April 2009

Bill Nighy dropped by the studios this week to chat about his new film, The Boat That Rocked.  If you missed the chat, or you just want to hear it again, here it is...
 

There’s big news for fans of THE BEATLES as their entire catalog has been digitally re-mastered.  The 12 Beatles albums and the "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack will be re-issued to coincide with the release of "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game on September 9th.  Engineers spent four years using state of the art technology alongside vintage studio equipment to get it right.  The highlights include the first four Beatles albums in stereo on CD for the first time, a boxed set with all the CD’s and a DVD collection of documentaries, plus a second boxed set, called "The Beatles in Mono," featuring their original mono mixes.
 
We can't wait to get our hands on this!

Last Friday, a very passionate Paul McCartney took to the stage as he kicked off the three-day Coachella music festival in America, and had thousands of fans in tears. Paul dedicated songs to his late wife Linda and his former band mates, in what was his first solo appearance at a U.S. festival. He dedicated "Long and Winding Road" and "My Love" to Linda, who died at the couple's ranch in Tucson, Arizona, 11 years ago.  Taken from a fan's phone, you can watch Paul's heartfelt performance of "My Love" at Coachella here:
  
 

National Carpenters Day 2009 is today, April 21 - Australia’s first ever day to recognise the great contribution hard working chippies make to our lives. So to thank as many carpenters as possible National Carpenters Day is holding special events in every capital city today...
 
 
QLD, Brisbane - The Breakfast Creek Hotel, 2 Kingsford Smith Drive Breakfast Creek
NSW, Sydney - The Roxy Hotel, 69 George Street Parramatta
VIC, Melbourne - The Palmerston, 51 Palmerston Crescent South Melbourne
SA, Adelaide -The Alma, 66 Magill Road Norwood
TAS, Hobart - Knopwood’s Retreat, 39 Salamanca Place Hobart
WA, Perth - Rosemount Hotel, Cnr Angove and Fitzgerald St, North Perth
 
www.carpentersday.com.au

 
If you’ve been like us and ‘over-indulged’ at Easter, do what we’ll be doing and check out the Australian Better Health Initiative called “Measure Up”. You know the one, there are adverts everywhere!!!!!
 
So if you feel as though you need a push in the right direction click here.
 

 
Yesterday was the Queens 83rd birthday. Obama has already given her an iPod full of American music, so we thought a great present idea would be an iPod full of classic Aussie tracks. We took some suggestions from our listeners and here’s how the Queens iPod playlist would look:
 
             1. Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce
             2. Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again - Angels (unedited live version)
             3. I'm An Individual - Jacko
             4. Australiana - Austen Tayshus
             5. Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel
             6. Farewell Aunty Jack - Graham Bond & Rory O'Donoghue
             7. Are You Old Enough - Dragon
 
I think she would quiet enjoy walking her corgis listening to this iPod mix.
 

These are the Voca People and they are quite simply incredible! An ensemble of 8 talented musician-actors - 3 female singers, 3 male singers and 2 beat box artists. They create extraordinary sounds and are considered to be the best performers in their field. This Israeli vocal group tackles the history of popular music in 3 minutes and 15 seconds... watch them here

You've seen the video on our web site... now listen to our chat with the two guys behind the amazing story of Christian The Lion. Hear what happened in Part 1 of our chat with Ace and John when they dropped by the studio earlier this week...

Being the red-blooded males that we are, we never thought we'd be glued to some vision of a couple of topless male dancers... but this father and son team from Britain's Got Talent 2009 have really got something. Try not to laugh at this...
 

Today we brought in our 'signature dishes' for MasterChef judge Matt Preston to critique.  We both fancy ourselves as O.K. cooks, so we were fairly confident, but it's safe to say this confidence didn't last very long. We didn't tell Matt who made each dish until the very end- this meant he could dish out the criticism quite freely.  Check out the pics below to see how our taste test unfolded.
 
Here are our dishes hot and ready to go (the brown blur on the left is salmon and the spewy looking bowl of red on the right is a bolognaise sauce):
 

 
We had a bucket on stand-by 'just in case':
 

 
Up first was the salmon on a bed of noodles. Overall Matt liked this dish, he thought the salmon was a bit overcooked- but he didn't spit it in the bin which was a good sign:
 

 
Next was the bolognaise (served without pasta- very unique). This time round Matt was NOT impressed at all. In fact he went so far as to describe this dish as tasting like 'morgue' mmm:
 

 
Just by the pics, it's obvious who won the challenge! The salmon did, which was made by Jono (or possibly his wife). Dano has learnt a big lesson from the challenge- bolognaise can NOT be served without the pasta, it's dinner rule 101.
 

 
So far we've not heard any reports of food poisoning, although we don't think Matt will be rushing over to our houses for a dinner party in the near future!

Matt Preston is a celebrated food writer and purveyor of all things food and beverage. He's also a judge on the new TV show MasterChef Australia. So with such glowing credentials, we thought we needed him to come in to the studio for a chat... but secretly, we wanted him in to taste our homemade cooking and to 'judge' our skills.  Hear the first part of our chat with Matt here:

Its official- Humphrey B Bear is now our first work experience bear! Here’s a clip of Humphrey’s first moments on air and we’ve also uploaded a quick shot we took of us all together- we make a great team.