The Music (and Beer) Podcast.
Melbourne music-lovers and drinking buddies, Gareth and Ryan share a six-pack of beer and some favourite tunes from a chosen year. Nonsense, hilarity and good times! 
Recent interviews with members of Madness, Pavement, SteveAlbini, NewOrder, Slowdive, Supergrass,Dandy Warhols, Charlatans, Breeders, Lush, Billy Bragg, Mudhoney,Brian Jonestown Massacre, JonSpencer, Wedding Present, The Strokes, The Go! Team, MenAtWork, Hoodoo Gurus,Steve Davis, Morcheeba, EmmyTheGreat, Shel Talmy, Custard, The Zombies, Chas&amp;Dave,Spacemen3, MickHarvey, Go-Betweens, and The Wiggles!


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It&#39;s the SixPack Series Finale!! Let&#39;s go out with a bang!
This show features a wild selection of songs with themes of warfare, protest and nuclear destruction...what fun.
To add to the misery, the boys are drinking Victoria Bitter.
 
*Give Peace A Chance*

S11E06 - War!

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And here&#39;s Part Two - make sure you&#39;ve listened to Part One first!
Woah! This week Gareth and Ryan chat with legendary sound recordist and guitarist/frontman of the abrasive noise-rock band, Shellac. It&#39;s a lengthy chat so we&#39;ve split the episode into two parts...we chat about the recording and inspiration behind the first new Shellac album in ten years ( &#39;To All Trains&#39; is out in May on Touch and Go)
The rest of the show has the theme of &#34;&#39;songs where the producer is a well-known musician&#34;


S11E05 - with Steve Albini! (Part Two)

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Woah! This week Gareth and Ryan chat with legendary sound recordist and guitarist/frontman of the abrasive noise-rock band, Shellac. It&#39;s a lengthy chat so we&#39;ve split the episode into two parts...we chat about the recording and inspiration behind the first new Shellac album in ten years ( &#39;To All Trains&#39; is out in May on Touch and Go)
The rest of the show has the theme of &#34;&#39;songs where the producer is a well-known musician&#34;...here&#39;s Part One
Beers = Bojak Straight Line Lager


S11E05 - with Steve Albini! (Part One)

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Gareth + Ryan dig deep into 1972 and share some outstanding music and memorable pop culture moments.
Beers = Guinness 0.0% (yep, that&#39;s right 0% alcohol)

S11E04 - 1972 Glam Rock, Cannibal Rugby and The Price Is Right!

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It&#39;s the end of the 80&#39;s and lots happened! The end of an era and the start of another...Madchester, Berlin Wall and lots more.
Beers = Eggster Chocolate Ale from Bridge Road

S11E03 - 1989 Fake Orgasms and Hoff On The Wall!

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It&#39;s 1963 with surf music and girl groups riding high...what else happened?

Beers = Fox Friday Pale Ale


S11E02 - 1963 Girl Groups, Surfin' and that Assassination!

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Gareth and Ryan are back for Season 11 and venture into the late 90s...good tunes and bad!
Beers = Larry Pale Ale by Your Mate&#39;s Brewing Company.


S11E01 - 1998 Viagra and Cosplay!

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Yay! Everyone loves Supergrass and everyone loves Gaz Coombes! What a treat to chat with him about his favourite tune recorded in 1976....and his new killer solo record ‘Turn The Car Around’…lots of other funny stuff too.
If you want to jump straight to our chat with Gaz it&#39;s 37 minutes in!
Beers = Why Is There Seaweed in My Beer? by Four Pines

Bill Grundy Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGe_hncsiM
Rocky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMhDQFLwrAA
War Of The Worlds - Ali Fight https://youtu.be/BvSXdslXasA?si=hU9K6aGOISdzGqr9
Pumping on the muppets- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ho-wP2-2dQ
Ali G remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xipX9fqybd4
 Nuts In May https://youtu.be/-pxN2BADHwk?si=K91ZQ2bDYQE2VLm_


S10E06 - 1976 with Gaz Coombes!

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Gareth and Ryan fill in another missing year by visiting 1997 - the year of Candle In The Wind, Mmmbop and Tubthumping...but they won&#39;t be playing any of that stuff...
Beers= Bentspoke Bent Straightforward Beer


S10E05 - 1997 - A car crash, Dolly the clone and Cool Brittania

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Another trip for Gareth and Ryan back to the 50s...get down to the hips sounds of Rock&#39;n&#39;Roll, Doo Wop and Skiffle.
Creepy interview with a future guitar legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNLaBhPRY8
A vicar&#39;s take on the Skiffle craze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hp0bqNwsVQ
Beers = Yabby Dabba-Doo by Tallboy and Moose


S10E04 - 1957 - Skiffle, Schoolgirls and Smoking Tunes

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It&#39;s 23 years since Y2K but G+R remember it well...

