JOY Weekend Breakfast

Matthew DeCelis from the indie pop duo Dekleyn  joins us to discuss their first single for 2022 'Save My Name'.

Teaming up with Mark Zito (Fractures) once again on co-production, the song shows the duo reaching new heights with their brand of melodic, clever indie pop that uses precision and subtlety to create moments of pure musical richness.

Dekleyn’s new single ‘Save My Name’ is out now.

Bill Calder joins us to talk about his documentary Star Man, screening at the Mardi Gras film festival as part of the Oz Doc Shorts event.

Star Man explores the life and legacy of Michael Glynn who founded The Star newspaper in Sydney, a publication which continues today as The Star Observer.

Tim Draxl joins us to discuss his role in the Australian tour of Jagged Little Pill, The Musical.

Inspired by the seminal rock album of the same name by Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill is a new musical with an original story about a perfectly imperfect American family. The Healy’s are a seemingly perfect suburban family striving to hide the cracks beneath the surface, when a troubling event shakes their community. Driven by the themes and emotions of the original album, the musical embraces today’s powerful social voice and burns with passion in its uplifting storytelling, ultimately highlighting the hope and healing that comes when people come together.

Laura Trenerry and Patrick Dwyer from the comedy duo The Beryls join us to discuss their new show, The Pageant.

Backcomb that big hair, glue on the giant lashes and prepare to snatch that crown! Your hosts Victoria Beauvoir and Roger Seahorse are on a mission to bring children’s beauty pageants to every Australian town and Melbourne - it’s your turn.

The Pageant is “the beauty pageant to end all beauty pageants” and is a pageant celebrating the power of pageantry because if there’s one thing former pageant darling Victoria Beauvoir knows, there’s no such thing as too much pageantry. Victoria is joined by her long-term devotee Roger Seahorse in this children’s beauty pageant that is most definitely not for children.

This narratively driven, immersive sketch show casts the audience as contestants and pushy showbiz parents as they satirise the superficiality of beauty standards. Leave your name, age and gender identity at the door because The Pageant is a world unto itself.

Dean Acuri joins us to share the highlights from the Australian Open's first Pride Day, held on 24 January 2022, including his incredible 40kg tennis ball dress designed specifically for the event.

Heretic, the debut single from Australian actor and singer Adam Noviello, is here! Celebrating gender queerness, and all gender nonconforming humans, Heretic is the new pop/dance anthem set to ignite hearts, minds and dance floors. The accompanying music video featuring a cast entirely made up of non-binary/gender fluid/transgender/gender nonconforming

humans.

Best known for their work on Australian stages, having starred in national and international production tours including Matilda The Musical, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert & Chess The Musical (to name a few), Adam is making their explosive return to the music scene. Heretic represents Adam’s celebration of their gender queerness. Lyrically the song speaks of Adam’s former feelings of betraying the gender they were assigned. Not fitting to the mould of what a “boy” is expected to be. To combat these feelings, and the societal voices contributing to them, Heretic says, “I’m here. I’m fierce. I am.”

After a highly successful debut in Brisbane and sold-out shows in Adelaide, award-winning theatre company JTM

Productions is thrilled to bring their critically acclaimed production of Sex, Lies & Betrayal – Memoirs of a Hollywood

Star to Melbourne in a Victorian premiere.

Set to a lavish vintage score, the glossy world of Hollywood and the scandals behind the scenes come to life in riveting

detail in this raunchy true tell-all story of a 1940’s Hollywood leading lady who is only known by her pseudonym “Miss

Nightingale.”

Starring popular theatre performer Karla Hillam, the show features reimagined classics by Cole Porter, Christina Aguilera, Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Amy Winehouse, Billie Eilish, Andrew Lloyd Webber and more.

