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James Rolevink and his wife, Rai, received just under $30,000 to look after vegetation on their Forreston property. That money was a small slice of the $1.3 million paid out to private landowners late last year as part of the State Government's Native Vegetation Heritate Agreement program. James has a legally-binding agreement to look after specified native vegetation and his story is fascinating.

(The image on the show notes for this episode is the Blue Fairy Orchid, taken by James Rolevink).

The SA Drink Of The Week is The Soloist 2021 Shiraz by Coriole, and it does link in nicely with our main topic.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we feature the new single "Humble Heart" by West Thebarton, offering a taste of their upcoming album "Mongrel Australia."

Plus a special cheerio to U3A Flinders (University of the Third Age), where Steve spoke recently about 10 years of podcasting. We hear from one "volunteer", Elizabeth Bleby, and we should thank Steve's mum, Yvonne Davis, for lobbying for the talking spot.

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Running Sheet: Protecting Native Plants From Kangaroos In The Adelaide Hills

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:04:38 SA Drink Of The Week

The SA Drink Of The Week this week is the 2021 The Soloist Shiraz from Coriole.

As Steve notes in his tasting, apart from loving this wine, he compares the nature of The Soloist vineyard to the work James is doing on behalf of the native plants he is now custodian of. All will be explained.

00:08:44 James Rolevink

After losing everything in the Cudlee Creek bushfires, James Rolevink and his wife, Rai, bought a property at Forreston in the Adelaide Hills, hoping to start a new chapter in their lives. Well, little did they realise that before too long, the State Government gave them close to $30,000 to look after their garden. Well, that's not exactly the situation. As you're about to hear, James received this money to help his family protect rare and threatened native plants from, among other things, kangaroos. James, welcome to The Adelaide Show podcast.

Before we get into the grant and the plants, I need to ask about Cudlee Creek because I am 100%  sure that I have no idea what it would be like to lose everything in a bushfire. In the hope that it might spur more of us to take our bushfire planning more seriously, what are some of the consequences of the bushfire that took you by surprise, that you didn't foresee?

Today is tipped to reach 40 degrees. How present is the threat of bushfire in your mind?

Our native plants have evolved to regenerate after bushfires, before we talk about them, can you see now that new things were generated within you and Rai as a result of this experience?

Now, I'm told that when you and Rai saw this property, everybody else was looking left while you were looking right. What had caught your eye that the others were missing?

Had you always known about native plants? What prompted your interest?

Something that was counterintuitive when I first heard about your story, was native plants being threatened by kangaroos. To be fair, I suppose we have squeezed roos out of their habitat and we have put lots of paddocks of vegetation into place that helps them breed. Can you talk us through the situation and how it really sent you down the Heritage Agreement rabbit hole, so to speak? Actually, our episode on the History Of Rabbits In Australia is fascinating and worth a listen.

Do any of the native plants on your property bear fruit that can be eaten because then I could say the grant is "money for jam"?

I mentioned the temperature earlier, it's going to hit 40 today. We know native plants cope with bushfires by regenerating afterwards, but how do they get through these boiling days?

Do these plants attract native birds?

They can't protect themselves from kangaroos, what about introduced grazing animals, any luck there?

Did our colder, wetter start to summer impact anything?

What will you be expecting to see develop through autumn and winter?

Any tips for home gardeners in relation to natives?

And if someone in a bushfire zone asked you what is the minimum they could do to get by, safely, what would you recommend?

00:49:44 Musical Pilgrimage

In the Musical Pilgrimage, we feature the new single from West Thebarton, Humble Heart.

West Thebarton is hitting the road this year with its ‘Mongrel Australia’ Album Tour With Guests OK Hotel. The single, Humble Heart, is from their new studio album, Mongrel Australia, which will drop on March 22, 2024.

If you're up for their high octane rock, you'll want to get tickets to see them live at The Gov on Friday, June 21, 2024. Tickets at westthebarton.com.

And good to see the new album, with 11 tracks, was recorded in The Little Smoke© here in Adelaide, and then engineered at Twin Earth Studios, Somerton Park.

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It’s estimated that half of all Australians are now living from payday to payday, with no money saved up for emergencies. And yet last weekend’s opening of the Fringe saw record, pre-covid levels of people on the streets of Adelaide. We will get stuck into these seeming contradictions with our special guest, Jordon Tomopoulos from the Adelaide Economic Development Authority. Here’s a taste.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, Atlas Genius has two new singles that just dropped. We’ll play one of them and build a link between them, Taylor Swift, and P!NK!

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The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

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Running Sheet: The Economic Weather Forecast For Adelaide

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week

There is no SA Drink Of The Week this week this week.

00:05:00 The Economic Weather Forecast For Adelaide

There is no doubt climate change is making our weather unpredictable, but what are things like in the economic realm? Jordon Tomopoulos from the Adelaide Economic Development Agency, spends his days conducting economic research looking for insights into data and he joins us to share some of his findings.

