The Gig Life Podcast

Emma Pask. Award winning vocalist Emma Pask has firmly established herself as one of Australia’s favourite voices in Jazz. Her effortless honest stage presence combined with her powerful vocal ability, leaves audiences spellbound and inspired whenever she takes to the stage. While Emma’s voice and style are unique, and individually her own, her performances are reminiscent of the classic era of ja...

My guest today is Australian drumming legend, Darryn Farrugia. When I was an beginner drummer in NZ in the early 90s, there wasn’t much access to international drummers apart from magazines or Starlick or DCI videos. So I used to sit down every Saturday night and study Darren doing his thing as the house band drummer on Hey Hey It’s Saturday . He used to blow me away with his playing and crack me...

Darryl Beaton is a multi-instrumentalist, musical director, songwriter and producer. Born and raised in Tasmania Australia to a drummer dad, and singer mum, obviously music is going to be part of everyday life. DB moved to Sydney in his late teens to begin working his way up the ladder to becoming one of Australia’s leading musical directors. In his late 20s, a trip to Morocco then onto Africa to...

Ara Adams-Tamatea is the bass player for NZ band, L.A.B . Born in the Hutt Valley of NZ, growing up on the Kapiti Coast, music was always around and bass was always the instrument for Ara. The back yard jams with the whanau, having to learn guitar for the local kapa haka group because he couldn’t work out the actions, to then seeing The Eagles Hell Freezes Over concert and having that epiphany mom...

Hamish Stuart is an Australian drumming legend. Born and raised in Sydney, Hamo had the idea very early on that if he could just play drums and make a living, survive as a musician, then that what he wanted.  Hamish has gone on play with Ayers Rock, Marcia Hines, Billy Fields, Doug Parkinson, Jackie Orszaczky, Mike Nock, Barry Leef, The Catholics, Lucie Thorne, Jade MacRae, Don Walker, and many mo...

  Barry Leef is a vocalist and guitarist born and raised in Blenheim , a small town in the South island of NZ.  He moved to Wellington to chase his dream, formed the band The Simple Image , had a number 1 hit and on things rolled from there.   Barry moved to Sydney in the late 60s where the music scene was booming, playing 3 gigs a day, 6 days a week.   He met Frank Zappa at a gig, joined his band...

Dane Laboyrie is a Trumpeter and vocalist from Sydney, Australia.  His trumpet mastery has seen him onstage alongside Taylor Swift, Noel Gallagher, Hugh Jackman, Tim Minchin, James Morrison, The Cat Empire, Boy & Bear, The Potbellez, The Ministry of Sound Orchestra and countless others.  Dane has also played in the orchestra pits for theatre shows such as Disney's Aladdin, Wicked, Fidler on the Ro...

Abe Rounds is drummer, bass player, song writer and producer from Sydney, but now living in LA. Abe first picked up drum sticks and started playing when he was 1 year old. His father is legendary Sydney bass player, Victor Rounds so as you can imagine, there was music in the house right from the beginning. Jamming with Victor's musicians friends was common place so there was invaluable lessons lea...

Carmel is a vocalist and singing teacher form Sydney.  She’s sung for many of Australia’s greats including Marcia Hines, Delta Goodrem, Human Nature, Christine Anu, David Campbell, Spud Murphy, Chaz Bono, Jake Shears, Courtney Act, Steve Balbi, Doug Parkinson, Angry Anderson and Vanessa Amorossi as well as performing on Television shows such as Aust Idol, Mornings with Kerry-Anne Kennerley, Midday...

Lily Guerrero. Lily is a singer, songwriter, dancer, guitarist, drummer/percussionist from Sydney. Born in Canada to Chilean parents, and brought up in multicultural Sydney, Lily was exposed to music and dance at a very young age where chilean folklore was a strong influence in her household. Lily was performing from the age of 5 to early 20’s as a Chilean folklore dancer, at 7 she was chosen to p...

Episode 68: 2019 Year In Review (Bonus Episode). Thank you for listening, subscribing and supporting The Gig Life Podcast this year.  Here's my take on 2019.  All the best 2020.  Cheers,  Stevie Taylor   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to securely donate to The Gig Life Podcast. Your s...

TGLP/GSP Guitarist Roundtable Part 2 Welcome to Part 2 and the conclusion of The Gig Life Podcast / Guitar Speak Podcast Guitarist Round Table. In part 2 here, the guys expanded more on who the are developing their business, gear, analogue vs digital (Axe Effects v Tube, Amp Modelling etc), Fender Stratocaster vs Boutique guitars, favourite rig/dessert island rig, guitar techs, young players who a...

