolepsy awareness on World Narcolepsy Day. In this episode, you will hear Di Spillane being interviewed by Zofia Dendunnen from PBAFM and then by Julie Reynolds whose community…
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South Australian-born musician DAVID BLIGHT is without a doubt one of Australia’s premier harmonica players. There aren’t too many people in Australia who are not familiar with the harmonica playing of David Blight. Every time you hear that favorite of Australia’s rock anthems, KHE SANH by Cold Chisel you will hear David’s distinctive harp lines we…
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Nathan Dawson was 17 when he first decided to start learning how to play the harmonica. A couple of his friends had begun to jam together and he wanted to join them, so he dug out the harmonica that he had given to his dad and began to teach himself how to play. Since then, Nathan has performed with many South Australian bands during his musical ca…
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Will Kallinderis aka Harpin’ Will K joins Di Spillane this week to discuss his musical journey, a journey that has followed him from Ottawa, Edmonton Alberta, Vancouver, and since 2005 South Australia. Will Kallinderis aka 'Harpin’ Will K' is a singer-songwriter who performs a lively mix of original roots, funk, and blues. Emerging in 2016 with his…
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Karen Pater was born in Sydney, spent her teenage/early-mid adult life in Perth, and in recent years moved to South Australia settling in the Fleurieu Peninsular. Despite taking up playing the harmonica initially whilst living in Perth, initially inspired to play this instrument after seeing Matt Taylor play, and Matt encouraging her to continue pl…
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South Australian harmonica/percussionist Bobby Blues joins me this week to share his musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Bobby whose given name is Greg Carmody, received his first harmonica when he was 8 years old, he played with it for a while and then put it away. It wasn't until he was 21 that he rediscovered that harmonica i…
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Multi-instrumentalist Danny Filmer joins me to discuss his musical journey for this week's episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Danny, born at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), and raised in Blackwood, South Australia, was the youngest of three children. His older sister played the piano and whenever she wasn't at home, Danny would use …
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S3 E1 Mark Snoad is a South Australian-born Hohner Harmonica player who despite having played from a young age, didn't actually join his first official band (AP D'Antonio and the Captain Kidd Band) until 2019. Mark began carrying his harmonica in his pocket and taking any opportunity to jump up and play at a party, at a jam, or with a band during t…
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Season 3 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series is coming soon. For the next season, I will be chatting with South Australian harmonica players. If you have or still do play the harmonica in a band from South Australia and would like to be interviewed for season 3 please get in touch with me. You can locate my email address and BAND IT ABOUT - Podca…
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This is the Final Episode for Season 2 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. This week my guest drummers playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes are from episodes 79 to 83, they include Madeleine Cossey, Andreanna Massacci, Alex Deegan, John Zak, and Travis Demsey. Make sure that you listen to the end as I will be announcing the details for Season 3 of …
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This week's guest drummers are E69 Joshua Baldwin, E70 Julian Perrotta, E71 Greg Clark, E75 Willi Gutwein, E77 Sean Kemp, and E78 Steven Smith. The BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series interviews always end with the guests playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes. There are 2 reasons behind this, the first being that all of the guest's journey's have not finish…
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BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Guest Drummers playing 20 QUESTIONS in 2 MINUTES this week are; Paul Butler E59, Danny Leo E64, John McDermott E65, Bob Reid E66, Thomas Crescitelli E67, and Michael Marino E68. Two of my guests get through all 20 questions within the 2 minutes but only one of them wins! Music: "Band It About" theme song was written &…
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20 Questions in 2 Minutes from episodes 53 Tahlia Borg, 54 Sam Gutwein, 55 John Mason, 56 Joel Prime, 57 Liam Weedall, and 58 Dylan Di Palo. Music "Band It About" theme song written and recorded for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series by Catherine Lambert and Michael Bryant. Tahlia's Links: https://www.facebook.com/teenagejoans/ https://www.twitter.…
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Travis Dempsey grew up in rural Victoria in a dysfunctional family. At 15 he spent his time skateboarding, getting in fights with his mates, and moving from school to school as a result of this behavior. A high school teacher changed his life and set him on his musical path when he sent Travis to a time-out room that contained an old drum kit. Trav…