This talk is partly about data and partly about sentiment.

According to some data from the financial comparison site, Finder, half of all Australians are now living pay cheque to pay cheque with no savings, with no money saved up for emergencies. Meanwhile, an Advertiser story towards the end of the first year of Covid, stated that it’s essential to transfer any spare cash into a buffer account that could see you through 3 to 6 months.  It quoted Dominic Beattie, editor of online financial resource Savings.com.au, telling readers to prioritise that buffer account. The article warns people that while it’s tempting to go to the pub or eat out now that restrictions are lifting, recessions can last for a while – you don’t know what might happen down the track.”

And now I turn to you, Jordon. At the Adelaide Economic Development Agency, you want to see a thriving economy. Before we dive into your data and analysis, as a fellow citizen here in South Australia, what’s your reaction to these two bleak items, especially when your latest weekend foot traffic report shows people have flocked to the city for the opening of the Adelaide Fringe?

I just came back from Melbourne for Taylor Swift. The city was swarming with swifties. I hear that bead bracelet kits were sold out for months in the lead up and that international leaders were begging Tay Tay to Stay Stay in their countries for the economic impact. The Australian reports that hotel occupancy during the Friday and Saturday nights of the concerts was sitting at 83%, which is pretty impressive when you consider how many hotels exist in Melbourne. However, we have Pink coming to Adelaide next week and your numbers suggest a bigger impact?

What is the importance of big events like concerts, conferences, and sport (AFL Gather Round), events like the Fringe, etc (although. I get the impression they are like Carbs for the city – we get a big rush and then we’re craving again. Is that fair? And is there anything that provides that lovely, Protein-like, slow release goodness over time?

Hindley Street has been in the news with the City of Adelaide calling some special meetings to address the rapidly shrinking number of nightclubs and bars. This begs the question: Are there business models that rely too heavily on over consumption of alcohol? I ask because La Trobe University recently published a report titled, Generation Dry: why young people are drinking less. How can we cultivate that “buzz-based entertainment” when less people are chasing that high-margin buzz product?

Has working from home stopped spending or just spread it out more through the suburbs?

And can we get too much of a good thing? Tay Tay made us wait for going on stage – and we got the pay off. I am taking a break from Fringe because I was becoming jaded. Is there a role for peaks and troughs in a healthy economy (absense makes the heart grow fonder), or does that make you shiver?

What was 2023 like?

How is 2024 looking?

00:41:12 Musical Pilgrimage

In the Musical Pilgrimage, Steven Jeffrey had told us a new Atlas Genius song was on the way and it just dropped this week. So we’ll listen to Nobody Loves Like You.

This fits in well with our discussion this week because we looked at the economic impact of big artists performing in a city, especially those that aren’t saturating our radio stations. Atlas Genius has a huge following in the USA and a passionate group of followers in Australia, so when I saw someone starting a petition to bring Atlas Genius back to their hometown of Adelaide, the main thing I can hear is the sound of cash registers tinkling all around the city.

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WARNING: This episode covers the disturbing topic of domestic violence. 
If you need help immediately, call 000.
Don’t Be That Guy, Monday-Friday, 2pm – 7pm, call 1300 24 34 13.
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Women’s Crisis Line, call 1800 811 811
Men’s Referral Service, call 1300 766 491
Lifeline, call 131 114

Something has snapped for Steve this year and this episode is his response. As he explains, the unrelenting toll of women being murdered by blokes has him distraut and feeling helpless, so he’s reached out for some wisdom about what to do when you notice or suspect domestic violence and/or coercive control being carried out by a mate or by yourself. You’ll hear from the CEO of OARS Community Transitions, Leigh Garrett, who will give us some insights and urge us to spread the word about Don’t Become That Man (DBTM) Counselling Service.

Steve also mentions the next Pay Our Respects 2024 event on Saturday 20th January. The sixth Pay Our Respects to Australian Murdered Women event will be held on Saturday 20th January 2024 on the steps of Parliament House, gathering at 9:00- 9:15am for a 9:30am start finishing at approximately 11:30am. The gathering honours the Australian women murdered in 2023. If it’s your first time hearing about this (as was the case for Steve), Pay Our Respects has been individually honouring all the women murdered through gendered violence across Australia in the previous year.

In the SA Drink Of The Week we have both an Olive Oil and an Italian style wine from Coriole, McLaren Vale.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we hear from Steven Jeffrey again (of Atlas Genius fame), with a new song by Eden Of Avalon.

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The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It’s an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we’ll add you to the list: [email protected]

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Running Sheet: Not Her Last Christmas: Calling On Men To Call Out Domestic Violence

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:06:13 SA Drink Of The Week

In the SA Drink Of The Week this week we have two “drops”.

The first is Coriole Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2022. The vineyard has been producing olive oil for 30 years and this latest vintage is sublime; pungent, grassy, rich, intense, and, as Steve discovers, peppery.

