Ezcapades Podcast

Ez interviews Melbourne comedian, musician, writer, actor, model, poet, composer, teacher and dear friend, Josh Cake. At 21, his Youtube channel has reached hundreds of thousands of people in over 100 countries, and his stand-up comedy has won critical acclaim, packed audiences, and a number of awards, in both Australia and Europe. A member of the Dante Alighieri Society of Melbourne, he is fluent in French and Italian, and has lived and worked in both countries. He has written and performed several musical theatre productions, and recently finished a stint of 112 gigs in six months in Paris. Lined up for this show:

1. Josh's TED Talk - "Clay Pot Experiment" and the importance of "having a go"
2. Music: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
3. YouTube fame/first gig as a musical comedian/transitioning to acting
4. Music: Purposeful Hands
5. Game: Two Truths and a Lie - News Headline Edition
6. Josh's recent work

Josh has kindly allowed me to include his tracks "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Purposeful Hands". If you'd like to check out more of his stuff, find him on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram!

Photographer: Cameron Maynard of CPM Photography

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Ez interviews Melbourne musician, Ryan Oliver (AKA Oliver's Army) about his music, previous US/Canada tour and the new album in the works. Ryan has kindly allowed the podcast to include his tracks Arms Around Your Lover and Liquor Store. If you like them head on over to his FB and chuck him a like/say g'day! On today' show:

1. People are the worst/Retail woes
2. TED Talk (Ryan + Surviving The Apocalypse)
3. Touring US/CAN 
4. Two Truths and a Lie: News Headline Edition
5. New album

Song List: 1. Intro - GD & TOP, 2. Arms Around Your Lover - Oliver's Army, 3. Legendary - POWERS, 4. Liqour Store - Oliver's Army, 5. Jungle - Tash Sultana

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Ez interviews Max Fotheringham and Alex Cooper from Melbourne band, Amber Isles. Their previous album, Perikope, is described by band members as "post-rock with shoe-gaze edge", and they're building upon that style with new band members and a new album. It's due to be released Nov 1st, however in the meantime you can check out pre-released tracks off the album - Come On and Folds. Lined up on today's show:

1. TED Talks - Max + wonders of soup, Alex + power of perseverance 
2. Starting up Amber Isles, DIY studio
3. Game: Two Truths and a Lie
4. Touring and album launch party

They're touring all over NSW and VIC, and will be playing at Ding Dong Lounge, for their homecoming album launch party on December 17th. Amber Isles have kindly allowed me to include their song Come On in the podcast - if you dig it you should check them out and show them some love! 

Song List: 1. Smoke Signals - Olympia, 2. To the Hilt (MFZ Remix) - BANKS, 3. Come On - Amber Isles, 4. You're a Fucking Joke - Bec Sandridge, 5. Valley of the Kings - Saving Tinman, 6. Clip my Wings - Montaigne

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Ez interviews advertising art director, Isabella Caruso, about being head creative on the Melanoma Likes Me campaign, taking part in Gruen Transfer's segment, The Pitch and the different roles inside an advertising company.

This week's ezpisode may contain traces of:
1. Isabella's TED Talk - Maintaining a clear perspective as a creative
2. Starting out and being on Gruen Transfer
3. Two Truths and a Lie
4. Melanoma Likes Me campaign and branching out to the US

Song list: 1. You're So - Bordax, 2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire, 3. For You - Northeast Party House, 4. Temple feat M.I.A. and G.D. - Baauer, 5. Paper Planes - M.I.A. 

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Ez interviews some of the creatives behind Melbourne web series, feedback. - Director, Dylan Murphy; Co-Writer and Actor, Tom Henry Jones; DOP, Jackson Tipping. Dylan and Tom are in their last year at RMIT, studying a BA in creative writing. Jackson has finished his Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media at Footscray City Films and has since worked as a DOP on many films. They've come together to make the Melbourne webisode series, feedback., which chronicles the antics of housemates, Levi and Edmund, and their struggle with being creative.

1. Free WiFi in Melbourne/Have you ever been a bad neighbour?
2. TED Talk topics - Dylan + Super Birthdays, Tom + Extremely Mild Karate
3. Making feedback. - Continous shot, Mark "Mr Gribble" Mitchell's cameo as Charles Bukowski.
4. Game - Two Truths and a Lie
5. Outro

If you'd like to support them making their second episode, check out the link here! Also check out their Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date! 

Songs: Due to tech. difficulties none of the scheduled songs were played. But you can check out Too Black, Too Strong - A.B.Original. Not a bad chune. 

