The Music Show
All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 274
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Cover Story: Running Up That Hill
In 1985, Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love album made a moderate showing in the pop charts. In 2022, the single Running Up That Hill burst back into the charts after a particularly impactful needle-drop in …
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Sat 15 Feb 2025
Richard Dawson's evocative songwriting, and remembering Vic Simms
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the name and voice of someone who has died.
Written from the small shed on his allotment in Northern England, …
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Fri 14 Feb 2025
Cover Story: Heart of Gold
“This song put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch”, said Neil Young about his only major hit, Heart of Gold, from the 1972 album Harvest.
Wh…
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Sat 08 Feb 2025
An obscure orchestra and an opera for the dead
Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra has more of an ethos than a sound. A twenty five piece indie band with constantly evolving membership, it began as a solo project by Matt Hsu, whose values and “punk-trai…
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Fri 07 Feb 2025
Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me
Metal, marimbas, vampires and EDM: ABBA’s Lay All Your Love On Me as you’ve never heard it before, with producer Paul Mac and composer Alice Chance.
This is the first episode of Cover Story, a new s…
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Sun 02 Feb 2025
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and remembering Marianne Faithfull
British singer and songwriter Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78. In 1996, Andy spoke to her about finding her true voice, why she was drawn to the music of Kurt Weill and the Weimar Republ…
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Fri 31 Jan 2025
The Violin in the Colony
“Ships become obsolete; fine furs are ravaged by moths, faded by the sun, worn by rubbing against show cases; garments go out of style; the gold watch grandfather handed down is replaced by a thin on…
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Sun 26 Jan 2025
Tamworth's prodigal son Andy Golledge, and Australians in America with Lisa Moore and Lloyd Van't Hoff
Country singer songwriter Andy Golledge cut his teeth in Sydney’s Inner West band scene before returning to his hometown of Tamworth a local hero. He and his band have racked up thousands of kilometr…
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Fri 24 Jan 2025
Percussionists and poets in Caroline Shaw's music; David Keenan's Irish Songs
American composer Caroline Shaw’s latest album, a collaboration with Sō Percussion, is called Rectangles and Circumstance. It’s a collection of ten songs run through with words by Emily Dickinson, Em…
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Sun 19 Jan 2025
Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan
The Music Show explores the legacy of the late Ruby Hunter – short in stature, a giant in music, and a mentor and parental figure to so many First Nations musicians in subsequent generations. We’ll h…
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Sat 18 Jan 2025
Folk singers and the FBI
Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan were being surveilled and, in some cases, blacklisted by the FBI due to their political …
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Sun 12 Jan 2025
Ziggy Ramo's exploration of dark histories and big questions
Ziggy Ramo returns to The Music Show with a new album that’s more than just an album. Human? is a new and beautifully contradictory sound for Ziggy. It blends folk (with guest vocals from Vonn) and h…
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Sat 11 Jan 2025
The last violin of Harry Vatiliotis; the exile of Arooj Aftab
Romano Crevici has been playing violins made by Harry Vatiliotis for decades. Now drawing to the end of their respective careers, Harry has made one final instrument, which will be Romano's last viol…
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Sun 05 Jan 2025
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
For someone referred to as "the Queen of Jazz" and "First Lady of Song", there's a surprising amount we don't know about legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. She didn't fit the image of a star: she…
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Sat 04 Jan 2025
Polyrhythms and pop music with Tune-Yards; Omar Musa turns poetry into music
Harnessing looping pedals, percussion and vocal manipulation, Tune-Yards make a very big sound for a core membership of two people. It's been ten years since the experimental pop project released the…
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Sun 29 Dec 2024
Music for Prime Time
From the rattling charge of The Lone Ranger to the slick, warbling vocals of White Lotus, music for television has been beckoning us to the couch for the best part of a century.
In Music for Prime T…
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Sat 28 Dec 2024
Víkingur Ólafsson's infinite variety; Angélique Kidjo's re-imagining of a Talking Heads’ classic
In 2024 Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson undertook an international tour that saw him playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations almost a hundred times, including his first ever performances in Australia.…
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Sun 22 Dec 2024
Lisa O'Neill and Cormac Begley live at WOMADelaide
Live from WOMADelaide 2024, an hour with two Irish living legends, singer songwriter Lisa O’Neill and concertina master Cormac Begley. Both stalwarts of the Irish traditional music scene, they united…
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Sat 21 Dec 2024
Experiencing Sound
Though best known as a musicologist - the author of 16 books - Lawrence Kramer's other life as a composer shines through all his writings. He says he has become increasingly aware that music is made …
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Sun 15 Dec 2024
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
At 13 years old Janis Ian wrote one of the most iconic American songs of 1960s, Society's Child. Ten years later At Seventeen spoke to millions of women and girls around the world and made her even m…
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Sat 14 Dec 2024
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