The second is the Coriole Negroamaro 2023. This is a light-bodied wine, very fragrant and perfumed, perfectly balanced for chilling slightly and serving over summer. Steve’s live tasting highlights some of the gentle array of fruits and aromas.

00:13:02 Don’t Be That Man – An Interview With Leigh Garrett, OARS Community Transitions

Something has snapped for Steve this year and this episode is his response. As he explains, the unrelenting toll of women being murdered by blokes has him distraut and feeling helpless, so he’s reached out for some wisdom about what to do when you notice or suspect domestic violence and/or coercive control being carried out by a mate or by yourself. You’ll hear from the CEO of OARS Community Transitions, Leigh Garrett, who will give us some insights and urge us to spread the word about Don’t Become That Man (DBTM) Counselling Service.

Steve also mentions the next Pay Our Respects 2024 event on Saturday 20th January. The sixth Pay Our Respects to Australian Murdered Women event will be held on Saturday 20th January 2024 on the steps of Parliament House, gathering at 9:00- 9:15am for a 9:30am start finishing at approximately 11:30am. The gathering honours the Australian women murdered in 2023. If it’s your first time hearing about this (as was the case for Steve), Pay Our Respects has been individually honouring all the women murdered through gendered violence across Australia in the previous year.

00:43:38 Musical Pilgrimage

In the Musical Pilgrimage, we hear from Steven Jeffrey again (of Atlas Genius fame), with a new song by Eden Of Avalon, Don’t Say Goodbye.

Steven wrote this song in 2014 when he was moving to LA full time to concentrate on the music dream. He was in a long term relationship but he knew the distance was putting a strain on that. The lyrics came to him while he was flying between LA and Denver. It is about missing someone and wishing the relationship was like it was at the start.

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Sweet Songs is a collaboration between Doctor D and Fergus Maximus, multi-award-winning songwriters based in Adelaide. They first worked together in the sell-out Adelaide 2021 Fringe Show SWT_HM_ADL. Since then they have been delighting audiences with their music, stories and amiable on-stage personas. Their debut album Back in ADL is out now and you hear a great sampling of it, with seven full tracks in this episode.

The episode image was shot by Ben Searcy.

The SA Drink Of The Week - no featured drink this week.

And the whole episode is a Musical Pilgrimage segment this week!

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it.

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Running Sheet: Sweet Home Adelaide Songs

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week

No SA Drink Of The Week this week.

00:02:48 Fergus Maximus and Dr D, Back in ADL

Back In ADL is an album by Fergus Maximus and Dr D, drawing together some of the songs of their Adelaide Fringe hit show, Sweet Home Songs (and its earlier manifestations). There is so much goodness in the album, that we have them in the studio to walk us through a selection of songs about this state and this city, which has been named the Coolest Place In Australia by the Wall Street Journal.

Buy Back in ADL on Bandcamp.

Fergus, you've been on the Adelaide Show before, and you have 100% South Australian bona fides, having been born in Whyalla and grown up in Clare. Plus, you are married to one of our longest term listeners, Andrea Ferguson. I picture Johnny Cash walking along a railway line in the country and picking out a tune like, I Walk The Line. When did you first write a song based on a location in South Australia?

Dr D. In the early days of our podcast, you had to be born and bred in SA to get a gong, but having moved here from the UK after your frequent visits gradually hardwired SA into your DNA, you are warmly welcomed. You've performed on five continents including legendary venues in London and Chicago. Is there a tangible, physical difference between the venues in those places compared to venues in South Australia OR if they feel more significant, is that due to the aura of those cities?

It took me 4 or 5 songs on my first listen to fight through the echoes of cultural cringe. I’ve spoken about this with Peter Goers about how I don’t bat an eyelid when a song talks about Baton Rouge or New York or Chicago or London, but when it mentions anywhere in Australia, let alone South Australia, it feels tacky or too familiar. I don’t think it’s actually cultural cringe because I’m very proud of our country and our townships. I think it might more closely be linked to the saying that a profit is never recognised or respected in their homeland.

Let's get going with the title track, Back in ADL.

BACK IN ADL (17:35)

When you are writing about places, how do you stop them from sounding like TV commercials or slogans or jingles for property developments? Henley Square is one of those songs that comes very close to sounding like this, but so, too, does the title track, Back in ADL.

The line take me to your deli counter and let me taste your ways because there's lots of innuendo there especially with smallgoods ... or is that just me?

In our early days, we had the Adelaide Visa Council because people made lazy jokes about Adelaide being boring and Paul Barry from Media Watch was very cynical about Adelaide earning the Coolest City label from the Wall Street Journal. Let's listen to his cowardly backhander from a recent episode of Media Bites.

I thought we were past these lazy jokes. Your thoughts?

The second track on the album, Gulf of St. Vincent, contains the O word. Is that pedantic to query that? Is that just Total Adelaide?

Talking of Vincent, I think St Vincent Street is a great song that needs to be included, all about about a particular female police officer.

