The Adelaide Show

This year, Davine Productions turns 10 years old and is celebrating with a production of the musical, A New Brain . The brain, heart, and sould behind Davine Productions is David Gauci, and he's our guest today. The SA Drink Of The Week in from Yalumba - The Signature. This is partly because the wine is superb but also because Yalumba has long been a supporter of Davine Productions. And we'll be j...

It's interesting that Australia is poised to vote on giving First Nationsl people a voice to parliament, but for many of us we are not familiar with the voices around us. How many of us know our neighbours or interact regularly with people in our community, stopping for a chat and a shared experience? In this episode, our political pundit, Robert Godden returns to "read the tea leaves" of where Au...

We round off our month of Tuesdays to mark 10 years of The Adelaide Show with a nostalgia panel, featuring Colin Richard, Brett Monten, and one of our most loved guests, Don Violi - hairdresser to the stars! Much is covered and discussed, from the emergence of Rundle Mall to the making of Sunday Too Far Away, from Bazz and Pilko causing mayhem at 5AD to the Clifton Pugh nude Adam and Eve stobie po...

During the second year of The Adelaide Show podcast, the lineup transitions from a trio of hosts to an interview format with one main guest and two hosts. Nigel Dobson became the permanent co-host, along with Steve Davis. In this time, the podcast had some wonderful innovations from Nigel, not least of which was the Is It News segment, and a decision to hold topics to a high standard of requiring...

The Adelaide Show podcast began in 2013 with a mission: to challenge the notion that Adelaide is boring. This special episode is a reunion of the three founders, Steve Davis, Colin Richard, and Brett Monten. "I remember meeting Colin Richard sharing our frustration at the lazy jokes by comedians on the eastern seaboard about how boring Adelaide was," recalls podcast co-founder, Steve Davis. "We de...

The Adelaide Show Podcast began life as Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide 10 Years Ago Tonight, to mark our 10th birthday, we chat with special guest, Owen Eastwood, who helps us reflect on the deeper theme of Belonging , which is something at the core of what this podcast is all about. This has been a community-focussed endeavour and Owen manages to highlight its structure and set out som...

Do you have books in your home or workplace? And, perhaps more importantly, do you read any of them? Our guest today, Rainer Jozeps, says the presence of books is a symbol of your curiosity and your interest in engaging with the world (my words). However, that utterance was a small park of a bigger issue he drew attention to in In Review, namely, our state government’s dropping of the ball (so to...

Trevor Pomery has put plenty of snap, crackle, and pop, into the world of FMCG or Fast Moving Consumer Goods - the kinds of products we buy regularly at supermarkets. Today, upon his retirement, we look back on his journey through the supermarket aisles of marketing and get some insights into how THEY make US buy their products, and why we LOVE it. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, LJ and The Reckles...

Unearthed Australian Opal is set to make opal industry history with an unprecedented event, Unearthing Opal Live . This groundbreaking occasion brings together live opal mining and a simultaneous auction of any rough opal discovered during the event. Taking place on August 2, Unearthing Opal Live will be a thrilling 3.5-hour live stream from an opal mine in Coober Pedy, the renowned Opal Capital O...

America celebrated Independence Day earlier this week, on the Fourth of July, so while the spotlight was on the US we thought it would be the perfect time to catch up with New York-based Adelaidean, Josh Pugh aka America Josh, to get a sense of the South Australian expat community in the Big Apple as well as reflect on some comparisons between life there and here. The SA Drink Of The Week is a gol...

How has your understanding of and relationship with Australia Day changed over time? What goes through your mind when you hear a Welcome to Country or Acknowledgment of Country? And what do you think of when you hear the term Aboriginal prosperity? These are just some of the questions touched on in this extended interview with Griefologist, Rosemary Wanganeen, who takes us on a journey towards hea...

When Steve Davis is not recording The Adelaide Show Podcast, he's sitting in the co-pilot's chair with Dr Travis Brown as they create This Medical Life, a podcast that explores the history of different diseases and medical conditions, along with the latest insights in understanding and treatment. And what better way to give you a taste that wrapping a podcast within a podcast! And in the Musical P...

