Weirder Together with Ben Lee and Ione Skye

We GET INTO IT on this weeks pod about all the above juicy subjects as well as chatting about vintage Dior nightgowns, Heavenly Creatures friendships, cult like meditation teachers and Paul Simon, as well as premiering new music from Georgia Maq and On Occassion. To dive deeper into our world, sign up for our free newsletter at https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

The plague has passed through our humbled abode and we reconvene to discuss Ione conquering her FOMO while living outside of the US, feeling lucky in Sydney, Jokermen podcast, Randy Newman, Paul Simon’s “Graceland”, friends who are reading advance copies of Ione’s memoir, US election anxiety and leftist tantrums, William Tyler, Timothy Leary, hanging chads, The Cure’s new album, The Try-Outs, “Sat...

We haven’t podded for a minute so excitedly talk over each other about all kinds of subjects: Ione takes aim at Ben’s lack of compassion for the lowly Bin Chicken, we recap SXSW Sydney and Alexi Wasser’s visit. We discuss what makes the perfect houseguest, shirtless Travis Scott fans, Morrissey’s love life, The LA Times Presidential endorsement controversy, cheering on Lidia Thorpe while feeling c...

This episode we reluctantly attempt to jump the cultural bandwagon of “Industry”-fandom, share Kris Kristofferson stories, get excited for SXSW Sydney and our friend Alexi Wasser’s visit to Australia to screen her film “Messy” as well as shareing some inspiration gleaned from hanging with Belinda Carlisle this week. Sign up to our mailing list for fun extra free content like our PICK OF THE WEEK!...

“Were you sad when David Blaine died?” asks Goldie, opening a fun hectic family pod episode. We realize she’s thinking of Houdini, and move on to cover growing up watching Nathan Fielder, generational concepts of gender, Big Mouth, getting the sex talk from your parents, and then do a listen through to Ben’s new album “This One’s for the Old Headz” OUT TODAY. We reflect on the themes of growing up...

It’s our joint bday week and Ben decides its time to put the hard sell on why he thinks Ione should be on DWTS much to her chagrin. We also recap Ione’s Omakase sushi dinner at Besuto, a million dollar bath tub invention, why the word “Child” gave Ione a mood swing, our new PICK OF THE WEEK column, The English Teacher, multi-tasking, marriage as a mutual training program, Christmas dinner with Lie...

It’s the day after Australian Father’s Day, and we are chilling on our couch in Sydney and getting into it!  We chat the Oasis reunion, Allday's Sydney show, Harmony's controversial comments at Venice, Run DMC, Blondie, corporate gigs, Steve Pav, 10 William, and Adam Sandler' new special LOVE YOU. To dive deeper into these subjects and for more free content head to https://weirdertogether.sub...

Season 4 kicks off with chatter about the band Speed, mysterious bruises, Ione's first trip to Brisbane, anarchism, "spannering", Radio Free Alice, Bicycle Day, the Steve Martin documentary, Ben's take on AI, our recent party for FVNERAL, Harry Nilsson's Aussie connection, and new music from Mallrat, Sycco, Amyl & the Sniffers and Illiuminati Hotties. Come visit our Substack at http://weirdert...

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Today’s pod has some BIG ENERGY as we chat the appeal of small town Australia, the public’s response to Positive Energy, lifting up your little scene, Raygun at the olympics, why jojo is the new john cage, the moral conflict of loving pop culture, wondering why old people become nationalists, IT ENDS WITH US drama, Ione turning in the final draft of her memoir “Say Everything”, creative hangovers...

Are we the only podcast in existence that touches on all these subjects this week? Probably! And that's why you love us, or at least tolerate us! To watch the full video of this podcast head to our substack https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s pod we chat the pressure to have controversial opinions, Dan Clowes short films, child modelling in the 80s and Ione showing Goldie the “Pretty Baby” trailer. To watch the full video of this pod for free head to https://weirdertogether.substack.com To see Ben on tour visit http://ben-lee.com/tour-dates To pre-order Ione’s memoir SAY EVERYTHING visit https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...

Our guest today is a Philly raised, Los Angeles braised multi-hyphenate joy bomb, Addie Weyrich. She has a new album out under the name ADDIE ADDIE ADDIE called "well it all had to go somewhere" that you can listen to here https://open.spotify.com/album/5ZPKFNtBqFGFmSTTo9gqra?si=p4_oQ0KyQUWq6_wtXSndyA To watch the full video version of this interview head over to https://weirdertogether.substack.c...

We chat practicing failing, raw dogging flights, trying not to over-schedule creativity and letting projects go. To watch the video of this episode and for more exclusive content, subscribe to our Substack for $5/month at http://weirdertogether.substack.com The song at the end of the episode is "Industry" by Addie Addie Addie https://open.spotify.com/track/305IAWoH8ICpY321qPhCQl?si=bd0e02d8873343e...

Ione recaps VOLUME at the NSW Art Gallery with DeepFaith, how Janicza Bravo’s instagram brings people together, and what its like writing about her cult experiences for her upcoming memoir…all while Ben sits in a holiday resort in Coffs Harbour. To hear this full episode, subscribe to our Substack over at https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ for only $5/month Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

We breakdown a jam-packed week in which Ione announced pre-order of her memoir ( https://bit.ly/4cz9ECv ) , we hosted an excellent Sydney Weirder Together party featuring cutting edge weirdness like DeepFaith, Vigilantonie, BuzzKull, Lauren Bonner and Cameron James, Ione gets some inappropriate DMs, we throw a dinner party and we entertain insuring our body parts. To watch the full video of this e...

Shopping at Above the Clouds, checking out party venues, debating seminal Jimi Hendrix tracks - its all happening on this week's WEIRDER TOGETHER! To watch the full video of this episode head to weirdertogether.substack.com For tix to Ben's shows or the Sydney Weirder Together party head to www.ben-lee.com/tour-dates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ione has FOMO about Griffin Dunne's party at the Chateau. Ben enters the crucible. Goldie gets pet rats. To watch the video of this episode and for bonus content head to https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ For tickets to upcoming shows and the Sydney Weirder Together party on June 26 head to https://www.ben-lee.com/tour-dates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss "Otto On Otto", Neal Brennan, Stephen Sondheim, Tim Minchin, leaving the stage like Elvis and Martin Scorcese's tiktok era. To watch the full video of this episode and for other exclusive content join https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ For tickets to Ben's shows or the Weirder Together Sydney party hit https://www.ben-lee.com/tour-dates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

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On todays episode we discuss Ben shows in Brunswick Heads, Brisbane and Eumundi, Ione's dinner at Hubert, we wonder do birds chit chat and can Ione control the weather? Ione also gives her top 5 gay films of all time in honour of Pride month, and Ben waxes lyrical about the Willow Smith/Questlove podcast. (The song at the end is "symptom of life" by Willow) We also announce a SYDNEY WEIRDER TOGETH...

Ione is "balls deep" into her memoir and getting ready to turn it in to her publisher. Ben feels un-Australian for not knowing who Hugo Weaving is married to. To watch the video of this episode, and for other exclusive content, subscribe to our Substack at https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What a week! Fashion shows, Ben's single release, the Allday/Cubspot collab, regional shows, Ione finishing writing her book...absolute madness! So much to chat about... and we do! To watch the full video of this episode, head to our substack at https://weirdertogether.substack.com/ To watch the HEAVY METAL video check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojoi9iqXGHY To listen to HEAVY METAL on Spo...