VINCENT STREET (36:00)

Talking of streets, let's address the myth of naming conventions and the belief you cannot cross the king. In episode 28 of The Adelaide Show, around the 45-minute mark, Keith Conlon highlights that it was popularly believed that the reason none of our city streets continue either side of King William Street is because you CANNOT CROSS THE KING.

PLAY KEITH CONLON INSERT

Have you caught much flak about that song?

CROSS OUT THE KING (47:50)

When you get into history, I note that This Is Our Beef has an early Redgum feel.

Beef Rebellion story

THIS IS OUR BEEF (58:05)

The thing about writing songs about places we know and live it, is that we all have stories that intersect with your songs. Do people call out during the show or want to talk to you afterwards?

FOUR TREES (MIRNU WIRRA) (1:08:01)

If I were at your show, I'd be chewing your ear about Johnnie's Gone Away because I worked at John Martins in the 80s in the West Lakes store in boyswear. And my maternal grandman, Lillian Field, she worked in the basement of the city store in the late 1930s when a young man from an engineering company turned up to fix the lifts. He soon became my grandpa.

Why did you guys write about John Martins, which we're reflecting on the day after the 2023 Christmas Pageant which was a gift to SA from John Martins for most of its 131 years.

JOHNNIE'S GONE AWAY (1:17:00)

Finally, your Fringe show has won awards, and gotten great reviews. What is next?

Has your song, Letter To Paul Kelly, caught Paul's attention?

LETTER TO PAUL KELLY (1:28:45)

00:00:00 Musical Pilgrimage

This whole episode was an extended Musical Pilgrimage segment.

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We have two Australian Army veterans as our special guests this episode.

The first is the Vice President of the RSL in South Australia, and President of the Magill RSL Sub Branch, Retired Major Meredith Burgess. Apart from being a mechanic for the Australian Defence Force, she became and Officer and spent much of her career in the role of Quartermaster.

Our second guest is Chairperson and Editor of The Top Ender, Tri-Services Magazine, and founder of Barossa Fun Factory, Deb Herring. Deb's focus on community extends throughout her work at the magazine for veterans as well as being a key part of her business.

If you read this before November 18, 2023, Steve would like you to join him at the Magill RSL Sub Branch for an 80s Trivia Night. He'll be the Quizmaster on behalf of the organisers the Magill Sunrise Rotary Club. Details and tickets here.

The SA Drink Of The Week - no featured drink this week.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, it's the first birthday of Dino Jag's song, Shake A Leg Like Elvis, so we'll itch that scratch and give it another spin!

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it.

And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise
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Running Sheet: Remembering Beyond Remembrance Day

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week

No SA Drink Of The Week this week.

00:03:29 Meredith Burgess

That was a little snippet of the Concert Band and Chorus of the RAAF, singing Quartermaster's Store. I grew up with my dad playing "hits of the war years" over and over again and I always wondered what a quartermaster was. Well, fast forward to today and I am sitting next to a woman who has spent some of her army career as a quartermaster. I refer to Retired Major, Meredith Burgess.

Meredith, we're sitting in the Magill RSL Sub Branch, where you are President (she is also Vice President of the RSL in South Australia) and on November 18, 2023, I'll be quiz master for an 80s trivia quiz being run by the Magill Sunrise Rotary Club to raise money for your programs here. Before we talk about them, and before you help me wrap my head around the role of a quartermaster, there is some South Australian business to attend to.

You grew up in the wheat and sheep area of Lameroo and finished your schooling in Murray Bridge. What do you remember most about life in that part of Australia at that time?

I worked for 7 years at 5MU and would often drive out to regional towns to do interviews in my HG70 panel van without any knowledge of mechanics. Was the tyranny of distance part of the reason that attracted you to getting under the hood? In other words, was it a simple survival mechanism?

This drive you had for motor mechanics and metal fabrication led you to TAFE and then you joined the Army Apprentice School at Albury-Wodonga in the second class of female trainees where only 4 out of 13 graduated. My daughters have demanded that I ask you to share what it was like being outnumbered on grounds of gender and what enabled you to get through and then later get encouraged to undertake training as an officer at Duntroon?

You've had various roles as quartermaster, what is it, in layperson's terms because to the best of my knowledge it was the person responsible for making sure supplies got to where they're needed?

To get a sense of why RSL clubs and services are so important, I think us lay people need to remember the extremes service people are exposed to. Sometimes this is combat but at other times it is the aftermath of combat and atrocities and just squalid conditions. Would you mind just painting a picture or two of the conditions you and your fellow service people experienced when you were among the first to arrive in East Timor in 1999?

You're on the record discussing the difficulties you faced in adjusting back to civilian life but it seems that your involvement in this RSL club has not only been good for you but also good for the club. Can you take us through the club's resurrection over the past 10 years, and then we'll look at some of the services.

What keeps you going? What feedback do you get?

Can we be part of it - non service people?