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When you consider the fact that John Zak has had a career as a professional musician for over 45 years, despite being born with a chronic lung condition that at one time had his parents believe that he would be on an iron lung by the time he was 16, and that by the time he was in high school his first music teacher failed him and said that he would…
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Alex Deegan's obsession with drumming began when he was living in Whyalla attending Primary School. His teacher Sister Bernadette invited a drummer to come along to class with his kit to do a talk about drums, Alex put his hand up when the drummer asked if anyone would like to have a go at playing, and despite never having the opportunity to play b…
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Andreanna Massacci first became interested in drumming when she was 5 after having a go on her cousins drum kit, her mother noticed how easily she was able to play and decided to book Andreanna in for drum lessons. Andreanna continued having private lessons while attending school as well as studying music at school. The first band that she joined w…
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Madeleine Cossey joins Di Spillane in The Engine Room this week to discuss her musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Although South Australian born Madeleine Cossey hasn't been playing in bands for very long she has certainly made a great start to her musical journey, playing in 2 original Adelaide bands, 'The Vains' and 'Slippery…
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Steven Smith joins Di Spillane in The Engine Room this week for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series to discuss his musical journey. Although has been drumming since his teens, he began his playing career during the 80s as a bassist. In the 90s he joined 'The Funky Leftovers' as their drummer, and has since played in a variety of bands in South Austr…
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S2 E77 Sean Kemp joins Di Spillane in The Engine Room to discuss his musical journey thus far. Sean began drumming when he was 17, playing in various bands with his brother Drew, he also played football in the SANFL league (the Eagles and the Roosters) until he was 20, prior to deciding to concentrate on drumming professionally. He has played Pearl…
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S2 E76 20 Questions in 2 Minutes from Episodes 43 to 52. Happy EASTER and welcome to a repurposed episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. I realise that many of my listeners will have a lot on over the Easter long weekend, hopefully that includes supporting and or playing live music! As I only have 5 interviews left for The Engine Room serie…
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Willi Gutwein joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey which began in Adelaide and eventually led to him living and working as both a musician and a sound engineer for over 20 years in Sydney. Willi is a founding member of and the drummer for the original Adelaide Hard Rock band 'Loaded Billy', as well as the owner and s…
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KYM WARNER; After spending 21 years living and performing in the U.S – Kym Warner (four-time Australian Mandolin Champion, multi-instrumentalist and 3 x Grammy nominee) has returned home to South Australia, and is this weeks BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series guest musician. Kym is an Australian musician, record producer, and a founding member of the A…
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This week I am replaying the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series from Episodes 38 Laurie Kennedy, 39 James Judd, 40 Rick Kent, 41 Rob Boundy, and 42 John Appleby. I realise that due to the length of some of the interviews that not everyone listens to this segment, so by compiling 5 guests interviews at a time, it…
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This week I am replaying the 20 Questions in 2 Minutes segment of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series from Episodes 32 Andrew (Andy) Griffiths, 33 Mick Rajan, 34 Ben Riley, 35 Moni Lashes, and 37 Steve Todd. I realise that due to the length of some of the interviews that not everyone listens to this segment, so by compiling 5 guests interviews at a …
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BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Guest Greg Clark is a radio, TV, and advertising legend in South Australia. He’ll be remembered by many as one of the hot jocks of the 80s, spinning discs and taking requests on radio, as well as venturing into various TV shows that married current radio stars with music and chatter. Since then, he forged a career voi…
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Julian Perrotta joins me in The Engine Room this week to discuss his musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Julian was born in South Australia and was first inspired to play the guitar as his father played. He soon discovered that he preferred drums and he received his first set of drums when he was around the age of 11. His first …
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