Miss Chatelaine

Katie plays more relaxing music for you in this hour, along with a couple of slightly up-tempo tracks to get you moving, if you feel like moving! There are songs about the new year by some familiar and not-so-familiar artists, a couple of classic favourites, and a cheeky tune by k.d. lang to round off the year. Here is the playlist:

* New Year’s Day – Sinead Burgess

* Doin’ Fine – Paula Standing

* Ghost Town – Adam Lambert

* Fashionably Late (Every New Year’s Day) – Shannen James ft. Paul Dempsey

* What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Norah Jones

* New Year – Bek Sarkoezy

* New Year’s Day – Robbie Williams

* I Will Remember You – Sarah McLachlan

* Where Were You – Felivand

* What’s New Pussycat? (live) – k.d. lang

Above: Bek Sarkoezy’s ‘New Year’ single cover art by Ruby Kennedy

It’s Boxing Day and Katie is playing lots of chilled-out tracks to help you relax after a possibly excessive Christmas Day. There are a couple of songs for the new year, some cuts from albums Katie has loved in 2021, and two songs by artists she discovered this week via the Real Songwriters of Melbourne. Here is the playlist:

* Happy New Year Melbourne – Lucy Wise

* Madeleine – Alexander Biggs

* I Get Through the Year Just Fine – Al Parkinson

* Mountainous Gaze – Cahill Kelly

* Carolina – Andrea von Kampen

* i’m tryna – James Franklin

* Stay Gentle – Brandi Carlile

* Grace – Hiss Golden Messenger

* IKEA – Grace Petrie

* Promised Land – Matthew Gilbert

Above: Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days album cover – digital imagery by Neil Krug, design by Mat Maitland

In the second hour, Katie plays tracks from some of her favourite albums of 2021 – Wonderful Oblivion by Charm of Finches, Stand for Myself by Yola, The Million Things That Never Happened by Billy Bragg, Connectivity by Grace Petrie and That Spell by Andrea von Kampen – and some more seasonally appropriate songs. Here is the playlist:

* As a Child – Charm of Finches

* Hurricane – Jack Rayne

* If I Had to Do It All Again – Yola

* I Believe in You – Billy Bragg

* Some Days Are Worse Than Others – Grace Petrie

* Celilo – Andrea von Kampen

* Swing Around the Sun – Paul Kelly

* Chosen Family – Rina Sawayama with Elton John

* Navigating the Night – Delsinki

* (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man with the Bag – Darren Criss ft. Adam Lambert

Above: Screen shot from Darren Criss and Adam Lambert’s ‘(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man with the Bag’ music video

Katie plays relaxing music for the week leading up to Christmas, with tunes by two very young Victorian singer-songwriters, a beautiful cover of a Paul Kelly song about the climate crisis, two seasonal offerings, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Waiting for the Sun – Kim Churchill

* Who’ll Ride the Bus With Me – Maya O’Loughlin

* Bygone Blues – Justin Bernasconi

* Moonchild – Juniper Stone

* Sleep, Australia, Sleep – Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater

* Voices – Sage Roadknight

* Joy to the World – Hiss Golden Messenger

* White Wine in the Sun – Tim Minchin

Above: Hiss Golden Messenger’s O Come All Ye Faithful album cover art by Cody Hudson

Katie’s very special guest in the second hour today is the legendary grande dame of Australian folk music and true queer icon, Judy Small. The chat covers Judy’s start in the 1970s as part of the emerging gay pride movement (she is a 78er) and second-wave feminism, singing about ‘lesbian chic’ in the 1990s, the sad fact that some of her political songs are still relevant today, why she left performing around 2000 and what she did in the interim, and her recent return to the stage. Here is the playlist:

* When You’re Wrong – Brandi Carlile

* Ode to a Gym Teacher – Meg Christian

* Annie – Judy Small

* Hallelujah – k.d. lang

* You Don’t Speak for Me – Judy Small

* Turn Right, Go Straight – Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies

Visit Judy Small’s official website and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Photo of Katie and Judy Small (above) by Betty Sujecki – please visit this Miss Chatelaine Facebook photo album for more pics!

Great new music is still being released in 2021, and Katie is still bringing it to you! In this hour, there are gorgeous new songs by artists from Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and the USA. Here is the playlist:

* Across the Ocean – Delsinki

* Camera Roll – Kacey Musgraves

* Keep Your Head Up Princess – Anson Seabra

* Hot Chocolate – Nuria

* Flashback – Brent Duncan

* My Love – Cassidy Watts

* My Little Kite – Katankin

* Bittersweet Lie – The Kindly Ravens

* December – Lontano

* Saint James Infirmary – The Blues Preachers

Above: Katankin’s ‘My Little Kite’ single cover art by Helen Catanchin

This hour has fine guitar-picking, sludgy ‘after-dark pop’, beautiful soprano voices, a Waif gone solo, a fabulous string-band cover of a Doors classic, another track from the stunning new Vika & Linda album, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Separate – Kaitlin Keegan

* Trigger Me – Justin Bernasconi

* Talking to the Devil – NEAV

* Nothing Else Matters – FERLA

* Emma – Georgia Mae

* One Last Time – Joshua Moriarty

* Hand Grenade – Vika & Linda

* Super Recogniser – Josienne Clarke

* People Are Strange – The Dead South

* Tempest – ThornBird

Above: FERLA’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ single cover art by Ted Min, Brigit Ryan and Steve Gavan

This hour has some fantastic new releases by artists from Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Gympie, the UK and Norway, covering many different musical styles, including new-soul, pop, folk, Americana, and more. Enjoy! Here is the playlist:

* La La Land – Hannah Sands

* Let Me Love You Like a Woman – Ryan Downey

* Just Like It’s Mine – Paula Standing

* Twice Over – Seb Szabo ft. Gretta Ray

* Still Have a Home – Katie Bates

* Reflections on the Mirth of Creativity – Billy Bragg

* You Make Me Complete – XANI

* Lapsed Catholic – Darren Hanlon

* Jupiter – Jenny Hval

Above: XANI’s ‘You Make Me Complete’ single cover art by Meg Kolac

Katie welcomes Romanie, a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter from Belgium, to the studio for a chat and a live performance. Romanie moved to Australia in October 2019, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic to shut everything down! But she has found a musical community in Melbourne and released her second EP, Little Big Steps, in August 2021. We hear some of Romanie’s beautiful songs during the hour. Here is the playlist:

* Stand – Yebba

* Little Big Steps – Romanie

* Thumbs – Lucy Dacus

* Princess – Nick Ward

* Changing – Romanie (live in the studio)

* Like a Fool – Kim Cheshire

* Different Kinds of Light – Jade Bird

* Fake Friends – Romanie

Visit Romanie’s official website and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Photo of Romanie and Katie (above) by Betty Sujecki – please visit this Miss Chatelaine Facebook photo album for more pics!

In the first hour today, there are songs about being present with the ones you love and not putting your happiness on hold, taking back control of your life, regretting lost love, the tragic sinking of Titanic, the joys of busking, making memories with strangers on Sydney Road in Melbourne, celebrating into the night, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Someday Song – Mylee Grace

* Lonely – Joe Mungovan

* Not Anymore – April Gallo

* Incredible to Me Now – MIK’s Reaction

* Swim to the Star – Reb Fountain

* Busking on the Road – Snez

* Pay Day – The Blues Preachers

* Sydney Road – Harper Bloom

* Sparrow – The Cat Empire

* California – Lorde

Above: Mylee Grace’s ‘Someday Song’ single cover art by Robbie Simon