TGLP/GSP Guitarist Roundtable Part 1 Welcome to Part 1 of The Gig Life Podcast / Guitar Speak Podcast Guitarist Round Table. This roundtable features 6 Australian guitarist who are carving their own path and making things happen.   Peter Northcote. As well as having 4 solo albums and 12 library/production albums, Pete has recorded with Australian Idol cast albums, Anthony Callea, Bob Downe, Daryl...

Tina Harris. Tina is a Canadian born multi-instrumentalist with a diversity of talents as performer, composer and musical director. With beginnings in community arts, she has been bandleader, teacher, composer, arranger and all-round boss for many styles of ensemble, including big bands, cabaret, latin, funk and a cappella.  Theatre musical direction credits include the recent 2019 Australian Tour...

Steve Hunter. Electric bass player, composer, songwriter and educator from Sydney, Australia. Born and raised in Kent, South East England , Steve was picking out melodies on the family piano from an early age , but it wasn't until shortly after his family emigrated to Australia that, when at age 15 he picked up an electric bass and immediately knew that creating music and playing bass was to basic...

Gordon Rytmeister. Drummer from Sydney, Australia. When you look at the upper echelon of any field, there’s usually a handful of people that come to mind, right? Within the Australian drumming community, Gordo is one of those people. You only need to google his name to see the enormous body of work he’s amassed over his 3 + decades on the instrument. And that work continues, as he’s still one of t...

Andy Caryofyllis. Founder, singer, manager of Jellybean Jam , performer, actor and also a die hard Sydney Roosters supporter from Sydney. Jellybean Jam has been part of the Sydney cover band party scene since 1993 (that’s 26 years) and has performed at over 3500 shows and still going strong. As well as Jellybean Jam, Andy has had a number of acting roles and also co-owns/managers PartyBands . With...

Gordon Rytmeister. Drummer from Sydney, Australia. When you look at the upper echelon of any field, there’s usually a handful of people that come to mind, right? Within the Australian drumming community, Gordo is one of those people. You only need to google his name to see the enormous body of work he’s amassed over his 3 + decades on the instrument. And that work continues, as he’s still one of t...

Bill Risby. Pianist, bass player, composer and songwriter from Sydney, Australia. Bill started piano at age 3, and after progressing through classical grades, studied Jazz at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. He took up bass guitar at age 13 and bass was his second instrument at the Con. He is now regarded as one of the most accomplished musicians in his field, in jazz, improvised and popular music...

Jak Housden. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and musical director from Sydney, Australia.  Jak is a former member of Daryl Braithwaite's touring band, founding member of The Badloves, current member of The Whitlams since 1999 and current member of Tim Minchin's band.  Amongst other gigs, Jak also plays with Richard Clapton, is the musical director of Pure Gold Live and is currently writing...

Brad Kora. Drummer, producer, songwriter from Whakatane, New Zealand.  Brad is the founding member, drummer and producer of NZ band, L.A.B .  Also, with his brothers Laughton, Fran and Stu Kora, along with Dan McGruer, formed the powerhouse NZ festival band of the 2000's, KORA . Brad is also gym owner , teacher and student of BJJ.  During this podcast, we got to talk about the forming LAB, and the...

Emilio Panetta. Drummer, band manager, entertainment agent & entrepreneur from Sydney. Growing up in a strict Italian family, for Emilio to be able to play drums, on tomato sauce day he would steal the empty foam tomato boxes , hide them down the back of the yard and use tree branches as sticks to practise.  After completing a carpentry trade he never wanted to do, music was always the dream.  Hav...

Lance Philip. From Wellington, New Zealand, Lance Philip is a drummer, percussionist and music educator. Lance started his formal drum leducationat age 7 with Ken Oxford and then with Bud Jones and later studied  Roger Sellers and Frank Gibson jr. He's played in the NZ National Youth Orchestra, subbed in with the NZSO, plays in Rodger Fox band, studied at the grove school of music in LA, spent 5 y...

Danny McCrum   From Auckland, New Zealand, Danny McCrum is a highly respected guitarist, singer and songwriter with extensive experience on stage, in the studio and running the business behind the music.  He has worked with and supported many top artists including Eric Clapton, Tommy Emmanuel, John Mayer, John Butler Trio, Jeff Beck, Bryan Ferry, Joan Armatrading, Norah Jones, Jimmy Barnes, Simple...

  The Gig Life Podcast - Spotlight Jefferey Thomas Porcaro.  Born April 1, 1954 –  Jeff Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. In a career that spanned more than 20 years, Porcaro was best known for his work with the band Toto , who had hits such as Africa, Rosanna, Hold the Line and Georgy Porgy.  Porcaro is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working...