There would be no shortage of music industry executives cursing themselves after ignoring Gold Coast singer songwriter Amy Shark.

She is now Australia’s reigning queen of pop after picking up ARIAs for album of the year, best female artist and best pop release.

Amy is back on the Gold Coast but found time to talk to Mark about a whirlwind 2018.

Lego enthusiasts will be making a beeline for the Brisbane Convention and Entertainment Centre over the next few weeks.

The ‘Brickman Awesome’ exhibition fills two B-Double trucks and features 40 never-seen-before Lego models.

It’s the third Brisbane exhibition put together by Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught and he tells Mark it took more than 2 million bricks and 5,000 hours.

Tensions are running high ahead of Friday’s River City Rumble at Suncorp Stadium after Anthony Mundine grabbed Jeff Horn by the throat at today’s weigh in.

The big fight will be broadcast on Macquarie Sports Radio with the opening bell on the bout set to ring at 9:30pm Brisbane time.

Jeff Horn’s trainer Glenn Rushton tells Mark that the Hornet is cool, calm, collected and ready for The Man.

Years of concerns about people plundering shellfish around Sandstone Point across from Bribie Island have reached a crescendo.

So far this year Fisheries officers have handed out more than 70 infringement notices and almost $20,000 in fines for people illegally taking oysters and pipis.

Local MP Simone Wilson tells Mark the problem is so bad it’s time that taking shellfish in the area should be totally banned.

Brisbane is lagging behind the other capitals so badly when it comes to public transport it’s been declared “the worst access to public transport in Australia.”

The assessment has come from the Healthy Liveable Cities Group at the RMIT Centre for Urban Research.

Report lead author Dr Lucy Gunn tells Mark only 12% of Brisbane homes have access to a ‘turn up and go’ service.

Australia is facing an 80% chance of a hotter than normal summer according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s 2018-19 Summer Outlook.

The prediction comes on the back of preliminary figures showing Australia recorded one of the 10 warmest springs on record.

BoM manager of long-range forecasting Dr Andrew Watkins tells Mark there’s no sign of the drought in Queensland breaking any time soon.

Regular listeners will know that Drive Show host Mark Braybrook is a keen crossword enthusiast and Scrabble player.

Naturally he couldn’t resist the opportunity of having a chat with the crossword-setter for the SMH and Age David Astle.

David has just released a new kids book 101 Weird Words (And Three Fakes) and he tells Mark he’s been fascinated with the English language since he was a child.

New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Queenslanders lead the country when it comes to marriage breakups.

More than 11,000 divorces were granted in Queensland in 2017, that’s 23 in every thousand marriages falling over in a single year.

Social researcher Geoff Brailey from McCrindle tells Mark there are a number of factors at work.

Last financial year people passing through the Brisbane domestic and international airports left more than 10,000 items behind, two-thirds of which went unclaimed.

For the second year Brisbane Airport is about to put those items up for auction online with all the proceeds going to charity.

The auction is being run by Pickles and operations manager Rhys Jones tells Mark there the items you’d expect to find as well as some very unusual ones.

Few things give gardeners more pleasure than attracting native animals into their backyards.

It can be easier said than done but a new book called Habitat is giving gardeners advice and guidance on how to make their barden a haven.

Author AB Bishop tells Mark anyone can do it simply be planting the right plants, providing water and some shelter.