Is there any protocol to follow? I spoke at a Mess In night for the RAAF at Edinburgh a few years ago and I had 17 pages of protocol to read, including the Passing Of The Port.

00:51:20 Deb Herring

A theme of the conversation with our previous guest, Meredith Burgess, will also run through our next chat. That theme is the human drive to build community even amid change. This is given great focus in the lives of Australian Defence Force personnel because they are posted to different locations with great frequency, having to pull up roots and replant them over and over again. Deborah Herring has lived that life when she was in the army - twice. She's now living and working in the Barossa working as Chair and Editor of The Top Ender Tri-Services Magazine (which is a magazine for service personnel and veterans) while also running an events and tourism business, Barossa Fun Factory.

Deb, you're settled in the Barossa now. I assume that's better than being moved about all the time, but what's it really like because us humans learn to adapt. Is it a challenge to learn to be in one place?

How much did you move about in the Army?

What do "relationships" look like in the defence force? Is it hard to build friendships or do you get better at bonding faster?

What happens if the team on a particular deployment is not ideal?

Meredith Burgess mentioned she felt quite lost when she left the Army. What was your experience?

Your work with The Top Ender seems to be driven by a fire in your belly to give veterans a sense of connection. What fuels that fire?

What sort of stories do you cover?

At first look, nothing seems further from being in the defence force than running a company called Barossa Fun Factory. But there is some shared DNA, isn't there, because you talk a lot about your pop up events and corporate workshops as not only creating a sense of fun but deeply building connections between participants?

What were the first things you ran?

Are there regular events for kids?

Halloween is just ahead of us at the time of recording. Special calendar events get you springing into action, don't they?

You have run some successful corporate events, too, that have a bit if "kid's fun" to them. Talk us through an example and how it's linked to greater team engagement?

And with Xmas upon us, I want to finish on something I think is excellent. You stage events called Mingle Bells, which transform the typically awkward or sometimes drunken company christmas event into a time of real connection.

Finally, Remebrance Day is upon us. Is that a significant day for you, or is Anzac Day stronger. What do these days mean to you?

01:26:43 Musical Pilgrimage

Our featured song this episode is Shake A Leg Like Elvis by Dino Jag.

Given that Elvis did his time in the Army, it's only fair we feature a tribute to him by our own Dino Jag, on this pre-Remembrance Day episode.

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This year, Davine Productions turns 10 years old and is celebrating with a production of the musical, A New Brain. The brain, heart, and sould behind Davine Productions is David Gauci, and he's our guest today.

The SA Drink Of The Week in from Yalumba - The Signature. This is partly because the wine is superb but also because Yalumba has long been a supporter of Davine Productions. And we'll be joined in the tasting by winemaker, Kevin Glastonbury.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, Kaurna Cronin has a new song out and it's made itself into an ear worm, competing with the soundtrack of A New Brain!

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

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Running Sheet: Davine Intervention In Adelaide Theatre00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:03:09 SA Drink Of The Week

2019 Yalumba The Signature.

One of the signaturies of the 49th vintage of The Signature, is red winemaker at Yalumba, Kevin Glastonbury. He sits down to taste the wine with Steve Davis, as part of Yalumba's ongoing support of the arts through Davine Productions.

00:41:29 David Gauci, Davine Productions

In 2013, the same year The Adelaide Show began, David Gauci put his roots down in Adelaide and started the theatre company, Davine Productions. Prior to this and alongside this, he has had a 25+ year career in professional theatre, as well as being a teacher to countless performers in a number of colleges and institutions including the University of Adelaide Elder Conservatorium. At the time of recording, in October 2023, Davine's about to open a production of A New Brain. This is a delightfully quirky musical that twists left and right in surprising ways and bestows upon us such unexpected rhymes like: If you make me cry, Then I’ll probably have to kill you, I will you,  know.

Learn more about Davine Productions and get tickets here. October 13-21, 2023, Star Theatres, Sir Donald Bradman Drive.

David, we'll come back to A New Brain but while we're on the topic of lyrics, do you have some favourite ones from the show?

I almost tripped over on the beach today when I heard the lyric in the "children's" song that went:
Or when someone says,
“Would you like to lose your virginity?”
Someone with who you have
No affinity

We just celebrated 10 years of The Adelaide Show and its reason for existance which was, initially, to fight the lazy way people used to use Adelaide as the butt of jokes for being boring. And yet, there you were, also in 2013, launching a not-for-profit, non-professional theatre company in Adelaide, with exceedingly high standards and backed by the likes of a broadway composer, a former director of the Sydney Theatre Company, a former head of acting at NIDA, and a much-loved national celebrity with multiple logies to his name. Can you share with us the moment when Davine Productions materialised and the importance of it being in Adelaide?

How do you maintain the high standard of excellence that Davine Productions is known for because in a professional company you have a big stick - you can dock someone's pay or fire them. But in community theatre, we all need each other. What's your secret?

