SixPack

SixPack

The Music (and Beer) Podcast. Melbourne music-lovers and drinking buddies, Gareth and Ryan share a six-pack of beer and some favourite tunes from a chosen year. Nonsense, hilarity and good times! Recent interviews with members of Madness, Pavement, SteveAlbini, NewOrder, Slowdive, Supergrass,Dandy Warhols, Charlatans, Breeders, Lush, Billy Bragg, Mudhoney,Brian Jonestown Massacre, JonSpencer, Wedding Present, The Strokes, The Go! Team, MenAtWork, Hoodoo Gurus,Steve Davis, Morcheeba, EmmyTheGreat, Shel Talmy, Custard, The Zombies, Chas&Dave,Spacemen3, MickHarvey, Go-Betweens, and The Wiggles!

Episodes

April 23, 2024 90 mins

It's the SixPack Series Finale!! Let's go out with a bang!

This show features a wild selection of songs with themes of warfare, protest and nuclear destruction...what fun.

To add to the misery, the boys are drinking Victoria Bitter.


*Give Peace A Chance*


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And here's Part Two - make sure you've listened to Part One first! Woah! This week Gareth and Ryan chat with legendary sound recordist and guitarist/frontman of the abrasive noise-rock band, Shellac. It's a lengthy chat so we've split the episode into two parts...we chat about the recording and inspiration behind the first new Shellac album in ten years ( 'To All Trains' is out in May on Touch and Go) The rest of the show has the t...
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April 16, 2024 61 mins
Woah! This week Gareth and Ryan chat with legendary sound recordist and guitarist/frontman of the abrasive noise-rock band, Shellac. It's a lengthy chat so we've split the episode into two parts...we chat about the recording and inspiration behind the first new Shellac album in ten years ( 'To All Trains' is out in May on Touch and Go) The rest of the show has the theme of "'songs where the producer is a well-known musician"...here...
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Gareth + Ryan dig deep into 1972 and share some outstanding music and memorable pop culture moments.

Beers = Guinness 0.0% (yep, that's right 0% alcohol)

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It's the end of the 80's and lots happened! The end of an era and the start of another...Madchester, Berlin Wall and lots more.

Beers = Eggster Chocolate Ale from Bridge Road

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It's 1963 with surf music and girl groups riding high...what else happened? Beers = Fox Friday Pale Ale
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March 19, 2024 70 mins
Gareth and Ryan are back for Season 11 and venture into the late 90s...good tunes and bad! Beers = Larry Pale Ale by Your Mate's Brewing Company.
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November 7, 2023 106 mins
Yay! Everyone loves Supergrass and everyone loves Gaz Coombes! What a treat to chat with him about his favourite tune recorded in 1976....and his new killer solo record ‘Turn The Car Around’…lots of other funny stuff too. If you want to jump straight to our chat with Gaz it's 37 minutes in! Beers = Why Is There Seaweed in My Beer? by Four Pines Bill Grundy Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGe_hncsiM Rocky https://www.youtube....
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Gareth and Ryan fill in another missing year by visiting 1997 - the year of Candle In The Wind, Mmmbop and Tubthumping...but they won't be playing any of that stuff... Beers= Bentspoke Bent Straightforward Beer
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Another trip for Gareth and Ryan back to the 50s...get down to the hips sounds of Rock'n'Roll, Doo Wop and Skiffle. Creepy interview with a future guitar legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNLaBhPRY8 A vicar's take on the Skiffle craze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hp0bqNwsVQ Beers = Yabby Dabba-Doo by Tallboy and Moose
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It's 23 years since Y2K but G+R remember it well... Beers = Mornington Peninsula Pale Ale
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Gareth and Ryan are filling in more gaps of missing years...this time it's the booming yuppie mullet fest of 1986...


Beers= Temple Brewing Co. Bicycle Beer

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Straight into another season of Sixpack as Gareth and Ryan continue to fill in the missing years...this week, it's a new decade with the fall of the Iron Lady (and the Iron Curtain...) Debbie + Kermit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Hd3uWKFKY This is why grunge happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk5y4wvsLyY Beers = Pine Lime Sour from Ocean Reach Brewing
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It's the 6th Sixpack of Season 9 and we are filling in some more 'missing years'. Get a load of 1978! It's New Wave, It's Post-Punk...it's Cult Basketball teams...uh?


Clips from the show: Gunston/Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifezehtVSg

Oh those Russians... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxqn-HOiR8 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FelD6cyrKoM

Simon TV advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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August 29, 2023 61 mins

You lucky people! There are 2 episodes out this week! Here's the 2nd one...

As it's the 75th Anniversary of the 33 rpm Long Player Record, Gareth and Ryan are going to celebrate this by playing a bunch of tunes from before 1948...some bangers from the 30s and 40s on 78 rpm shellac records.


Links to video clips we talk about- Laurel + Hardy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAfjgTc-t0U

Crossroads: Karate Kid v Steve Vai ...

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August 29, 2023 64 mins

G and R are back after a well-earned break...but now they are hungry for facts, and thirsty for beer. No guest this week so it's back to the OG format for a bit whilst they fill in some missing years....they're gonna drop 2 episodes this week...first up, 1964!

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May 2, 2023 84 mins

We love Cornelius! But we don't speak Japanese...how about we interview him anyway! With the help of Yoshi, our translator, we have a chat with the sonic magician responsible for some groundbreaking records and spectacular live shows - what a treat! He shares a mellow tune from 2014 which inspires the rest of the show.

Beers= Monsuta Okinawa Supreme

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April 25, 2023 87 mins

What a treat! This week we chat with dapper Sex Pistol and all-round good dude, Glen Matlock... he's about to drop his new solo album, Consequences Coming - and is super busy playing with a bunch of cool bands so we are chuffed he found time in his busy schedule to chat with us and share his favourite tune from a legendary 1974 band.

Beers=Kaiju Krush Tropical Pale Ale

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Welcome back to SixPack Season 9! The founding fathers of grunge, Mudhoney are back! And we chat with guitarist Steve Turner ahead of their visit Down Under. He's written a new book chronicling his time in the grunge scene, there's a new album Plastic Eternity and Steve shares his anarcho-punk favourite tune from 1982. Beers = Mountain Culture Beer Company's 'Status Quo' Pale Ale
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It's the Season 8 finale and the second treat this week...we were joined by Slowdive's Neil Halstead before their upcoming Australian shows. It was so good to catch up and talk about the old times, the new times and the future of Slowdive - and reminisce about one of the finest years for music, 1988.

Beers= Venom Golden Ale

Some video treats to watch (after the show)

https://youtu.be/tqkkG2dgpaQ

https://youtu.be/wYvUDkfBAIQ

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