When Shaun Micallef pulled up stumps after 10 years of Mad As Hell last year, the writers in the team had to start looking for work. One of those writers, who was part of 13 of the 15 seasons, David M Green, is an Adelaidean whose life has been dedicated to pursuing the craft of comedy. He joins us to share some great insights into writing, the nature of comedy, and the workings of a weekly comedy...

Imagine if we had enough housing in South Australia. It is possible, according to entrepreneur and developer, Barrie Harrop, our special guest this week. Barrie has plans afoot for building a tall hotel in Victoria Square out of timber, a quality resort in Whyalla, and housing developments that offer free electricity to occupiers while making best use of existing road and rail infrastructure and a...

From the trenches of the Western Front to the ricefields and jungles of South-east Asia, Australian women have served and doctors and medical specialists from World War I until the present day. Not For Glory is a book that tells their stories of adventure, courage, sacrifice and determination as they fought to serve their country… and won. Co-author, Susan Neuhaus joins us to share some of those s...

More than 60 bespoke wellness experiences and events are headlining the 2023 Wellness wander three-day weekend in the Adelaide Hills this coming weekend, March 31-April 2, 2023, so Steve arranged an interview with the event founder, Katherine Droga to not only discuss the event but also the whole topic of wellness tourism. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, we hear an unplugged song by long time favou...

Steven Jeffery from Atlas Genius asked us to listen to music from a new artist, Hayli, who he's convinced will take the world by storm, so Steve agreed. The result is this special episode diving deeply into the story behind the music industry, covering fame, fortune, and the preparation that goes into this career. Plus, we also taste Pirate Life's Strawberry & Watermelon Crush in the SA Drink...

In 2021, Professor Sebastian Longsword debuted with his Adelaide Fringe MBA in a show called, Lunchtime MBA, in which he promised attendees could come for lunch and leave with an MBA in 60 minutes. Fast forward to 2023, and the blurb for Wankernomics by Charles Firth and James Schloeffel has it described as a 60-minute MBA. Is this plagiarism, is this the inevitability of great ideas floating to t...

Greg Fleet returns to the Adelaide Fringe with a new play, A Star Is Torn, so it was a perfect opportunity to spend a little time with him, digging through the arc of comedy during the time of his career, and the art of being brutally transparent about life's challenges on stage. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a song by an artist making her Adelaide Fringe debut, Emilie Kate. And Steve plugs h...

In Dorothea Mackellar's poem, My Country, she refers to Australia being a land of droughts and flooding rains. With the River Murray currently flooding many river towns and with people on the land preparing for a summer and its threat of bushfires, we've recording a dual podcast with Belle and Pods from the Adelaide Hills Farmcast. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a recent song by Lucas Day call...

Recently, in an article entitled, Y Natural: The Inner Beauty Of Buying Local When You Say You Will , on his Talked About Marketing website, Steve wrote: "There is a resigned sadness among many small business owners like Barbara Gare from Y Natural , when they hear friends say they believe in buying local but don't actually follow through. As small business owners and leaders we are right to feel...

The South Australian Music Awards is an entirely locally run Awards ceremony, facilitated by not-for-profit Music SA. This is all broken down into three categories of award, Major Awards, Industry Awards and People's Choice Awards. Major and Industry Awards are judged by a panel of South Australian and Australian acclaimed music industry professionals. The People's Choice Awards are judged online,...

When the opportunity arose to interview Chris Thomas about his time of farming in the mid-north of South Australia during the great drought of 1982, not even flood-damaged roads could stop Steve from travelling to Crystal Brook to record the stories. Meanwhile, a different climate story was celebrated in Adelaide last week; 50 years of Seeley International and its mission to provide reliable, inno...

When Steve was invited by Don Violi to go for a nice Sunday drive, he had no idea he was about to create the Bay To Birdwood Fringe episode of The Adelaide Show. With his clothes reeking of car exhaust, he's edited the episode and it is out and available before the sun has even set on the 2022 event. And we move nostalgia into top gear with a new song by Dino Jag, Shake A Leg Like Elvis. You can n...

Adelaide podcaster, Leesa Scanlan, is shining the spotlight on mental health Anxiety and depression get talked about a lot but it's taking a South Australian podcaster, Leesa Scanlan, to bring a dose of gentle, frank reality to the high tide and low tide of mental health. We start our discussion about mental health in the SA Drink Of The Week segment, which features a beer from Shapeshifter Brewin...