Ramble City

Allan Clark is an award winning musician/producer/composer, DIRE STRAITS ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME MEMBER, MULTIPLE GRAMMY, BRITS & MTV AWARDS WINNER have sold an estimated 100 million units worldwide, including 51.4 million certified units, making them one of the best-selling music artists of the 20th century.  Hosted by Bradley McCaw Mixed by James Osbourne ——————————————————————————...

Shane Nicholson, Australian singer-songwriter has released 11 albums, won 3 ARIA Awards, 11 Golden Guitars, and has twice been named Producer of the Year at the Country Music Awards of Australia. He’s collaborated on incredible music with Kasey Chambers and Paul Kelly and we chat on the phone just prior to the launch of his 2021 album LIVING IN COLOUR.  Hosted by Bradley McCaw Mixed by James...

Vika & Linda is one of Australia’s most iconic vocal duos. Coming to prominence singing in Joe Camilleri 's band The Black Sorrows they went solo in 1994 and released a run of albums, receiving aria noms, a number one record - and continued to feature on some other pretty cool albums with Ross Wilson, Hunter & Collectors, Archie Roach, John Farnham, Deborah Conway and more! Hosted by...

To say South Africa, has a strong history of song and dance… is a pretty big understatement. And few acts from the country have been as beloved or successful as the Soweto Gospel Choir. Todays guest is SHIMMY JIYANE a singer, dancer, choir master, choreographer and a Founding Member with the choir. We recorded this episode backstage at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in 2019 just prior to a...

She's known to millions around the world as the "Angel of Australia" - the name given to her by that famous Dutch violinist, André Rieu. But today, she joins us for a good old Ramble Chat! Todays guests is the one and only Mirusia, Australian born Soprano with Dutch heritage that made her name touring the world with Andre Rieu before a flourishing solo career put her CD’s and DVD’s at number one o...

What do you love about music? What are your favourite records? Have you ever felt like a song  has saved your life? For Andrew Stafford, todays guest… music did just that… and in his words… because those who can’t play music review it, he has carved out a career writing about music instead. Andrew Stafford is a freelance journalist and the author of Pig City , a celebrated musical and politic...

How does an one of Australia’s leading performer/composers in the classical world use the didgeridoo, an Indigenous Australian wind instrument, dating back over 1000 years, to navigate a more contemporary musical styles, expanding the horizons of the instrument and the culture and landscape it represents? Todays guest is William Barton. Composer, Producer, Multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist that...

Superheroes. Comic books. DC versus Marvel. How did these stories and characters become apart of our lives. Where did this all begin? Todays guest is Brian Salvatore the editor of ( multiversitycomics.com ) and host of brilliant Dc3cast…  During our chat - recorded in 2021 -  he outlines the evolution of the comic, from the 1930’s to now, it’s effect on society across time, and we go dee...

Part 2 of our chat with Brain Salvatore about the History of the Comic Books. Here he lists his top five comics for new readers. Todays guest is Brian Salvatore the editor of ( multiversitycomics.com ) and host of brilliant Dc3cast…  Check out out previous chat - just above this on our feed - that explores the evolution of the comic, from the 1930’s to now, it’s effect on society across time,...

Time for us to step into the world of classical music. To the world behind the baton.  How does the conductor of an orchestra think about music? How do they merge those different pieces of the orchestral puzzle and combat yawning audiences, standing ovations, to create programs of music performed in venues like the Sydney Opera House - that are often just as as referred as the composers they...

Is all art, is in some ways manipulative? Isn’t entertainment just another means to educate?  Today’s guest is Wesley Enoch, a writer and director that has helped shape some of Australia’s most iconic and celebrated Indigenous theatre productions including “The Sapphires” the true story turned play by Tony Briggs that become a film earning 20 million at the Australian box office.  It’s a...

How do the great producers make great albums possible? What skills do they need? How do they communicate or plan or simply capture great music? Today's guest is a veteran of the music industry. As a producer, musician, engineer, composer - he is quite simply prolific in every sense of the word. Patrick Hamilton, is the son of two musicians, was classically trained before becoming a session musicia...

How does an award-winning country artist turn independent after 20 years, and use crowdfunding to create her new album, taking control of a career. And in the process preserving a legacy for herself and her family. Today's guest is Catherine Britt and Australian country music artist, whose long list of credits include Aria nomination, CMAA Country Music Awards. Multiple golden guitar Awards. She's...

Bobby Rush is a GRAMMY winning blues legend, Blues Hall of Famer, 12x Blues Music Award winner, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and at the age of 83 won his first Grammy award for the “Porcupine meat” - celebrating the release of his new memoir “I Ain't Studdin’ Ya.’ Hosted by Bradley McCaw Mixed by James Osbourne —————————————————————————————————— Find Brad Website: https://www.bradleymccawoffi...

Tyrone Noonan is an Aria Award winning Australian musician, and original member of celebrated Brisbane band George When a small group of Brisbane musicians, featuring siblings Katie & Tyrone Noonan form a small band during high school, no one expected years later to be Aria Winners and one of only ten Australian bands to debut at number one on the Aria charts. Special mention here to the other...

Marsha Waggoner, an Australian born American professional poker player whose long and storied career has landed her in the Women’s Poker Hall of Fame. Despite playing as a young child, her career started by chance, originally entering casinos as the very first female black jack dealer in Australia - with countless tournaments to her belt, including World Series of Poker tournament, placings and wi...

Alexander Sage Oyen is an American musical theatre writer/actor/singer. Playbill magazine called him “one of the contemporary musical theatre writers YOU SHOULD KNOW” and he selected Mac Miller's “Circles” as this episodes CLASSIC ALBUM. Mac Miller s a grammy-nominated hip-hop artist whose difficult career spanned multiple styles, or iterations. We focus on his career, his battle with celebrity, h...

The very first conversation recorded for RAMBLE CITY: JOSE MCLAUGHLIN, a mulit-instrumentalist, composer, and former member of world-famous pop group Gerry and the Pacemakers. He’s worked with The Doobie Brothers, Chuck Berry, Peter Allen, James Morrison, Bo Diddley and so many many more. Purchase Jose McLaughlin's book Episode Transcripts available here Quick outline of Mersey Beat & Liverpoo...