Beers = Mornington Peninsula Pale Ale


S10E03 - 2000 - Y2K Predictions, Potty-Mouthed Singers and a Sex Addict Movie Star

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Gareth and Ryan are filling in more gaps of missing years...this time it&#39;s the booming yuppie mullet fest of 1986...
 
Beers= Temple Brewing Co. Bicycle Beer

S10E02 - 1986 - Chernobyl fallout, Halley's Comet and Crocodile Dundee

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Straight into another season of Sixpack as Gareth and Ryan continue to fill in the missing years...this week, it&#39;s a new decade with the fall of the Iron Lady (and the Iron Curtain...)

Debbie + Kermit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Hd3uWKFKY
This is why grunge happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk5y4wvsLyY

Beers = Pine Lime Sour from Ocean Reach Brewing



S10E01 - 1990 - Karaoke, Hair Metal and the end of Maggie.

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It&#39;s the 6th Sixpack of Season 9 and we are filling in some more &#39;missing years&#39;. Get a load of 1978! It&#39;s New Wave, It&#39;s Post-Punk...it&#39;s Cult Basketball teams...uh?
 
Clips from the show: Gunston/Moon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifezehtVSg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifezehtVSg</a>
Oh those Russians... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxqn-HOiR8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxqn-HOiR8</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FelD6cyrKoM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FelD6cyrKoM</a>
Simon TV advert: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yopAwK7vNzg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yopAwK7vNzg</a>
 
Beers = Banks &#39;Night Moves&#39; Oat Stout

S9E06 - 1978 New-Wave, Post-Punk & Cult Basketball Teams

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You lucky people! There are 2 episodes out this week! Here&#39;s the 2nd one...
As it&#39;s the 75th Anniversary of the 33 rpm Long Player Record, Gareth and Ryan are going to celebrate this by playing a bunch of tunes from before 1948...some bangers from the 30s and 40s on 78 rpm shellac records.
 
Links to video clips we talk about- Laurel + Hardy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAfjgTc-t0U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAfjgTc-t0U</a>
Crossroads: Karate Kid v Steve Vai <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ</a>
 
Beers = Hawkes Patio Pale

S9E05 - The Golden Age of 78 Records!

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G and R are back after a well-earned break...but now they are hungry for facts, and thirsty for beer. No guest this week so it&#39;s back to the OG format for a bit whilst they fill in some missing years....they&#39;re gonna drop 2 episodes this week...first up, 1964!

S9E04 - 1964 with Gareth and Ryan!

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We love Cornelius! But we don&#39;t speak Japanese...how about we interview him anyway! With the help of Yoshi, our translator, we have a chat with the sonic magician responsible for some groundbreaking records and spectacular live shows - what a treat! He shares a mellow tune from 2014 which inspires the rest of the show.
Beers= Monsuta Okinawa Supreme

S9E03 - 2014 with Cornelius!

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What a treat! This week we chat with dapper Sex Pistol and all-round good dude, Glen Matlock... he&#39;s about to drop his new solo album, <a href="http://glenmatlock.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Consequences Coming</a> - and is super busy playing with a bunch of cool bands so we are chuffed he found time in his busy schedule to chat with us and share his favourite tune from a legendary 1974 band.
Beers=Kaiju Krush Tropical Pale Ale

S9E02 - 1974 with Glen Matlock!

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Welcome back to SixPack Season 9!
The founding fathers of grunge, Mudhoney are back! And we chat with guitarist Steve Turner ahead of their visit Down Under. He&#39;s written a new book chronicling his time in the grunge scene, there&#39;s a new album Plastic Eternity and Steve shares his anarcho-punk favourite tune from 1982.
Beers = Mountain Culture Beer Company&#39;s &#39;Status Quo&#39; Pale Ale



S9E01 - 1982 with Steve Turner of Mudhoney!

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It&#39;s the Season 8 finale and the second treat this week...we were joined by Slowdive&#39;s Neil Halstead before their upcoming Australian shows. It was so good to catch up and talk about the old times, the new times and the future of Slowdive - and reminisce about one of the finest years for music, 1988.
Beers= Venom Golden Ale
Some video treats to watch (after the show)
<a href="https://youtu.be/tqkkG2dgpaQ" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/tqkkG2dgpaQ</a>
<a href="https://youtu.be/wYvUDkfBAIQ" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/wYvUDkfBAIQ</a>
<a href="https://youtu.be/eFclSfSZRhI" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/eFclSfSZRhI</a>
We finish with a bang bang! See you in Season 9!