‘Hollywood in the 1940’s was certainly glamourous. Secrets were rife, gossip was a way of life and movie moguls ruled.’

said Producer, Writer and Director Margaret Fisk AM. ‘It’s been exciting to bring Miss Nightingale’s memoirs to the

stage. She certainly lived a fascinating life, dirty little scandals and all. Reading her memoirs made me blush as they are

quite steamy but her story is really a tale of love and loss, temptation and loneliness, and her journey and sometimes

questionable choices, is something which I think many people can relate to.’

The exquisite Tusk High Bar in Windsor will be transformed into Miss Nightingale’s boudoir and Patrons are encouraged to dress in their finest as they enjoy an immersive experience of all things Hollywood, from decadent cocktails named after famous movie stars to a Hollywood inspired menu.

So who is this mysterious Miss Nightingale? She’s an adulteress, a seductress and a femme fatale who tells all; tales of passion, pain and betrayal and in true form, Miss Nightingale knows where all the skeletons are buried and isn’t afraid to spill the beans.

Having strongly defined her disco-pop soundscape in recent years, 2021 has seen Chase Zera come into her own visually, musically and aesthetically. Following on from her disco pop anthem ‘Supernova’ Chase Zera returns with an equally anthemic, intoxicating new single 'Jealous'. With an irresistibly danceable disco beat mixed with psychedelic synth lines that expand into a breathtaking chorus, this tune grabs your attention immediately. Underneath the grooves however, lies lyrics exploring the dark emotion of jealousy and how being infatuated with someone also comes with the painful fear of losing them.

The dark undertones combined with the infectious soul of the track demonstrates Chase’s ability to really get her point across whilst still giving the listener a track they can dance to. Chase says of the track that “There was no holding back writing these lyrics. The words might be laced in a groovy, danceable disco beat, but they're still toxic. Jealousy is the ugliest emotion, but sometimes, feeling a bit jealous is what makes you realise you have feelings for someone. You don't want to lose them, especially not to someone else.“

Growing up as a dancer and being heavily inspired by pop and disco icons, Chase states “I knew I wanted to be a performer before I knew I wanted to be a musician”. This focus on dance is clear through her disco laden discography which has seen her support Bag Raiders, Hayden James and more as well as showcasing her energetic live show at Wine Machine and NYE In The Park.

Jessica Braithwaite has released a new Christmas song, 'I Still Get Excited for Christmas'. Created in just 72 hours, the song is a collaboration with LA producer Stuart Brawley (Celine Dion, Cher) and features the Glee/Disney singers on backup vocals.

Jessica is thrilled to see her indie song having such a big impact and bringing so much joy this season.

After selling out his season at the Comedy Festival, Michael Shafar is giving it 110% for one last time in Melbourne before heading interstate.

2020 was a pretty bad year for everyone. But, Michael Shafar probably had it worse than most, having to face death for the second time when he had a testicular cancer relapse, which forced him to undergo high-dose chemotherapy during Melbourne’s second lockdown. He says ‘worse than most’ because some people had to homeschool their kids, which is objectively worse than dealing with cancer.

Back in remission, Shafar returned to the Melbourne Comedy Festival earlier this year with his darkest and funniest show yet, receiving critical acclaim for his cutting observations about the dangers of cancel culture, the hypocrisy of racists and, most importantly, the unknown perils of skinny jeans.

If you missed out on seeing Shafar give 110% earlier this year, we’ve got good news! He’s just been handpicked to performing his show for one night only in Melbourne.

Double-dosed with AstraZeneca (because he’s not a coward) and boosted with Pfizer (because he’s not brand loyal), Shafar is just thrilled to be back in front of a live audience and no longer relying on the government’s NBN to convey his jokes over Zoom.

Since leaving a career in law, Shafar has been busy justifying that decision to his Jewish mother. Having appeared on Channel 10’s The Project and Studio 10, ABC’s Comedy Bites, triple j’s Good Az Friday and heaps of other radio and TV shows, he has (somewhat) achieved that - making a name for himself as one of the fastest rising stars in Australian comedy, performing internationally (well, not in 2020) and selling out shows across the country.