There is much said about humans becoming more selfish and closed these days, so over the past 10 years, has that impact shifted your approach to finding humans who are willing to "give it their all" for the love of performing, when it's tempting to stay home and coccoon?

I've seen (and reviewed) a couple of your shows - Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, and Summer Of 69 - how do you go about selecting shows for Davine Productions? What do you look for?

What is the message or feeling you want the audience to walk away with from a Davine Productions show?

On the Adelaide Show, we've previously discussed the profound impact that teachers can have on us (especially in episode 291 in which my daughter, AJ, interviews two important teachers in her life, Kaye and Jenny), so, I'm curious to know which of the three teachers during your primary years had the greatest impact: Sr Carmel with her piano lessons and theory, Mrs Mulvahill with her elocution lessons, or Mrs Tilley and her singing lessons?

How does your role as a teacher at the University of Adelaide Elder Conservatorium influence your work at Davine Productions?

Davine is, of course, the feminine of David but it also means Beloved. That makes it a great name for a theatre company. But it also sounds a little like Divine. I'd love to learn more about your adventure at a seminary, studying theology. Why did you do it, what made you leave?

David, it's fair to say you and I both love musical theatre but what's your definition of what is "good" musical theatre?

I love Les Mis, My Fair Lady, Urine Town, The Producers, Superstar, Fiddler On The Roof, anything by Stephen Sondheim, but despise Phantom Of The Opera. There's a delicate balance in the recipe - nourishing melodies, clever word play, a story line that primes us for emotion or farce or both. Do you agree?

Your new production is, A New Brain, with music and lyrics by William Finn, inspired by Finn's own experience with an arteriovenous malformation and the healing power of art. Can you set it up for us?

01:37:44 Musical Pilgrimage

Our featured song this episode is Eraser by Kaurna Cronin.

Eraser is a great concept for a song, when someone is the ink unto your paper. Try as you like, you can't erase them.

It just shows Kaurna is still on form and there are many comments in his online places of people saying the song is now stuck in their heads.

David, is that the sign of a great song - generally, let alone in musical theatre?

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It's interesting that Australia is poised to vote on giving First Nationsl people a voice to parliament, but for many of us we are not familiar with the voices around us. How many of us know our neighbours or interact regularly with people in our community, stopping for a chat and a shared experience?

In this episode, our political pundit, Robert Godden returns to "read the tea leaves" of where Australia is at regarding voter intention for the October 14, 2023, referendum. This segment will either age really well or age really poorly.

Then, we hear a number of voices from people who have gathered at the weekly, Friday night, open mic evenings at Carob and Hare in the main street of Kanmantoo. The Carob business owners and curator of these community events, Donna Twycross, takes Steve on a journey through Carob, and then expands on her vision for regular community nights at her venue. We also hear from Stevie Ray Wonder (MC for the Friday night events), Kathryn and Peter Roberts (local residents), and Garry Duncan (artist).

The SA Drink Of The Week in this episode is a Gipsie Jack Cabernet from Langhorne Creek.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, our featured artist is another performer from Carob and Hare, Rod Mitchell, who is one half of the collaboation, BW4.

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it.

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Running Sheet: The Voice And The Voices: From The Referendum To Community Friday Nights At Kanmantoo

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:04:41 SA Drink Of The Week

2019 Gipsie Jack Cabernet.

This wine is the "house red" at Carob and Hare and is an intriguing drop, over-delivering on value with every sip.

00:08:54 Robert Godden and The Voice Referendum

Our political commentator, Robert Godden, joins Steve to read the tea leaves of where Australia is at as it approaches the October 14, 2023, referendum on The Voice.

00:39:44 Donna Twycross, Carob and Hare, and the people and performers of Kanmantoo

Every Friday night from 5.30-ish until 9-ish, locals and visitor amble in to Carob and Hare on the main street of Kanmantoo, to eat simple food, have a drink, and either listen to or perform music (or both), with an environment of inclusive warmth.

The mystical and energetic conjurer of this gathering is the owner of Carob and Hare, Donna Twycross. Donna fell in love with carob when she was in her teens because it tasted great (to her) and met her needs of being a healthy addition to her diet.

Today, she produces Hare Balls and other treats using locally grown carob, from our friends Michael and Jam Jolley at The Australian Carob Co. in Booborowie, South Australia.

As you'll hear in the discussion, carob is a sweet edible pod that comes from the carob tree. It's been cultivated for over 4000 years and if you get good pods, it tastes very good. That wasn't Steve's experience growing up, but Donna helps put that into perspective.

Aside from her carob business, Donna explains the rationale for the weekly community gatherings she hosts, as well as special, monthly, Saturday night themed events. She also shares a sneak peek into her new, Sunday afternoon events themed around Alice in Wonderland, should you happen to visit Kanmantoo from mid-October onwards.

In this chat we also meet Stevie Ray Wonder (not his real name, but all will be explained), who has fallen into the role of MCing and stage managing the Friday night events.

