BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series

S4 E5 Peter Allan joins BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator Di Spillane to discuss his band The Honey Badgers and what they will be doing at this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival.

If you have been listening to this season’s episodes you would be very aware by now that the Port Noarlunga Blues Festival commences next week on Friday the 24th of November.

Peter Allan has been an integral part of the roots and blues mus...

S4 E4 ZKYE Compson-Harris. Zkye & Damo Port Noarlunga Blues Festival 2023. Listen for the BAND IT ABOUT scoop announcement during this episode!

Zkye is a 2x SA Blues Awards Female Vocalist of the year, whose powerhouse vocals have earned rave reviews and a devoted following of fans both here in Australia and overseas.

Zkye will be performing at the Port Noarlunga Blues festival in duo mode with her partner and fellow Zkye Blue...

S4 E3 Chris Finnen joins Di Spillane to discuss this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival.

About Chris; Chris began to play the guitar when he was 10. Migrating with his parents from the UK to Australia in the late 60’s, it was in the state of Victoria that he started his 'musical apprenticeship' - learning how to play and getting gigs where he could. In 1970 he met long-time collaborator and friend Phil Manning, who h...

S4 E2 Multi Award Winning Singer/Songwriter/ and Multi-Instrumentalist Steve Eales of Steve Eales and The Open Road is this weeks BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series guest.

During this weeks episode Podcast Host/Creator Di Spillane asks Steve what he will be performing during his first appearance at the festival, has an in depth conversation with Steve about songwriting and the songwriters workshop that he will be holding, and Di even ...

S4 E1 PORT NOARLUNGA BLUES FESTIVAL, Interview with Sue and Danny Filmer from SUEDAN.

Danny and Sue Filmer join host/creator Di Spillane for Season Four Episode One of the limited series of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series to discuss their involvement in this year’s Port Noarlunga Blues Festival which runs over 3 days starting on Friday the 24th of November 2023.

Dan and Sue are members of the Port Noarlunga Blues Festival commit...

Season 4 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series starts Friday the 20th of October, 2023. This limited season will include interviews with some of the organisers and performers for this year's Port Noarlunga Blues Festival which starts on Friday the 24th of November running through to Sunday the 26th of November 2023.

The Port Noarlunga Blues Festival launched in November 2017 with performances from over 40 bands and artists, and...

Roger Smith is a South Australian harmonica player who has been playing with his Blues/Rock band The Bluescasters for the past 16 years. Roger began his musical journey playing the djembe in a world music band called 'Fuego' with his good friend Glen Reynolds. Roger has always loved the blues and was really interested in learning how to play the harmonica, so he eventually decided to go and have some lessons at WEA with John Hastwe...

S3 E8 Snooks La Vie (Paul Wimbles) is a South Australian born blues/soul/country vocalist and harmonica player who first began to play the harmonica after finding a brand new Hohner Marine band harmonica that was underneath a former partners bed. He began to teach himself how to play whilst sitting outside in his Monaro. He first started out playing on the local scene with a punk band called The Enemy, and switched to playing the b...

Bonus Episode; BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Host/Creator Di Spillane released her debut blues/gospel single “The Underground Railroad” on the 22nd of September to raise Narcolepsy awareness on World Narcolepsy Day. In this episode, you will hear Di Spillane being interviewed by Zofia Dendunnen from PBAFM and then by Julie Reynolds whose community radio network program 'Saturday Breakfast with Julie Reynolds', is aired on over 30 ...

South Australian-born musician DAVID BLIGHT is without a doubt one of Australia’s premier harmonica players. There aren’t too many people in Australia who are not familiar with the harmonica playing of David Blight. Every time you hear that favorite of Australia’s rock anthems, KHE SANH by Cold Chisel you will hear David’s distinctive harp lines weaving in and out behind Jimmy Barnes’ vocals. He was and still is Cold Chisels harp p...

Nathan Dawson was 17 when he first decided to start learning how to play the harmonica. A couple of his friends had begun to jam together and he wanted to join them, so he dug out the harmonica that he had given to his dad and began to teach himself how to play. Since then, Nathan has performed with many South Australian bands during his musical career including; Oz Blues, Vic Bitters Blues Band, Greasy Gravy, Lara and the Shakers,...

Will Kallinderis aka Harpin’ Will K joins Di Spillane this week to discuss his musical journey, a journey that has followed him from Ottawa, Edmonton Alberta, Vancouver, and since 2005 South Australia. Will Kallinderis aka 'Harpin’ Will K' is a singer-songwriter who performs a lively mix of original roots, funk, and blues. Emerging in 2016 with his debut solo album Last Of The Singing Peace Chiefs, a collection of acoustic guitar-d...

Karen Pater was born in Sydney, spent her teenage/early-mid adult life in Perth, and in recent years moved to South Australia settling in the Fleurieu Peninsular. Despite taking up playing the harmonica initially whilst living in Perth, initially inspired to play this instrument after seeing Matt Taylor play, and Matt encouraging her to continue playing, Karen eventually became frustrated by the lack of ways to learn how to play. T...

South Australian harmonica/percussionist Bobby Blues joins me this week to share his musical journey for the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series.

Bobby whose given name is Greg Carmody, received his first harmonica when he was 8 years old, he played with it for a while and then put it away. It wasn't until he was 21 that he rediscovered that harmonica in a cupboard in his room, and this time he decided to teach himself how to play it. H...

Multi-instrumentalist Danny Filmer joins me to discuss his musical journey for this week's episode of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. Danny, born at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), and raised in Blackwood, South Australia, was the youngest of three children. His older sister played the piano and whenever she wasn't at home, Danny would use that opportunity to hop on and play. Unfortunately, in the 70s when his sister decide...

S3 E1 Mark Snoad is a South Australian-born Hohner Harmonica player who despite having played from a young age, didn't actually join his first official band (AP D'Antonio and the Captain Kidd Band) until 2019. Mark began carrying his harmonica in his pocket and taking any opportunity to jump up and play at a party, at a jam, or with a band during the late 70s, managing to play often at the Ramsgate Hotel with Dr. Zen and the Intern...

Season 3 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series is coming soon. For the next season, I will be chatting with South Australian harmonica players. If you have or still do play the harmonica in a band from South Australia and would like to be interviewed for season 3 please get in touch with me. You can locate my email address and BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Facebook page to send a message on the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series Linkt...

This is the Final Episode for Season 2 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series. This week my guest drummers playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes are from episodes 79 to 83, they include Madeleine Cossey, Andreanna Massacci, Alex Deegan, John Zak, and Travis Demsey.       

Make sure that you listen to the end as I will be announcing the details for Season 3 of the BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series!

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This week's guest drummers are E69 Joshua Baldwin, E70 Julian Perrotta, E71 Greg Clark, E75 Willi Gutwein, E77 Sean Kemp, and E78 Steven Smith. The BAND IT ABOUT - Podcast Series interviews always end with the guests playing 20 Questions in 2 Minutes. There are 2 reasons behind this, the first being that all of the guest's journey's have not finished so this is a fun way to end the interview, the other is that it can be quite a cat...