The Silverfox

This week’s guest is Chris McNulty, award winning jazz legend, vocalist, composer, author and educator, recently returned to Melbourne after a 30 year sojourn in New York . Filling Gillian’s shoes is David Moyle, Silverfox Sound Engineer and presenter of Bent Notes, who talks with Chris about her musical influences, getting started in Melbourne, early days in New York, the tragic loss of her son, Sam (hip hop singer Chap One) and her book Vocalist as Complete Musician, due for international release in August.  We hear Chris’ amazing voice singing the old classic Jitterbug Waltz, the first song she ever wrote Letter to Marta and a track she recorded with Chap One, For the Soul.

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Gillian is joined in the studio this week by the members of HIVE Park, Cassie Serpell (vocals/guitar), Ilias Tsinanis (Bass) and Jeremy Blackburn (violin/backing vocals) who play tracks from their new CD “things we should have said …”.  HIVE Park are an indie rock/pop outfit featuring lyrical purity and sensitive instrumental arrangement. Cassie talks with Gillian about the genesis of the band, the emotional relationship between voice and violin, their CD (and Vinyl) launch on June 4th at MeMo Music Hall and why there was a 3 year delay between recording and launching the album.

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Ross and Wendy

Claire

To celebrate Joy and add some fun and magic to the Joy Radiothon Gillian reunites with Claire from the G-Spot and Wendy Stapleton, star of Dusty. She also welcomes Ross Skiffington, actor, director and magician extraordinaire. In a laugh a minute show the gang successfully beseech their listeners to donate or become Joy members; participate in a magic trick live on the radio; hear Gillian’s Ode to Joy and Wendy belt out a selection of Dusty songs while Claire keeps track of all our fabulous listeners comments and donations.

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Returning to the show this week is Barbara Carrellas, award winning theatre manager, sex-educator, actor and author of the best seller Urban Tantra (a revised edition Urban Tantra – Sacred Sex for the 21st Century will be out in November).  Barbara tells Gillian how her career as a sex educator began at a healing circle in New York during the AIDS epidemic where she met people, including Annie Sprinkle, interested in developing Ecstatic Safe Sex. She and Annie became Sex Nerd Lab Rats together and experimented with using Tantra, breathing, energy patterns, sex sounds and massage to achieve sexual ecstasy.  Based on her research she developed a series of Sacred Sex workshops that she has delivered around the world since 1992.  These workshops now include gender non-conforming classes, and she recently taught Caitlyn Jenner about gender-free orgasms. Barbara’s music to move to includes tracks from Salt N Pepa, Kylie Minogue, the Divinyls and Nomad

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Gillian’s special guest this week is Joy legend Anne Hamilton – a life time Joy member and volunteer for 15 years. Anne talks with Gillian about the ups and downs of volunteering at Joy, her start in the banking industry and the discriminatory practices she had to overcome; her erstwhile unknown connections to Elle McPherson  and the Liberal party and her travels to the Galapagos Islands.  Music she can’t resist includes tracks from Vicky O’Keefe; Patsy Cline; Dolly Parton and Aretha Franklin.

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On the phone from Brooklyn, NY, this week’s guest is iconic synth-pop artist Vince Clarke, keyboard player and songwriter for Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. Originally from Gillian’s old stomping ground – Essex, the pair share musical memories and discuss how the idea of not working in a factory inspired Vince to get started in music; his work with Alison Moyet (Yazoo) and Andy Bell (Erasure) and why a hit electronic pop single needs a good tune as much as the magic of the studio.  Along the way Gillian plays a selection of his songs: Just Can’t Get Enough, Situation, Don’t Go, Sometime, Love you to the Sky and listener’s choice Oh L’Amour, that showcase his central role in the rise and on-going popularity of synth-pop .

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Barbara Carrellas sex-educator, actor and author of the best seller Urban Tantra , is Gillian’s phone guest this week. They discuss Barbara’s longstanding relationship with Australia and why she’s glad to be back to run a series of workshops on the Urban Tantra Experience starting in Sydney on the 28-30th April.  They also talk about  sex … sex education; sex inspiration; sex as a lifelong evolution; gender neutral sex; gender free orgasms and breath orgasms as a group activity. Due to previous commitments Barbara had to go long before this topic was exhausted but she has agreed to return when she brings her workshops to Melbourne. … watch this space!!!

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This week’s guests are Des Bishop, Irish American comedian, author and TV star, here for the Melbourne Comedy Festival and Tom Millington, spoken word poet and electronic, pop and roots musician.

Des talks with Gillian about his fearless approach to stand up comedy, his current show Grey Matters and his TV shows where, through cultural immersion, he learnt two languages (Irish and Chinese) and did stand up comedy in both.  He’d like to do Arabic next – are you listening SBS?

UK born Tom describes life on the Mornington Peninsula as going home to a holiday. He talks to Gillian about finding your art through immersion with parts of your soul, audience micro gestures, living musically in the moment and how to not take a lack of applause personally. He plays live in the studio, tracks from his EP Being, as well as a brand new song Ain’t No Shame.

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This week Gillian sits down for an intimate one on one with David Moyle, Joy presenter of Bent Notes, musician, technical whiz and Silverfox sound engineer. They discuss David’s love of the big band sound, his early mastery of small percussion instruments, as well as the piano, organ and vibraphone. David shares with us how he came out late in life and has continued to have loving relationships with his ex-wife, three children, his church community and many of us at Joy. He plays tracks from some of his favourite artists including Glen Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, the Dutch College Swing Band and Wolfgang Lackerschmid on the vibraphone; a selection as laid back and inspiring as the man himself.

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Shaynna & Gillian with Will Conyer

The fabulous Shaynna Blaze, business women, author and TV star of Selling Houses Australia, The Block and Deadline Design is Gillian’s guest this week. They discuss her alternating careers as an interior designer and a singer, how she handles fame (and keyboard warriors) and  the ways in which good design can change our lives.  They are joined in the second half of the show by Silverfox favourite Will Conyer who became Shaynna’s musical coach when she needed a larynx reno. Thanks to Gillian they are working together again and cooking up a new musical project. Music includes tracks from Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Shaynna singing live in the studio.

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