Miss Chatelaine

It’s an all-Australian second hour today, featuring new and recent releases by artists from Melbourne, Ballarat, Sydney, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, on themes of starting a new year (timely!), life lessons, unrequited love, and more. Here is the playlist:

Above: Violet Salt’s ‘Confetti’ single cover photo and design by Thomas Calder

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Katie eases us into the post-Christmas week with tales of puppy-sitting and the definition of a cliché – and, of course, some fabulous new and recent tunes! They are all by Australian artists except for one, and include tracks from excellent albums/EPs by the Bellarine Peninsula’s Sarah Carroll, Margaret River’s Salt Tree, Narrm’s Simone Spittle, Byron Bay’s Sam Buckingham, East Gippsland’s Anna Scionti, and NSW’s Sarah Blasko. Here is the playlist:

Above: Simone Spittle’s Drama Queen album cover design by Simone Spittle

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In another carol-free hour of music, Katie plays excellent songs on themes of thinking about times past, being brave and taking a new road, falling in love, wanderlust, finding community, resilience and more. The show finishes with a seriously good tune from the soundtrack of the new Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man. Here is the playlist:

Above: Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes’ ‘The Continuing Saga’ single cover art by Shaun Ryan and Lachlan Bryan

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Katie’s last show before Christmas is a carol-free zone. Instead, she plays beautiful new and recent music by artists from the USA, New Zealand and Australia – including the winner of this year’s Australian Music Prize, and Katie’s perennial favourite Adam Lambert. Here is the playlist:

Above: Ziggy Ramo’s Human? album cover

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In today’s second hour, Katie plays more new/recent songs from past guests – Leif Vollebekk, Katankin, Michael Waugh, The Night Parrots and Alex the Astronaut – plus a ripper from local queer artist Queenie, a classic from patron saint of the show k.d. lang, and more. Here is the playlist:

Above: Queenie’s New Moult album cover photo by Marcus Coblyn

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Katie is back from her five-month break with a batch of new and recent folk, roots, acoustic and pop music to nourish your soul. The first hour includes beautiful songs by former guests Isabel Rumble, Paul Kelly, Joy Oladokun and Alana Wilkinson, and much more. Here is the playlist:

Above: Kim Churchill’s It’s Lovely to Have You Here album cover photo by Saskia Burmeister; design by Raised by Snakes

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Katie returns to JOY for a one-off episode of Miss Chatelaine while Jason is away at the Broken Heel Festival. In the second hour, she plays some fabulous recently released songs by Australian artists from Narrm, Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the NSW Central Coast and Queensland’s Darling Downs, and a re-worked classic by queer South African artist Orville Peck with the great Willie Nelson. (Katie will be back for a new season of weekly episodes in December 2024.) Here is the playlist:

Above: Joel Leggett’s Don’t Wait album cover photo by Alysha Mathieson (Familia Film), designed by Erin Hillock

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Katie returns to JOY for a one-off episode of Miss Chatelaine while Jason is away at the Broken Heel Festival. She takes the opportunity to play tracks from some of the superb albums that have been released this year by artists including past guests Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields, Josienne Clarke, Riley Catherall, Emily Wurramara and Michael Waugh, and other favourites. (Katie will be back for a new season of weekly episodes in December 2024.) Here is the playlist:

Above: Josienne Clarke’s Parenthesis, I album cover photo by Alec Bowman Clarke, design by Josienne Clarke

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Australia’s annual NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Katie marks it every year with an hour of music by First Nations artists. This year’s songs have all been released in 2023 or 2024, and their themes include family, nature, friendship, culture and truth-telling. Barkindji man Little Jason joins Katie to talk about the music and to introduce his new JOY show, Hot Bread, which will occupy the Miss Chatelaine timeslot for the next few months while Katie takes a break. Here is the playlist:

Above: Detail of official 2024 NAIDOC Week poster, Urapun Muy, by Deb Belyea

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It’s Katie’s last show before she goes on a long break, and she packs the first hour with great music by previous guests from Australia, Aotearoa, Canada and Ireland; long-running bands from the USA and Aotearoa; artists she has played before from the USA, Australia and Ireland; and new (to Katie) local artists. Here is the playlist:

Above: The Avett Brothers’ self-titled album cover art by Scott Avett

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