We also meet locals, Kathryn and Peter Roberts. They moved here many years ago and have reflections to share, including some from Peter who has been driving the school bus for a long time, watching kids grow as he gets them from point A to point B.

Finally, we chat with artist, Garry Duncan. Garry is another local and a regular and his artwork not only adorns boardrooms around the world, silos around South Australia, and a variety of galleries everywhere, but it hangs in pride of place around Carob and Hare.​

01:42:01 Musical Pilgrimage

Our featured song this episode is Plague Of Monsters by BW4.

BW4 is a partnership between Steve Hearne and Rod Mitchell. Rob Performed at Carob and Hare, despite being a long way from his hometown of Andamooka (which is a hefty stone's throw from another source of opals, Coober Pedy, which recently featured on The Adelaide Show).

BW4 is named after a redundant microwave tower on the Stuart Highway just south of Pimba because Rod was fascinated by Central Australian deserts and disputed Australian History.

That note makes this song more relevant than ever because The Voice debate has seemed to release angels as well as monsters as people reflect on what the referendum is all about.

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We round off our month of Tuesdays to mark 10 years of The Adelaide Show with a nostalgia panel, featuring Colin Richard, Brett Monten, and one of our most loved guests, Don Violi - hairdresser to the stars!

Much is covered and discussed, from the emergence of Rundle Mall to the making of Sunday Too Far Away, from Bazz and Pilko causing mayhem at 5AD to the Clifton Pugh nude Adam and Eve stobie pole controversy.

There SA Drink Of The Week in this episode is a Portagaff, and we even attempt recreating the famous jingle.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, Courtney Robb is our featured artist.

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

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Running Sheet: Adelaide Remembers Nostalgia With Don Violi

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:03:23 SA Drink Of The Week

Classic beverages - West End, Southwark, Coopers (including those Portagaf ads - I plan to bring some stout and lemonade to make some as our drink of the week)

Finbarr who is a member of the BigFooty community made some interesting comments about the Coopers Portagaff ad.
"Coopers Stout and lemonade… mix ‘em up, you’ll be amazed. That’s a Portagaff you’ve made, with Coopers Stout and lemonade...."
I know it particularly well because it was my dads best friend and my godfather who starred in the ad and sang the jingle. (Don Barker. Aka Detective Sgt Harry White in Homicide.)
I wish that ad was on YouTube. He sang one verse in a manly voice dressed in manly clothes, the next in a falsetto voice and a white suit, then they had the split screen of the two singing a duet.

David Fuller was the ad man responsible for the Portagaff ad. According to SA Life: The ad for Coopers Stout and lemonade — “mix them up, you’ll be amazed” — was a stick-in-your-head jingle that was another of Fuller’s early efforts. It was recorded for a cost of $720 and ran for six or seven years.

00:26:59 Nostalgia Discussion

Topics for discussion:

Don Violi on cutting Don Dunstan's hair (along with commentary about hairdressing icons of Adelaide, and his work cutting Jack Thompson's hair along with other cast members of Sunday Too Far Away)

The Clifton Pugh stobie pole controversy - nude Adam and Eve at Don's new hair salon in the 80s - got worldwide coverage and Don Dunstan opened it

Opening of Rundle Mall, and the redirection of traffic away from Devil's Elbow

The restaurant explosion - move away from buffets and dinner dances (Hilton with Cheong Liew, the revolving restaurant, Chloes, Don Giovanni, even a naughty one I remember)

Birdman Rally, Soapbox Derby

Bazz and Pilko (some of their hijinks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgu7-rCLyk

Touch Of Elegance

Pat Davies Figurama Slimming Salon (and other fashion/fad icons)

01:26:11 Musical Pilgrimage

Our featured song this episode is Reckless Moment by Courtney Robb.

This song was chosen by Brett Monten and Steve waxes lyrical about Courtney's wonderful musical gifts.

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During the second year of The Adelaide Show podcast, the lineup transitions from a trio of hosts to an interview format with one main guest and two hosts. Nigel Dobson became the permanent co-host, along with Steve Davis.

In this time, the podcast had some wonderful innovations from Nigel, not least of which was the Is It News segment, and a decision to hold topics to a high standard of requiring an evidence-base.

There is no SA Drink Of The Week in this episode, although we do sip on a 2018 Highbank Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon during recording.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, John Schumann joins Steve to talk about his remake of I Was Only 19 with The Waifs.

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it.

And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page

Running Sheet: The Adelaide Show Podcast Nigel Style With John Schumann

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:13:55 SA Drink Of The Week

No segment this episode.

00:02:59 Nigel Dobson

In episode 5, Nigel Dobson filled in for Colin Richard, who was on the sicklist. Little did we know that he was to become a regular "fill in" and then come on board full time as a co-host for 250+ episodes.

In this retrospective episode, Nigel and Steve reminisce on the different topics and challenges, as well as share some observations of life in South Australia today.

