The Music Show

Mar 08 2025 250 ep. 55 mins 103

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All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

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Nana Benz du Togo, Sauljaljui and The Joy live at WOMADelaide

The Music Show is back on Kaurna Land at Adelaide's Botanic Park for WOMADelaide 2025, a festival celebrating music from all over the world. Named after a group of powerful grandmas in the 1970s and 80s who sold wax print fabrics at the Lomé central market and drove a Mercedes Benz, Nana Benz du Togo are a five-piece band with three female lead vocalists. PVC pipe percussion, a D

Eleanor Jawurlngali, Duo Ruut and Ana Carla Maza at WOMADelaide

Mar 07 2025 54 mins

Alice Keath presents The Music Show for International Women’s Day, with some of the great international and local women on the WOMADelaide line-up. Latin American pop and classical sensibilities meet in the music of Cuban cellist and singer Ana Carla Maza. She joins Alice to explain why producing her own record was an act of power in the male-dominated Latin music industry. Mud

Cover Story: The Times They Are A-Changin'

Mar 01 2025 54 mins

In the final episode, for now, of Cover Story, singer and rapper Ziggy Ramo and musician and broadcaster Alice Keath look at Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin’ – a political anthem just vague enough to apply to the US civil rights movement, the Velvet Revolution, Perestroika, and in some cases seemingly nothing at all. Music details: The Times They Are A-Changin' Com

Innovation and imitation: Maurice Ravel at 150

Feb 28 2025 54 mins

Aspirations of modernity, progress and innovation drove music through the 20th century. For French composer Maurice Ravel, inspiration from (and imitation of) his peers, of the voices and styles around him, made him a true original. He pulled from Spanish music, 18th century music, Viennese waltz and jazz, and yet within seconds it’s always possible to hear Ravel’s own, distinc

Cover Story: Under The Milky Way

Feb 22 2025 54 mins

In 1987, Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson were living together, and armed with a joint and a piano, one night they came up with the bones of Under The Milky Way. It became a hit for The Church as part of their fifth studio album, Starfish, and since then it’s featured in almost every list of great Australian rock songs (and a fair few car ads too). On Cover Story, Andy is joined by

Otherworldly sounds with Charm of Finches and The Cloud Maker

Feb 21 2025 54 mins

Sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes have been making music as Charm of Finches since they were children. Now seasoned touring artists with four albums under their belts, they swing by The Music Show studio to play live and tell Andy about the joy of singing in unison, and why they’re drawn to really dark stories. Comprised of five female musicians The Cloud Maker transports li

Cover Story: Running Up That Hill

Feb 15 2025 54 mins

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 the Netflix show Stranger Things. So perhaps it’s no surprise that there are dozens of cover versions from around 2022 - as well as a handful from earlier in the song’s 40 year li

Richard Dawson's evocative songwriting, and remembering Vic Simms

Feb 14 2025 54 mins

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, the lyrics on Richard Dawson’s new album End of the Middle are filled with small observations and rich characters. He's a prolific and verbose songwriter, likening his habit of jammin

Cover Story: Heart of Gold

Feb 08 2025 54 mins

“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. Whether or not the dozens of artists who’ve covered it since consider it “middle of the road”, they’ve certainly taken it right off the beaten track. Andy’s guest analysts i

An obscure orchestra and an opera for the dead

Feb 07 2025 54 mins

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-trained” composition shine through on not one but two new albums released on the same day: Noodle, and Forest Party. Opera for the Dead (祭歌) is a "contemporary Chinese cyber oper