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Ez interviews Melbourne comedian, Ben Volchok, who is the creator of Ben's Illustrious Facts Show: Episode 3 in the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival. He founded sketch comedy group Mudcrabs (Melbourne University Comedy Revue Board) in 2012, which still performs to this day, and won the Campus Comedy Competition in the same year. He then started Rowdy Laughter, a weekly student comedy show, which takes place in the Rowden White Library each week. He has co-directed the UMSU comedy festival, regularly contributes to student magazine Farrago and is involved with university radio station The Fodder and community radio station SYN. He's performed in both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. His most recent projects were Mudcrabs in Space, And Then There Were Not As Many and his own show, Ben's Illustrious Facts Show: Episode 3. 

1. Game - Two Truths and a Lie
2. Becoming a comedian
3. Ben's TED Talk topic - Accents in comedy and when it's appropriate
4. Re-enacting Ben's show in 5 mins

Songs: 1. Speak of the Devil - Hermitude, 2. Compromise Feat Sinead Harnett, Goldlink & Secaina Hudson - Christian Rich, 3. Kill v Maim - Grimes, 4. The Worst Guys feat. Chance The Rapper - Childish Gambino, 5. Molasses - Hiatus Kaiyote, 6. Welcome to Your Life - Grouplove

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Ez interviews Melbourne musician/sound technician/aural magician, Josh Trappett, who has created sound for Open Body Theatre’s production the BOX, which put the unrealistic beauty standards for women in the spotlight. Projects on the horizon include writing a “godamn musical aw yis” and writing music as both a solo artist and for his band, Diana’s Foresters. He’s a unique talent that loves creating experimental and atmospheric music. The tracks that feature in this ezpisode include Budapest, Everyone I Love Wants Me Dead and the ezclusive remix, The Man Looks Sharp the Dogs Remark. Also check out his latest dreamy collab with Density Park, You And I. 

1. Josh's TED Talk topic - Family Ties in Star Wars
2. Becoming a musician
3. ~NEW GAME~ Two Truths and a Lie - The Inventors Edition
4. Hiddleswift and our fixation with celebrity relationships/(re-)creating an image/death threats/the meaning of "selling out"
5. Musical and EP drop 

Songs: 1. Because I Love You - Montaigne, 2. Doctor, Doctor - Oh Pep!, 3. Budapest - Josh Trappett, 4. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem, 5. Everyone I Love Wants Me Dead - Josh Trappett, 6. The Boys - Lisa Mitchell, 7. The Man Looks Sharp The Dogs Remark - Josh Trappett

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Ez interviews founder of Carolyn West Photography and PR, Carolyn West. She is a Geelong based photographer and also public relations practitioner. Since photographing her first fashion week at the age of 17, she’s become somewhat of an unstoppable force. She had her first solo exhibition titled “Deluded Youth” on Hardware Lane in Melbourne back in 2012. She went on to interview and photograph American writer, magazine editor, singer and actress Tavi Gevinson in 2013. She’s since snapped collections by Alex Perry, Jean Paul Gaultier and Dion Lee at a variety of fashion weeks, and to top it off she has now officially become her own boss. 

1. Carolyn's TED Talk: "How To Be Fucking Motivated"
2. Getting into photography/Tavi Gevinson
3. Game: Two Truths and a Lie
4. Celebrity Passes
5. Becoming your own boss

Songs: 1. All My Friends feat. Chance the Rapper, Tinashe - Snakehips, 2. Butterfly - Grimes, 3. Miracle - Kimbra, 4. Sound and Colour - Alabama Shakes, 5. Any Given Weekend - Northeast Party House, 6. Hold - Vera Blue, 7. Black feat. Sky Ferreira - G Dragon

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Ez interviews musician and founder of From the Con to Kabul charity concert series, Ellan Lincoln Hyde. In the last 12 months she has participated in a mammoth 60 concerts, 3 festivals and 2 stage productions. In addition to this she runs her own charity concerts to raise money for the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Kabul - the first orchestra founded in Afghanistan for over 30 years. She's currently studying a Masters in Musicology Research, focusing on, and I quote, “totally badass lady” Marjorie Lawrence (AKA Aunty Marge). She aims to go on exchange to Illinois and digitise said badass’ personal archives. Coming up on the show!

1. First Real Like on Twitter
2. Ellan's TED Talk Topic (Music and Humanity)
3. Pulling a pair of golden pom-poms out of your bathers while standing on a rotating platform in front of 2000 people
4. The incredible opera soprano Marjorie Lawrence feat. riding a horse into flames
5. Game - Two Truths and a Lie
6. Game - Would You Rather
7. Discussion - Running your own charity concert

Songs: 1. L.O.V.E. Girl - CNBLUE, 2. Hands Up - 2PM, 3. Zutter - GD&TOP, 4. I am the Best - 2NE1, 5. Tell Yourself - Clazziquai, 6. Dancing on my Own - Pixie Lott feat. GD&TOP, 7. Clean and Simple - Utada Hikaru

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