01:29:57 Musical Pilgrimage

Our featured song this episode is I Was Only 19 by John Schumann and The Waifs.

This 40th anniversary remake might owe its existence to a bizarre historical accident. As John says, "when I wrote about Redgum bootlegs in "I've been to Bali too", the Waifs hadn't even formed. 40 years later, we get to collaborate on a re-imagining of "I was only 19". It might not have happened if Vikki and Donna didn't get to pick up a bootleg copy in Bali."

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The Adelaide Show podcast began in 2013 with a mission: to challenge the notion that Adelaide is boring. This special episode is a reunion of the three founders, Steve Davis, Colin Richard, and Brett Monten.

"I remember meeting Colin Richard sharing our frustration at the lazy jokes by comedians on the eastern seaboard about how boring Adelaide was," recalls podcast co-founder, Steve Davis. "We decided to start a podcast and name it after the Redgum song, One More Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide, as an ironic counter attack."

Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide was launched on August 29, 2013, and one of the first segments was called The Adelaide Visa Council, in which the podcasters read out tweets by users who referenced Adelaide being boring. The "evidence" was discussed and if the offending tweets were deemed unfounded, the trio revoked the Twitter (now X) user's Adelaide visa, and let them know.

"Those who fell foul of our deliberations would often engage in discussion and most of the time they recanted their allegations and had their visas restored, including a former leader of the Adelaide United cheer squad, who was terribly apologetic."

Early features included regular segments on health (the Made to Move Minute with exercise physiologist Max Martin), and news (headline highlights by InDaily's David Washington).

Its early, conversational format transformed to a structured, long form interview program by episode 80, at which time it rebadged as The Adelaide Show, having taken credit for reducing online slurs against Adelaide.

The SA Drink Of The Week is a 2016 Highbank Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon.

And in the Musical Pilgrimage, Ben Searcy and his haunting song, Wangary.

You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve!

The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards.

And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: [email protected]

If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it.

And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page

Running Sheet: Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide 10th Birthday

00:00:00 Intro

Introduction

00:03:11 Colin, Brett, and Steve

In mid-2013, I spoke with Colin about starting a podcast. And he said yes. Shortly thereafter, I spoke to Brett, and he said yes. The driving themes for me were frustration over the lazy, unfunny jokes and barbs that interstaters and some locals made about Adelaide being boring, a desperate need I had to get out of the rut of working seven days a week, and my unquenchable love for the art of radio. It's now 10 years later and we've got the band back together.

What were your reasons, Colin and Brett?

00:13:55 SA Drink Of The Week

We have a special wine this episode, the 2016 Highbank Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon.

As you'll hear, it is a sibling of the first wine we tried on our first episode in 2013, the Highbank Coonawarra Family Reserve 2004 (ep 1, The Three Kinsmen).

How did toasting Queen Adelaide come about?

00:17:01 Colin, Brett, and Steve

The reunion interview continues ...

What were your reasons, Colin and Brett?

The theme song?

It launched in episode 11.

Uncle Colin's Remembering Adelaide.

The Roma cinema was one (ep 1, The Three Kinsmen)

The Adelaide Visa Council.

Craig Mitchell, a Uniting Church minister who was on our first Christmas episode (number 17, The Nigel Before Xmas), shared this update from Melbourne during the week:

Me talking to oven repair guy today.
Me: We've been over in Adelaide buying a house that we'll eventually retire in.
Him: Right. Adelaide would be a great place to retire.
Me: We like it a lot. We like Melbourne too of course.
Him: I was born in Adelaide.
Me: Really?
Him: Yeah, but I had to get out of there. It was dead boring.
Me: .....

Stories From The Street.

Catherine Lambert was one (ep 16, Local Trash Syndrome)

Interviews:

The Polly Waffle (ep 43 The Adelaide Polly Waffle)

Annabel Crabb, Martin Hamilton-Smith, Stephen Yarwood, Don Violi

Our show titles. Any favourites?

066 - Of News Readers And Tea Ladies
November 27, 2014

065 – Adelaide Undressed
November 20, 2014

061 – Surreal Adelaide
October 23, 2014

053 – The Adelaide Pie Floater 1st Birthday Show
August 28, 2014

047 – Adelaide: City Of Cars And Donuts?
July 17, 2014

039 – Don Dunstan And Gay Adelaide
May 22, 2014

034 – The Adelaide Ring Monopoly
April 17, 2014

033 – Deconstructing The Adelaide Yo Yo Biscuit
April 10, 2014

Episode 014 – Lucy On The Skype With Diamonds
November 28, 2013

Episode 012: Of Kings And Wangs
November 14, 2013

Episode 010: You Are God’s Toilet
October 31, 2013

Episode 008: Look At My Freckle
October 17, 2013

01:52:54 Musical Pilgrimage

Our featured song this episode is Wangary by Ben Searcy.

It was written by Ben in response to him being a cameraman during the Wangary bushfires.

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