Long Way to the Top

The Dirty Strangers are possibly the most famous band you have never heard of. Described by Louder Sound as Fast Times, Famous Friends and Filthy Rock and Roll, the lead singer Alan Clayton has toked…

Today's guest, Ed Kuepper, co-founded one of the first punk bands in Australia...dare I say the first. The Saints, were one of the foremost influential punk rock groups in the world. According to, Bo…

This week’s guest is an artist who was christened by Sid Vicious after a big night out with a title deserved of a legendary reggae artist, yet his music has been described as a fusion of post punk, p…

Today on the show, we dive back into an interview I did with my Bad Boys Co-Host Andrew Hackett. We chat with Gary Stringer from Reef, a band that created one of the most iconic songs in history.

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This episode's guest is Tony Butler, the original bass player for 80’s Scottish rock outfit Big Country. Tony has worked with artists like, Pete Townsend, Roger Daltry, The Pretenders and Chrissie Hy…

In 2019, Paul Mitchell began working on an album with a bunch of musicians and then Covid hit and lockdowns happened around the world. What was a planned album turned into some collaborations, some h…

This week on my show The Long Lunch, I had the privilege of being joined in the studio by Shane Howard of Goanna and his daughter Niamh. A champion of environmental and indigenous issues, Shane was i…

Back in the early 80’s they were Dexy’s Midnight Runners and now known as just Dexys,  Over a billion worldwide streams, three top 10 albums in the UK, two number 1 singles, a Brit Award and a multi-…

This week I had the honour of chatting with two music legends! Leo Sayer, who is music icon with Top 10 hits throughout the decades and songs that have influenced generations of musicians and fans. A…

In the late 70’s Paul Cashmere began working in radio, one week before the passing of Elvis. Little did he know that he was about to embark on a track that would see him speaking with some of the gre…

Dave Fishwick, became the subject of a documentary in 2012 when he decided to stick the middle finger up at the banks and start his own bank in the little town of Burnley. And what other name could h…

My guest this week is Marcella Detroit originally known as Marcy Levy, the co-writer of the 1977 Eric Clapton hit Lay Down Sally. She has sung and songwritten for Aretha Franklin, Burt Bacharach, Bel…

My next guest is one of the founding members of the biggest rock band of the 80’s according to Classic Rock Magazine. Dire Straits has sold up to 120 million records, received Grammys, brit awards an…

Labelled a punk band when they formed in 1974, The Stranglers were experimental right from the start with a bit of art rock, new wave and goth for good measure, 23 UK Top 40 singles, 19 UK Top 40 alb…

Josh Phillips is a rock keyboardist and composer who has worded with Procol Harum until the disbanded last year. He has written and performed with Big Country, Leo Sayer, Pete Townsend, Midge Ure, Er…

In 1986, four front girls and four must guys got together and formed a band for a party. They had charisma, sex appeal and we knew most of them from shows like Sons and Daughters, Sweet and Sour and …

Cheap Trick have been around since 1973 and saw their first debut album released in 1977. They have influenced bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. With hits like I Want you To Want m…

Rickie Lee Jones has been proclaimed as The Duchess of Cool, 2 Grammy Awards, a Rolling Stone Cover and a photoshoot with rock photographer Annie Leibovitz. In the 70's she told us that Chuck E was i…

In 1980 a fresh face and fresh voice hit our TV screens as the new announcer to compliment Molly on Countdown. And who can forget his weekly National Top 10 countdown which established him as the mus…

This episode's guest is considered Oz Rock royalty. He was frontman for one of our most successful bands of the 80’s Australia crawl and then James Reyne embarked his own solo career. James is everyt…